SNAFU

The Pentagon, already nervous and angry after a trust-shattering tranche of highly classified images and documents spread online last week, is waiting to see if that leak is just the beginning.

Some officials view the still-unfolding saga as perhaps even more damaging than Edward Snowden’s famous leak of classified intelligence a decade ago, because of how recent and relevant the information is. And it remains unclear whether the Defense Department is anywhere near finding the source of the leak.

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[O]ver 100 documents [were leaked] on Sunday evening, including information on Ukraine’s fight against Russia, as well as Turkish cooperation with Israel and U.S. efforts to spy on South Korea.

In addition to potentially damaging Ukraine’s planned counteroffensive this spring, the leak has also embittered U.S. allies, who are reportedly still waiting on substantive answers from Washington in response to requests for a briefing.

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[The leak] contains information about sources and methods — something that can be really dangerous when we talk about intelligence gathering. And lastly, the leak of such highly classified intelligence raises serious questions about whether the U.S. can be trusted to share and disseminate the intel within the government in a safe and secure way.

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[T]he documents appear to have first leaked many months ago — as early as January — on Discord on a server with about 20 members. The documents were then taken and reposted on other servers on that same site (Discord). And then they were reposted again on other sites such as Telegram, Twitter and 4chan.

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There appears to be another tranche out there — possibly in the possession of one of the users in that original Discord group. The running theory is someone is holding some of these other docs close to the chest. We could see those published either on social media or in the media in the coming days.

  Politico

UPDATE 04/13/2023: Busted, by journalists.