I’m not going to post the documents, for obvious reasons. But I can confirm they are potentially as embarrassing as it is possible for anything to be.
But it could also be something else.
The New York Post is saying what the rest of the media is saying:
Classified documents that seem to detail US national security secrets related to Ukraine, the Middle East and China have emerged online in what one intelligence official called a “nightmare” sequence of events.
The latest leak, revealed by the New York Times on Friday, comes on the heels of the Pentagon announcing earlier in the day that it is investigating photos that supposedly expose highly classified plans for a spring military offensive by Ukrainian forces.
The new batch of documents surfaced on the message board website 4chan, Twitter, Telegram and other websites Friday afternoon.
The new trove of material also includes secret briefing slides on China, the Indo-Pacific military theater, the Middle East and terrorism, the New York Times reported.
More material related to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine also appeared on social media sites Friday.
One new leaked document is a map that purports to show the status of fierce fighting currently underway in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, according to the New York Times
The Post also discovered five new documents posted on the social media platform Telegram that reportedly shows Ukrainian air defense positions, combat equipment numbers and maps of the combat situations in Kharkiv and southern Ukraine.
A senior intelligence official told the New York Times that the leak is “a nightmare for the Five Eyes” — the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which share intelligence.
More than 100 documents have escaped the hands of the intelligence community, according to the report, which quotes an anonymous analyst describing the documents released this week as potentially the “tip of the iceberg.”
The first batch of sensitive material was posted on Telegram Thursday by pro-Russian accounts.
So, maybe this is what it looks like.
Actually, it’s not what it looks like, but maybe it is a real leak.
The documents were apparently first posted on a Discord server a month ago.
There is some significant possibility that the documents are also fake, released by the government to try to trip up the Russians ahead of the major hohol spring offensive.
There are also a lot of reasons to believe the documents are real.
For example, they put the Russia casualties at 35.5k—43.5k KIA. Meanwhile, the US has been promoting the cartoonish claim that 200,000 Russians have died.
I was shocked when the Times made that claim in February, as it showed that the US had become completely unhinged. They published it under the byline of a fat, sassy negress, I guess so they could easily dismiss it later.
Maybe only real documents would include something that embarrassing. Or maybe they included something that embarrassing, knowing that no one who supports the war would find out about it anyway, to make the documents look more real.
Before that NYT report with the “200,000 dead Russians” number, Wikipedia had something closer to reality in their data.
They’ve since changed it to reflect the fantasy narrative being pushed to try to confuse supporters of this stupid war. pic.twitter.com/zqofZYYNmd
— Andrew Anglin (@WorldWarWang) April 8, 2023
You can find a detailed breakdown of the documents from someone who thinks they are real here. I recommend that, if you’re interested. From some angles, this information could be very damning to the US, aside from the fixing of the casualty numbers.
On the other side, RT printed a piece from people who run a pro-Russian Telegram channel who are arguing that the documents are a fake-out.
Having read through both sides, I don’t have a strong opinion either way.