A “deeply concerning” drip of U. S. classified records seemingly involving Israel’s preparation for a punitive invasion on Iran was posted on the Telegram Channel of” Middle East Spectator“, which is described as pro-Iranian.
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The documents that CNN verified came from the National Security Agency ( NSA ) and the United States ‘ Geospatial Intelligence Agency ( NGA ). Any information gathered by those organizations is one of the government’s most closely guarded secrets.
” The hole is extremely concerning. There’s some significant claims being made it, an investigation afoot, and I’ll get a lecture on that in a couple of hours”, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told CNN’s” State of the Union”. We’re following it strongly.”
In one of the documents, it is stated that the Israeli Air Force is “preparing for a hit on Iran” in response to Iran’s missile storm earlier this month and that it conducted” a next large-force work exercise.” According to the documents,” The Air Force is” possible to conduct air-to-air fuel and fight search and rescue operations with a large number of aircraft, as reported by Politico.
Another report, attributed to the NSA, reports that” Jewish air pressure activities involving air-to-surface weapons, even believed to be in readiness for a hit on Iran, “according to CNN.
The leak comes at a sensitive time in US-Israeli relations, and it is bound to enrage Israelis, who have been preparing to attack Iran on October 1 in response to its missile barrage. Israel has always declined to publicly confirm that it has nuclear weapons in one of the documents. According to the document, the US has not seen any indications that Israel intends to use a nuclear weapon against Iran.
It is a serious breach, according to Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East and retired CIA officer.” If it is true that Israeli tactical plans to react to Iran’s attack on October 1 have been leaked, it is a serious breach.
Mulroy added that” the future coordination between the US and Israel may be challenged as well.” Trust is a key component in the relationship, and depending on how this was leaked that trust could be eroded.”
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I am not a conspiracy theorist. However, it’s possible that the leak originated in America now that Israel is ready to implement plans that were undoubtedly relayed to Joe Biden last week during his phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  ,
Perhaps an American familiar with Netanyahu’s plans as Biden was aware of the attack’s ferocity and worried about its effects on the area. We’ve seen these leaks by lower-level agency employees before, so I do n’t know why I believe it was an American. A low-level security designer at the NSA, Jaeh Sebastian Dalke, was given a 262 month prison sentence in April for providing a Russian agent with classified NSA documents.  ,
The air National Guardsman, Jack Teixeira, who accessed numerous classified documents and shared them on secret chat rooms, received a 16-year prison sentence for espionage.  , It would n’t have to be a high-level employee of either agency.  ,
A senior Israeli official previously stated to the Axios news site that the government was seriously considering the leak. A US official said that the alleged leak, while extremely concerning, would n’t impact plans for an attack against Iran.
The documents, allegedly showing a visual intelligence report by the Department of Defense National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency ( NGA ), noted observing IAF exercises using air-launched ballistic missiles ( ALBMs), air-to-surface ballistic missiles, fighter jets, UAVs, and refueling tankers previously used during Israeli strikes on Houthi sites in Yemen.
According to the documents, the IAF has handled at least 16 Golden Horizon ALBMs and 40 IS02 ( Rocks ) ALBMs since October 8.
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Since there’s no indication where the armaments will be targeted, the damage to Israel’s plans for the Iran attack is n’t serious. The worrying aspect is that the security breach only highlights the United States and their illogical leader.