Experts discuss motive and consequences in Pentagon leak case.

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Experts discuss motive and consequences in Pentagon leak case.
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Experts weigh in on the motive of Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who was arrested and charged with unauthorized retention and transmission of national defense information and willful retention of classified documents. While reports indicate that Teixeira was driven by a desire to impress friends he made on the social media platform Discord, experts say that motive has no major impact in terms of the law or the case the U.S. government will bring against him. Teixeira possessed a high-level, top secret clearance known as Top Secret -- Sensitive Compartmented Information, and questions have been raised about how he could have had such a clearance.

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