The Pentagon on Monday rushed to contain the fallout from a leak of classified intelligence documents about the war in Ukraine as well as other sensitive information from Asia and the Middle East.
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the leak of dozens of documents, and US officials are working to determine the source of the leak and what ramifications it could have on the battlefield and on US efforts to gather intelligence.
“The Department of Defense continues to review and assess the validity of the photographed documents that are circulating on social media sites and that appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material,” Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said. “An inter-agency effort has been stood up, focused on assessing the impact these photographed documents could have on US national security and on our allies and partners.”