A week on, it’s time to start assessing how the discord leaks might affect policy, as well as how the US government can prevent similar leaks in the future.
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News organizations are still digging into what have come to be called the “Discord Leaks,” even as Airman Jack Teixeira remains in custody for having put classified material on the internet.
The biggest findings include news about Egypt’s prospective role in supplying either Kyiv or Moscow with ammunition, Canada’s unwillingness to increase its defense budget, and American conclusions about Ukrainian military weakness.
One of the more consequential documents involved details of Russia’s efforts to disrupt the Starlink communications system that Ukraine has used to good effect since the beginning of the war. A week on, it’s time to start assessing how the discord leaks might affect policy, as well as how the US government can prevent similar leaks in the future.
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Leaks of the Past
Of course, this isn’t the first big leak suffered by the US national security state. While leaks of this nature always make for big news, it’s more difficult to sort out their actual policy impact. Daniel Ellsberg’s leaks indicated direct government malfeasance, but arguably the Pentagon Papers leak was more of a consequence of elite discontent with the Vietnam War than a cause of a shift in attitudes towards the conflict.
If he did or didn’t have access to classified information, how was it ever printed out? Why would Classified Information even have a way to allow printing of it? Doesn’t that defeat the title of ‘classified information’? Now, anyone could have access to classified information laying around on a garage floor or stored in Chinatown.