Posted on 04/07/2023 7:22:12 PM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON – A new batch of classified documents that appear to detail U.S. national security secrets from Ukraine to the Middle East to China surfaced on social media sites Friday, alarming the Pentagon and adding turmoil to a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard.
The scale of the leak — analysts say more than 100 documents may have been obtained — along with the sensitivity of the documents themselves, could be hugely damaging, U.S. officials said. A senior intelligence official called the leak “a nightmare for the Five Eyes,” in a reference to the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, the so-called Five Eyes nations that broadly share intelligence.
The latest documents were found on Twitter and other sites Friday, a day after senior Biden administration officials said they were investigating a potential leak of classified Ukrainian war plans, include an alarming assessment of Ukraine’s faltering air defense capabilities. One slide, dated Feb. 23, is labeled “Secret/NoForn,” meaning it was not meant to be shared with foreign countries.
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“... a situation that seemed to have caught the Biden administration off guard.”
Five Eyes appears to grant the ability for the other countries within to spy on the others within.
There are no laws in the US that are effective against the UK, for instance, as their authority stops at the border. When you tell the UK they can spy with abandon on the US, except they have to give all that information to the US that it wants, you start to understand. An example would be to ask MI6 to spy on Donald Trump, giving all backdoor access to systems that the FBI and others have already, thus negating the need for the FBI to ever get a court order or subpoena to access data already available to them. MI6 would then use the system and give the FBI or others what it found.
Of course, it works in reverse. There is no UK law the prohibits the US from spying on the UK, so the UK gives US intelligence access to its systems and has full plausible deniability for everything US intelligence pulls from its systems, for the UK’s use.
It’s quite an interesting scam, with only citizens left at risk.
Authorities then learn about the things they want and only have to get court orders or subpoenas for the exact stuff it already has in hand from its Five Eyes partner.
Bunch of fooking clowns.
The Gray Zone has put up images of the documents.
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/07/leaked-documents-us-nato-ukraine-war-plan/
People are assuming they are real, no one is looking at them to see if they are real.
One of Hunter's "priceless works of art?"
That's what I would do if I were an evil despot.
Here's something equally disturbing intended to be used in similar ways.
Here’s FBI Glossary for Flagging ‘Violent Extremism’ The Daily Signal April 05, 2023
Gotta read it to believe it.
I was thinking china town
Totally impossible. Because there are laws against this.
Fake news. LUDICROUS!! I say.
This is as unlikely as giving the Taliban billions of dollars of military hardware.
That is a legal fiction and a criminal conspiracy to break US law. It is illegal for them to spy on us at home, so they arrange for someone else to do it for them. Five eyes was illegal as hell from the moment it started, and that is one of the main reasons it was secret.
wonder if he gets paid with ice cream?
It’s Russian disinformation!
Is his garage near the Watergate? 😆🤗😝
Wrong link in post
Maybe he thinks of us as dumb sheep.
Here’s FBI Glossary for Flagging ‘Violent Extremism’ The Daily Signal April 5, 2023
It's outrageous stuff and the Heritage Foundation has the documents. They're at the link and were posted on twitter.
Thanks. Bookmarked. Will look after checking my car’s tail lights.
Check the turn signals too. Never give them an excuse to pull you over. :)
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