Leaked Pentagon documents

[GURPS]

A series of leaked documents, purporting to contain highly classified Pentagon intelligence related to the war in Ukraine and information gathering on close allies of the United States, have emerged online in recent weeks.

The Pentagon has confirmed that the military documents “appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material”, but the defence department has skirted categorical claims over the authenticity of the documents while repeatedly stressing that at least some have been doctored.

Leaked Pentagon documents: What are the major takeaways?

The US, UK and France are among Western countries with special forces in Ukraine, according to leaked documents.

www.aljazeera.com

 

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Where did they come from?​

No one knows for sure, not even the Pentagon chief.

“They were somewhere in the web, and where exactly, and who had access at that point, we don’t know. We simply don’t know,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said at a press conference Tuesday. “We will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it.”

It's possible the leak may have started on a site called Discord.

Discord is a social media platform popular with people playing online games. The Discord site hosts real-time voice, video and text chats for groups and describes itself as a place “where you can belong to a school club, a gaming group, or a worldwide art community."

In one of those forums, originally created to talk about a range of topics, members would debate the war in Ukraine. According to one member of the chat, an unidentified poster shared documents that the poster claimed were classified, first typing them out with the poster’s own thoughts, then, as of a few months ago, uploading images of folded papers.

The person who said he was a member of the forum told The Associated Press that another person, identified online only as “Lucca,” shared the documents in a different Discord chat. From there, they appear to have been spread until they were picked up by the media.

Many details of the story can't be immediately verified. And top US officials acknowledge publicly that they're still trying to find answers.

What we know about the leaked Pentagon documents on Ukraine

It's been less than a week since news of highly classified military documents on the Ukraine war surfaced, sending the Pentagon into full-speed damage control to assure allies and assess the scope of the leak

www.independent.co.uk

 

[herb749]

One govt spokesperson says they're important, another says they are not.

 

[Monello]

He lives on the 2nd floor.

 

[TPD]

And now the consequences of gamers leaking classified docs…

 

[stgislander]

And now the consequences of gamers leaking classified docs…

That doesn't sound good for Gurps.

 

[GURPS]

Commununity Notes says this is an AI Deep Fake .......

 

[GURPS]

That doesn't sound good for Gurps.

lol, just me ? I'm not the only ' gamer ' here