Highly classified US intelligence documents leak online
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US assessing the damage of leaked intelligence documents on national security that has been circulating online
US assessing the damage of leaked intelligence documents on national security that has been circulating online.
The Pentagon announced on Sunday that the United States is evaluating the potential effects of the apparent leak of an extensive amount of highly classified documents on national security.
The breach, which the US Justice Department is looking into, appears to contain evaluations and top-secret intelligence files that cover not only Ukraine and Russia but also extremely private investigations of US allies.
Photographed documents that have been making the rounds online are currently being investigated by the US Defense Department, but according to Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh, they “appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material.”
“An interagency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on US national security and on our allies and partners,” Singh said.
The Justice Department announced on Saturday that it had reached out to the Defense Department to discuss the situation and had started an investigation.
A steady drip of dozens of leaked documents and slides have made their way onto Twitter, Telegram, Discord and other sites in recent days, and new documents continue to surface.
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While some of the documents looked to have been altered, US officials informed the Washington Post that many of them were in line with CIA World Intelligence Review reports that are circulated at top levels inside the White House, Pentagon, and State Department.
Defense analysts say any breach of internal classified US documents would be both damaging and potentially embarrassing.
In addition, the leak would prove valuable to Moscow by showing how deeply US intelligence has penetrated parts of the Russian military apparatus, US media said.
Other documents include apparent information about the internal debate within the governments of US allies, including Israel.
Among the documents, for example, were discussions about South Korea’s debate on whether to provide the United States with artillery shells for use in Ukraine, The New York Times said.
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