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
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Maeve@kbin.earth · 74 pts · 58d
Israel has never not spied on enemies and allies alike.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 58d
Israel doesn't have allies... It's enemies and people they haven't screwed over yet.
Lucius_Sweet@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 58d
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.
tacoplease@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 58d
The USA is a putz to Israel
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 58d
I mean the whole epstein saga was them collecting blackmail on the most powerful people in the world. So Ya.
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 58d
It’s likely that this is a response to the proposal of integrating Israel into the Pentagon.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 58d
Appropriately.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 51 pts · 58d
I suppose having the Commander in Chief fully compromised by Israeli intelligence blackmail material is a pretty high espionage threat, yeah.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 36 pts · 58d
Spying? Everybody already knows all our secrets. It isn't even hard. Just tell Trump you'll pay him, and he'll tell you whatever you want to know. I'm sure all the rest of them are selling everything, too. America is totally for sale, and EVERYBODY knows it.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 58d
Not Americans, until now. Source: this article.
Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 58d
Start with political donations if you want to actually keep Israel in check.
PotatoPie@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 58d
Must mean the levels are pointless, because the US will never stop supporting Israel, that's a law of nature by now and i trust it more than political claims
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 58d
The USA will collapse before either of these things occur:
Those are the absolute red lines, the people who run the country will pull it down before they let either of those happen.
CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 15 pts · 58d
Man, imagine being the person at the Pentagon or the FBI in charge of stopping the Israelis from messing with American affairs. Talk about a Sisyphean task.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 58d
It's hard to stop spies when your supreme leader opens the door for them.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 58d
And all of congress. And the interests which fund our political system. And the Vichy voters in our political systems who would rather collaborate than fight, as long as their local mcdonalds stays open and their pickleball privileges protected.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 12 pts · 58d
And the solution somehow would be to merge the military and intelligence apparati of the two countries. The US of A would become Israel's 2nd to 51st states.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 58d
Israel would never accept Americans as citizens in a federation-- even one they utterly control. It'll be a colonialism/vassal state system where the US gets to be the one that gets it resources and wealth extracted. We're arguably already in it.
MartianRecon@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 58d
Israel isn't happy with 95% of the military information we share with them so they want to steal the last 5%.
That pariah nation needs some fucking comeuppance for what they've done to our country.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 58d
When Israeli spies are caught, tried in a just court and convicted, they should face a punishment of execution, publicly. The massive damage to the globe that their spying does--like when they stole all the nuclear material from the US to build their nukes, merits that punishment and more. Its a clear act of war against the US.
Heres background on Israeli theft of the materials. If you are curious you can google the Numec affair, also known as the Apollo affair.
https://thebulletin.org/2014/04/did-israel-steal-bomb-grade-uranium-from-the-united-states/ and https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2016-11-02/numec-affair-did-highly-enriched-uranium-us-aid-israels-nuclear-weapons-program
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 58d
Lol?
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 58d
And this week, the DIA will release a report about water, and it's confirmed wetness.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 58d
Water is not wet. It makes other things wet.
That's like saying your pants are dressed.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 58d
My underwear has pants on 🤷♂️
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 58d
They are. Each day I give them little outfits. What, you don't?
fake@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 58d
Can water make water wet?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 58d
Well, think of a particle man. Is he a dot or is he a speck? When he's underwater, does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows.
Particle man.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d
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Is he a dot, or is he a speck? When he's underwater, does he get wet Or does the water get him instead? Nobody knows particle man
Triangle man, triangle man Triangle man hates particle man They have a fight, triangle wins Triangle man
Universe man, universe man Size of the entire universe, man Usually kind to smaller man Universe man
He's got a watch with a minute hand Millennium hand and an eon hand And when they meet, it's a happy land Powerful man, universe man
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Is he depressed or is he a mess? Does he feel totally worthless? Who came up with person man? Degraded man, person man
Triangle man, triangle man Triangle man hates person man They have a fight, triangle wins Triangle man
kreskin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 58d
Anyone want to make any bets now on how long the Defense Intelligence Agency inside the pentagon will still have funding?
Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 58d
That's pretty much what happened with USAID. Their reports kept mentioning how Israel was blocking aid trucks and shooting at civilians. The director said that Israel was in breach of the Leahy law. Biden admin censored them and pulled the operations out of Palestine. Trump came in and completely dismantled it.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 58d
It would be really funny if Trump and Netanyahu put hits on each other.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 58d
the calls are coming from within the white house!
mrdown@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -3 pts · 58d
As much as I hate iarael. Everybody does spying. The usa also spied on Israel and Netanyahu.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/328646/how-jewish-groups-and-benjamin-netanyahu-got-spied-on-by-us/