The 21-year-old Air National Guardsman was not packaging intelligence for commanders, but working on the network on which highly classified intel was kept

The suspect arrested in the leaking of classified US documents online, 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, was charged in federal court on Friday in Boston.

Here’s everything we know so far.

The charges include:

About the suspect: Teixeira, a member of Massachusetts Air National Guard, was arrested on Thursday in North Dighton, Massachusetts, by FBI agents.

His official job is Cyber Transport Systems journeyman. According to the Air Force, Cyber Transport Systems specialists are tasked with making sure the service’s “vast, global communications network” is operating correctly.

He is believed to be the head of an obscure invite-only Discord chatroom called Thug Shaker Central, multiple US officials told CNN, where information from the classified documents was first posted months ago.

Several former high school classmates told CNN that he had a fascination with the military, guns and war.

Teixeira’s access: According to charging documents, Teixeira held a top secret security clearance and allegedly began posting information about the documents online around December 2022, and photos of documents in January.

He was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing, which is a “24/7 operational mission” that takes in intelligence from various sources and packages it for some of the most senior military leaders around the globe, according to a defense official. Teixeira’s job was not to be the one packaging the intelligence for those senior commanders, but rather to work on the network on which that highly classified intelligence lived.

He was concerned about getting caught transcribing documents at work, so he started taking them home, a member of his online chat group told the FBI, according to court documents. According to investigators, a US government agency found that he also had searched for the word “leak” on his government-issued computer prior to his arrest.

What’s next: The judge scheduled a detention hearing for Teixeira on Wednesday. He will remain detained until then. Teixeira did not enter a formal plea. 

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy tweeted that the House of Representatives will investigate the trove of leaked classified documents. “The Biden administration has failed to secure classified information. Through our committees, Congress will get answers as to why they were asleep at the switch,” he said.

President Joe Biden said Friday that he is calling on federal agencies to step up their security measures in the wake of a massive US classified documents leak.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a “review of our intelligence access, accountability and control procedures within the Department to inform our efforts to prevent this kind of incident from happening again,” he said in a separate statement.

Biden also shared his first public praise for the FBI’s arrest of the 21-year-old suspect, Jack Teixeira, who investigators accuse of posting the classified documents online. 

“I commend the rapid action taken by law enforcement to investigate and respond to the recent dissemination of classified U.S. government documents,” Biden said in his Friday statement.

Managing the diplomatic fallout: The president was briefed last night on the arrest during his diplomatic visit to Ireland, and he has received regular updates on the US’ outreach to allies since the leak became public.

The documents contained sensitive information, including eavesdropping on key allies and adversaries and blunt assessments on the state of the Ukraine war.

Officials acknowledge the situation has loomed over Biden’s trip to his ancestral homeland.

Before the arrest yesterday, Biden sought to downplay the incident. “I’m concerned that it happened, but there is nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that is of great consequence,” he told reporters.

Attorney General Merrick Garland declined to say if others would be charged in the case of leaked classified documents but stressed the national security implications of the case in his first remarks since the suspect’s court appearance Friday.

“This is not just about taking home documents,” Garland said. “This is about the transmission” of classified material, which carries “very serious penalties.” 

Garland held a press conference in Washington, DC, shortly after the 21-year-old Air National Guard member accused of leaking the documents online was formally charged. 

Garland would not comment when asked whether the case would extend beyond the federal charges and into military court. A detention hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

“His first appearance was this morning,” Garland said, “and I’m really not able to talk anymore. It’s an ongoing investigation.” 

US classified information leaks suspect Jack Teixeira was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing, which is a “24/7 operational mission” that takes in intelligence from various sources and packages it for some of the most senior military leaders around the globe, according to a defense official.

Teixeira’s job was not to be the one packaging the intelligence for those senior commanders, but rather to work on the network on which that highly classified intelligence lived.

For that purpose, the official said Teixeira would be required to have a top secret/sensitive compartmented information (TS/SCI) clearance, in the instance that he was exposed to that level of intelligence.

“This airman, even as a young man, his job was to work on this network that carried highly classified information,” the official said. “Because of this, the information carried on the network, people who work on it have to have that kind of clearance.”

Teixeira underwent “a very rigorous background check” to obtain that clearance, the official said. People with TS/SCI clearances are required to sign nondisclosure agreements, and they are “required to self-report” if they accidentally mishandle information or have any kind of issue that “might affect your mental state or ability to continue to do your job.” 

Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, has been on federal orders since Oct. 1, 2021, the official said. Before that, he was in drilling status, which is the typical status for National Guardsmen conducting monthly drills. 

The social media platform where Jack Teixeira was allegedly posting classified documents, which is not named in the affidavit but which CNN has previously identified as Discord, gave the FBI information on April 12 about the account that had allegedly been posting the documents.

Teixeira used his real name and home address in North Dighton, Massachusetts, for the billing information associated with his Discord account, according to the affidavit.

“According to these records, the individual using the Subject Username is the administrator of Server 1, the billing name associated with the Subject Username is ‘Jack Teixeira,’ and the billing address associated with the Subject Username is a specific residence in North Dighton, Massachusetts. Teixeira listed the North Dighton, Massachusetts residence as his primary residence on employment paperwork with the USANG,” it said.  

Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old suspect in the leak of classified information posted on social media, has been charged with unauthorized detention and transmission of national defense information and unauthorized removal of classified information and defense materials.

In federal court in Boston on Friday morning, Magistrate Judge David Hennessy informed Teixeira of the charges he’s facing and scheduled a detention hearing for Teixeira on Wednesday.

Read the affidavit and criminal complaint here:

The US intelligence leaks suspect was concerned about getting caught transcribing documents at work, so he started taking them home, a member of his online chat group told the FBI, according to court documents.

Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira, 21, is suspected of posting the leaks. Investigators did not name the group member the FBI interviewed in the affidavit.

Teixeira, “began taking the documents to his residence and photographing them” due to his concern about getting caught, the group member told investigators, according to the court document.

The leaks included photos of crumpled documents lying on top of magazines and surrounded by other random objects, such as zip-close bags and Gorilla Glue, CNN has previously reported.

The documents looked as if they had been hastily folded up and shoved into a pocket before being removed from a secure location, a source familiar with these kinds of documents told CNN.

Document leaks suspect Jack Teixeira is believed to be the head of obscure invite-only Discord chatroom called Thug Shaker Central, multiple US officials told CNN, where information from the classified documents was first posted months ago.

Four Discord users active in a different Discord chatroom where the documents later appeared told CNN the documents began circulating on Thug Shaker. Another user who was in the Thug Shaker chatroom told CNN they saw the original posts of classified documents but declined to speak further about them.

Investigators alleged that a US government agency with the ability to monitor “certain searches conducted on its classified networks” found that documents leaks suspect Jack Teixeira searched for the word “leak” on his government-issued computer.

One week before his arrest, 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Teixeira “used his government computer to search classified intelligence reporting for the word ‘leak,'” according to an affidavit.

That search led investigators to believe that Teixeira was looking for the intelligence community’s assessment of who had leaked the classified documents online.