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What we now know about the Pentagon leaks

The Story

The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The US government is scrambling to assess the damage from a mass leak of defence documents seen as the most harmful intelligence disaster for a decade. We trace how the documents spread from a small chat room to global attention, and examine the key information from the leaks.

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Guests:

- Alistair Dawber, Washington correspondent, The Times and The Sunday Times.

- Michael Evans, specialist defence writer for The Times, and former defence editor and Pentagon correspondent.

Clips: BBC News, CNN, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, Times Radio.



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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:03.0

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0:11.0

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0:19.0

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0:22.0

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0:26.0

Ripple, crypto means business.

0:40.0

It's one of the biggest leaks in the history of US intelligence.

0:45.0

As hundreds of pages of classified material began to appear online,

0:50.0

it triggered a desperate scramble to find the suspected Pentagon leaker

0:55.0

and to understand how this happened.

1:00.0

Breaking news in the last few minutes, US investigators have arrested

1:04.0

the source of the leaked classified documents.

1:07.0

Today, the Justice Department arrested Jack Douglas Tashira

1:11.0

in connection with an investigation.

1:13.0

Jack Tashira's father told him he loved him, his son replied in the courtroom,

1:17.0

I love you too, Dad.

1:23.0

But the past week hasn't just been a hunt for the leaker.

1:27.0

It's worth remembering that the leaks themselves contained huge stories

1:32.0

that hadn't previously been reported.

1:35.0

And every day, more and more of these stories are trickling out.

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