Highly Sensitive Classified Documents Were Leaked, Pentagon Says
- US has ‘engaged at high levels’ with allies on the leak
- Leak makes public what allies already know: European official
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“Highly sensitive, classified” information was made public in a leak of documents that provide details of US spying on other countries — including an assessment of weaknesses in Ukraine’s military — and pose “a very serious risk to national security,”according to the Pentagon.
The Department of Defense is “working around the clock to figure out the scope and scale of the distribution of the information” and its veracity, spokesman Chris Meagher told reporters Monday. “It is highly classified sensitive material that people in DoD and certainly other aspects of US government use to inform their work.”