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As The GOP Slams Biden On Israel, No One Mentions Trump's Dangerous Intel
Leak
S.V. Date
Updated Tue, October 10, 2023
WASHINGTON - As Republicans try to link President Joe Biden’s release of
$6 billion of frozen Iranian money as part of a prisoner swap to the
weekend terrorist attack on Israel, they continue to ignore the documented
damage done to that country’s security by the de facto leader of their
party, Donald Trump.
Less than four months into his term, the coup-attempting former president
was bragging to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador
Sergei Kislyak during their Oval Office visit about the quality of the
briefings he was receiving, and as proof offered details about a secret
Israeli intelligence operation into Syria.
Israeli intelligence officials were incensed upon learning of the leak
because, given Russia’s close ties to Iran and Syria, they had to assume
that their local source for the information had been compromised and
possibly killed, according to Israeli press accounts at the time.
“If indeed Trump, out of innocence or ignorance, leaked information to the
Russians, then there is a real danger to sources that it took years to
acquire, and to our working methods,” an Israeli intelligence source told
journalist Ronen Bergman.
Shabtai Shavit, who led the Mossad intelligence agency in the 1990s, told
the Times of Israel: “If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the
CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them. Or I would
first protect myself and only then give it, and what I’d give would be
totally neutered.”
Despite this, not one of the candidates running against Trump for the 2024
Republican presidential nomination has criticized Trump for his lack of
discretion, even as they uniformly attack Biden for unfreezing $6 billion
in Iranian money that had been held in a South Korean bank. Their attacks
link that decision with the assault on Israel by the militant group Hamas.
The Biden administration has defended the release of the money as a way to
help get five American citizens who had been unjustly detained in Iran
back home. Officials point out that the money can only be spent for food,
medicine and other humanitarian purposes. Republicans critics argue that
money is fungible, and that saving $6 billion on food and medicine allows
Iran to spend it on terrorism instead.
On Saturday, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, within hours of
Hamas’ attacks, blamed Biden: “This terrorism is funded by Biden’s idiotic
release of $6 billion to the Iranians.”
“Iran has helped fund this war against Israel and Joe Biden’s policies
that have gone easy on Iran have helped fill their coffers,” Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis said in a video he released Sunday morning. “Israel is now
paying the price for those policies.”
A little later, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott posted: “Biden’s weakness
invited the attack. Biden’s negotiation funded the attack. Biden admin
wanted Israel to stand down after the attack. At this point, Biden is
complicit.”
It’s unclear how the agreement to release money to Iran for humanitarian
purposes - not a dollar of which has yet been spent - less than a month
ago could have “funded” Hamas’ attack, which involved thousands of rockets
that must have been stockpiled over a period of many months.
Notably, none of the candidates’ statements criticized Trump for action
weakening Israel - even though they are all running against him for the
nomination, and he is the current frontrunner by a wide margin.
Of the half dozen campaigns contacted by HuffPost, Christie’s, DeSantis’
and Scott’s among them, on the matter, only Christie’s responded: “He’s
been pretty clear across the board that Trump shouldn’t be president
again,” said campaign spokesman Karl Rickett.
Trump’s campaign also did not respond to HuffPost queries.
The May 10, 2017, White House meeting was covered by Russian media, but
not American media, and began with Trump telling Lavrov and Kislayak that
he had just fired FBI Director James Comey over the agency’s investigation
into his contacts with their country ahead of his 2016 election. The
Washington Post, which first reported on the incident, quoted an
administration official who said that Trump “revealed more information to
the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
The intelligence concerned ISIS’ newfound ability to make bombs in laptop
computers that could get through airport screening, which had led to a ban
on people carrying laptops with them on flights coming from a number of
Muslim countries.
The information had come via Israeli intelligence agencies through a
source who had infiltrated an ISIS cell in Syria and which had been
confirmed thanks to electronic eavesdropping equipment planted in a daring
nighttime mission by Israeli commandos.
Trump revealed this to the Russians, including the Syrian city in which
the operation took place, as part of his boasts.
“Donald Trump further proves he is too dangerous to lead the United States
on the world stage,” Biden campaign co-chair Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois
senator and military veteran, said in a statement. “The generals and other
military leaders who served under Trump—those in a position to know—have
repeatedly said he made our country less safe, not more.”
U.S. intelligence agencies have worked closely with their Israeli
counterparts for nearly 70 years, since an Israeli agent got hold of a
secret speech Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had delivered denouncing
Joseph Stalin’s brutality.
In recent years, that cooperation has included work against Iran and the
various terror groups in the Middle East.
The clandestine destruction of Iranian uranium-enrichment centrifuges
undertaken during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, for
example, was a joint venture between American and Israeli intelligence
services.
But U.S. intelligence officials just before Trump’s inauguration in
January 2017 warned their Israeli colleagues that they may want to be
careful about what intelligence they chose to share in the coming
administration, given Trump’s fondness for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
and Russia’s ties to Iran and Syria.
Israeli officials reportedly were skeptical about that warning - until the
Oval Office meeting four months later proved it correct.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-slams-biden-israel-no-232558214.html
Leak
S.V. Date
Updated Tue, October 10, 2023
WASHINGTON - As Republicans try to link President Joe Biden’s release of
$6 billion of frozen Iranian money as part of a prisoner swap to the
weekend terrorist attack on Israel, they continue to ignore the documented
damage done to that country’s security by the de facto leader of their
party, Donald Trump.
Less than four months into his term, the coup-attempting former president
was bragging to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador
Sergei Kislyak during their Oval Office visit about the quality of the
briefings he was receiving, and as proof offered details about a secret
Israeli intelligence operation into Syria.
Israeli intelligence officials were incensed upon learning of the leak
because, given Russia’s close ties to Iran and Syria, they had to assume
that their local source for the information had been compromised and
possibly killed, according to Israeli press accounts at the time.
“If indeed Trump, out of innocence or ignorance, leaked information to the
Russians, then there is a real danger to sources that it took years to
acquire, and to our working methods,” an Israeli intelligence source told
journalist Ronen Bergman.
Shabtai Shavit, who led the Mossad intelligence agency in the 1990s, told
the Times of Israel: “If tomorrow I were asked to pass information to the
CIA, I would do everything I could to not pass it to them. Or I would
first protect myself and only then give it, and what I’d give would be
totally neutered.”
Despite this, not one of the candidates running against Trump for the 2024
Republican presidential nomination has criticized Trump for his lack of
discretion, even as they uniformly attack Biden for unfreezing $6 billion
in Iranian money that had been held in a South Korean bank. Their attacks
link that decision with the assault on Israel by the militant group Hamas.
The Biden administration has defended the release of the money as a way to
help get five American citizens who had been unjustly detained in Iran
back home. Officials point out that the money can only be spent for food,
medicine and other humanitarian purposes. Republicans critics argue that
money is fungible, and that saving $6 billion on food and medicine allows
Iran to spend it on terrorism instead.
On Saturday, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, within hours of
Hamas’ attacks, blamed Biden: “This terrorism is funded by Biden’s idiotic
release of $6 billion to the Iranians.”
“Iran has helped fund this war against Israel and Joe Biden’s policies
that have gone easy on Iran have helped fill their coffers,” Florida Gov.
Ron DeSantis said in a video he released Sunday morning. “Israel is now
paying the price for those policies.”
A little later, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott posted: “Biden’s weakness
invited the attack. Biden’s negotiation funded the attack. Biden admin
wanted Israel to stand down after the attack. At this point, Biden is
complicit.”
It’s unclear how the agreement to release money to Iran for humanitarian
purposes - not a dollar of which has yet been spent - less than a month
ago could have “funded” Hamas’ attack, which involved thousands of rockets
that must have been stockpiled over a period of many months.
Notably, none of the candidates’ statements criticized Trump for action
weakening Israel - even though they are all running against him for the
nomination, and he is the current frontrunner by a wide margin.
Of the half dozen campaigns contacted by HuffPost, Christie’s, DeSantis’
and Scott’s among them, on the matter, only Christie’s responded: “He’s
been pretty clear across the board that Trump shouldn’t be president
again,” said campaign spokesman Karl Rickett.
Trump’s campaign also did not respond to HuffPost queries.
The May 10, 2017, White House meeting was covered by Russian media, but
not American media, and began with Trump telling Lavrov and Kislayak that
he had just fired FBI Director James Comey over the agency’s investigation
into his contacts with their country ahead of his 2016 election. The
Washington Post, which first reported on the incident, quoted an
administration official who said that Trump “revealed more information to
the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
The intelligence concerned ISIS’ newfound ability to make bombs in laptop
computers that could get through airport screening, which had led to a ban
on people carrying laptops with them on flights coming from a number of
Muslim countries.
The information had come via Israeli intelligence agencies through a
source who had infiltrated an ISIS cell in Syria and which had been
confirmed thanks to electronic eavesdropping equipment planted in a daring
nighttime mission by Israeli commandos.
Trump revealed this to the Russians, including the Syrian city in which
the operation took place, as part of his boasts.
“Donald Trump further proves he is too dangerous to lead the United States
on the world stage,” Biden campaign co-chair Tammy Duckworth, an Illinois
senator and military veteran, said in a statement. “The generals and other
military leaders who served under Trump—those in a position to know—have
repeatedly said he made our country less safe, not more.”
U.S. intelligence agencies have worked closely with their Israeli
counterparts for nearly 70 years, since an Israeli agent got hold of a
secret speech Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev had delivered denouncing
Joseph Stalin’s brutality.
In recent years, that cooperation has included work against Iran and the
various terror groups in the Middle East.
The clandestine destruction of Iranian uranium-enrichment centrifuges
undertaken during the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, for
example, was a joint venture between American and Israeli intelligence
services.
But U.S. intelligence officials just before Trump’s inauguration in
January 2017 warned their Israeli colleagues that they may want to be
careful about what intelligence they chose to share in the coming
administration, given Trump’s fondness for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin
and Russia’s ties to Iran and Syria.
Israeli officials reportedly were skeptical about that warning - until the
Oval Office meeting four months later proved it correct.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-slams-biden-israel-no-232558214.html
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