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Jack Teixeria, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, is suspected of leaking intelligence documents online to a forum of internet denizens via a Discord server. This leak is being called the biggest blow to the U.S. intelligence community since Edward Snowden and has served to undermine trust.