Russian state-run Sputnik news agency said on the 11th that while the US government was trying to find out who was behind the leak of classified documents that caused a worldwide stir, it was pointed out that it could be the work of an insider of the US intelligence agency who is dissatisfied with the policy of the Biden administration. (local time) reported.
Philip Giraldi, a former CIA agent, said, “The leak is most likely the work of an individual who completely opposes US national security policy.” It could be the work of (another) Edward Snowden trying to expose .
Snowden is the person who exposed the reality of ‘PRISM’ (PRISM), a random intelligence gathering program of the United States National Security Agency (NSA) targeting millions of its citizens in 2013. He said that through the prism, the NSA not only targeted its own people, but also its allies, such as South Korea, Germany and France.
Giraldi said it was questionable whether hundreds of officials had access to classified documents, adding that Pentagon officials were concentrating their efforts to find out the truth.
“[The US intelligence agency’s]personnel data is being reviewed, and we are narrowing down who had access to that kind of briefing material,” he said. “A lie detector investigation into the suspects will begin soon.”
Giraldi said that the leaked documents were mainly in the form of PowerPoint slides, and included surprising content that Mossad had instigated protests against Israel’s “judicial reform bill.” I saw.
“It would be a mistake for the Department of Defense to regard this incident as a large-scale security breach, given the actual scale of the damage, although it would be disgraceful,” he said.
On the 10th, White House National Security Council (NSC) Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said in a press briefing that the leaked classified documents did not affect US aid to Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Russian Kremlin Palace (President’s Office) spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the leaked documents were “quite interesting” and that “Russia is researching and analyzing (the contents of the documents).”
Source: Donga
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