Leaked Docs Reveal Ukraine's Vulnerabilities, US Intel On Allies
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🗓️ 13 April 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, my name is Stephen. I'm a meteorologist from North Dakota. However, I just wrapped |
| 0:05.8 | up a weather conference down in Omaha. Ironically enough, I can't start my drive home because |
| 0:11.1 | nasty Blizzard has shut down more than half of my route. This podcast was recorded at 1 |
| 0:16.1 | 10 pm Eastern time on Thursday, April 13th of 2023. Things may change by the time you |
| 0:22.4 | hear it, but hopefully by the time you do, the Reds will be open and I'll be well on |
| 0:25.8 | my way back to my wife and son. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:30.0 | Good luck, Stephen. Hey, there it's the NPR Politics podcast. I must my hollow like |
| 0:37.3 | cover the White House. I'm Frank O'Doniaz. I also cover the White House. I'm Greg |
| 0:40.9 | Meiery. I cover National Security. And today on the show, a trove of leaked classified documents |
| 0:46.6 | and the US government's hunt to find that leaker. President Biden is currently in Ireland, |
| 0:51.9 | but earlier today on that trip, in response to a question from our very own Tamara Keith, |
| 0:57.4 | Biden said that the US is getting closer to resolving the investigation. |
| 1:01.1 | There is a full-blown investigation going on as you know with the intelligence and justice |
| 1:06.6 | department and they're getting close. The Justice Department and the Pentagon are working |
| 1:11.0 | to discover how these files got out. These files detail sensitive intelligence related |
| 1:16.5 | to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. And a real quick caveat here, this is a quickly moving |
| 1:22.2 | story. So by the time you all are listening to this podcast, it is possible that the leaker |
| 1:27.4 | could be in US custody. But we want to cover this at this moment because I do think it's |
| 1:32.6 | a really important story. So Greg, let's begin by asking what was in those documents. |
| 1:37.9 | So we're talking about what seems to be at this point. Several dozen documents, mostly |
| 1:43.1 | about the war in Ukraine. Lots of maps and charts meant for top US military officials |
| 1:49.4 | and national security folks. Now ever since the story broke last week, this didn't look |
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