What Do Leaked U.S. Intelligence Reports Say? Here Is a Quick Guide.

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/article/leaked-documents-ukraine-russia-war.html

No paywall
https://archive.is/XKwcB

Leak or hack? Information or disinformation? A coup for Russia or a ploy by the United States?

Days after U.S. intelligence documents, some marked “top secret,” were found circulating on social media, questions remain about how dozens of pages from Pentagon briefings became public and how much stock to put in them.

Here is what we know about the documents.

Are the documents real?

Yes, officials say — at least, for the most part.

U.S. officials are alarmed at the exposure of secret information, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation is working to determine the source of the leak.

Some of the documents appear to have been altered, officials say. It is unclear who doctored the reports or why they did so. Whatever the reason, some of the material, military analysts, say, overstates American estimates of Ukrainian war dead and understates how many Russian troops have been killed since Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor last year.

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[poli-junkie]

1. If docs are real then how are they getting altered

and leaked?

[Nevilledog]

2. I believe they're saying altered after leak and released again.

[W_HAMILTON]

3. Because it's very easy to electronically alter documents.

As for how they are getting leaked, well, that's what they are investigating now, but we've seen classified information leaked plenty of times before...

[lapfog_1]

4. I am hoping that the intelligence agencies created

many variations with slightly different (and false) details, and then disseminated them to members of the appropriate House and Senate committees (as well as the National Security Team).

They may already know who leaked the documents.

[jimfields33]

7. Yes but these were documents from February 2023.

[jimfields33]

9. Your welcome.

The date was in various outlets over the weekend.

[TomWilm]

6. Best way to discredit such a leak ...

... would be for Pentagon themselves to flood the internet with stupidly falsified versions of the document.