The nickname aroused curiosity. When The New York Times revealed that Jack Teixeira, a military man in his 20s, was the author of leaks exposing secret US documents on foreign policy, including sensitive content about the war in Ukraine, it hypothesized that was portuguese. .
The certainty came a few hours later, from a source more than 5,000 kilometers from Lisbon, on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and coming from a Portuguese community: Jack Teixeira, detained by the FBI on suspicion of having published sensitive information that endangered the security. .of US defense, he was of Portuguese descent, the grandson of Azoreans and lived on the outskirts of Fall River.
To the family, Jack was just a 21-year-old military man and close to his sister, who was into computers and had two dogs. On the internet he was “OG”, founder of an online group on a social network dedicated mainly to video games, racist memes and weapons. For the authorities, Jackson Teixeira appears as a traitor to the homeland who spreads secrets on the Internet that must remain under lock and key in the sphere of US Defense.
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Source: Observadora
