Mr. Perfect wrote:It was publicly available information, the only person blowing the source was the leaker and the Washington Post. NYT and WaPo regularly publish classified material these days. Carnival of lies.
They look more desperate by the day.
The
Jerusalem Post gives a perspective of Meir Elran:
Multiple former officials, including former IDF intelligence deputy chief and INSS expert Brig.-Gen. (res.) Dr. Meir Elran said that the story was “not very significant” for Israel “unless the information was received from Israel, and there is no indication of that.”
Further, he said that intelligence sharing between the US and Israel “is too important, even if there are…glitches” where Trump or others in the US break some of the unwritten rules of the game.
Elran said that Israeli intelligence “takes into account always that this could happen” but at the end of the day “intelligence assets are national assets” and they do not get to decide how the political echelon uses their information.
He said that intelligence agency gatekeepers "aren’t the only ones with authority."
"Even if intelligence professionals don’t like” the political echelon sharing intelligence “it is too bad," he said, adding that "They need to explain how information is sensitive, but the political echelon has the final say.”
If all this was about Trump talking about the danger of laptops on board of airplanes and that Israel has good intel on ISIS then this whole story might again not be able to sack da Trump. Maybe Trump himself leaked the info to NYT and WaPo to provoke them again taking another bite at nothing much. Would be a brilliant move.
Your ideology is dead and your control over government can only take you so far when you've lost access to the means of production and are trying to implement an agenda that hands *more* power to liberal corporations.
