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Document Leaks Show Extent of U.S. Electronic Snooping

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    April 18, 2023 9:57 AM CDT
    Another document leak of important classified data of the US government.


    The powerful eavesdropping program that enables some of that intelligence gathering is due to lapse at the end of the year. To persuade Congress to renew the program, Biden administration officials had been debating whether to declassify intelligence formally to show how the tool protects the U.S. The alleged leaker might have forced the issue.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/document-leaks-show-extent-of-u-s-electronic-snooping/ar-AA19ToXv />




    Is anyone following this news? This reminds me of Wikileaks and Edward Snowden? I've also read in some articles that it's in question how the "leaker" was able to obtain this information, because he didn't have access to it. Discord was used to leak this information too.
  • Web Diva
    Leader
    April 18, 2023 1:24 PM CDT
    Why leaked pentagon documents are still circulating on Social Media.=

    https://news.yahoo.com/why-leaked-pentagon-documents-still-143123381.html />

    Twitter and social media platform Discord have various policies that might have
    prompted them to remove the leaked Pentagon documents that Biden administration officials say revealed key information about U.S. intelligence gathering operations.

    But gray areas in those rules and uneven enforcement of them make it unclear how, or even if, executives at those companies would decide to remove them.

    As of Saturday, Twitter continued to host tweets with the Pentagon’s documents, some of which had been up since at least Wednesday. There is no indication that Elon Musk, who bought Twitter nearly six months ago, will take any action against the tweets with the classified documents.


    Kind of concerning that our own government's security has been compromised? Then there's what's in the documents too.