Who leaked Israel’s plans for attacking Iran?
[NOTE: We can’t totally discount the possibility that these aren’t Israel’s real plans. If Israel were smart – and I think Israel is usually smart, although it certainly wasn’t smart about 10/7 – then Israel would never share its true military plans with the US. There are just too many potential leakers with access. But I’m going to assume that this involves a leak of real plans.]
In the whodunit of the leak of Israel’s plans for attacking Iran, there are – as with most mysteries – an embarrassment of riches concerning the possibilities. There are that many Iran-friendly people with access, unfortunately. Malley would have ordinarily been the most likely suspect, but he hasn’t had a security clearance for a while, so I think he’s out.
But you may be assured that our intrepid FBI is on the case:
Marked top secret, the documents first appeared online Friday on the Telegram messaging app and quickly spread among Telegram channels popular with Iranians.
Ryder said he could provide no details about the probe, including who in the department is working with the FBI, which is leading the investigation.
“The investigation is in its first few days, so it’s important to let that investigation run its course,” he said, adding that the department takes the safeguarding of sensitive information very seriously and will continue to do so.
The FBI is also known for its propensity to leak damaging information about Trump. But in this case, I’m going to assume it would be hard for the FBI to implicate Trump (although, where there’s a will there’s a way), and that the classified information was released by someone in the Biden administration. Who could it be? There’s this theory (hat tip: David Foster), as well as this one. To me, the latter is most likely to have “legs.” But really, there are probably a host of possible candidates.
During Obama’s presidency, the Iran-friendly “experts” started gaining more power in the State Department and in US intelligence in general. It seems to me to be a destructive and dangerous trend that upends many decades of bipartisan agreement on basic aspects of Iran policy, as well as policy towards Israel. That agreement is no more, and hasn’t been the case for quite some time.
Oh good im reassured
I think your note might well be right — they never actually intended to attack Iran, which would be an incredibly risky move for many reasons (without necessarily benefiting their self-defense, since Iran is a huge, rich country that can rebuild any military infrastructure). But it is to their benefit to have Iran BELIEVE they’re willing to attack at any time, if given enough provocation. So they allowed the US access to their “plans,” knowing full well they’d be leaked immediately.
Who is pro-Iran??? Seemingly quite a number of government officials. My question for them is, why????
Since 1979, Iran has promised to wipe out the Little and Great Satans. Apparently, these Iran backers think it’s all a kind of misunderstanding. They must think, “Surely they don’t mean it.” Or maybe they think it’s all an act.
They don’t seem to understand how many Americans have been maimed and killed in Iraq, and elsewhere in the ME, by the Iranians. And the billions spent by Iran in efforts to destroy Israel.
Who are these people? My sense is that no one who is a committed Obama acolyte can be trusted vis a vis Israel and Iran. Barack hates Israel. And that’s just that much more reason why we need to win this election and clean house.
It should be very easy to figure out who leaked the documents.
In the discussion on whether these were actual plans, as the snippet shown in the post @ Grim’s Hall below notes, part of the information leaked was American surveillance of Israeli military exercises likely to be rehearsals of a strike.
While it’s certainly possible that the Israeli’s could have decided to conduct decoy rehearsals that does seem to be a bit extravagant considering their situation.
https://grimbeorn.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-big-leak.html
It would seem that Trump made a wise choice when he decided to defer receiving daily intelligence briefings from his group of Washington DCs ‘Best Friends’.
Who leaked? State is riddled with Iran supporters, thanks to Obama’s closest advisor, one Valerie Jarrett, born in Shiraz, Iran, and who speaks Persian.
Obama may have left the White House, but he also left appointees behind, leftist termites in every nook and cranny, especially in the DOJ.
If Trump can beat the margin of fraud, he has a real Aegean Stable to clean.