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    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.

    Israel has never not spied on enemies and allies alike.

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        What would the USA be in this scenario. Never forget the USS Liberty and remember that is was Israeli secret services that presented the “evidence of WMDs” to the GW Bush administration that got the USA embroiled in the Iraq war.

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      I mean the whole epstein saga was them collecting blackmail on the most powerful people in the world. So Ya.

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    I suppose having the Commander in Chief fully compromised by Israeli intelligence blackmail material is a pretty high espionage threat, yeah.

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    Spying? Everybody already knows all our secrets. It isn’t even hard. Just tell Trump you’ll pay him, and he’ll tell you whatever you want to know. I’m sure all the rest of them are selling everything, too. America is totally for sale, and EVERYBODY knows it.

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    Must mean the levels are pointless, because the US will never stop supporting Israel, that’s a law of nature by now and i trust it more than political claims

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    And the solution somehow would be to merge the military and intelligence apparati of the two countries. The US of A would become Israel’s 2nd to 51st states.