Leaked documents pose ‘serious risk’ to national security: US
- April 11, 2023
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The United States has been in contact with some of its closest allies in recent days calm them down after leaking some secret Pentagon documents, which suggest that
The United States has been in contact with some of its closest allies in recent days calm them down after leaking some secret Pentagon documents, which suggest that Washington may have been spying on some of its partners such as South Korea, Ukraine and Israel.
At a press conference, John Kirby, one of the White House officials, explained that senior US officials had contacts with some of Washington’s closest allies. “top notch” in the last days talk about recent leaks.
In addition, Kirby assured that the Joe Biden government is doing every effort to identify the source of the leak, but still haven’t been able to.
We don’t know who is behind this.We don’t know what the reason is or what else could be there,” he admitted.
At the request of the Pentagon The Ministry of Justice opened a criminal case establish the source of the leak of these documents, which appeared in recent days on social networks as discord And Twitter and those supported by the American media such as New York Times.
Kirby claimed that some of the documents were marked “secret”. manipulated so he asked the media to be careful when covering them.
According to Kirby, Biden first became aware of these leaks late last week. and it gets updates every time there is a new development.
For its part, the US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin first received information about this leak on April 6th. According to local media reports, Chris Meagher, one of the Pentagon officials, spoke in detail to the press.
Meager also stated that The leak poses a “serious risk” to US national security. and could potentially fuel disinformation campaigns as some of them have been manipulated.
Meagher explained that the government “very carefully” and closely monitoring the impact of documents and especially if your content is amplified online.
Like Meagher, Deputy State Department Spokesman Vedant Patel told another press conference that “there is no doubt” that the leaked documents They pose a threat to national security. from the United States.
Neither the White House, nor Pengaton, nor the State Department explained What allies has the US been in contact with? Last few days.
Most Leaked Military and Intelligence Documents related to the war in Ukraine and elaborate on US and NATO plans to support Ukraine’s offensive in the war against Russia.
In addition, documents indicate that Washington he could spy on one of his closest allies, like Ukraine itself, South Korea and Israel.
In particular, one of the documents suggests that the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, may have acted as engine of protests against judicial reform promoted by the government of Benjamin Netanyahuwhat the Israeli prime minister’s office on Sunday deemed “unfounded”.
Other documents show that In March, the US allegedly spied on high-ranking South Korean officials. that it was about Washington’s pressure on Seoul to send weapons to Ukraine, in violation of South Korea’s policy of traditionally refusing to supply weapons to countries in conflict.
These revelations are hit hard in South Korea, where some opposition voices asked South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol to cancel a state visit he plans to make this month to Washington, or at least use the meeting to resolve the Biden issue.
Other documents repeated by NBC show the United States allegedly agreed some battle plans of the Ukrainian government.
The impact this leak of classified documents will have is not yet known, but may be the most serious since 2013, when former analyst Edward Snowden exposed the extent of the massive spyware launched by the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
(According to information from EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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