Posted on 04/11/2023 5:50:19 PM PDT by McGruff
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin briefed reporters on the leaking of dozens of sensitive and highly classified documents Tuesday, saying they were "somewhere in the web."
"Well, they were somewhere…in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point, we don't know. We simply don't know at this point," Austin said.
Fox News learned earlier Tuesday through conversations with a variety of American defense and intelligence officials that as many as 53 documents were posted online, which were dated between Feb. 23 and March 1.
The documents, officials told Fox News, may have come from outside the Pentagon.
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Yeah dummy, we know that. How did they get there, is the question.
sheesh he must be related to Bragg
there is a crime somewhere maybe on the web....
This guy is such an incompetent idiot
Incompetency at it’s worst!
I never saw it. It was deleted.
“In” the web? Glad we’ve got people who are tech savvy and hep to the current state of affairs in charge.
Does Austin like to text with Joe on the telegraph and swap the latest stereopticon pics with him?
Austin will do everything he can to shift the blame.
“The Intelligence Community has confidence that fish swim in water.”
DOH!
I suspect that the recent “leaked documents” were presentation materials used at any of the DC Beltway “think tank” -type organizations, that somebody photo-copied and released online (purposely or incidental to a soft-hack).
“I don’t know nuffin’ ‘bout workin’ them dark webs, Missy Scarlett.”
THIS is an administration that is CONVINCED they know HOW TO CONTROL CLIMATE & they cannot even control their own highly secret knowledge.
This incompetent fool should play the game “CLUE”. He’d find those documents with: Charlotte, in the barn, with silky stuff”.
“Well, they were somewhere…in the web and where exactly and who had access at that point, we don’t know. We simply don’t know at this point,” Austin said.
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Check the hildabeast’s private server. She might still be connected?
Two versions of those documents, one of which had been crudely digitally altered to understate Russian casualties and overstate Ukrainian ones, were passed around among observers of the war. One, with the correct figures, stemmed from a leak to 4chan, the chaotic image board best known for birthing the “alt right” movement.
At the same time, a second set of documents, including the edited image, were being passed around pro-Russian Telegram channels.
Neither was the original source, however. Before they emerged on to the public internet, the documents had been shared on closed chatrooms hosted by Discord, a gamer-focused chat app. In one server, called “Minecraft Earth Map”, 10 of the documents were posted as early as 4 March, a month before they appeared on 4chan.
See, that wasn't so hard.
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