The two criminal charges, relayed during an appearance in federal court here Friday morning, carry a maximum of 15 years in prison. ”The charging document also describes how that member of the group told the FBI that in February, after Teixeira posted a government document in their small group, the member reposted that image elsewhere on the internet — setting off a chain of events that led to the revelations of the past week, and a criminal case against Teixeira. Investigators are likely to probe how Teixeira, from his position as a technology support staffer at a base in Massachusetts, would have had access to highly classified information, some of which was used to brief senior leaders at the Pentagon