'UNHINGED': Pentagon Says Israel Spying 'CRITICAL THREAT'

Turning now to this discussion of Israeli spying in the US.I'm gonna give credit to NBC News.They broke this story first.Let's put C1 up here on the screen.the internal intelligence agency for the Pentagon, the Defense Intelligence Agency, in recent weeks has issued a new counterintelligence threat assessment amid rising tensions between Israel and the U .S.

over the way forward in the war with Iran.They said the DIA posted an internal message viewed by a current official that raised the level for Israel to, quote, critical.The designation stems from concerns within the Pentagon that Israel is making fun of making a particular effort to surveil top U .S.officials.I'm going to give you some of the names of those officials a little bit later on.

The DIA assessment includes a seven -page document and features a chart.The document says the assessment of Israel is its ability to conduct human espionage and technical collection is at a critical level.It also identifies a series of specific incidents that heightened U .S.concerns.So the spokesperson for the Israeli embassy said this, quote, intelligence collection efforts are aimed at its enemies, not its allies.

Any claims to the contrary are either misinformed or politically motivated.

We should ask Mr. Pollard about that one.

Yes.The Pentagon has declined to comment, and a White House official said in a statement, the story is entirely false and sources someone who doesn't have any knowledge.The ODNI, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, was overseas, did not respond to a request for comment.comments.So let's focus in on a few things.Number one is the statement from the White House that says this is completely false.

Can we put C2 up there on the screen?is false and sourced to someone who doesn't have any knowledge of what's going on.I want to point everybody to a very interesting line.The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to a request for comment.And I also want to point to some very specific examples, including a seven -page document that features a chart.That document, I can confirm to all of you, exists.

Now, let me tell you about some of the things that are in there.I've got to be a little careful here in terms of protecting some of the many people who I spoke to about this story.Basically, what they have seen in terms of their raising too critical is they have raised it to a similar level that they treat U .S.adversaries.senior American officials, including Steve Whitkoff, President Trump's top negotiator, Elber J. Colby, the Pentagon's top official, and one of his main deputies, Michael D 'Amino.

Now, Colby, D 'Amino, and Whitkoff, I guess could technically be seen as some sort of the restraint part of the Pentagon.Colby, in particular, we've had him here on the show.You can go back and watch some of those past interviews.Whitkoff, obviously, look, I don't really know what Whitkoff believes, but Israel seems to believe he's a problem because he was one of the people who initially started that who initially pressed them for the ceasefire, they've never forgiven him for it.And even for his involvement, despite him still being very, very pro -Israel.I also want to point to a very specific line that they use, which I can also tell you eavesdrop.

What do you think that means?It means trying to bug people's phones.Here are some of the other things that I have learned is that the Israeli government has been,increasingly, while U .S.S.military officials are in Israel, that they have found themselves basically subject to the same threat.

quote, threat analysis that they would whenever they're traveling abroad.military officials inside of Israel, CENTCOM and others.But the main target of Israeli intelligence right now, from based on everything I've been able to see, is to get as much visibility into the Pentagon's internal decision making as possible, including to the White House, to make sure that they can try and influence things from their side.Now, nothing I'm saying is explosive in such a way that, like, if you watch the show, you probably believe it.But I think what's explosive is the fact that the DIA concluded this in a memo.And again, I think the number one thing I can offer you is the memo exists, that they definitely have been, they have specific instances in some of these cases where they have tried to eavesdrop on these US officials, AIPAC, the US and others are AIPAC.

And the White House are all denying this, but I can tell you for 100%, this memo exists.It includes multiple specific instances of Israeli officials who were either caught or where the DIA believes that they were trying to surveil U .S.officials.I also should note that this memo does not just include evidence from after the outbreak of the Iran war.This critical threat memo was issued based on years now of counterintelligence activity that they have been able to conclude, and it was done specifically to try and protect the integrity of the U .

S.war decision -making process.There are still people in the Pentagon who care about that.for all of you. ThisThis is based on some of my conversations with multiple different sources who are around this.But the most noteworthy and depressing part to me is the White House saying that this story is completely false.

The people in charge of actually making sure that we're not getting spied on are the ones who are denying that the story doesn't exist.It exists.I can tell you explicitly it exists.The memo is real.The actual things in various contacts that are made inside the memo, again, I wish I could get go into even some more, just because it's really crazy, but that would give away a little bit too much.It includes... multiple instances where military officers and others found themselves or believed themselves to be under either electronic surveillance, human surveillance, or other type of surveillance, either in Israel and in some cases electronically here in the United States.

Well, they say in the New York Times report that some officials discovered that the Israelis had either attempted or succeeded in installing software on their phone, could be Pegasus, something like that.

Want me to go in the details on that one?Sure.So this appears to have been an effort where, you know, sometimes whenever you go to a secure area, If you ever devices whenever they were conducting diplomacy.It just made them very vulnerable.

And also fly around on private jets, not, you know, official, secure, government aircraft.And so that makes them more vulnerable.And what the New York Times points to is that, look, Israel has been spying on the U .S.and we spy on them too, by the way, but they aggressively spy on the U .S.

and this has been always known, right?That's not new.But they say that the efforts have been ramped up significantly, actually, during the Biden administration after October 7th, as they were trying to get a window into, OK, what is the decision making that's going on inside?Are they going to try to constrain us in any way?The answer turned out to be no.But in any case, that's when they really escalated these efforts.

And one person that The New York Times quoted here said that what they're doing now is, quote unquote, unhinged.So, you know, again, these are not people who are Pollyanna who, you know, would expect that Israel would not spy on us whatsoever, which to me seems like a reasonable expectation of an ally.But in any case, that is not the expectation that our government apparently has.But even given that baseline of expectation that they will spy on us, they consider the actions to have been taken here to be unhinged.I want to pair this too with another story, which is the efforts to effectively link the U .S.

and the Israeli militaries and make them so intertwined, that this is something we talked about last week with Brandon Weikert, to make them so intertwined as to make it almost impossible to extricate ourselves from this relationship.This is the country that we're talking about, a country that spies on us as aggressively, if not more aggressively, according to these reports, as our adversaries, as our biggest adversaries in the world.There is no other ally that is conducting this level of operations against us.a year to without a second thought.That's who we're trying to directly intertwine our military and intelligence services with.This is insanity.

in the United States.They literally tried to do that.The Times has it in there too.That's in the memo.So that demonstrates the level of concern that they have.Remember, these are general bureaucrats.

They're looking at China, Russia, all of these others, and they're like, hey, you have a country which literally tried to bug a Secret Service vehicle.We should probably do something about that or alert someone over at the White House.They tried to put this into a memo and issued it to the Pentagon, and then the White House comes out and says it's entirely false.So that's the concerning part to me is not just what they got away with, but if this were China, If this were Russia, if this were literally any other country, they would freak out.There would be calls from Congress to come in and to investigate.And instead, you have what Ted Cruz, who defended basically Israeli spying on the U .

S.in his interview with Tucker Carlson.And then let's also remember, there's basically been a years -long psyop by a lot of these pro -Israel people in the U .S.who are saying that Israel doesn't even spy on us in the first place.Let's throw back to Ben Shapiro making this case several years ago.

Let's take a listen.

This has become the hot speculation on the internet is without evidence, you say that Mossad was running Jeffrey Epstein.When I say without evidence, I mean without evidence.Naftali Bennett, the former Israeli prime minister said, quote, as a former Israeli prime minister with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100 % certainty, the accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.This accusation is a lie being peddled by prominent online personalities such as Tucker Carlson, pretending they know things they don't.And in fact, I followed up with the former prime minister, Naftali Bennett, and what he told me is that Mossad has not been active in the United States since the, or against the United States, since the Jonathan Pollard scandal of 1987, when a U .S.

Army contractor, he's actually working for the Navy, revealed classified information to the Israeli government.He was prosecuted by the United States government and ended up in prison for almost 30 years.And so Israel since then has not spied on the United States.

called up the Israeli prime minister, former Israeli prime minister, and said, hey, you don't spy on us, right?He said, yeah, no, we don't.And Ben said, yeah, okay, all right, let me go ahead and report that to my audience.Israelis never lie, do they?Why would they lie?Let's go to the next one.

I love this one in particular.This is a very pro -Zionist poster.I believe he's done some stuff over there, the Middle Eastern analyst for the Free Press.He says, the deeper story of the NYT article about Israeli spying, citing an alleged report, isn't the spying itself.There's no direct spying on America because the cost of discovery would be enormous.But there's obviously a great deal of analysis and open source work on America, just like there is in the U .

S.intelligency on Israel.Neither side is stupid.But as he claims, quote, there is no direct spying on America, so the cost of discovery would be enormous.I just told you that the cost of discovery was actually nothing, is that they are literally trying to spy on top U .S.

and Pentagon officials, who in some cases either oppose the war or espouse views that were oppositional to their conquest of the entire Middle East.And they are getting no costs from the White House.The White House is denying that their own government's conclusion of spying is not correct.Just to be very clear, there's no cost to this.

And there's never been a cost.No.When Jonathan Pollard was discovered, you know, shipping secrets to the Israelis.

Which they then sold to the Soviet Union.

Yeah, there was a cost to him.But then what happens years later?He's, you know, he's pardoned, he's let go, he goes back to Israel where he now servesin the Knesset and is getting invited to meetings with Ambassador Huckabee.

to pursue a ceasefire in Gaza, not joking, he actually did say that, and who is very proud of spying on behalf of Israel and has included calls to other Jewish Americans telling him that they should spy for Israel.Let's put C -Secs up there on the screen.Mark Levin, he says, the Pentagon and the ODNI deny or request for comment.You know why?Because even they did not want to lie on the record to the press to say that the memo didn't exist because it would mean that someone would immediately come out and they would leak the memo.So there you go, the details, some of which I've been able to gather.

The Shin Bet placing a bug in a Secret Service vehicle, but the top one is about the software installed on other officials.But the top, top, top one is them explicitly targeting officials and others here in Washington who they believe are opposed to their agenda, an immense counterintelligence network that has been put up against them to monitor either their communications or their beliefs and others to make sure that they can try to influence the decision -making from the outside.There's a lot of other explosive stuff in there that I'm going to press to see if I can continue to report.Look, I just want to make very clear to our audience, this memo exists and the White House is straight up lying.100 % lying about this.And the details of this, I mean, it's crazy.

It is absolutely crazy.It places Israel in the same category, or at least in terms of assessment, as China and Russia.That's literally the level of threat that they're having, except in this case, they won't even acknowledge that the threat is real.

It's insanity.And so much of our policy vis -a -vis Israel, if you really press lawmakers and supporters of it, just comes back to like, well, they're an ally.So that's why we do this.They're an ally, period, end of story.And so this really calls into question, well, why?Look, you know, for me, I view it from a moral lens.

But if you're viewing this through a realist, you know, U .S.first, America first lens, what are we getting out of this relationship that justifies this?I mean, it has been utterly disastrous.for the United States and our strategic interest to go along with what the Israelis want us to do.And then you see, you know, these actions being taken against us.

It is so, I mean, there is no one, literally no one who actually believes that Israel does not spy on us at all.Like that is just utterly preposterous.And just an update, I looked it up, Jonathan Pollard ran for the Knesset, but withdrew recently.So, so there you go.

Best of luck, Jonathan, in your private citizenry there in Israel.Okay.All right.Let's get to stocks.