Yesterday, we saw the most significant intelligence leak of confidential military information in the United States’ history.
It is guaranteed that whoever leaked the details of the Victory Plan shared them with Moscow, putting the whole world in danger.
The plan was shared with NATO heads of state and Donald Trump. We know the leak came from the White House.
The people who we can be certain got access to the full plan are:
- Joe Biden
- Kamala Harris
- Secretary of State Antony Blinken
- Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin
- National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Other potential recipients of the information are members of the National Security Council.
Besides them and potentially the Chiefs of Staff, no one else needs to know the whole plan beyond what the Ukrainians are willing to broadcast. It is one of the most important and confidential documents in recent history.
The leak of this plan is going to significantly hamper the efforts of the Ukrainian military to achieve their aim of freeing their country from Russian occupation.
Usually, the person who takes the fall for such leaks ends up being some poor enlisted individual who spreads the information to the press. While the person who actually gives the information to the press is absolutely at fault, they never work alone. In any organization of considerable size, information is only shared on an as-needed basis. This is how it has been in every job I have ever had.
If some new intern or private has access to a plan as important as this, somebody gave them improper access. Eventually, that access chain will lead directly to someone in the President’s inner circle who we know saw the plan.
No one else needs to know the full details of the plan.
That’s how it works at my company and every company and government agency I have ever worked at.
Somebody in the President’s inner circle shared the Victory Plan with people who should not have had access to the plan. This is one of the largest information leaks in American history, and innocent people are going to die because of what they did.
We must assume Russia has the full victory plan now. This will significantly hamper Ukraine’s efforts to free their country.
I suspect the answer is Jake Sullivan, given his history of putting ridiculous restrictions on Ukraine’s ability to use weapons to defend its territory. He also had a very bizarre departure from his high-ranking position in the Obama White House in 2014 to being an adjunct professor, which was a massive downgrade to his career. That is not a normal move for someone to make and is suspicious. People who are doing a good job do not go from being a major advisor to the Vice President of the United States to an adjunct professor for shits and giggles. It is a major reduction in salary and political influence. It does not make sense unless he was forced out, and, for whatever reason, the Obama White House chose not to do a full disciplinary hearing for why he left in 2014. Nobody else in the President’s inner circle has such a record.
2014 is, of course, the same year that Russia invaded Ukraine. It is the most likely candidate for the event which led to Sullivan’s departure given his actions as National Security Advisor.
I think there will be a full FBI investigation, and even when they find the person who spread the information directly to the press, they need to look at the chain of command and prosecute every single person who gave improper access to such a document.
I do not know for sure if he is guilty… but there is a heluva lot of smoke coming from the National Security Advisor right now. There is enough evidence from his public actions regarding Ukraine over the last 13 years to make him a suspect. He needs to be investigated.
The FBI needs to find the mole as soon as possible. The world’s security depends on it.
Nobody is safe as long as somebody in the President’s inner circle is handing out improper clearance to sensitive information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Sullivan
In comparison to other leaks, this one takes the cake. All leaks not going through official government channels are technically illegal under the Espionage Act. Sometimes they can be considered the action of a whistleblower, which a lot of people debate about the Edward Snowden leaks. Some of the information spread by Chelsea Manning were of a more sensitive nature, but her sentence was commuted by President Obama in the final days of his presidency.
Most importantly to me from an ethical point of view, no one has died because of the information Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning leaked.
This leak is much more severe than the Manning and Snowden leaks. This one puts people in danger of getting killed. This leak compromises the entire war effort of Ukraine. This is by far in terms of impact to international security the most severe leak in the history of the United States.
It needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.