Lawyers for Jack Teixeira, the former Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top secret Pentagon documents, have asked a judge to reconsider an earlier decision to keep him behind bars as he awaits trial, citing the pretrial release of former President Donald Trump and others charged in similar high-profile cases involving classified documents.
Mr. Teixeira was arrested in April at a home in southern Massachusetts, about 18 miles east of Providence, Rhode Island, following a Department of Justice probe into a leak of highly classified materials on the messaging app Discord, as well as on the Telegram app and 4chan website.
Officials believe Mr. Teixeira, who joined the U.S. Air National Guard in September 2019 and had a high-security clearance, may have started sharing the documents online as far back as January of this year….