OPINION: Why the Pentagon leaks are Biden's latest disaster
NEWmake their way onto the internet? The short answer is: Washington doesn’t seem to know. And that should scare the hell out of every American and all our allies. thousands of people with security clearances had access to the reports before they were leaked. The two most likely scenarios: one of them either posted the reports to obscure corners of the internet or passed them on to someone without clearance.
At this stage, absent further explanation, it doesn’t seem to be a deliberate intelligence operation by either our government or an adversary. This incident seems more akin to Daniel Ellsberg leaking the Pentagon papers or the 2010 document dump by Chelsea Manning to WikiLeaks —individuals who decided for themselves to make classified information public.
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