Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

The Joe Rogan experience , the leaked document . Like , what was your thoughts on that ?

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

Well , just right before that one of the , the other real interesting thing is that they came out . So a , a couple days after , uh , the leak first , like was getting reported , the , um , Reuters had a piece , an article , uh , where they had three high level us officials under anonymity said that you'll never believe this , Joe . It had all the hallmarks of Russian disinformation .

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

And then like two days later , they completely gave up on that and went , let's just smear the kid who did it , you know , like , uh forget all that stuff . Um , there were some , some interesting , uh , revelations from , from the documents , things like , uh , they , um , they evidently there are NATO and US military embedded in Ukraine , um , like help assisting them basically . Uh , which is , which is pretty dangerous .

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

And then they were like , oh , I guess this guy took all of our documents . Um , what another , what did the documents say ? Well , just right before that one of the , the other real interesting thing is that they came out .

Dave Smith on the Pentagon Document Leaks

And also that it's , they have this uh information that they claim is so vital that it's so horrible . He leaked it and yet you're so reckless with it that , you know , it's like Uh , it's funny , I remember Glenn Greenwald making this point when people would talk about , uh , like people were at the national security apparatus or whatever would be talking about how , how reckless it is that Snowden just like , gave all of this information out . And you're like , well , then weren't you pretty reckless too ?