By WSJ
The Justice Department began its investigation on Friday.PHOTO: ALEXANDER DRAGO/REUTERS
The Pentagon and the Justice Department also are seeking answers to how dozens of images that purport to show highly classified documents on the war in Ukraine and other international matters surfaced online. Determining the source of the leak and its implications has dominated the attention of leadership at the Pentagon, defense officials said, as a wide-ranging internal government probe gathered steam over a U.S. holiday weekend.
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The Wall Street Journal wasn’t able to independently authenticate the documents, but they contain enough detail to give them credibility. Defense officials have said they believe some of the documents could be authentic, though some also appear to have been altered. Taken together, the document dump, initially made in a small forum on the Discord messaging platform, is shaping up to be one of the most damaging intelligence breaches in decades.
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