Pentagon documents leak: Who is responsible? - BBC News

Dozens of classified US documents have been leaked and are now circulating on the internet.
Images of the classified files have appeared on messaging app Discord since early March.
Complete with timelines and dozens of military acronyms, the documents, some marked "top secret", offer information on the war in Ukraine and other topics.
Pentagon officials have been quoted as saying the documents are real.
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[@juice6521]

LMAO I never thought I'd hear a news reporter say the word "Discord Server"

[@antonstantan2505]

On a discord server 😂😂😂😂😂

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW SIR VERY DANGEROUS !😠😠I WILL NEVER GO TO USA !! 😠BUT THIS IS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA 🤗🇮🇳 THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , WE NEVER DO SCAM AND WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@mantuska]

​@@indiasuperclean6969 least patriotic indian

[@MichlBro]

Lmao ikr at one point it’ll probably end up in every servers #Shitpost channel

[@HarryWilson55896]

When I heard discord I laughed it feels like it would be on the dark web not discord

[@tanishkchaudhary]

Indians showing their patriotism in videos with nothing related to India:@@mantuska

[@lewishillier2115]

I was going to make a pentagon joke but I couldn't come up with the right angle

[@ashleypibworth3380]

Yep 🤣👍

[@ynot7119]

lame

[@lewishillier2115]

@@ynot7119 Your opinion has been duly noted, numbered and ignored.

[@shakyjimmy6430]

@ChocolateSyrupOverdose I've just translated your comment and it came bk with a extra O haha

[@shakyjimmy6430]

@ChocolateSyrupOverdose I am from Liverpool England why ? Ha

[@raspberries97]

Senators, who have no idea how WI-FI works, didn't notice that the documents were on the web for months 😂😂😂

[@evgeniybastrykov]

now is very popular storage of documents in electronic form, and the Pentagon is no exception, it does not matter because the leak of classified documents was due to the betrayal of an employee, so this criminal should be punished to the full extent of the law

[@shakyjimmy6430]

India is not super clean

[@nkosiphilenathanael8740]

it's either this is true or a mind game to mislead an enemy

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW SIR VERY DANGEROUS !😠😠I WILL NEVER GO TO USA !! 😠BUT THIS IS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA 🤗🇮🇳 THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , WE NEVER DO SCAM AND WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@beebee_0136]

Notwithstanding, isn't it interesting that the focus is on "who leaked what?" rather than "who spied what?" Wonder, if this would have been okay had the roles been reversed.

[@tobyford189]

​@@indiasuperclean6969 destroy t series

[@alihenderson5910]

YOU are the enemy they are misleading. Wake up.

[@Ellenad369]

@@beebee_0136 Exactly! trust the plan and trust your heart,there is lots more to come.🕊

[@guychase8611]

Snowden did not steal 1m documents- HE SHARED THEM !! & RIGHTLY SO 🔬🧐

[@Majtzy]

Sharing something that isn't yours is stealing

[@danny1229c]

​@@Majtzy if he was a tax payer then those documents were his and every other American payer

[@mitzievo]

​@@Majtzy Cope

[@Majtzy]

@@mitzievo More buzzwords please

[@robrechwithoutzaza7992]

@@danny1229c With this retarded logic you can basicly leak all intel and military documents to your enemies, because youre taxpayer. Do you even know how stupid your opinion is?

[@t-rex4211]

Those Chinese spy balloons must have really good lenses

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW SIR VERY DANGEROUS !😠😠I WILL NEVER GO TO USA !! 😠BUT THIS IS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA 🤗🇮🇳 THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , WE NEVER DO SCAM AND WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@anonymisis]

@@indiasuperclean6969 lol

[@DeeBeeBiz]

😉😂

[@rampager1990]

@@indiasuperclean6969 😂

[@justkeepingitreal2024]

@@indiasuperclean6969 Are you insane or being sarcastic? India is one of the most notorious countries known for its large, highly organized call centers. Popular phone scams include tech scams , expiring debit or credit card and tax scams and Microsoft-related scams. In addition, nearly 256 million people in India are living on less than $1.90 per day. Yeah, you can keep India.

[@mrmemexman3209]

Warthunder players when they lose a debate online be like:

[@janwallace5005]

Well it wasn't Snowden this time lol 😂

[@t-rex4211]

I read online he started a go fund me page to buy kitchen towels for all the coffee he’s spitting out when he reads about this

[@indiasuperclean6969]

WOW SIR VERY DANGEROUS !😠😠I WILL NEVER GO TO USA !! 😠BUT THIS IS WHY IM SO LUCKY LIVE IN SUPER INDIA 🤗🇮🇳 THE CLEANEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD , WE NEVER DO SCAM AND WE GIVE RESPECT TO ALL WOMEN THEY CAN WALK SAFELY ALONE AT NIGHT AND WE HAVE CLEAN FOOD AND TOILET EVERYWHERE 🇮🇳🤗🚽, I KNOW MANY POOR PEOPLE JEALOUS WITH SUPER RICH INDIA 🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗🇮🇳🤗

[@kiwipetejohntaylor9549]

Or Julian Assange

[@kiwipetejohntaylor9549]

How do you know he defected to Russia with all his knowledge

[@ynot7119]

The usual tramp deplorable nothing more.

[@desertflower2919]

My cat just gave us 8 kittens. I blame pu tin!!!! 🤣🤣

[@littleb9298]

tiktok : not me, really. remember the balloons ?

[@courtney7055]

Ah yes, lets tell the world these sensitive document's are out there and not deal with it ourselves in private

[@rachaelyoung0208]

Who is responsible? How about stop spying on people in the first place 🙄🤡

[@lindada6460]

Lol please like other countries don't spy gtfo. Lol

[@peterhopkins7505]

Failure to identify the source is a major incompetence. I worked on this 30 years ago, and my measures would have given instant certainty. But because it would name offices, the bosses did not want the only real solution.

[@TheJimprez]

Instant certainty???... What a load of self-promoting crap. if you knew ANYTHING about actual investigations, you'd realize that "instant certainty" isn't a thing. you ALWAYS double check to make sure the EASY answer doesn't hide any unknowns. Some wiser traitors actually come up with blame-shifting and obscuring techniques that confuse QUICK FINDS. And don't worry, when they catch the person, they WILL give us that name.. Do you have ANY idea how many too cocky investigators get destroyed by the defense when they FORGET to look outside of their little well-fitting SURE BETS! The whole US judicial system is FILLED with false accusations that happened because the pieces fit into the neat little holes perfectly (or were MADE to), and LAZY investigators left it there without going ahead to double check... Let me guess... You got RIFed, or eventually left when what YOU considered SUPERIOR work was never recognized at it's just value... Am I right? Do you know the word HUBRIS??? Cheers, have a beautiful day..

[@TheGreatestBeyonder]

“How do we shut it down?” … said by the UK presenter with an incredibly smug look on his face??? Why?

[@KayJay940]

We already knew the US was spying on everyone. Snowden revealed that. The only thing new we learned is Hunter Biden plays Minecraft.

[@beebee_0136]

Interesting that the focus is on "who leaked what?" rather than "who spied what?" Wonder, if this would have been okay had the roles been reversed.

[@Ball7399]

You realise that you can easily search up the contents of those documents and that many other news channels already covered it right ?

[@beebee_0136]

@@Ball7399 That's not what I was referring to. But rather, the hypocrìsy. If this were China or Russia, would unraveling the identity behind the whistle blower be the main focus or whether or not ethics were breached? Now, apply the same to this case, is all I'm saying.

[@Ball7399]

@@beebee_0136 I understand your point dude, but you're simply wrong. BBC News already reported on the contents of the leak (just go on their channel and you'll see its before this post) therefore, BBC News first reported the what and now they reported the who. How is this hypocrisy ? Do you think if Russian intelligence was leaked that no news channel would care about who leaked it ? If your answer to that question is yes then I'm speechless, I fail to see the functioning of your logic and how you see 'hypocrisy' anywhere here...

[@Facerip]

Leakers and whistleblowers are heroes

[@shakyjimmy6430]

Or bots

[@sgasdvsdvdfvs]

the reporter looks at the verge of laughing

[@GrahamTruman]

ah the BBC we can trust them to give us an un-biased view on news! RIght?

[@ballubodalawala7662]

It’s all diversion news . Nobody talking about economy crisis, food shortage etc

[@jordanmungomba9785]

This could be a play to mislead russian into thinking ukraine will do their conter-offensive somewhere else

[@stefanschleps8758]

Sshhh.......

[@calvinspark1946]

Oauuu 😮 that is sooo clever typical american style, they have even forgotten what the strategy was. Biden lost the papers…😂😂😂 (emphasise)

[@desertflower2919]

yeah, ru are such idiots to be tricked like that :)

[@reeling-in]

Will the BBCs Tim Westwood be making an appearance!? 😂

[@fernandezron1545]

Instead of just talking about it why don't we find out who the leaker is and punish them severely? Classified documents have very rigorous tracking requirements. The leaking has got to stop!

[@kevinbromfield7595]

People still don't learn. DO NOT save classified documents on a computer. Someone on can get access to it.

[@wjumeau]

And do not store classified documents in a university that the CCP donates a lot of money to. Or in your garage next to your corvette 😂😂😂 President Pinocchio would probably have given them to Putin at their next meeting away, he already gave them a list of critical areas that he didn’t want Russian Hackers to attack 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

[@defaultroute]

How many seconds before they blame Trump?

[@justkeepingitreal2024]

Who?

[@phillyl4235]

USA using Icloud to store confidential documents 🤣

[@desertflower2919]

which is why balloons can read them :)

[@TopGear34]

Fascinating Russia and United States 🇷🇺🇺🇲 Abysmal Ukraine 🇺🇦

[@QwadLuzr]

Show the Musk interview in full, finally, comedy gold from Auntie!

[@swire6984]

Bro they mentioned DISCORD on BBC News

[@emrek99205]

Giuliani meant to upload the dicpics from hunter's laptop. He just selected the wrong photos.

[@CHMichael]

A great person that has lost his mind. Why would you mention him in this?

[@Spitfire_Cowboy]

I would say Phishing is a problem. Scanned in documents are digital and the physicals archived. Makes sense that the digital copies were copied from digital systems to that discord server. Perhaps it is time to listen to orgs like CISA and NCSC. Batten down the digital hatches.

[@beebee_0136]

Or perhaps someone grew some conscience and decided it was time to call out what they considered to be hypocrìsy? Case in point: China spy balloon brouhaha

[@amg863]

It's crazy how it's barely talked about. This should be the main story on every platform but on BBC news app and KZbin it's nowhere on my feed. I had to look for it when I heard about it.

[@CoachMischa]

I don't know under what rock you live, but it's all over the news in Germany DW I recommend highly (English)

[@laxkhat]

I reckon it was Lady Gaga and her Polaroid piccccha! 😅

[@mielerodriguez5678]

*Russia was provoked.*

[@PranavmenonTp]

Lets move on!!

[@Icamtaimbro]

it was on discord, why is our security so shit

[@MichaelCDavis1]

Wall Street Journal dug and just blew this case wide open. It was a racist discord group where one of the members worked and had access. He was sharing them for clout with other racist teens in the group. The detailed article is in today's paper.

[@stefanschleps8758]

So it was a Maga follower, a trump supporter?

[@MichaelCDavis1]

@@stefanschleps8758 According to the article, maybe. The person that leaked the documents named "OG" was a gun nut military guy who had access and got tired of transcribing what he had access to and started taking pictures and posting them. He also was in a clip from the gun range shouting racist terms while hitting targets. His views seem to align with Trump and Maga. Also according to the article the teens in the discord group seemed to hand waive the racism going on in the discord. The name of the group was a very subtle racist term to fly under the radar. The kind of casual racism you run into in online gaming all over the internet and VR voice chats. Sad but that seems to be the default for white teens online who would never say it to your face. The article goes into great detail. The teens had to get the parents permission to be part of the article.

[@nikkivieler3761]

Another Pentagon papers?

[@ericastones1052]

Ooooh, that is not good.

[@kittykatzcenteno7160]

👋 EUROPEANS STAY NEUTRAL, STAY SAFE AND WORM. AWAY FROM THE USA UKRAINIAN BLACKMAIL.

[@Ellenad369]

As promised everyone and everything will be exposed no more secrets and no more lies. No one can stop what's coming no one.

[@vthomas375]

The Antartic Treaty system is only up for review in 2048.Hard to see how we will have independent exploration of the restricted areas before then?

[@QwadLuzr]

I voted to send SF to fight Russia, I voted for WW3 and CBDC, I voted to eat insects. Said no one ever.

[@QwadLuzr]

@Syd McCreath Special Forces.

[@pabitrakumarpanda2858]

Facebook being the social media neglects public voice

[@deborahtemple5727]

What secrets? What a load of distraction.

[@keeppeddling584]

Well one thing's for certain it won't be the yanks at fault, never is.

[@justinconway8888]

The US is such a clown show anymore when i save enough money I’m gone for good

[@CoachMischa]

Well bye who cares 😂

[@cooper23274]

Why the news has confirmed this I’ll never understand can we say we have boots on the ground now because it said that we had elite units over there

[@de-angelocottrell8914]

Discord? Surprise it wasn't Reddit

[@houseplant1016]

I don't think overweight neckbeards can have such high positions

[@redsunset1721]

Leak on Purpose?

[@joschkahurst]

The world is face with problems and we must all fix it, could we ???

[@fernandezron1545]

Officials always talk about policy changes. BS! Sufficient policy already exists to deal with classified document leeks. We just need to enforce the law.

[@alexm566]

Old ways are still the best 😅

[@3Carbon6]

Balloons?

[@Anon-xd3cf]

Who cares. The documents are REAL and the information contained within is THE REAL STORY.

[@TheJimprez]

Probably someone that already took a plane ride to Russia to ask for asylum...

[@Jabberstax]

This guy must be the only white British man left at BBC news.

[@King-ve5rh]

North Korea buying spaghetti bolognese and sun flower from USA 🇺🇸👌

[@nickpope8056]

😂😂😂😂 West is over…. Russia and China, the future is yours!!!!!

[@tacticalturtlez4906]

Well, at least it wasn’t another War Thunder leak.

[@henryschwaiger6568]

Got to love those dudes at Anonymous.

[@Mike_5]

Garage Sales by Ex Presidents

[@laceypelham7535]

and the BBC will tell us all who is responsible in under 5 minutes. rme. go back to putting on celebrity trials for hours and days on end.

[@miciagi7015]

High Drama.. 😎

[@12bigredd]

lol my money is on a Trumper lol

[@katrin896]

Snowdon....Manning.....now this. How are allies supposed to be able to trust America, if this is happening so frequently?

[@izester3320]

Trump

[@samanthabodington6884]

It's a deliberate and just another distraction to what they are really doing 🤨😡.

[@dands999]

haven't watched the BBC in a while

[@JeffreyGoddin]

Yet they're still in your head. Sad.

[@dands999]

@@JeffreyGoddin you are familiar with the BBC, no?

[@JeffreyGoddin]

@@dands999 You the one claiming he's not, yet still here...

[@dands999]

@@JeffreyGoddin go do something

[@JeffreyGoddin]

@@dands999 From somebody with so little to do they have time to hang out on a channel they don't enjoy? Wow. I hope you see the irony.

[@TheFreemanuk]

why did they all keep the beheading film a secret ?

[@remmymuzzy2807]

Its definitely the Chinese 😂

[@djpiles1982]

who cares who stole them... WHAT was leaked?? Who doesn't wanna read them

[@lindsaysmith7825]

BBC therefore propoganda

[@JimmyBoy9878]

Bbc doesnt control all news

[@importantname]

lol the question in the report title is not answered.

[@zhara596]

Well that guy is dead meat if they found out who it was

[@redordead4491]

Jimmy Saville BBC

[@johnnysparksii9757]

I say eric snowden lol

[@maughan3061]

I'm surprised the BBC isn't blaming Russia.

[@seanmurray3459]

Surely the plumber

[@concernedcitizen7385]

Western countries now manoeuvring to distance themselves and find scapegoats.. this speaks volumes.

[@henghistbluetooth7882]

Greetings! How is the weather in Moscow…?

[@concernedcitizen7385]

@@henghistbluetooth7882 🤣😂🤣 oh how original - not heard that one before!

[@Shining237]

I'm really surprised all British don't mind paying more for food, energy, and rent according to news feed in my Country

[@Uawaw]

UK will send billions of dollars and weapons to Ukraine but won't be paying their own doctors.😢

[@tokonjudo]

anything about the 911 bs?

[@rozinaiqbal9171]

All lies

[@anthonymcmahon1628]

Jack Teixeira apparently

[@UX1966]

Ваш Пентагон «продает» Apple технологии и отравили меня, так ДОСТАЕТЕ МЕНЯ. Преступники

[@nathaneadson2019]

It's not snowdon

[@jigsawkiller]

Ahh BBC news... you know exactly who is to blame but you ain't say it.

[@williamoates1754]

U.S Intelligence, is that an oximoron ?

[@cris_ros]

Snowden was declared stateless and a traitor, am I right?

[@jamesclark6257]

Currently lives in Russia after being granted asylum there

[@RobertJackson437]

😂😂a month ago, your News station was even saying " There's no western or NATO special forces in Ukraine" " it just getting funnier now

[@StolenGalaxy]

russian bot

[@xensonar9652]

There should be.

[@bingobingo530]

It would take years of training to be able to use and maintain the combat equipment but within a weeks of so called training Ukrainian forces use highly advanced western made weapons in the battlefield without any help from outside, and people in the west actually believe this.😂

[@peterhopkins7505]

They are not in Ukraine, they are in Russia. The ones I know are doing 4 weeks in and 4 weeks back here. Their arson tactics and other stuff is making Russia very unsafe.

[@RobertJackson437]

@@StolenGalaxy it seems you look like a Ukrainian bot , judging by your empty brain

[@wanderlustislamabad8082]

Simple, it’s tiktok

[@xronald619x]

Anonymous is responsible for it. Whatever happen to anonymous anyways

[@alexm566]

No, it's always the hacker called 4chan

[@bingobingo530]

The funny thing is that this group doesn't even exist 😂

[@RelaxingMusic-js2ct]

Sleepy Joe forgot to use the VPN.

[@pedrolplgm]

CUANDO TODOS SEPAN LO QUE TAPAN LOS DEMONIOS DE ESPAÑA VEO GUERRA DE EXTERMINIO MUNDIAL.

[@repurposedart9897]

Randy, Chris and the Z within the pentagon and FBI... I am on too you.... Unhinged...your surveillance is not what you think it is...Its a burden an Iam sick of it...Pick someone else for your games that you are playing... Cuz I am done... Justice...

[@goldfinga786able]

Free top G

[@kirishima638]

This is some real cold war shit

[@Roland_Tr909_Swing]

The plumber is responsible for the leak

[@DBd-ko9vu]

more like pentagram

[@justkeepingitreal2024]

Whoever is responsible for the leak should be tried for espionage. This is not a political matter but rather a breach of U.S. security and the authorities after they discover who is responsible should prosecute to the full extent of the law. If that means a trial and a subsequent conviction, we all know what the penalty for espionage is.

[@wjumeau]

Funny. Americans don’t hate Putin. This was a Patriot. President Pinocchio is so F’d. If they can impeach Trump for a conversation with Ukraine about dodgy energy deals with Hunter Biden,then Patriots can leak info about President Pinocchio who hides classified documents that the CCP can easily gain access to in a university. Your not thinking……

[@NolanGemini94]

So nobody's even going to question why the US govt & military is directly involved in the Ukraine-Russia war? Just amazing. A possible world war looms large.. but who cares right🤷‍♂️

[@shakyjimmy6430]

It says you got 3 replies where have they gone

[@shakyjimmy6430]

@Celtic Draig same they banned my other account think it was cos of the lgbtits

[@shakyjimmy6430]

@Celtic Draig well there we go we nailed it