US is helping Israel detect intelligence blind spots and locate Hamas leaders: report
December 4, 2023 4 Comments
UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES are actively assisting Israel identify the intelligence blind spots that led to the security failure of October 7, and locate senior Hamas leaders, according to the chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Representative Mike Turner (R-OH) said during an interview on Sunday with CBS’s Face the Nation that American intelligence agencies are “working closely” with the Israeli intelligence community.
The purpose of the collaboration is to find intelligence “gaps” and identify the “institutional bias that resulted in” Israeli intelligence officials dismissing warnings about a potential attack by Hamas in the months leading to October 7. The United States is also providing Israel with “selective […] information” about Hamas targets, including senior Hamas officials. Turner noted that “we are not just providing direct access to our intelligence” and that “caution” is being used in determining the types of intelligence that United States agencies are sharing with Israel.
Turner’s comments come less than a week after The New York Times reported that Israeli intelligence had managed to obtain Hamas’ detailed battle plan for the October 7 attack in 2022. It was a 40-page document, written in Arabic, which allegedly contained the precise details of Hamas’ attack plan, but did not specify a date. Senior intelligence officials dubbed the battle plan “Jericho Wall”, but dismissed it as purely aspirational and thought it too elaborate to be carried out in practice.
On November 27, Israel’s Channel 12 television revealed a series of leaked emails from officers in Israel’s 8200 Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces. The emails reportedly raised concerns about an impending attack by Hamas in southern Israel. According to Channel 12, the Unit 8200 emails provided a “highly detailed warning” about Hamas’ plans to take over Israeli villages near the Gaza Strip and kill hundreds of Israelis. However, senior military officials dismissed the plans as “an imaginary scenario”.
► Author: Joseph Fitsanakis | Date: 04 December 2023 | Permalink
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The US, try as it may have, has never been able to provide the slightest help anywhere in the ME, let alone in Israel-Palestine. In fact, you could say it’s been just the opposite. The US needs to cure its swagger and its trigger finger.
It’s a waste of time/effort to help Israel get rid of the current leaders of hamas while you are creating new ones by the 1000s. It’s like we can’t stop repeating history.
While better minds are figuring out how to get out of this revolving door, let’s just put a pause on financing it.
The result of ignoring this evidence, unfortunately, is Islamic extremists and their religious civilian supporters are now emboldened. Western Europe, which has significant populaces of non-natives, are rising up in the name of their gods. We paid the price for our liberal tolerance and it was fully taken advantage of.
Somewhat ironically is this from the WSJ last month:
U.S. intelligence agencies all but stopped spying on Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., instead directing resources to the hunt for the leaders of al Qaeda and, later, Islamic State, according to U.S. officials familiar with the shift.
Neither Hamas nor Gaza were mentioned in the director of national intelligence’s Annual Threat Assessment, which highlights top threats to the U.S. and was issued in February. Senators and representatives on the congressional intelligence committees didn’t ask spy chiefs about those topics at public hearings.
No one thought 911 could happen either. I was a B767 Captain for AA in BOS at the time of the attack. All our training involved not resisting and cooperating with hijackers.
We had plenty of warning as well that went unheeded.