Investigators believe Teixeira, who specializes in intelligence and whose promotion to Airman 1st Class was announced this past July, led the Discord chat group – known as “Thug Shaker Central” — where photos of the classified documents first surfaced, sources familiar with the probe said.
The Washington Post reported that Teixeira was known to his Discord channel members by the handle “jackthedripper.” The group was made up of two dozen people who regularly discussed guns, video games and racist memes.