Jack Teixeira, the Massachusetts Air National Guard member responsible for a sprawling leak of classified information, appeared Tuesday in federal court where he is scheduled to be sentenced in a case that shook the U.

US Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said that "Jack Teixeira repeatedly shared classified national defense information on a social media platform in an attempt to impress anonymous friends on the internet – instead, it has landed him a 15-year sentence in federal prison."

A FORMER Air National Guard member who admitted to leaking highly classified Pentagon documents on a social media group chat has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Jack Teixeira was responsible