Investigators are focusing on a young member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard as the key suspect in the leak of hundreds of pages of classified military intelligence to an online group of young friends - disclosures that later spilled out into the wider world in a series of embarrassing disclosures last week - according to multiple people familiar with the matter.The people familiar with the case, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Thursday morning that the individual, Jack Teixeira, has not been charged or arrested in the matter while investigators continue to gather evidence. The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the individual who leaked the information shared documents with a small circle of online friends on the Discord chat platform, which is popular with gamers. In that group, these people said, Teixeira's handle was jackthedripper.One person familiar with Teixeira said he was a junior member of the military but had access to highly sensitive information through his role as an IT tech within the military organization.The fast-moving investigation kicked off in early April when Pentagon officials first became aware that documents about an extraordinary range of subjects exposed how the United States spies on friends and foes alike. The leak of dozens of top secret pages also upset senior Ukrainian officials, who had sought to keep details of their military's vulnerabilities hidden as Russia's war with Ukraine grinds on into its second year.A Justice Department spokeswoman and FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.
