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Days after sensitive US defence department documents first began appearing on the internet, one question lingers on the minds of many in the US: Who leaked them, and how?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The documents appear to include classified intelligence regarding the Ukraine-Russia war, as well as on China and US allies such as Israel, South Korea and Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The justice department has opened a criminal investigation to identify the source of the leak, which a high-ranking Pentagon official described this week as “a very serious risk to national security”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said the US will “turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The leak of the documents – which officials have said are in a format similar to that of documents issued to senior leaders – has also prompted a Pentagon review of how classified documents are shared, and who gets access. The pool of people with access to these documents, officials have said, is relatively small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While the identity of the leaker remains unknown, experts say that the culprit could face serious criminal charges and potentially, a prison sentence plus heavy financial penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s what we know about the investigation and potential consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BBC News: Days after sensitive US defence department documents first began appearing on the internet, one question lingers on the minds of many in the US: Who leaked them, and how? The documents appear to include classified intelligence regarding the Ukraine-Russia war, as well as on China and US allies such as Israel, South Korea and Canada. The justice department has opened a criminal investigation to identify the source of the leak, which a high-ranking Pentagon official described this week as “a very serious risk to national security”. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said the US will “turn over every rock… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31410,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408\/revisions\/31410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}