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WhiskeyGrinder

(27,311 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:28 PM 22 hrs ago

Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-raised-threat-israeli-spying-us-highest-level-sources-say-rcna348565

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S., recently raising the counterintelligence threat level from America’s top ally in the Middle East to the highest level, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official.

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.

The DIA assessment includes a seven-page document and features a chart, according to one of the current U.S. officials. The document says the assessment of Israel is that its ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a “critical level,” according to the official.
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Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say (Original Post) WhiskeyGrinder 22 hrs ago OP
When Bibi was here I'm sure he was given major access to intelligence by the orange DICKtator kimbutgar 22 hrs ago #1
Right. Why spy when tRump will tell bibi everything? ecstatic 22 hrs ago #2
Because Trump doesn't know everything. Intractable 22 hrs ago #3
True. It's probably like pulling teeth as well ecstatic 21 hrs ago #4
And if he doesn't leave that bunker, we seal him in! Intractable 21 hrs ago #5
Unsurprising. David__77 19 hrs ago #6
It's way past time to turn off the spigot of aid & grants to them RT Atlanta 19 hrs ago #7
At the least. David__77 17 hrs ago #8
Obviously such a suggesion is based in antisemitism (SARCASM) Orrex 16 hrs ago #9
Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration Celerity 16 hrs ago #10

kimbutgar

(27,649 posts)
1. When Bibi was here I'm sure he was given major access to intelligence by the orange DICKtator
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:29 PM
22 hrs ago

ecstatic

(35,151 posts)
2. Right. Why spy when tRump will tell bibi everything?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:54 PM
22 hrs ago

Although the bromance isn't going so well lately....

Intractable

(2,488 posts)
3. Because Trump doesn't know everything.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:58 PM
22 hrs ago

There are many governmental secrets to be obtained that are not on Trump's mind.

ecstatic

(35,151 posts)
4. True. It's probably like pulling teeth as well
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:18 PM
21 hrs ago
Goddamnit I don't care about your fucking ballroom just tell me what you're going to do about Iran! Are you sending ground troops or not?!


But there's going to be a hospital underneath it. And a bunker like nobody's ever seen. It will be called the Donald J Trump Bunker.


RT Atlanta

(2,836 posts)
7. It's way past time to turn off the spigot of aid & grants to them
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 09:13 PM
19 hrs ago

while the current 'leadership' is in place.

This is ridiculous.

Orrex

(67,468 posts)
9. Obviously such a suggesion is based in antisemitism (SARCASM)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:08 AM
16 hrs ago

But it's the only card Netanyahu and his accomplices have to play.

Celerity

(55,145 posts)
10. Pro-Israel voices win out, kill bill to stop US-Israel military integration
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:26 AM
16 hrs ago
Rep. Khanna took the 'America First' approach against Section 224, but he was out-numbered by those who played down its dangers and implications

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-israel-military-congress/

A House committee summarily struck down an amendment to strip a measure from the massive annual defense policy bill that would provide Israel “a higher level of military-industrial integration" with the U.S. than Washington has "with any other country in the world.”

Pro-Israel voices on the House Armed Services Committee argued that reports about Section 224 — that Congress was trying to integrate U.S. and Israeli military systems as a way to entrench aid without proper oversight — were disingenuous and wrong. In fact, members claimed that these were “existing initiatives” and that Section 224 “actually improves oversight and accountability of these programs by designating a single official responsible for them,” according to Chairman Mike Rogers, (R-Ala.)

Not quite true, said the Quincy Institute’s Ben Freeman, who broke the initial story of Section 224 for RS last week. “Members of Congress supporting the proposal laid out caricatures of critiques against Section 224. And when they did actually talk about the provision itself they spread half-truths and outright inaccuracies about how far this provision will go to integrate the U.S. and Israeli defense sectors.” According to Freeman, as reported in these pages, Section 224 would lay 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.

Critically, it would shift the annual $3.8 billion the U.S. now gives Israel (a 10-year memorandum of understanding soon up for renewal) to these programs and partnerships, i.e. “co-production” and other “fusion” deep inside Pentagon procurement and acquisitions process, where sunlight is rare and often fleeting. A perfect solution — which is, by the way, endorsed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — given the dwindling American support for Israel’s wars and U.S. military assistance for them. In his remarks on Section 224, Khanna spoke vociferously against what he saw as a blank check at a time when a majority of Americans say they do not want to send more military aid to Israel.

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