The head of a Discord group where a trove of sensitive US intelligence documents were posted online has been identified as a Massachusetts Air National Guardsman named Jack Teixeira, according to a new report.
The New York Times first reported Teixeira’s identity Thursday, adding that investigators want to talk to him about the leak and say that he may have information relevant to the investigation.
Separately, the Wall Street Journal reported that an arrest in the case could happen as soon as Thursday.
The fast-moving developments followed a report by the Washington Post late Wednesday that the classified files were shared to a Discord channel called “Thug Shaker Central.”
The Times reported Thursday that Teixeira’s online gaming profile links him to other members of the channel.
The paper also reported that details of the interior of Teixeira’s childhood home from pictures posted to social media match items on the margins of some of the photographs of the secret documents.
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