• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency in recent weeks issued the new counterintelligence threat assessment amid rising tensions between Israel and the U.S. over the way forward in the war with Iran, the officials said. They said the DIA posted an internal message, viewed by one of the current officials, that raised the level for Israel to “critical.”

    The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East, the officials said.

    Israel has never not spied on enemies and allies alike.

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        What would the USA be in this scenario. Never forget the USS Liberty and remember that is was Israeli secret services that presented the “evidence of WMDs” to the GW Bush administration that got the USA embroiled in the Iraq war.

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        Israel is just like Trump. He always turns on his “friends”, its just a matter of time.

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      I mean the whole epstein saga was them collecting blackmail on the most powerful people in the world. So Ya.