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Pentagon report finds Snowden leaks had'staggering' intelligence impact classified assessment describes damage as 'grave' report does not include specific detail to support conclusion. 12 of 39 heavily redacted pages released after Foia request Read the full efense!ntelligence "gency report #he!" report has been cited numerous times by politicians $ho claimed %no$den&s lea's have put (% personnel at ris')
Pentagon report finds Snowden leaks had'staggering' intelligence impact classified assessment describes damage as 'grave' report does not include specific detail to support conclusion. 12 of 39 heavily redacted pages released after Foia request Read the full efense!ntelligence "gency report #he!" report has been cited numerous times by politicians $ho claimed %no$den&s lea's have put (% personnel at ris')
Pentagon report finds Snowden leaks had'staggering' intelligence impact classified assessment describes damage as 'grave' report does not include specific detail to support conclusion. 12 of 39 heavily redacted pages released after Foia request Read the full efense!ntelligence "gency report #he!" report has been cited numerous times by politicians $ho claimed %no$den&s lea's have put (% personnel at ris')
Classified assessment describes damage as 'grave' Report does not include specific detail to support conclusion 12 of 39 heavily redacted pages released after Foia request Read the full efense !ntelligence "gency report #he !" report has been cited numerous times by politicians $ho claimed %no$den&s lea's have put (% personnel at ris') *hotograph+ %unshine *ress,-etty Jason Leopold- Thursday 22 May 20! " top.secret *entagon report to assess the damage to national security from the lea' of classified /ational %ecurity "gency documents by 0d$ard %no$den concluded that 1the scope of the compromised 'no$ledge related to (% intelligence capabilities is staggering2) #he -uardian has obtained a copy of the efense !ntelligence "gency's classified damage assessment in response to a Freedom of !nformation "ct 3Foia4 la$suit filed against the efense epartment earlier this year) #he heavily redacted 39.page report $as prepared in ecember and is titled 1o !nformation Revie$ #as' Force.2+ !nitial "ssessment5 !mpacts Resulting from the Compromise of Classified 6aterial by a Former /%" Contractor)2 7ut $hile the !" report describes the damage to (% intelligence capabilities as 1grave25 the government still refuses to release any specific details to support this conclusion) #he entire impact assessment $as redacted from the material released to the -uardian under a presidential order that protects classified information and several other Foia e8emptions) 9nly 12 pages of the report $ere declassified by !" and released) " :ustice epartment attorney said !" $ould continue to process other internal documents that refer to the !" report for possible release later this year) %teven "ftergood5 director of the *ro;ect on -overnment %ecrecy at the Federation of "merican %cientists5 questioned the decision to $ithhold specific details) <#he essence of the report is contained in the statement that 'the scope of the compromised 'no$ledge related to (% intelligence capabilities is staggering') 7ut all elaboration of $hat this stri'ing statement means has been $ithheld5< he said) #he assessment e8cluded /%".related information and dealt e8clusively $ith non./%" defense materials) #he report $as distributed to multiple (% military commands around the $orld and all four military branches) 1#his report presents the !nformation Revie$ #as' Force.2&s 3!R#F.2s&4 initial assessment of impact to the epartment of efense 3o4 from the compromise of =redacted> classified files by a former /ational %ecurity "gency 3/%"4 contractor52 the report&s e8ecutive summary states) 1#he !R#F.2 and efense component partners continue triaging and revie$ing compromised information for efense equities and $ill update this report as additional assessments are completed) Combatant Commands 3CC6s4 and %ervices have produced separate reports that provide greater details concerning the potential impact of the compromise on their respective equities ? !t should be noted that %!-!/# =%ignals !ntelligence>.specific equities are not addressed in this report@ /%" is revie$ing those separately)2 #he classified damage assessment $as first cited in a ne$s reportpublished by Foreign *olicy on :anuary 9) #he Foreign *olicy report attributed details of the !" assessment to Aouse intelligence committee chairman 6i'e Rogers and its ran'ing emocrat utch Ruppersberger) #he la$ma'ers said the Bhite Aouse had authoriCed them to discuss the document in order to undercut the narrative of %no$den being portrayed as a heroic $histleblo$er) #he !" report has been cited numerous times by Rogers and Rusppersberger and other la$ma'ers $ho claimed %no$den&s lea's have put (% personnel at ris') !n :anuary5 Rogers asserted that the report concluded that most of the documents %no$den too' <concern vital operations of the (% "rmy5 /avy5 6arine Corps and "ir Force<) <#his report confirms my greatest fears D %no$den&s real acts of betrayal place "merica&s military men and $omen at greater ris') %no$den&s actions are li'ely to have lethal consequences for our troops in the field5< Rogers said in a statement at the time) 7ut details to bac' up Rogers' claims are not included in the declassified material released to the -uardian) /either he nor any other la$ma'er has disclosed specific details from the !" report but they have continued to push the 1damage2 narrative in intervie$s $ith ;ournalists and during appearances on %unday tal' sho$s) #he declassified portion of the report obtained by the -uardian says only that !" 1assesses $ith high confidence that the information compromise by a former /%" contractor =redacted> and $ill have a -R"E0 impact on (% national defense2) #he declassified material does not state the number of documents %no$den is alleged to have ta'en5 $hich Rogers and Ruppersberger have claimed5 again citing the !"&s assessment5 $as 1)Fm) /or does the declassified portion of the report identify %no$den by name) 1=Redacted> a former /%" contractor compromised =redacted> from /%" /et and the :oint Borld$ide !ntelligence Communications %ystem 3:B!C%452 the report says) 19n G :une 2H135 media groups published the first stories based on this material5 and on 9 :une 2H13 they identified the source as an /%" contractor $ho had $or'ed in Aa$aii)2 :B!C% is identified as a 12I hour a day net$or' designed to meet the requirements for secure =top.secret,sensitive compartmented information> multi.media intelligence communications $orld$ide) #he efense !ntelligence "gency 3!"4 has directed that all %pecial %ecurity 9ffices 3%%9s4 $ill install the :B!C%)2 #he Bashington *ost5 quoting anonymous sources5 reported last 9ctober that %no$den 1lifted the documents from a top.secret net$or' run by the efense !ntelligence "gency and used by intelligence arms of the "rmy5 "ir Force5 /avy and 6arines)2 #he *ost further claimed that %no$den 1too' 3H5HHH documents that involve the intelligence $or' of one of the services2 and that he gained access to the documents through :B!C%) #he report says that on 11 :uly 2H135 about a month after the -uardian&s first report on the /%"&s metadata program $as published5 !" chief Jieutenant -eneral 6ichael Flynn 1directed establishment of the !nformation Revie$ #as' Force 2 3!R#F.24 to acquire5 triage5 analyCe5 and assess all !" and o compromised information2) 1%ince 11 :uly 2H135 !R#F.2 has led a coordinated o effort to discover5 triage5 and assess the impact of non./%" efense material from /%" holdings of compromised data52 according to the !" report) 1"s of 1K ecember 2H135 the federated !R#F.2 assessment includes+ =redacted>2 Flynn $as recently forced out of his position at !" as part of a 1leadership sha'eup52 according to a report published in the Bashington *ost) " partially declassified anne8 of the report contains various 1terms of reference2 that provide some clues as to $hat the impact assessment contains) For e8ample5 the report defines 1compromised2 as 1out of government control25 $hile 1disclosed2 is defined as 1made available to the public via the media5 or to a foreign adversary2) /o evidence has surfaced to support persistent claims from pundits and la$ma'ers that %no$den has provided any of the /%" documents he obtained to a 1foreign adversary2) 7en BiCner5 %no$den&s attorney at the "merican Civil Jiberties (nion5 said+ <#his report5 $hich ma'es unsubstantiated claims about alleged harm to national security5 is from ecember of 2H13) :ust this month5 Leith "le8ander admitted in an intervie$ that he doesn&t 'thin' anybody really 'no$s $hat he =%no$den> actually too' $ith him5 because the $ay he did it5 $e don&t have an accurate $ay of counting') !n other $ords5 the government&s so.called damage assessment is based entirely on guesses5 not on facts or evidence)< #he anne8 goes on to identify the 1level of impact2 that ensues from the unauthoriCed disclosure of top secret5 secret and confidential information+ 1e8ceptionally grave damage to national security25 1serious damage25 and 1damage2) #he anne8 also provides a legal rationale to identifying %no$den as a 1*erson of !nterest 3*9!4)2 !t says by using that term 1in briefings and correspondence2 it 1limits legally discoverable information2