It’s a mystery leak. In March, secret US government documents started circulating on the social media platform Discord, which is widely used by video game enthusiasts to chat with one another. These documents were no game, though. They contained state secrets on the war in Ukraine, including what the US has learned from spying on its own allies. No one knows who the source of it all is. Host Marco Werman speaks with Aric Toler from the investigative website Bellingcat.
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