The apparent leak of highly sensitive U.S. intelligence materials is a “very serious” risk to national security, said a Pentagon official on Monday.
The documents circulating on multiple websites pose “a very serious risk to national security and have the potential to spread disinformation,” Chris Meagher, the assistant to the secretary of defense for public affairs, told AFP and other news outlets.
“We’re still investigating how this happened, as well as the scope of the issue. There have been steps to take a closer look at how this type of information is distributed and to whom,” Meagher continued.
Also Monday, White House spokesman John Kirby said the leaked information should not “be in the public domain” and shouldn’t be on the “front pages of newspapers” although he stressed that officials do not know who leaked them or if it has been contained….