Is it any wonder that Israel has stopped giving the U.S. a heads up on war plans.
Documents purported to show classified U.S. intelligence gathering on Israel’s preparations for a potential retaliatory strike on Iran appeared on social media platforms this week. It is unclear what impact the potential leak may have on any Israeli military planning for a possible strike on Iran, or Israeli-American relations.
On Sunday, House Speaker Mike Johnson acknowledged that there is an investigation underway into the possible intelligence leak during an appearance on CNN, and added officials are following it closely. A law enforcement source also confirmed the investigation to ABC News.
ABC News could not independently verify the authenticity of the documents, which appear to show specific details about the types and number of munitions that Israel may be readying for a potentially large-scale strike on Iran in retaliation for the regime’s late September barrage of almost 200 ballistic missiles aimed at Israel.
The documents posted on social media have markings that would indicate that they originated from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the U.S. agency that collects, analyzes and distributes intelligence gleaned from satellite and aerial imagery. ABC News is not quoting directly from or showing the documents.
Is it real “intel” or is it not? There’s some discussion about that.
In any case, discouraging Israel from ramping up–thus ramping up the possibility of US involvement–is a good thing. Benji must understand that the US has no compelling national interests in Israel. If he wants to conquer Lebanon and Syria and Egypt and Iraq, fine. But that’s on his ticket, not ours.
With knowing the mullah-loving Biden admin, it would not be surprising to find the IDF feeding false flags to BJ in attempting to misdirect Iran’s attention (or put them at ease thinking Israel will hold off now because the mullahs know what is/was coming). The mullahs would lend considerable legitimacy to any of BJ’s passed info.
On the other hand, the Pager Bang was a brilliant long term op that the US inteligencia, or any other of the group members, knew nothing about.
…the US has no compelling national interests in Israel.
This is completely wrong.
Without friends in the Middle East 9/11 would be repeated endlessly. And not just on our soil. While some of the few we have are iffy (think Pakistan) Israel is by far the greatest source of intelligence in the region. The IDF’s web even reached directly into the Iranian military.
Which is why Biden’s collusion is treachery beyond pale.
Without friends in the Middle East 9/11 would be repeated endlessly.
Oh. We HAVE a ‘friend’ in the M.E., and 9/11 happened–or don’t you remember that?
Perhaps 9/11 happened because we have the wrong friend over there.
Biden should be shot at dawn. There we agree.
The DC bureaucracy is full of Vindman-like twats with sketchy loyalties. This suspected leaker/Iranian sympathizer/defense senior policy advisor was outed by Senators Wicker, Grassley, Crapo, and Cornyn directly to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin a FULL YEAR AGO, yet still retains her position and security clearance. Obama 3.0 dismissed their concerns as smears and slander. The FBI will investigate this new leak… for whatever that might be worth.
While whoever this particular leaker might be continues to enjoy the short-term perks of political cover and will likely skate without consequences, the Israelis will still have long memories and the uncanny ability to reach out and touch someone. It’s what they do.
… and 9/11 happened–or don’t you remember that?
Oh yeah. And it was all Israel’s fault, , no doubt…
V. OIG conclusions
In sum, we found individual and systemic failings in the FBI’s handling of information regarding the Hazmi and Mihdhar matter. The FBI had at least five opportunities to learn about their presence in the United States and to seek to find them before September 11, 2001. Much of the cause for these lost opportunities involved systemic problems. We found information sharing problems between the CIA and the FBI and systemic problems within the FBI related to counterterrorism investigations. The systemic problems included inadequate oversight and guidance provided to FBI detailees at the CIA, the FBI employees’ lack of understanding of CIA procedures, the inconsistent documentation of intelligence information received informally by the FBI, the lack of priority given to counterterrorism investigations by the FBI before September 11, and the effect of the wall on FBI criminal investigations.
Our review also found that the CIA did not provide information to the FBI about Hazmi and Mihdhar when it should have and we believe the CIA shares significant responsibility for the breakdown in the Hazmi and Mihdhar case. However, the FBI also failed to fully exploit the information that was made available to them. In addition, the FBI did not assign sufficient priority to the investigation when it learned in August 2001 that Hazmi and Mihdhar were in the in the United States. While we do not know what would have happened had the FBI learned sooner or pursued its investigation more aggressively, the FBI lost several important opportunities to find Hazmi and Mihdhar before the September 11 attacks.
Hamlin and Mihdhar slammed a plane into the Pentagon.
@Wizard…
Ariane Tabatabai, Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, who worked for Iran before Biden hiring her, named by Sky News Arabia. The MSN has declared that the Pentagon has denied this, but it’s press sec stated, “To my knowledge, the official that is being referenced is not a subject of interest.”
A Sgt. Schultz denial.
For other folks enjoyment, here’s more on your year-ago thingie: https://www.semafor.com/article/09/28/2023/pentagon-probe-iran-report
I didn’t blame Israel for 9/11. But the US’ interests are NOT congruent with those of Israel, and never have been. Thus, we have no compelling national interest in assisting Israel in its war against—-well—everybody in the Middle East: the Lebanese, the Iranians, the Pallies…….you know, other people who occupy land near Israel.
Like I said, if Israel wants to conquer all those countries, they can do it on their own ticket. Not ours.
Think that’s anti-Semitic?
So, you’ve no problem with the centers of terrorism and lunatic Islamic jihad growing, expanding, and playing with nukes.
Got it.
Vote Kamala, bro.
Last I checked it was the Saudis who executed the 9/11 attack, not Iran. Not Paletinians. Not Lebanon. Not Iraq.
Since you are concerned, buy an AR and a few thousand rounds and go shoot a bunch of Palestinians–then march east and hit those damn Iranians, too!
When jihad comes to the US, I’ll be happy to kill a bunch of them. Will Netanyahu send his troops here to help?
Don’t bet on it.
Last I checked it was the Saudis …
Well, you would be wrong then.
One of the initial hijackers was Yemeni (replaced by a Saudi b/c he could not obtain a passport). The pilot of the plane that hit the south tower was Emirati. The pilot of Flight 93 was Lebanese. The pilot of plane that hit the north tower, Muhammad Atta, was Egyptian. He was also the planner of the attack and leader of them all. They trained in Afghanistan. Had meetings in Qatar, Yemen, Oman.
And FWIW, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a Pakistani, is vacationing at GITMO for his collusion and funding of 9/11.
And Mohammad Salameh and Ahmad Aja are sitting in prison for the 1993 Tower bombing. Both are “palestinians”.
If you believe jihad is country specific, reading some history will dissuade you of those beliefs.
….yet the only country you want nuked is Iran?
Not the Emirates, not the Lebanese, not the Egyptians, not the Pakis? My, my, you’re actually a pacifist.
So sorry. The Saudis financed it, through Bin Laden.
All that said, Israeli interests are NOT congruent with US interests. Don’t even think about sending my grandchildren over there. They may volunteer, of course, just like you could.
By the way, I’m familiar with jihadists. I read Spencer’s stuff. It’s about time that the US take Pat Buchanan’s advice and admit only those who share the J-C culture for citizenship.
Get behind that and there’s a new dawn.
….yet the only country you want nuked is Iran?
I proffered this…. where?
Sure, actually nuking Iran would help cure many of the ME diseases, and many Arab nations would cheer it, including Saudi Arabia. But shooting the foot does not kill the terrorist, nor his jihad.
I really don’t care about the country Iran. Or Sudan. Or Syria. What I wish and hope for is the annihilation of the lunatic muslim jihadists wherever they sleep, be it Afghanistan or Lebanon, or France. Pretty simple, actually.
Israel is working on it while the rest of the world sits and sucks their thumbs.
The Saudis financed it, through Bin Laden.
Al Qaeda was funded by mosques and fraudulent Muslim “charities” throughout the Middle East, as well as two well-known “charities” here in the U.S., one being just down the road a bit in FIB Land. The Saudi g’vment had nothing to do with it.
And I guess you missed my mentioning the Pakistani fella above…
The hijackers received funds from facilitators in Germany and the United Arab Emirates or directly from Khalid Sheikh Mohamed (KSM) as they transited Pakistan before coming to the United States. The plot cost al Qaeda approximately $400,000–500,000, of which approximately $300,000 was passed through the hijackers bank accounts in the United States. The hijackers returned approximately $26,000 to a facilitator in the UAE in the days prior to the attack – 9/11 Comish
Peanuts compared to the $20 million a year bin Laden spent building the Taliban.
All that said, Israeli interests are NOT congruent with US interests.
And as I said, you are wrong. And I am quite surprised you don’t see why.
Welcome to Dearborn, ahki.
Israel is “working on killing jihadists”?
All of Gaza’s Pallie residents–including children–are “jihadists”?
That’s your SERIOUS argument?
Israel is “working on killing jihadists”?
You are suppose to go into a cave at the onset of winter, not come out of one.
All of Gaza’s Pallie residents–including children–are “jihadists”?
Who started the war? And shame on Britain for bombing those civilian nazis and shame on us for Nagasaki, yes?
With 85% of the “Pallies” giving a standing-O for Oct7 and Hamass running UNRWA schools in Gaza, perhaps you can answer your own question.
And if you enjoy stories of actual targeting of kids for death (you know, not just MSM propaganda), look up “Netiv Meir Elementary School” or “Avivam” or “ Mercaz HaRav”.
There are many more to choose from.
Usually, the “HE STARTED IT!!” game is played by 5-year-olds.
Any sentient observer knows that every. single. word. coming out of anyone over there is a lie. Do the Pallies play dirty? Yup. Do the Israelis play dirty? Yup.
Not our ranch, not our cattle.
>Not our ranch, not our cattle.
Well I, for one, do not have any concerns about Israeli nuclear bombs or terrorism in the US, while I have plenty of concerns about all of the Islamic parties listed above sending one or more over. Especially once their most hated people are gone. If Israel is our police force in the middle east, I think it is moot that we support them at it.
“….sending one over.”
There are a helluvalotta Muslims LEGALLY in the US now; I live within a mile of around 100 of them that I know of. Think they’ll nuke their own?
If our police force is killing children (and it is, at least 20,000) as reported by both Orthodox and American humanitarian outfits, it can be YOUR police force, thankyouverymuch. That is not AP/AlJazeera propaganda; these are on-the-ground observers who don’t really have an agenda. I don’t know about you, T, but to me, killing children is a very good way to demand revenge. Maybe the IDF should use our satellite intel a lot more carefully.
Maybe HAMAS should stop using them as shields and hiding among them…
Oh and yes, I fully believe terrorists would nuke some of their own race and/or religion if it meant they could kill a city or two of Americans as well. I’d bet most of the Jihadists being discussed here would be perfectly fine with killing the ‘traitors’ that moved here for whatever reason, if it wasn’t to be a mole/informant/agent of theirs. I am not afraid of Muslims who moved here without that intent, if it makes you feel better.
And it is perfectly fine with me that you feel the opposite.
Usually, the “HE STARTED IT!!” game is played by 5-year-olds.
Yes, because kidnapping and raping and torturing and killing 1400 in a sick-headed planned attack is just like a playground wrestling match.
You’re okey-dokey with Pearl Harbor, eh? 9/11, too? The Cole? Benghazi?
Any sentient observer knows that every. single. word. coming out of anyone over there is a lie.
Please list, precisely, the lies attributed to the IDF.
Think they’ll nuke their own?
Obviously.
Also obvious is that you don’t actually read Spencer’s stuff as you claimed or you might not have asked such a silly question…
In the video, an armed terrorist, dressed in fatigues and speaking Hausa, told onlookers how one of the people he would behead was his younger sister. “She’s part of the infidels we will annihilate today,” he said. He went on to say that he would do the same if it were his mother or his own child – anyone ‘who goes against our religion’.
Jihadists are such pleasant folk.
That is not AP/AlJazeera propaganda; these are on-the-ground observers who don’t really have an agenda
Riiiiiiiiight. Like the BBC suspended Hamass-cheering reporters, or the Al Jizzera hacks, or Hassan Eslaiah, a freelancer paid by AP, CNN, Reuters, and others who was photoed partying with hamass head Sinwar.
Speaking of propaganda, let’s not forget those fake kiddie headshot X-ray pics just recently distributed by your so-called “observers”.
Well, actually, under international law, Israel DID start it. A long time ago.
The top United Nations court said Friday that Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and called on it to end, and for settlement construction to stop immediately, issuing an unprecedented, sweeping condemnation of Israel’s rule over the lands it captured 57 years ago….
Israel would like to demolish all the Ameleks. Benji has territorial ambitions which are ridiculous, as the UN Court said. Well, then, Benji should go for it.
As to US-resident Muslim terrorists: You should take it upon yourself to eliminate them. Use Israel’s example: find 20,000 or so, preferably under the age of 18, and kill ’em all. Let God sort it out.
If you want to keep on the THEY started it 5yr old track, the last independent countries in that region were both Jewish, so the Romans started it and the Ottomans continued the occupation. Then the Brits had it for a while and after WWII it finally became a country again under Jewish hegemony. The only Palestinians to ever self-govern the region as an independent nation were Jewish.
And since when has any conservative agreed with anything the UN says, they have an agenda we should have no interest in either.
The literal Amelekites or the metaphoric Amelekite cynics of today? Cuz one of them no longer exist so I guess Israel was already successful then.
>As to US-resident Muslim terrorists: You should take it upon yourself to eliminate them.
You should take it upon yourself to try and sound less stupid.
What we really need to do now, what we intend to do now, is to show the region that there are no limits on what we’re willing to do. No one can stop us. There’s nothing anyone can do to stop us, and there are no moral or ethical limits that we will observe in order to defend ourselves, and what we intend to do is to put the fear of God–or the fear of Jews, is how he described it–into the hearts and minds of every Arab in the region that they will remember for generations and that they will be too afraid to ever again oppose us or attack us.'</i<
–Naftali Bennett
T, you'll note that I am not the one who proposes that some bunch of Muzzies will be tossing nukes in the USA for "terrorism" purposes. That stupidity belongs to someone else–who ought to be eliminating them in the same fashion as Bennett suggests Israel does.
That 20,000 number? That's from the testimony of American nurses and doctors (including Jewish American Mark Perlmutter).
Perhaps someone here would like to refute it rather than call names and ignore it.
The top United Nations court said Friday …
A ruling three months ago by a “court” led by a Lebanese former UN ambassador and known longtime Hezbollah cheerleader Narwaf Salam. The UN is so perverted it previously installed this terrorist protector as president of its security council.
Quite frankly, the UN can GFI.
Israel would like to demolish all the Ameleks.
And the nutball Islamists just wanna live next door in peace.
Personally, I hope they end up in pieces.
Praise be to Samual.
As to US-resident Muslim terrorists: You should take it upon yourself to eliminate them.
Glad to see you admit they are already among us.
And we (that is, those of us who actually give a shit) may have to, since the US military, CIA, FBI, HSA are more worried about kind of dresses men should be allowed to wear as uniforms than securing this country and its citizens.
find 20,000 or so, preferably under the age of 18, and kill ’em all.
Got that from Tlaib, didja ?
I’ll take Bennett at his word. You call him a liar.
Whatever.
That 20,000 number? That’s from the testimony of American nurses and doctors (including Jewish American Mark Perlmutter).
Then…
I’ll take Bennett at his word.
Odd.
This you?…
” every. single. word. coming out of anyone over there is a lie. “
What we really need to do now, what we intend to do now, is to show the region that there are no limits on what we’re willing to do. No one can stop us. There’s nothing anyone can do to stop us, and there are no moral or ethical limits that we will observe in order to defend ourselves, and what we intend to do is to put the fear of God–or the fear of Jews, is how he described it–into the hearts and minds of every Arab in the region that they will remember for generations and that they will be too afraid to ever again oppose us or attack us.’ –Naftali Bennett.
See, e.g., Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionist.
>T, you’ll note that I am not the one who proposes that some bunch of Muzzies will be tossing nukes in the USA for “terrorism” purposes.
And I think you are near sighted to think so. However, I specifically said that I was not worried about the vast majority of Muslims in the US, I said that there are many Islamic groups in the Middle east that would be perfectly willing to throw nukes into the US if they got their hands on them. From that comment you suggested I should go kill US Muslims, which was an idiotic thing to respond to my comment with, If you wish to somehow make sense of that nonsensical comment, please move forward on it.
I have not been defending Netanyahu’s views or the count of Palestinians killed or treated by US medical personnel, though like MJM I remembered your earlier quote to not believe a word from anyone over there and very liberal doctors and nurses have a bad track record on this sort of reporting. Anyone remember Covid death reporting a few years ago? I have been defending the ideology behind going after military targets regardless of how the opposing force is defending it. The terrorists have intentionally made their own people military targets. Small Palestinian children and women have not been running towards those targets to defend them from Israeli forces, they were put there and either forced or programmed to stay there by the Islamic ideological Jihad. There is no good way to attack those terrorists, but I agree with Israel that this is NOT a good reason to call off any retaliation because every Islamic soldier has a child strapped to his back.
‘They are killing our innocent children on Israeli soil, but they have their own daughters playing in and among them so there is nothing we can do but eventually all die by their hand…’ Sorry, that is a losing, bad, and stupid strategy. What you are saying is that Jimmy Carter was right to leave our people as hostages for over a year in Iran. I disagree.
I do not believe you if say that most or even just many Israeli soldiers take aim at and shoot down unarmed Palestinian women and children. I also do not believe you if you say that most or even many HAMAS terrorists would NOT usually shoot a Jewish woman or child in his sights. It is stated in their manifestos and their interpretations of the Quran to kill all infidels. There are huge differences between the Jewish military guidelines and procedures vs those followed by HAMAS. If you want to keep talking like Israel is doing exactly what the terrorists are doing or anything US forces wouldn’t do in similar circumstances, I will continue to disparage your comments on it.
…very liberal doctors and nurses have a bad track record on this sort of reporting.
You can include Daddio’s “ Jewish American Mark Perlmutter” in that group, Mr. T.
Perlmutter was in Gaza all of ten days and came back to claim that Israeli snipers were intentionally gunning down Gazan kids. His proof? “No child gets shot twice by mistake”. Coincidently, his last days there were when the false claims of Israeli-dug mass graves started.
Need I mention the fraud x-rays again?
See, e.g., Benjamin Netanyahu, Zionist.
As an USAmericanist, I have no problem with Benji securing his citizens and his country against insane tyrannical jihadist by any means necessary.