Pentagon downplays strike targeting Syrian Kurdish leader, US troops
The Biden administration has avoided attributing the attack, though America's Kurdish partners in the fight against the Islamic State accused Turkey of responsibility.
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The Biden administration has avoided attributing the attack, though America's Kurdish partners in the fight against the Islamic State accused Turkey of responsibility.
The Pentagon has said it is holding daily meetings to review the scope and impact of the leaks and already adjusted some policies to tighten up security on some areas.
This deliberate criminal act violated stringent guidelines to safeguard classified intelligence, says Pentagon spokesman
Jack Teixeira, a Massachusetts guardsman, was arrested in April for posting classified U.S. military intelligence on gaming chat platform Discord.
Though President Biden said Thursday he was “not concerned” about the intelligence leaked in a recent online dump of classified Pentagon documents, law enforcement and cybersecurity experts say such a breach should force a security policy reckoning.