The Pentagon Leak Is Really Bad, So Is Government’s Response.
A major leak from the Pentagon finally hit the news over the weekend. The leak itself is bad enough, REALLY bad. Especially given the information leaked is so detailed it makes the Edward Snowden leak look like child’s play.
Pentagon officials are reeling from the leak of highly classified military plans on the war in Ukraine that surfaced last week — alarmed by both the sensitivity and sheer amount of information exposed.
The U.S. government is scrambling to determine the source of the most significant breach of U.S. intelligence in a decade after the tranche of more than 100 documents surfaced on social media. The documents contain information so sensitive that only people with the highest levels of security clearance in the U.S. government can access them.
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“The mood is anger,” said one DoD official, who like others quoted for this story was granted anonymity to discuss internal reactions to the leak. “It’s a massive betrayal.”
“I’m sick to my stomach,” said a second DoD official.
As everyone should be. The information that has been leaked is now all over the media and social media. The world is seeing all of it. For example: Egypt, a long time ally of the United States, was thrown under the leaker’s bus with the disclosure that they were supposedly negotiating with Russia to supply Russia with 40,000 rockets.
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h/t Sarah