New reporting confirms Israel has been eavesdropping on the American peace negotiators themselves.
The targets named: Steve Witkoff, Trump's top negotiator with Iran. Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon's policy chief.
And Michael DiMino, who runs Middle East policy.
Israel wasn't just collecting on America generally.
It was listening to the specific men writing the deal Netanyahu opposes.
What's wild is the documented incidents read like operations against an enemy state.
American defense personnel in Israel discovered spyware surreptitiously installed on their phones.
In 2021, Israeli military intelligence officers were caught planting listening devices at DIA headquarters.
Last year, Shin Bet officers were discovered trying to bug a Secret Service vehicle.
A SECRET SERVICE VEHICLE.
One senior official described the Israeli collection effort against top U.S. officials as "unhinged."
And the rating in context: Israel's counterintelligence threat level is now higher than any other American ally and EVEN HIGHER than some adversaries.
Notice who got targeted.
Colby is the most prominent advocate of foreign policy restraint in the government.
DiMino runs Mideast policy. Witkoff writes the deal.
Israel's espionage maps perfectly onto the people standing between Netanyahu and the war he wants to continue. They bugged the peace.
All of this while Israeli officers sit inside CENTCOM with unprecedented access, while Congress moves Section 224 to link the two militaries' systems and data permanently, and while Huckabee negotiates the framework.
The Pentagon says the ally is spying at a critical level.
Washington's answer is to hand them the keys to the network. Please make it make sense...
Source: NYT
