The U.S. Defense Department confirmed that the material was genuine, but claimed it had been selectively edited. Here's more.
The documents, all photographs of print-outs, pertain to a host of sensitive American national security matters including the ongoing U.S.-led coalition campaign to defeat ISIS, the disposition of U.S allies in the Middle East and Europe with respect to Russia, and the United Kingdom’s prospective military plans for countering China in the Pacific.
Yahoo News has seen over a hundred other documents, but cannot verify their authenticity. There is the possibility that some or all may be forgeries or manipulated versions of originals. They cover a gamut of urgent U.S. foreign policy preoccupations. One print-out posted on Discord contains significant technical detail about the numbers and potential failures of a specific weapon system provided by the United States to Ukraine. The document is marked “SECRET/NOFORN” — “NOFORN” meaning “Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals.” That is an explicit classification used to indicate intelligence information that “may not be released in any form to foreign governments, foreign nationals, foreign organizations, or non-U.S.
The timing of these leaks, coming at a moment when the Ukrainian military is preparing to launch a much anticipated offensive, and also the method of their dissemination, raises a great deal of questions about how these documents were obtained and also their veracity. Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the State Council Presidium on Tuesday, April 4, 2023.
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