The worst US national security breach in years could help Moscow – and prompt friction with Washington’s allies
that the original source of the files on Thug Shaker Central was the group’s administrator, a man it called OG, who worked on a military base and appeared in a video shouting “a series of racial and antisemitic slurs into the camera, then [firing] several rounds at a target”.
The Post also reports there are about 300 photographs of files in the leak, three times as many as were previously thought to be circulating. There is some evidence that corroborates the case they were leaked rather than hacked: they appear to be pictures of documents that had been folded up and perhaps stuffed in the perpetrator’s pocket. The images show the documents laid on top of magazines surrounded by items including nail clippers and super glue, next to a book with a picture that looks like the scope of a hunting rifle.
There is another problem for the US: the leak appears to show that it spies on some of its allies. That has caused ructions in South Korea and Israel, whilesaying they planned to raise the matter with Washington. It may not be surprising that in its public statements, the US is more focused on condemning the leak and identifying its source. Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, has vowed to “turn over every rock” to do so., from time stamps on documents that appear to show when they were printed to registers of who has viewed the documents. If identified, the culprit could face a lengthy jail sentence.
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