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President Biden on Wednesday said the Pentagon and Justice Department are “getting close” in their investigation into the source of classified government documents leaked in an online gamer chatroom.
Mr. Biden addressed the scandal while on a four-day visit to Ireland but said details will surface only after the probe is complete.
“There’s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the Justice Department, and they’re getting close,” the president said when pressed by reporters.
He added that the information released was unlikely to pose grave damage to U.S. operations.
“I’m not concerned about the leak,” Mr. Biden said. “I’m concerned that it happened. But there’s nothing contemporaneous that I’m aware of that’s of great consequence.”
The documents, most of which are several months old, contained sensitive information and intelligence on various topics, including the disposition of Ukrainian forces, a possible Egyptian weapons deal with Russia and a possible hack of a Canadian pipeline by Russian-based cyberintelligence agents.
