Atlanta, USA (CNN) – CIA Director Bill Burns, in his first public remarks since the leak of classified military documents, acknowledged that the issue was as urgent a problem for the United States as “as severe as anything else” at the moment.
Burns stressed the importance of balancing short-term and long-term issues, and pointed to the leak as an urgent problem that US intelligence agencies are dealing with.
The CIA director noted that the Justice Department is currently investigating the leak and declined to go into more detail about his understanding of the case.
The past few days have witnessed the leaking of a number of secret files from the US Department of Defense (Pentagon), some of which are related to America’s policy with its enemies and allies, which sparked a wave of anxiety inside and outside the United States of America.