Interagency Effort Assessing Impact of Leaked Documents, Strategizing Way Forward
April 11, 2023
Inside the Defense Department, an effort is underway now to look at the scope and scale of the distribution on social media platforms of what appears to be classified Defense Department information.
Last week, Defense Department officials briefed Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III about a collection of images found circulating on various social media websites that appear to be โ but are not yet confirmed to be โ of classified documents, some related to Ukraine- and Russia-related operations.
"A Pentagon team continues to review and assess the veracity of the photographed documents that are circulating on social media sites, and that appear in some cases to contain sensitive and highly classified material," said Chris Meagher, the assistant to the secretary of defense for Public Affairs, during an online discussion with members of the media.
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