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Everything About the Ukraine Leak Is Incredibly Weird

Secrets were “sitting in a … Discord server for a month, and nobody noticed.”
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A recent U.S. intelligence leak is already shaping up to be , revealing about the war in Ukraine, Israeli domestic politics, America’s deep penetration of high-level Russian military plans and operations, and more. By last count, approximately 100 pages of have been discovered floating around the internet. Many pages included intelligence that is stunning in its timeliness. Some materials were marked “top secret.” Most are . The Justice Department has , furious military leaders are , and an interagency task force is whether the damage is a

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