He faces imprisonment for decades. The leaker of secret Pentagon documents changes his confession and admits his guilt.

Teixeira was arrested in Massachusetts last April on charges of organizing the most damaging leak of secret US documents in a decade. The documents indicated the United States' concern about Ukraine's military capabilities in the face of Russian forces, and also showed that Washington apparently spied on its allies Israel and South Korea. This is the largest breach of its kind since Edward Snowden leaked National Security Agency documents in 2013.