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Timeline in leak of secret US documents

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The documents were posted online. ABC News has reviewed 38 images that appear to depict classified U.S. intelligence document s that were among dozens apparently shared by one user of an online server on the chat website Discord on March 1 and March 2. Discord is organized by servers; a Discord user can create their own server or can join another server. The server where the images were shared is dedicated to a YouTube creator with some 243,000 subscribers and which hosts comedic videos about philosophy, politics, and religion. On April 7, shortly after the Discord server was publicly named in connection with the reported document leak, the area of the chat server where the images were being posted was deactivated. The server itself is still active; much of its activity now refers to the images shared there and the public interest in them. The Pentagon is seen from the air in Washington, March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters, FILE MORE: What you need to know about the leaked US secret ...

Trump responds to alleged recording of him showing off 'secret' government information

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Despite what prosecutors claim in Trump's indictment, he said on Fox News on Monday he hadn't shown a classified document to someone else after leaving the White House Despite what prosecutors claim in an unprecedented indictment against him, including an alleged recording of him saying otherwise, Donald Trump insisted on Monday that he hadn't shown a classified document to someone else after leaving the White House. The former president was interviewed by Fox News' Bret Baier, who pressed Trump on one of the most notable parts of the indictment that outlines the 37 federal charges against him. Prosecutors wrote in the indictment that on July 21, 2021, Trump allegedly showed what he called "secret information" to other people at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and acknowledged it was still classified and "highly confidential." According to the indictment, Trump allegedly said the information was "done by the military and given to me"...

Former NSA employee admits trying to sell top secret info to Russia

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Jareh Dalke pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government A former National Security Agency employee pleaded guilty on Monday to attempting to sell classified documents to a person he believed was a Russian agent -- but who was actually an undercover FBI employee . Jareh Dalke, 31, pleaded to six counts of attempting to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, admitting that in August and September of 2022 he sought to sell copies of three classified documents containing information marked top secret -SCI (for sensitive compartmented information) to a person who identified themselves as an agent from Russia, according to plea documents. But that person was actually an online covert employee working with the FBI, the plea agreement shows. Dalke, an Army veteran living in Colorado, began working as a civilian employee at the NSA in 2022, according to prosecutors. He first shared excerpts of three classified d...

Trump weighs in on recording of him showing off 'secret' government info: 'It's bravado'

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Trump and his supporters in New Hampshire do not seem deterred by a new audio recording in which he talks about keeping classified documents Former President Donald Trump is continuing to insist there was no wrongdoing in his handling of sensitive government documents after he left the White House -- and supporters continue to stand by him -- in the wake of an audio recording, obtained by ABC News and other outlets, where Trump acknowledges he held onto a "secret" military document post-presidency and knew it wasn't declassified. Trump told ABC News' Rachel Scott on Tuesday that he has "no regrets" about how he handled classified documents after leaving the White House, calling his words "bravado." "No, I have no regrets. I didn't have a classified document. There was no classified document on my desk," Trump told Scott. Trump, who again claimed he hadn't heard the audio recording , repeatedly said he was not showing off class...