New classified US documents appear on social media
New classified documents that appear to contain sensitive American information about Ukraine, China or the Middle East were released on social media on Friday, reports the New York Times. By its magnitude – it is a question of a hundred documents – and the sensitivity of the documents, this “leak” could be extremely harmful, estimates the daily, citing members of the American administration. An intelligence service executive spoke of “ nightmare for the Group of Five ”, formed by the United States, Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which share their information.
The latest documents notably appeared on Twitter, the day after the discovery of a first batch relating to the strategy of the United States and NATO to support Ukraine, in which its air defense capabilities are considered worrying. One of these documents, dated February 23, bears the words “ Secret/NoForn”, which means that it must not be communicated to a third country. The US Department of Justice has announced the opening of an investigation.
” As these are often photos of documents, it appears to be a deliberate leak by someone wishing to harm the efforts of Ukraine, the United States and NATO “commented Mick Mulroy, a former senior Pentagon official interviewed by the New York Times. Speaking of an “attack important to safety », He considers that it could hamper Ukrainian military planning. According to another observer, also quoted by the New York Timesit would only be the “ tip of the iceberg “.
The first batch of classified documents – daily briefings on the events and statistics of the Ukrainian conflict, some of which appear to have been “photoshopped” to present the situation in a more favorable light to the Russians – had been discovered on Friday on Twitter.