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Court-martial hearing set to begin for Pentagon leaker already facing years behind bars

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Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira was sentenced last year to 15 years in prison for leaking classified documents.

He pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act .

The 22-year-old previously admitted he illegally collected some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets.

The leaks exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments of Russia 's war in Ukraine .

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