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A friend has identified the leaker of classified documents related to the war in Ukraine and U.S. spying operations as a young gun enthusiast who shared the documents online via a forum he joined amid loneliness brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, The reported Wednesday.
The Post reported that a group of two dozen people, mostly male, formed an invite-only clubhouse on Discord, a platform popular with gamers, in 2020, brought together by a love of guns, military gear and religion.
One user whom the members refer to as “OG,” who claimed to know about government secrets, posted on a message in the forum that was filled with acronyms and jargon.
A member of the group told the Post that few people read the note, but he did. OG posted hundreds more over the course of months that seemed to be transcripts of classified documents almost verbatim, the member said.
They said OG had said he brought the documents home from his job at a “military base.
