S8 Ep31: The Discord Leaks with Shane Harris

Secrets and Spies - A Spy & Geopolitics Podcast

Mar 9 2024 • 45 mins

On today’s episode, The Washington Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning intelligence correspondent, Shane Harris, joins Matt to discuss the “Discord Leaks” and the air national guardsman who, earlier this week, pleaded guilty to charges of willful retention and transmission of US national defense information, an act that’s been called the largest disclosure of classified material in years. Shane shares his reporting on who this man is, what he leaked, and his bewildering motivations for doing so.

Read Shane’s reporting for The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shane-harris/

Watch the Post and PBS Frontline’s documentary on the leaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkgkBEuEHwU

Follow Shane on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shaneharris

Follow Shane on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@shanewharris

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