US struggles to discover source of top secret intel leak
American officials are scrambling to pinpoint the source of the latest online leak of top secret military and intelligence documents.
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American officials are scrambling to pinpoint the source of the latest online leak of top secret military and intelligence documents.
Classified documents showing United States and NATO plans to support Ukrainian counteroffensives have been leaked on social media, sparking an urgent investigation by the Pentagon to discover who was responsible.
Intelligence gathered by U.S. forces, believed to be related to the movements of foreign militaries, was included in state secrets leaked by a Maritime Self-Defense Force captain recently dismissed for the breach, government sources say.
These leaks, the one about the moskva and the one about the targeting of up to 12 russian generals being killed, look like domestic bragging. this looks more like american intelligence agencies or officials, rather, claiming credit on the american stage for being really effective. i'm not sure how wise that is, both in terms of protecting sources of american information but also in terms of provoking russia to escalate this war. if you can trace the death of particular generals to specific u.s. intelligence knowingly supplied, that's a different kind of intelligence leak. so i'm a little wary ...
Coming from the united states and surrounding countries, ed luce, and also these reports of intelligence being shared that might be leading to the deaths of russian generals and also the embarrassing sinking of the moskva. it can't be lost on vladimir putin that his ship sunk. ultimately, it's the ukrainians who are executing this. do you think it matters if the united states is revealed to be as sharing this intelligence? >> it certainly is a different quality of intelligence leak, signifying u.s. involvement, intimate involvement with targeting generals than we've seen before. i think this i...