Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-16 WASHINGTON, June 15 (Xinhua) — The U.S. air national guardsman accused of leaking classified documents involving intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine
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Source: Xinhua Editor: huaxia 2023-06-16 WASHINGTON, June 15 (Xinhua) — The U.S. air national guardsman accused of leaking classified documents involving intelligence on the Russia-Ukraine
Teixeira was granted Top Secret security clearance in 2021 and was said to have begun posting classified information online since December 2022, according to an affidavit submitted by investigators.
The U.S. government has been left in an awkward position in what is believed to be potentially the worst intelligence breach in a decade, partly because the revelation made clear Washington’s deeper-than-perceived involvement in the day-to-day development of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and exposed continued U.S. spying on its allies.
Amid the embarrassing fallout of the incident, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, who until April 6 had been unaware of the leak, ordered a review of the “intelligence access, accountability and control procedures” within the department, according to a statement released Thursday evening.
The U.S. government has been left in an awkward position in what is believed to be potentially the worst intelligence breach in a decade, not only because the revelation made clear Washington’s deeper-than-perceived involvement in the day-to-day development of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and exposed continued U.S. spying on its allies, but also because of the U.S. government’s total unawareness of the leak despite the months-long and ever-expanding online circulation of the sensitive materials.
While a Wall Street Journal report said the secret documents, of which most content was believed by U.S. officials to be real, were first posted online in January, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters Tuesday that it was only on the morning of April 6 that he was first briefed on the “unauthorized disclosure.”