'The department is taking the issue of this unauthorized disclosure very seriously.' Pentagon Spokesman Patrick Ryder says officials are working 'around the clock' to 'better understand the scope, scale and impact' of the classified documents leak.
traced the documents' supposed path from that server, known as Thug Shakers Central, to a larger Discord community, where they appeared in early March. They then migrated to 4chan, Twitter and Russian Telegram channels just last week, when they first came to the attention of U.S. officials.
President Biden said during his visit to Dublin on Thursday that investigators were close to identifying a suspect. contained details about the war in Ukraine, including information about anticipated Russian airstrikes on specific targets and other Russian war plans. The records offer an unprecedented glimpse into U.S. efforts to back the Ukrainian government, as well as the extent to which U.S. intelligence agencies have penetrated Russian communication channels to aid Ukrainian forces.
At least one of the documents appeared to have been doctored to minimize Russian casualties in Ukraine, with changing figures as it spread from Discord to other online platforms. U.S. officials have cautioned that other documents might have been altered, while acknowledging that others matched similar documents distributed to military planners.
Asked Monday if the threat to national security has been contained, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said,"We don't know. We truly don't know."
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