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

—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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UPDATE: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, an elite institution, is warning other parts of the American elite that the Israeli elite is spying on the Trump faction of the American elite. The warning is serious enough that the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency is allowing the American public to know about the compromise. At the same time Congress, the voice of the largely united front of the pro-Israel American elite, is trying to marry America’s military to Israel’s military. The adage that all politics is local has never been true. The adage should be all politics is elite factions competing with each other while toying with the public. There does appear to be a major battle going on involving Israel, the City of London ‘rules based order’, and some possibility that some factions of the Western elite do not want to entirely destroy USA and all of Western civilization. The public has close to zero say in anything elites do except when it is strongly united, a rare event which, should it occur, is always transient. I see a slim possibility that the Trump faction of the American elite may do something many of us will like. I am basically an American pragmatist strongly in favor of preserving Western civilization and American sovereignty ABN