A gun enthusiast, religionwith racist tendencies And distrust of government WE. this would be profile of the alleged perpetrator compromised leak of dozens of classified Pentagon documents, according to an investigation by ‘Washington post’also revealed that the alleged perpetrator was working at a military base. From there would come the embarrassing leak of US intelligence secrets that he had supposedly exposed since the war. Ukrainian military strategy for this spring tensions between allies To arm Kiev or spy on some of its closest associates United States of Americalike Israel, South Korea or your own Ukraine. An earthquake with many consequences.
The excellent newspaper of the US capital interviewed one of the members of the group. private dispute forum –a social network for video game lovers — where the alleged author of the leak began revealing secrets that “the government doesn’t want them to know.” A forum that opened at the start of the pandemic with about twenty members, almost all male, and some minors combined with their “love of weapons, military equipment and God” as the main source of the article. There was a man who was looking for himself there. “OG” hanging started last year state secrets. Firstly document transcripts intelligence and later photos too.
military base worker
At one point he told them he was working for a company. “military base”unidentified and most of the day militarized facilitywhere the use of mobile phones and other electronic devices is prohibited, such as the rule to prevent them from being used to copy confidential information contained on some government servers.
But as recent history has shown, these measures are far from being an effective lock. The real problem is the rapidly increasing number of Americans. credentials to access classified information. According to the latest data from the National Intelligence Department, 1.2 million government officials and contractors They had access to confidential documents in 2019. It was the same door they used. Edward Snowden And chelsea manning To uncover the best-kept secrets of the past decade in American intelligence and diplomacy.
Racist and anti-Semitic allegations
“He is a smart person. There is no doubt that i knew what i was doing When he published these documents,” one of the Discord forum members told ‘The Washington Post.’ “This was definitely not an accidental leak.” According to the same sources, there was ‘OG’ “Government’s dark vision”especially the security forces, which he presented as an oppressive force in conversation and expressed disappointment with “government extremism”.
In one of the videos available to the newspaper, the alleged owner of the leak is firing a rifle at the shooting range while making a confession. racist statements. “Make a few screamsracist and antisemitic insults According to ‘The Post’, he was in front of the camera, firing several shots at the target”.
Although the sources on which the news is based claim to know the real name of ‘OG’, his identity has not been revealed yet. Like him FBI aspect Pentagon They have been investigating the leak for days, whose dimensions seem much larger than initially suspected. Jeff Bezos’ newspaper claims to have seen so far 300 photos of confidential documentstripled the number indicated by the most generous estimates earlier this week.