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The US Department of Defense has elevated its assessment of the counterintelligence threat posed by Israel to “critical,” the highest possible level. Washington is deeply concerned that Israeli intelligence services have been wiretapping senior US officials – including Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s chief negotiator, and Elbridge A. Colby, a top Pentagon policy official. The suspected espionage targeted negotiators working on a peace agreement with Iran, a move US officials say has “crossed the line”.

The US defense establishment has elevated its internal counterintelligence threat matrix regarding Israel to its highest possible designation.

The emergency adjustment follows intelligence disclosures indicating that Israeli operatives have been actively intercepting the communications of top US diplomats and military planners, The New York Times reported.

Targeting Trump’s inner circle
According to a comprehensive report by The New York Times citing multiple senior US officials, a joint assessment compiled by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and companion military intelligence branches prompted the policy shift. Over recent weeks, the designated counterintelligence threat level posed by Israel was officially raised from “high” to “critical”.

The intelligence community’s primary concern centers on an aggressive Israeli wiretapping campaign targeting US officials who are actively molding Washington’s shifting diplomatic framework with Iran.

The classified logs explicitly name several high-profile targets of the surveillance intercept: US President Donald Trump’s chief negotiator tasked with brokering a diplomatic resolution with Tehran and the Pentagon’s top policy official, alongside one of his primary deputies.

US intelligence veterans noted that while both Washington and Jerusalem have long maintained a tacit, mutually tolerated understanding that they conduct espionage operations against one another, Israel’s recent efforts to aggressively infiltrate and map out the Trump administration’s evolving negotiating positions have “crossed the line”.

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And at the same time ....

https://truthout.org/articles/congress-is-poised-t...

Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.” The provision would arguably do more to intertwine the U.S. military with the Israeli military than the more than $200 billion (inflation adjusted) in military assistance Israel has received from the U.S. since its founding in 1948.

Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation. The U.S. and Israel already work together heavily on missile defense, but this provision would greatly expand coordination to seemingly every area of defense tech, including AI, quantum, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, biotech, and many more. It also proposes “network integration” and “data fusion.” In other words, the U.S. military’s data could soon be the Israeli military’s data.

If fully enacted, this proposal would provide a higher level of military-industrial integration than the U.S. has with any other country in the world. To be sure, the U.S. has worked closely with its NATO partners on co-production and shared supply chains, most notably via the Defence Production Action Plan. And, as the number one arms dealer in the world, the U.S. provides weapons to militaries across the globe. But that is mostly a one-way street, with the U.S. providing weapons to foreign buyers who only occasionally make parts for those weapons themselves, as in the case of the F-35’s global supply chain.

Section 224 lays the groundwork for bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons, joint ventures, licensing agreements, and seemingly every manner of U.S.-Israeli military-industrial complex cooperation.

This is good. It means that Israel won’t have to spy on us anymore or pay American citizens to do their spying. They’ll be on the inside from the get-go, so that’s one less thing our National Intelligence Agency has to worry about, a good thing since the guy about to run it is a clueless idiot.

The US defense establishment has elevated its internal counterintelligence threat matrix regarding Israel to its highest possible designation.

It is still far below the Pootin access level.

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