james bamford? are the most significant i think of all of the revelations because there is really only two ways the u.s. could have gotten that intelligence. one is through signals intelligence, the nsa. the other is through human intelligence, basically, the cia . of those cases, what the russians are going to do once they learn this is due in extensive mole hunt and analysis of their communications. so the mole hunt, they will be looking for any humans that might be assisting the united states by telling this information about the dates and the times of these planned operations. they will be checking all of their communications facilities, changing their codes, and so forth in case we are getting this information by eavesdropping on their communications, by the nsa picking it up. in either case, it is bad news for the united states because we may be losing whatever source it was we were getting that information from. amy: one of the things in bc pointed out was her february 28 document that someth

we will speak with investigative journalist james bamford.[music break] amy: "the dream passes by the windows," ukrainian folk song and lullaby performed by harriet fraser. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the justice department has launched a criminal investigation into a recent leak of highly classified pentagon intelligence documents about the war in ukraine as well as russian and u.s. spying not only on its adversaries, but on its allies like israel, south korea, ukraine. over the past month or more, the leaked documents have been appearing online on the chat service discord and on the messaging app telegram. many appear to be photographs of slides prepared for a briefing. it appears the pentagon wasn't aware of the leak until last week. national security council spokesperson john kirby spoke on monday. >> we don't know who is responsible for this and we don't know if they have more that they intend to post, so we are watching this and monitoring it as best we can. but the truth and the