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The Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, Eyal Zamir will visit Washington Thursday to discuss the leaks of the Pentagon’s secret documents that suggested the US had spied on some of its closest allies, including on Israel. Highly classified Pentagon documents leaked online recently, including a report produced…

In today’s newsletter: A cache of classified US government documents expose the country’s thinking on the Ukraine conflict and much more

Man known online as ‘OG’ is said to have access to large amounts of classified material and to regard intelligence services as repressive

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The person who leaked U.S. classified documents prompting a national security investigation is a gun enthusiast in his 20s who worked on a military base, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing fellow members of an online chat group.

While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.

WASHINGTON — U.S. allies and partners are increasingly seeking Washington’s help in defending their own computer networks from foreign cyberattacks, Nathaniel Fick, the top U.S. diplomat on cyber and digital policy, said Wednesday.

The emergence of the documents is a very post-modern scandal, writes Kim Sengupta

Sensitive Pentagon documents were leaked on a 20-year-old college student’s Discord

Ukraine's defense minister said on Wednesday the alleged Pentagon document leaks contain a mixture of true and false information about his country's military, but he downplayed its negative impact. "There is a lot of information there which does not correspond with reality," Oleksii Reznikov said during a briefing in Madrid…

The highly classified documents are believed to have first appeared on the social media app several weeks ago.