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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Tim McLaughlin and Sarah N. Lynch

U.S. military leak suspect appears in court; had arsenal, prosecutors say

FILE PHOTO: Jack Douglas Teixeira, a U.S. Air Force National Guard airman accused of leaking highly classified military intelligence records online, appears wearing an orange jumpsuit, where the judge accepted his request to waive his right to a preliminary hearing in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. April 19, 2023 in a courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Margaret Small.

A U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets appeared in federal court on Thursday, where a judge expressed concern the 21-year-old's knowledge of classified material might be valuable to a foreign government.

"Some of the information he" is accused of taking "he actually copied," U.S. Magistrate David Hennessy said. "If I write something, I’m going to remember it reasonably well."

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