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Pentagon Classified Documents Leak: What You Need to Know
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April 11, 2023
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0:45Now PlayingOne of the largest leaks of classified US military documents in a decade has occurred in the past few weeks online. Bloomberg's Courtney McBride explains everything you need to know.
“Highly sensitive, classified” information was made public in a leak of documents that provide details of US spying on other countries — including an assessment of weaknesses in Ukraine’s military — and pose “a very serious risk to national security,”according to the Pentagon.
The Department of Defense is “working around the clock to figure out the scope and scale of the distribution of the information” and its veracity, spokesman Chris Meagher told reporters Monday. “It is highly classified sensitive material that people in DoD and certainly other aspects of US government use to inform their work.”
He said the US has “engaged at high levels” with allies on the leak. At the White House, John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council, said “we truly don’t know” whether more documents will be released.
While the Pentagon conducts a damage assessment, the Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation.
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