Posted on 03/27/2025 12:29:13 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
A leak of sensitive Israeli intelligence, shared in a chat group of senior US officials, has raised significant concerns about the security of classified information and the potential impact on intelligence-sharing relationships.
Citing two US officials, The Wall Street Journal reported that the chat, which was inadvertently disclosed to The Atlantic magazine, involved US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz sharing details about an Israeli intelligence source that helped identify a Houthi missile expert targeted in a US strike in Yemen. The Israeli government has since expressed concerns about the public exposure of their involvement in the operation.
The leaked messages, sent by Waltz, discussed the real-time intelligence that led to the strike, including information on the missile expert’s location before the building he entered was destroyed. Israeli officials privately complained to US counterparts about the breach, given the sensitivity of the intelligence provided. This incident underscores the delicate nature of intelligence cooperation between the US and its allies, particularly when it involves crucial, on-the-ground sources.
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I think that this poor dead horse has been beaten enough.
I think that this poor dead horse has been beaten enough.
I’m just glad that cocaine wasn’t found at the White House. Imagine how big that scandal would be!
4 years of intentional leaks by the deep state with INTENT and MALICE between 2016 and 2020, and the media lauds the leakers as well as the press as heros.
1 single ACCIDENTAL leak by Trump admin in 2025, and the media condemns it as a punishable offense.
Selective outrage in full contrast
I think that this poor dead horse has been beaten enough.
It’s how they roll.
Fortunately, the classified spillage was to a Jewish reporter, who apparently had no motivation to leak either the strike plans (until a week after they happened) or the Israeli intelligence source's name. By waiting, he was able to inflict some damage on the Trump administration without hurting Israel or putting the operation at risk. I'm sure there are plenty of anti-USA reporters who would have sent this data directly to Iran.
The bottom line is that Trump's cabinet needs to tighten up their COMSEC. Our allies, and our own troops, agents, sources, etc need to have confidence that we can maintain control of such information.
The evil Ha Aritsites are making a bid deal about this.
The Passing Signal Psychodrama
When we finally learn the full melodrama of the so-called Signal 1-2 day “scandal” of inviting a leftwing, Trump-despising, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg onto a supposedly secure conference list, involving most of the top Trump security officials, lots of questions need asking and answering.
Most importantly, who exactly had Goldberg’s private number, and ostensibly (in error [?]) could have possibly inserted it into the cleared list of participants in the discussions? Why Goldberg, rather than some random person of some 345 million Americans?
So why in the world would any top Trump officials or their staffers ever even have Goldberg’s private contact information—given his quite public record of a) fabricating stories with unnamed sources, and b) suffering from a decade of chronic Trump derangement syndrome?
Did Goldberg know the mechanisms that had prompted and continued his stealthy presence on the secure discussions?
Why did citizen Goldberg not simply come clean on day one that he realized he was mistakenly included in key national security conference communications, to which he did not belong, and thus should be obviously excluded immediately? Why stealthily listen in for eleven some days? Was the idea of informing his hosts of his own improper presence too old-fashioned morality?
Did Goldberg’s publicizing these discreet discussions really affect in any way at all the otherwise completely successful mission to neutralize years of appeased Houthis aggression and begin to end their veritable destruction of Red Sea international maritime commerce?
How did this blunder rank with prior diplomatic and military screw-ups?
Did it rate with the indiscretion of Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s January 1950 Press Club speech de facto excluding South Korea from the American defense umbrella—an omission that may or may not have contributed to the June 1950 North Korean invasion of the South?
Was it comparable to Ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie’s assurance to Saddam Hussein, “We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait”— a needless remark that may have mistakenly green-lighted his 1990 invasion of Kuwait?
Was it comparable to Barack Obama’s March 2012 “hot mic” quid-pro-quo assurance to Russian president Medvedev? Obama got caught in front of the world promising Putin that he would have “flexibility” on American-Eastern European missile defense—if Putin gave him “space” during his “last” election.
And indeed, it is forgotten that both kept their promises: Obama foolishly dismantled American-sponsored Eastern European plans for missile defense, and Putin stayed put for Obama, perhaps empowering Obama’s successful election cycle—postponing his preplanned invasions of Ukraine until 2014. Careerism at the expense of national security?
Did it rank with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley, stealthily contacting his Chinese communist counterpart Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng, to warn him that he would likely prewarn the People’s Liberation Army leader, if he, Milley, had self-diagnosed his Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump as supposedly dangerously likely to trigger an existential war?
Why would Hillary Clinton weigh in given her illegal use of a private server to transmit classified State Department information and her subsequent destruction of subpoenaed communication devices?
Why would the serial fabulist Susan Rice weigh in, given in the election-year 2012 she flat-out lied to the nation on five Sunday news shows, claiming preposterously that the deadly preplanned terrorist attacks on the American consulate in Benghazi were actually unexpected "spontaneous" demonstrations incited by anger over an anti-Muslim video? Ditto her fallacious Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl “honor” narrative or her lie about the removal of Syrian WMD.
Why would Leon Panetta weigh in, when he was one of the supposed “51 intelligence authorities” in 2020 who ridiculously claimed Hunter Biden’s FBI-authenticated laptop had all the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence disinformation effort—a lie designed to arm Joe Biden before the last 2020 debate, and which might well have affected the 2020 election and for which Panetta has never apologized?
In the end, this was a blunder, but also what the left calls a “teachable moment”, in which a) all future similar conferences should be either held in person or its participants triple-checked on a secure line; and b) all Trump high appointees and their staffers should know enough to have nothing to do with those who wake up each morning wishing to destroy them—and go to bed each night lamenting that they have not done enough to advance that destruction.
He waited until the Trump administration officially declared that there was no classified material discussed on the call ... and THEN he posted those details in his reporting.
They would. NY Times with a Hebrew Language edition and a sometimes sense of humor.
And there probably is still a lot more information in the hands of the progressives - not yet reported - but known to progressive federal judges.The reporter was no fool.
He waited until the Trump administration officially declared that there was no classified material discussed on the call ... and THEN he posted those details in his reporting.
It’s all they’ve got.
(They still have President Boasberg)
Sounds like the two US Officials that the Wall Street Journal “sourced”, along with Jeffery Goldberg, need to be arrested.
BS .
Leftist I’m sure. The left in Israel hate Bibi and Trump.
The left in Israel also hates Israel. Don’t ask me why. But suddenly they’re concern trolls. Don’t believe it.
For what?
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