• Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, is the leader of the small online gaming group where a batch of classified intelligence documents leaked, according to The New York Times.
• The Times reported Thursday that the national guardsman is a member of the branch’s intelligence wing in the state and was the head of the private online group “Thug Shaker Central,” where the documents leaked over the last few months.
• The newspaper reported that the documents gained broader attention after a member of the group took several dozen of them and shared them to a different forum online that was public.

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