The leak of classified US intelligence documents caused “some damage” to US relations with key allies, but did not have a significant impact on them, unlike the revelations of a decade ago by former National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden, writes The Washington Post, citing sources. At the same time, the newspaper calls the reaction of the allies “resigned.”
Interlocutors of the publication among Western officials expressed bewilderment at the fact that access to a huge array of secret documents was not a high-ranking US military man.
The incident “raises doubts about how intelligence is protected and treated,” the source from the European country said, but emphasized that periodic leaks are the price of cooperation with such an intelligence giant as the United States. Another European official noted that Washington “was and remains an important partner in the field of intelligence”, and therefore cooperation with the United States is critical to national security.
Source: Rosbalt
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