The accused.. and what motive made him do that?
It raises a question about the strength of the American intelligence and its penetration capabilities.. This may be ironic.. The greatest country in the world.. is exposed to such things.. but as it is said: “It happens in the best of families.”
Some may ask: Did it leak.. or leaked..??
If it leaked, then this is a disaster, and if it leaked, then the disaster is greater.
Leaking documents of this importance will not stop at arresting those who leaked them only, as the issue has more complex and more sensitive dimensions than we can imagine.
In terms of timing, such an exceptional event cannot be viewed spontaneously and in isolation from the US internal developments and international changes, starting with the Ukrainian problem and the re-drawn alliances and conflicts it produced, including the Sino-Russian alliance with China and the Chinese preparations and exercises in the Taiwan Strait and surroundings. . And whether these leaks were modified, or transmitted by text, the matter remains a cause for ridicule by friends and gloating with enemies. In the best case, it may be seen as contrived for intelligence goals related to the American role in influencing conflicts and existing international relations in a way that serves American interests and orientations.
Indeed, it is ridiculous that this young man working in the National Air Guard was able to leak this huge amount of documents.
If it leaked, then this is a disaster, and if it leaked, then the disaster is greater.
Pentagon documents revealing US spying methods on allies and enemies alike have deeply concerned US officials that this information could threaten sensitive sources and important foreign relations.
Several of the documents, which US officials say are authentic, contained labels referring to the Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence, known as "J2", appearing to be summary documents.
For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the information as "another hoax," and Peskov said in response to a question from a reporter about the "Washington Post" report: "It looks like another hoax, of which there are many now, this is how you should deal with it." with such publications.
On April 12, CNN published a confession by CIA Director Bill Burns, in his first public statements since the leak of those classified military documents, that the issue represents an urgent problem for the United States that is no less "severe than anything else" at the present moment.
The next day, the Washington Post revealed new information about the leaker of classified documents in America... and his friend, who said that he wanted to protect us from the troubled world.
The newspaper's report breaks new ground in identifying the supposed leaker of the top-secret documents - including one that paints a pessimistic American view of the war in Ukraine - and provides the first details about who may be behind the major national security breach that has rocked Washington in recent days.
The suspected leaker, who the newspaper describes as the only gun enthusiast, was part of a group in which dozens of people met on Discord, a platform popular with online gamers, and those on the group shared their love for weapons and military equipment, the newspaper quoted an interview. She conducted it with a friend of the aforementioned person who was part of this group.
The potential leaker's friend told the newspaper that he would not disclose the alleged leaker's identity or location to authorities.
The leaker, known as "OG", began publishing messages on the platform last year that included the use of military terms, and the Washington Post reported in the months that followed, the leaker published messages in which it appeared as if he was copying classified information from American documents, according to the report.
The newspaper wrote about the messages published by the unidentified young man, quoting his friend: “He indicated that they were, apparently, semi-verbatim transcripts of secret intelligence documents that the OG indicated he had brought home from his job on a ‘military base’, which the member refused to identify.” ".
The newspaper continued by saying that the “OG” alleged that he “spent at least part of his day inside a secured facility where cell phones and other electronic devices are prohibited, which could be used to document classified information on government computer networks or spool from printers.”
The report went on to describe the Discord server apparently controlled by OG, where recently leaked confidential documents was posted, as a "pandemic refuge, especially for teenage gamers locked in their homes and cut off from their friends in the real world."
A Discord spokesperson told CNN Sunday that the company is cooperating with law enforcement in the investigation, but declined to comment. CNN reached out to Discord after the Washington Post report.
"He wanted to keep us informed," said a member of the chat group through which the documents were leaked to the newspaper, about his friend, adding that "OG," thought the information he had would protect others from the turbulent world around them, according to the report.
CNN reported that the tj Discord room, or its "server," had disappeared from the Internet after news of the leaks emerged last week, according to CNN's review of Discord servers.
Some of the documents were later posted by Discord users to another invite-only server, as some Discord users believed the documents were fake because they didn't think anyone would be rude enough to post them online, according to a CNN review of the messages on the platform.
Noting that the Discord app claims to have about 150 million monthly users and that its popularity has skyrocketed during the coronavirus pandemic that initially confined people to their homes.
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the person who leaked classified US documents including intelligence assessments and reports on Ukraine and Russia was a gunman in his 20s who worked on a military base, citing colleagues in an online chat group.
The newspaper said that the person posted confidential information in a group on the instant messaging platform "Discord", which included about twenty men and boys united by "the common love of weapons, military equipment, and God."
In its report, the newspaper relied on interviews with two members of the chat group. The Discord platform said in a statement yesterday, Wednesday, that it is cooperating with law enforcement authorities.
The Justice Department opened a formal criminal investigation after the Pentagon referred the matter to it, in what appears to be the most serious leak of US secrets in years. Pictures of sensitive documents have been posted on Discord and other platforms such as 4Chan, Telegram, and Twitter. National security agencies and the US Department of Justice are investigating the leak to assess the damage to national security and to relationships with allies and other countries, such as Ukraine.
On April 14, CNN published a report that revealed the identity of the suspect in leaking classified US Department of Defense information, according to court documents, 21-year-old Jacques Teixeira used his government computer to search classified intelligence reports for the word "Leak" a week before his arrest.
According to CNN, the FBI arrested Teixeira, an Air National Guard pilot, in North Dayton, Massachusetts, Thursday.
Court documents and US officials revealed new details about the suspect in leaking documents, his method of work, and the security clearance he should have obtained after he appeared for the first time before the court on Friday.
Investigators alleged that a US government agency with the ability to monitor "certain searches conducted on its clandestine networks" found that one week prior to his arrest, Teixeira had used his government computer to search classified intelligence reports for the word "leak".
This research led investigators to believe that Teixeira was looking for the intelligence community's assessment of who leaked classified documents onto the Internet.
For his part, a defense official said Jacques Teixeira was assigned to the 102nd Intelligence Wing, which has a "24/7 mission," taking intelligence from various sources to mobilize some of the top military leaders around the world.
Teixeira was not the one mobilizing the intelligence for these senior leaders, but rather working on the network on which that top-secret intelligence resides.
For this purpose, the official confirmed, Teixeira was asked to obtain permission to handle confidential and highly sensitive information.
"This pilot, even when he was young, his job was to work on this network that carried top secret information," the official added. "Because of that, the information transmitted on the network requires that people working on it have this kind of permission."
"It's not like your typical IT guy where you call the help desk and they come to fix your computer," the official explained. "They're working on a top-secret system, so they ask for that clearance."
Meanwhile, according to court documents, Teixeira used his real home address for billing information associated with his Discord account, the platform on which Teixeira was allegedly posting classified documents, which were not mentioned in court documents but were identified by CNN as Discord earlier.
The New York Times published a picture from the accused's kitchen, showing how investigators obtained evidence proving the young man's involvement in leaking documents.
The photo also proves that the samples from the suspect's kitchen match when he took pictures of the leaked documents.
The most important thing that was published about these documents indicates that they reveal the Pentagon's plans regarding Ukraine within five secret documents of the United States Army regarding the Russian-Ukrainian war that were obtained as a result of a security breach of the Pentagon and were leaked through social media Twitter and Telegram April 2023 and became available to all media such as Sky News and CNN The content of the documents relates to the Ukrainian counterattack, including the plans of the United States and NATO to help Ukraine prepare for the spring offensive against Russia, and it contains plans and details about the Ukrainian army, the number of casualties for each of the war parties, and what the Ukrainian army also needs in terms of equipment and other information. Sensitive documents are classified as top secret.
The contents of the documents include the following:
First: in the field of training the Ukrainian forces
The documents published a number of training schedules for 12 Ukrainian combat brigades, of whom 9 brigades are being trained by the US Army and NATO, and their training was completed in March 2023, and 3 military brigades whose training ends at the end of April 2023, and the brigade includes from 4,000 to 5,000 combat soldiers, and the documents also indicated the need of the army. Ukrainian to 250 tanks, more than 350 mechanical vehicles, and 480 vehicles. Plans for handing over those weapons to the Ukrainian side were also leaked. The documents include maps of Ukraine and diagrams of the locations of the forces and the types of weapons available to them.
Second: spending rates
It also published the rates and volume of spending on ammunition that was sent to Ukraine, including the Himars missile launchers and US-made artillery missile systems.
Third: the number of victims
The documents showed that the number of Ukrainian dead is estimated at about 71,000, and the number of Russian dead is from 16,000 to 17,500.
The reactions were as follows
American response
Officials in the US administration tried to delete the posts containing images of the leaks from Twitter, but they did not succeed.
Military analysts said that the documents had been tampered with regarding the number of casualties among the war's most extreme, and a number of US officials accused Russia of being behind this leak. And the US Department of Justice announced the opening of an investigation into these leaks.
Ukrainian response
The advisor to the Ukrainian President, Mykhailo Podolyak, said that these documents are fake and that they are one of the misleading attempts that Russia uses in its information war in an attempt by Russia to stop and disrupt the spring offensive, and that the number of Russian deaths reaches 200,000.
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