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> many Pentagon officials are also given binders of printed intelligence daily, said two senior US officials

If they are leaking information every day, they have bigger things to worry about than some guy leaking some documents on Discord. They should be worried about the leaks they don't know about, since the perpetrators could get away with it indefinitely.

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Yup, IMHO what was leaked in this case is not so important. What is important is how it was leaked, how long it was leaked for, and how long it took to notice.

edit: OK, I was wrong here with my priorities.

How many people would need to be killed for you to consider the leak important? How many friendly countries involved in an ongoing war with your number one adversarial nation for the last 80s have to have their spring offensive plans impacted in the middle of a war would make this 'important' to your mind?

Yikes. Please do tell how you came to that conclusion.

Yes, you're right. I failed to keep a full perspective when I wrote that. I won't defend that.

I do feel it's significant that it took about a month from the sharing on that minecraft server for these leaks to be recognized. I'm surprised no one on the server flagged it, or it wasn't picked up by some intelligence program. That's where my shock came from. It feels like a deeper problem. Maybe I'm naive in believing the military/intelligence community didn't know before this news broke.

Binders full of intelligence, a flashback to the 2012 Presidential campaign.

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