The White House on Monday warned media outlets against publishing information contained in the top secret documents leaked from the Pentagon and other US government agencies that have surfaced on the internet.
“Without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
“It has no business, if you don’t mind me saying, on the pages of — front pages of newspapers or on television. It is not intended for public consumption, and it should not be out there,” he added.
The documents first surfaced on Discord, a messaging platform mainly used by gamers, and most appear to be authentic as the Biden administration is scrambling to control the leak. Kirby admitted that the administration has no idea if more leaks are coming.
“We don’t — we don’t know what’s out there … We don’t know who’s responsible for this. And we don’t know if they have more that they intend to post. So we’re watching this and monitoring it as best we can,” he said.
Also on Tuesday, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed to “turn over every rock” to find the source of the leaks. “Now, I can’t say much more while the Justice Department’s investigation is ongoing. But we take this very seriously,” he said.
Some of the leaks show the US’s war plans for Ukraine and expose that Washington believes Kyiv is running out of air defenses and won’t be able to gain much ground in an expected spring counteroffensive. The leaks also expose the US spying on its allies, including Ukraine, Israel, South Korea, and Hungary.
“How to win friends and influence enemies?”….. There’s so many leaks in the Pentagram, it’s amazing it’s still standing and not under water…
At least some people in Pentagon understand that Great Ukrainian Spring Offensive is going to degenerate into an other slaughterhouse for Ukrainian/NATO army. Of course it is better not to talk about that for it may damage the smooth flow of the taxpayers’ money into this wonderful blackhole.
The Ukraine/NATO army degenerated starting day one. The real war crime is when they know it is a losing cause and NOT END it with a negotiated settlement. MAINTAINING the SLAUGHTER and maiming young people for nothing but to keep the war and the profits going.
Kirby, KISS MY AZZ!!! U must resign NOW!
He’s a dime a dozen. They’re waiting in the wings. He’d be replaced with a clone. Same old story.
The USA has swarms of unethical, dishonest, smarmy retired Generals and Admirals willing to say anything for a buck, first class travel privileges, and to get their tired old faces on TV again. Kirby is just one ant in a giant antpile that needs to be exterminated.
The resignations we need are Blinken, Nuland, and the cohort of Deep State neocons they represent.
I’d say Biden too, except that Harris is even worse.
To extricate Nuland and other “Deep State” Neoconoids would take some kind of “deworming” procedure, as they are too fully embedded into the bowels of the State Department.
Nice! That description of “Neoconoids” burrowing themselves like worms into bowels and brains is quite unsettling and memorable. Keep writing, brother!
“quite unsettling and memorable”
Yeah, made me clench.
The “leak” clearly shows that they’re leading lambs to the slaughter. He doesn’t want the world, and especially the lambs, to know, and says it without betraying any hint of self-awareness. These types are capable of the final atrocity. Leaks are our only hope.
Kirby reminds me of one of The Lord Of The Ring characters. You know… The little slurping, drooling guy with the large ears and bulging eyes. …No. I’m not comparing their looks. I’m comparing their unique connivingly evil qualities. (Sarcasm alert)
– Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin vowed to “turn over every rock” to find the source of the leaks –
really this is why uncle sam has the NSA -to locate any and every correspondence paper or digital and track it on the entire planet probably even in space. if they haven’t already traced a pentagon leak then they must have leaked it themselves on purpose
Damage Control Mode…! WH can say all they want…! It’s too little too late and US public has the right to know WTF is going on…!
Problem is he also believes truth in general is not ideal for public consumption either so what he says shouldn’t be given much credence.
“Without confirming the validity of the documents, this is information that has no business in the public domain,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.
Wow. Tell that to our propaganda machine. Maybe they can tell us about the “spy balloon” or the Nord Stream 2 bombing fairy tale about the yacht.
Wait! You can’t be serious? Russia attacked its own Nordstream 2 with a Chinese spy balloon on a yacht? …Ahh. Okay… I understand now. No more wine with my cereal from now on. …But dude! Hear me out… Wouldn’t that be a helluva leak? (Sarcasm alert)
Yea, the Gov’ment is losing credibility every day, not that they have much left as it is.
They are still lying. Austin just today said he believed in the success of a coming Ukraine offensive, just days after his own briefing slides show he believes no such thing.
It is not shameless in-your-face lying, and their response is to tell us not to look at the other stuff. This is the territory of the old joke, “Who are you going to believe, your loving husband or your lying eyes.”
It seems they are more concerned about the fact that the leaks are known than the fact that the leaks exist.
That’s one way of confirming that the documents are indeed authentic. Everybody will now ruin their eyesight trying to extract some truth from the fog of war.
This from the people who have lied non stop about the sinister Chinese (and Hobby Lobby) balloons of War, the innocent Black Sea Drone ruthlessly downed by the evil Russians for no reason, and the nefarious sailboat of mass destruction capable of anchoring in 250 feet of water and destroying nordstream while crewed by 3 men and a puppy.
But hey, let’s all believe what they say now….
IF we had a free press, it would be plastered on the front page of every daily newspaper and blared on every network.
Still, don’t believe anything re. the leaks. CHECK THIS WHOPPER OUT:
“WASHINGTON/BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbia, one of the only countries in Europe that has refused to sanction Russia for its invasion of Ukraine,
agreed to supply arms to Kyiv or has sent them already, according to a
classified Pentagon document.”https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/exclusive-leaked-us-intel-document-claims-serbia-agreed-to-arm-ukraine/ar-AA19M8UX
SERBIA, ALWAYS AN ALLY OF RUSSIA, DENIED IT. I’ll believe Serbia over the ‘leaks’ statement.
Excellent. It’s quite possible, and perhaps probable, that the US government worked up this whole “top secret” release. The State Department especially has an energetic policy of forming agencies and offices to fight “disinformation,” which is probably meant to offset its own US disinformation creations, like Blinken saying daily that the Russian military operation was “unprovoked.”
The problem on antiwar.com is that rational people here are trying to find rational reasons for Wash. policy, but that’s impossible when the policy appears irrational. But the real reason behind all this is MONEY to be made at the expense of the taxes and lives of others squandered to enrich the few; THAT’S THE REAL REASON.
Yes: ” War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. “–Smedley Butler
Maybe some of the leaks are valid, and maybe the leaks have been ‘doctored’ by Wash. for their reasons and agendas. The whopper below may have been added for whatever reason.
https://vk.com/@pepeasia-waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world
Waiting for the end of the world. Authored by Pepe Escobar.
It’s difficult to conceive that most nations will continue doing business with US and European corporate and government entities.
Yes!!! Love Pepe! In one of his recent jewels, he put Pustula in Pustula Von Der Leyen. (Sarcasm alert)
Pepe Escobar is a bright person but he is too much dependent upon the western mythologies, old and modern. So hardly one can agree with everything what he says. For example: “today we have essentially popular anti-liberal (and anti-war) revolutions” – today in The West we have almost totalitarian rule of the oligarchy. Where is the liberalism? Would a liberal state persecute Assange? Maybe he thinks that the warmongering corporate media is liberal? The oligarchy and the liberalism are mutually exclusive.
“In the Chinese calendar this is how it always goes: their historical-societal clock always runs with periods of between 200 and 400 years per dynasty” – this history about Chinese dynasties exists only on paper. It is all fake created by Jesuits in 16th-17th centuries at the court of Emperor and rubberstamped by Vatican.
I also don’t agree with idea that many years Russia was preparing for the subversion of “the global financial casino”. Putin and his team were preparing to defend Russia from aggressive American imperialism. American oligarchs themselves undermined their financial empire.
All definitions like ‘liberal’, ‘conservative’, etc., have become so nebulous they are only defined by the individual now. Just another example of how language is being manipulated where even axioms are being denied. The “Newspeak” dictionary is coming from the “Ministry of Truth” in Wash.
Of course they are doing it on purpose in order to confuse and disorientate people.
If Kirby is worried that these documents gave Russia some new insights into Ukraine’s plans, my sense is that the risk is low. Russian military planners are very good at what they do.
On the other hand, he may be worried that putting these documents into public view will reveal significant discrepancies between what we have been told and what is actually happening on the ground over there. Evidently, he’s more interested in covering the backside of this administration than he is in making sure that Americans have an accurate sense of what is happening.
“White House Says Don’t Report on Pentagon Leaks NSC spokesman John Kirby says the information has ‘no business’ being on the ‘front pages of newspapers or on television'”
Of course not, keep the American public barefoot and in the dark.
Believe whatever lies Joey Biden and his merry band of criminals want to spew into the ears of dumbed down citizens.