President Biden is “deeply concerned” about the classified documents regarding Israel’s plans for its retaliation against Iran that found their way into the public sphere, National Security communications spokesperson John Kirby told reporters Monday afternoon.
The White House is not able to say at the moment whether the documents were leaked or hacked.
“You can rest assured that he will be actively monitoring the progress of the investigative effort to figure out how this happened,” Kirby said.
The White House doesn’t have any indication at this point that additional documents will be made public like the ones made public over the weekend, Kirby added.
US investigates document leak
“But here is what’s important: we’re obviously keenly focused on what happened here, learning how it happened, and preventing it from happening again,” Kirby said. “And, in the course of that investigative work, we are certainly going to keep our antenna up and our eyes open for any potential future disclosures.”
Kirby said the US has been in touch with Israel regarding this “public disclosure” of documents.
This is a developing story.
This article was originally published at www.jpost.com
