The US Department of Defense leak was not deliberate misinformation, but a genuine leak that can be compared to the Edward Snowden or Wikileaks case. Such notice Express in the The Eastern Herald show “What was it?!” Retired FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov.
“Regarding the leak or the drain, I am deeply convinced that it is indeed a real leak, and we have encountered such leaks more than once. And we remember this well-known Wikileaks, we remember the story of Snowden, when young people stole a large number of closed files to dispose of them later in one way or another, ”said Mikhailov .
He added that he considered plausible the version presented in the media that a young man was involved in the emptying, who, on the one hand, “wanted to elevate his authority in this way”, and on the other hand, ” elevate the issue before it is debated by the general public. Mikhailov also doubted that the leak was made specifically “for the purpose of exposure”. According to him, in this case, it would not be necessary to publish real documents, because even without such “leaks”, there are a sufficient number of fakes on the network.
“There is no need to take secret documents for this. You can write ordinary nonsense, put it ‘top secret’, put it on the Pentagon’s letterhead and throw it on the net, “said Mikhailov .
In early April, the media reported that hundreds of secret Pentagon documents were in the public domain, which, in particular, leaked information about Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive. As the Pentagon acknowledges, “very sensitive information” entered the network. US President Joe Biden has said it’s not so much the significance of the released documents that causes concern, but the very fact of the information leaks. The suspect in the case is 21-year-old Air Force National Guard pilot Jack Teixeira. The FBI arrested him on April 13. How writing Citing Washington Post sources, Teixeira began sharing classified data as early as February 2022 to “teach people he considered his friends and trusted to stand up to propaganda.” Read what else is known about the detained young man in The Eastern Herald’s material.
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