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Greg Myre

Pentagon, Justice Department investigate as secret military documents appear online

Officials at the Pentagon attend a virtual meeting of more than 50 nations on the war in Ukraine, on March 15. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

The Justice Department has joined the Pentagon in an urgent effort to determine how secret military documents on the war in Ukraine made their way onto multiple social media sites.

A small number of documents, including some marked "top secret," were found on Twitter and Telegram on Wednesday. Since then, journalists, researchers, and social media sleuths have uncovered additional classified documents posted as early as March 1 on additional sites. This raises a host of questions about how widespread the breach may be and how much damage it could cause.

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