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The FBI has arrested a 21-year-old Air National Guardsman in connection with the leak of highly classified documents relating to Russia’s war in Ukraine. Jack Teixeira, who serves as a cyber specialist for the US Air Force National Guard, was taken into custody Thursday and will be charged with unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information. The Biden administration is going to have a hard time explaining how the biggest US intelligence leak in a decade may have been committed by a low-level Defense Department employee.