Hey listeners, just a warning.

This episode covers developments in the war in Ukraine and will briefly include the

sound of gunfire.

Shane Harris, who reports on military intelligence over the Washington Post, traffics in confidential

information, memos, power points, reports, and over the last few weeks, he's been sorting

through a mother load of them.

It all started with that discord leak a few weeks back.

This morning, a bombshell report is revealing details about the leak of what appears to be

highly classified US military documents.

The Pentagon is doing damage control after someone leaked dozens of classified documents

about the war in Ukraine.

All of this coming out as Ukraine battles Russian forces in Bukhburt and as it prepares

for a new counteroffensive, you as a visual say this.

For Shane, this initial information dump, it was just the beginning.

From these discord leaks, there were an initial tranche of around 50 or so, depending on how

you count it, documents that did show up on the broader internet, and then the Washington

Post has obtained additional documents, which we have access to now, and those are the

ones that we're kind of going through systematically to read through them all categorize them, understand

what they say.

What these documents say is that the US is watching the Ukrainian war very carefully, trying

to figure out how each side is processing the day-to-day conflict for sure, but also speculating

about how much longer Russia can pay for its invasion, pointedly critiquing Ukraine's

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