The United States is facing possibly its worst intelligence leak since Edward Snowden flew to Moscow after a new batch of classified documents appeared on social media.
More than 100 classified documents relating to Ukraine, China, the Middle East, the Pacific, and terrorism are now believed to be in the public domain, The New York Times reported.
The new tranche appeared on Friday. On Thursday, White House officials said they were investigating the appearance of highly classified briefing documents related to Ukraine on social media.
Phillip Ingram, a retired senior British military intelligence officer, said that the papers appeared to be daily briefing documents for high-level American decision-makers. “If genuine, it is a very significant leak because it shows a failure at the very highest levels of classification,” he said.
Referring to the classification level of one of the documents, he added: “No FORN means no foreign eyes, so this is above Five Eyes,” meaning the intelligence alliance between the US, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. “So US decision-makers at joint chiefs or potentially presidential level. “If it is genuine, the Americans have a very serious problem. The biggest since Edward Snowden.”
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