A treasure-trove file full of secret classified information somehow managed to find it’s way into the world-wide web of public information. All of Uncle Sam’s friends in the spooky world of spies are frantically demanding to know what happened and what’s being done to control the damage. Our allies have a right to be angry. Details on their ever so secret “sources and methods” are mixed in with a full intel report. The analysis on how things are going for Ukraine in their war against Russia, experts say, has at least some “alterations” in the data. Even so, it’s still a huge mess for everyone.
A file full of secrets
The file which leaked out from the Pentagon has every Western alphabet agency on the planet screaming at Lloyd Austin. He’s reviewing the matter. Joe Biden doesn’t have any idea what to tell America’s faithful allies and neither do his handlers.
As Politico reports, officials “in London, Brussels, Berlin, Dubai and Kyiv questioned Washington about how the information ended up online.” Short answer, nobody knows.
“Senior U.S. officials are racing,” they write, “to placate frustrated and confused allies from Europe to the Middle East to Kyiv following the leak of highly classified information about the war in Ukraine and other global issues.” Every word in the file is bad news for someone in the spy world.
The NYT reports that the Pentagon is Investigating the Leak of classified NATO Materials
“Documents describing the state of the ukrainian army and the plans of the US and NATO to strengthen it reportedly appeared on Twitter and Telegram. pic.twitter.com/rRSeENkAHb
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Since news hit the street last week, “senior intelligence, State Department and Pentagon officials reached out to their counterparts to quell worries about the publishing of the intel.” That’s been independently confirmed by four separate spooks. An “American, two European and one Five Eyes member.” All were “familiar with those conversations.”
The informant with Five Eyes mentioned that the consortium of English speaking spies “have asked for briefings from Washington but have yet to receive a substantive response.” The Pentagon is still trying to figure out who needs to stand in front of a firing squad over the leaked file, and they don’t just mean the leaker. “Inquiries have been sent separately to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency and Federal Bureau of Instigation.” Not one of them have a single clue.
“The manner of the leak and the contents are very unusual,” one “former U.S. intelligence analyst who focused on Russia” relates. “I can’t remember a time when there was this volume of a leak and this broad of a subject matter of authentic information that was just put on social media rather than say, the Snowden files, that went through a group of journalists first.”
What now, everyone wonders
Ranking government officials in London, Brussels, Berlin, Dubai and Kyiv are all demanding answers from Joe Biden, or whoever fills his ice cream bowl, “about how the information ended up online, who was responsible for the leak and what the U.S. was doing to ensure the information was removed from social media.”
The genie is out of the bottle on that last part. The file was public once. You can bet anyone who saw it and realized what it was snatched some copies will the grabbing was good.
Our allies also want to slap someone around until they come up with a plan “to limit the distribution of future intelligence.” Leaking the secrets of your friends isn’t nice. Even worse, saying things about them behind their back that you never wanted them to hear.
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As of Monday, April 10, “U.S. officials had told allies the administration was investigating and that they were still trying to understand the full scope of the leak.” At least, that’s what they told the European officials.
Ukraine has been wondering for quite a while if Uncle Sam had a rat in his kitchen. “This case showed that the Ukrainians have been absolutely right about that,” one of the European officials points out. One thing is certain, what leaked out of that file has all of America’s friends blocking US on social media. “Americans now owe the Ukrainians. They have to apologize and compensate.”
That could be a big bill. We might have blown their war for them with this leak. “The saga has left the U.S. relationship with its allies in a state of crisis, raising questions about how Washington will correct what officials worldwide view as one of the largest public breaches of U.S. intelligence since WikiLeaks dumped millions of sensitive documents online from 2006 to 2021.“
