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Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira set to be sentenced, could get up to 17 years in prison

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Jack Teixeira , 22 , pleaded guilty in March to six counts of the willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act .

Prosecutors say he violated his oath to defend the U.S. and to protect its secrets.

His attorneys will argue that he should be sentenced to 11 years in prison.

The leak exposed to the unvarnished assessments of Russia ’s war in Ukraine .

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