How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs

How Gamers Leaked Classified Pentagon Docs

Discord is a place to share a community online. Most often, it's for gaming. So why did classified intelligence from the Pentagon end up on a small server whose main interests seem to be video games, military equipment and memes? And how?


Guest: Shane Harris, intelligence and national security reporter for the Washington Post.

Host: Lizzie O’Leary


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