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Prosecutors push for 17-year sentence for Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira

Jack Teixeira appears in court wearing an orange jumpsuit in Boston, Massachusetts, April 19, 2023, in a courtroom sketch [Margaret Small/Reuters]

United States prosecutors will seek a 17-year prison term for an airman who admitted to leaking hundreds of highly classified military documents about the Ukraine war and other national security secrets.

In a sentencing memorandum filed earlier this week, prosecutors said the crime by Jack Teixeira, 22, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, amounted to one of the most “consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history”.

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