The United States is assessing how the apparent leak of a trove of highly classified documents could impact national security, the Pentagon said on Sunday.
The breach -- which is being investigated by the Justice Department -- appears to include assessments and secret intelligence reports that touch not only on Ukraine and Russia but also highly sensitive analyses of US allies.
While the Defense Department is still reviewing the validity of photographed documents circulating online, they “appear to contain sensitive and highly classified material,” Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said in a statement.
“An interagency 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,” Singh said.
The Justice Department said Saturday it has been in touch with the Defense Department about the issue and had opened an investigation.
A steady drip of dozens of leaked documents and slides have made their way onto Twitter, Telegram, Discord and other sites in recent days, and new documents continue to surface.
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