In an exclusive interview from the Federal Prison, where he is currently serving a 15-year prison sentence when the prosecutors called one of the most important leaks of the US National Defense Secrets, Jack Texira said for the first time since he was arrested more than two years ago-he told ABC news that he did not feel betrayal of his country and adheres to the same work again if he had the opportunity to carry out matters.
The 23 -year -old said that he appeals to President Donald Trump for an amnesty, as he called the “Musaasa” case under the Biden administration.
“My intention was to educate the popular people in the United States about what was going on. I was not harming the United States or the country because I loved my nation. I am my country,” Texira told ABC News on the phone from a medium -sized federal reform institution in Virginia. “I was not in any way to harm my country, but I think I need to educate people about what was going on because I think they lied.”
Watch “Good Morning America” at 7 am for more interview with Jack Teixeira and his mother, Dawn Duffautu.
He said he believed that the mission was “largely.”
“I don’t feel that I betrayed my country at all, the exact opposite,” he said. “I think I learned a lot of people who remained in the dark and who were lying about this regarding all the things that were happening.”
This illustration of the image on April 13, 2023, the suspect, the National Guard Jack Texira, is reflected in the Pentagon image in Washington, DC,
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Prosecutors say that while working as a national guard in the state of Massachusetts, Texira abused his highest technical statement and reached him and published pictures of hundreds of classified documents, including those related to the movements of the forces in Ukraine and Chinese spy balloons details, unlike the gaming platform. Another joint document included “discussing a conspiracy by a foreign opponent to target US forces abroad,” according to the indictment.
The FBI said that his actions were created “serious and long -term damage to the National Security of the United States,” while then lawyer General Merik Garland said that Texhara “threatened the national security of our country and our allies’ devices” when he repeatedly participated in the online national defense information “in an attempt to impress the unknown friends on the Internet.”
Last year, Texira acknowledged six federal charges represented in maintaining a column and transferring national defense information. On the other hand, the prosecutors agreed not to be charged with additional charges under the espionage law.
He also admitted that he was guilty of a military charge to obstruct justice during a military military court this year, avoid any additional imprisonment and receive a brief discharge as part of his agreement.
After the ruling on the federal case, Joshua Levy, the then American lawyer in Massachusetts, said Texira “offended his position on confidence” and put himself over his country when he took advantage of him in his upper sarcastic statement and “took the deliberate option” for more than a year to reach hundreds of documents designed and share. Levy said that this important sentence sends a strong message to every individual with a quick permit.
“A blatant warning to all those who entrusted him to protect national defense information: betraying that confidence, and you will be responsible.”
“I still believe in my actions.”
While the federal prison sentence is serving, Teixeira maintains anyone who is not affected by his actions. He said that his apology in a statement during his ruling in the federal court was dedicated to his family and friends and how this affected this.
“I still believe in my actions,” he said.
Texira said he believed his case had been politicized and that he was not worth 15 years behind bars.
“I just feel that there are people who did much worse things as much as they did it with similar information, and they did not get bad treatment as I did,” he said. “But my case was established specifically by the Biden administration.”
“I think I was accustomed to holding my gume, and I was crucified to be an example,” he said.
FBI is held at North Dightton, Massachusetts, April 13, 2023, was detained by FBI’s Dightton, Massachusetts, Jack Texira, held by FBI’s FBI agents, Massachusetts.
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While working as an information technology specialist, Teixeira used a safe work station at his Massachusetts base to conduct hundreds of searches for classified documents related to national defense information that were not related to its duties, the prosecutors said.
In response to a question about the reason for ignoring his training and leakage of classified information, Texira said: “I think many people and many different people will determine you can say.”
Despite the warnings of his superiors to stop performing a “deep diving” in the classified intelligence information, it “removed the information and documents that contain NDI without authorization.”
He pressed the reason for reaching information outside his duties despite being told by stopping, Teixeira claimed that he encouraged to do “completely reversing these directives” and “doing our diligence and we look at what we support and why we support and what is going on.”
“I felt at that time when I was subjected to a direction I gave it by a president, so it was just one of the things that I thought was contradictory,” he said.
Teixeira did not enter into details, but he said he believed that there are “lies” that are published about what is going on in relation to the “tactical and strategic side” of the Russia and Crink war and American assistance to Ukraine.
“Many of the things that the administration at the time said was wrong, was misleading, was completely wrong, or was deviated, just essentially, I wanted people to know exactly what was going on so that no one could say,” It was the case, it was the case because the history book or textbooks of history said: “He said:” I just wanted to appear on what is going on in everything.
Despite the 15 -year punishment, he said he would not change what he did.
“I have passed myself over and over again about what will happen if I do not do this, or what will happen if this and that is in reality, this does not really matter,” he said. “I still think, yes, I was going to do it again.”
Tixira said his lawyer was working to try to make an excuse for pardon for Trump, and that he believed that pardon would be.
“I think they will look at a gay person as a supporter and a person who used what I thought would be my last vote in Trump’s province’s prison in 2024. I think he will actually,” he said.
TEIXEira Lawyer applied for a pardon on Wednesday. Such a request is usually submitted after the completion of a federal penalty, although his request is noticed that he is seeking a full amnesty instead of just reducing his punishment. In the end, it will be up to the Trump administration to agree to or reject the petition.
I appealed to Teixeira Trump to “Please return me to my family, I did not reunite my family with my rights as an American and my freedom.”
TEIXEira’s mother speaks for the first time as well
Tixira’s mother, Don Dovolt, also appealed to Trump in her first interview since her son was arrested in April 2023, saying that she believed that his simulation was “malicious” and “exciting” case.
“He didn’t do it to harm the country,” Dofolt told ABC News in a exclusive interview in Boston. “Tell the audience that they will issue an example of Jack.”
She said she wanted Trump to look at the case and “Look at how my son is treated.”
“If he agreed that it was an unfair treatment, then grant him pardon,” she said.
Dofolt was reflected in the arrest of her son, saying: “It was a complete surprise for me.”
She said: “On that morning, the New York Times correspondents descended on my path asking to see it. This was the first ink I had anything that was great.” “We were watching the news, stories, and they were trying to find this person leaking from the documents. No idea. It was on April 13, that all this started. At that time, they asked, they said they would run an article called the leakage. I still do not believe that.
Dawn Dufault, right, mother of Massachusetts National Air Jack Texira, the Federal Court leaves, March 4, 2024, in Boston.
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Dofolt said that she still has questions about the reason for her son what he did, but she does not believe him as a threat.
She said that she believed her son “had to say the truth” and took an option to share documents classified with friends on Discord. She added that Teixeira was recently diagnosed as an autism spectrum, and she has obsessive -compulsive disorder, which she said believed was a worker in his actions.
“I think this also played in his coercion to go against his right, which he took to the government,” she said. “I feel part of it may not be controlled because of what we know now is autism.”
Duvolt said that Tixira comes from a military family, and they are concerned about national security in the wake of the leakage.
And she said, “How did you improve? Can this happen again? Does anyone look at that? Does anyone care?” We love this country. We love the government. We are not the theorists of the plot. But I feel that you should do more to consider what happened. “
Air Force Inspector General investigation I found that individuals in the Teixeira unit “failed to take appropriate measures after they realized his activities seeking intelligence”, but there was no evidence that members of his supervision chain were aware of unauthorized disclosure. Fifteen individuals received disciplinary procedures and other administrative procedures for “specialization in the performance of duties”, and the Ministry of Air Force said it had carried out many reforms to improve the protection of classified and sensitive information.
Dofolt described her son as a “good child” that has changed since his arrest, to become more aware and his family’s appreciation.
“I think he needs a second chance,” she said. “I think he’s still a great thing. I always have, and I still feel this way.”
