Spy vs. Spy: Espionage and the U.S.-Israel Rift
By Jeff Stein (Newsweek)
If more evidence was needed to show that the
relationship between Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama has morphed
from tragedy to farce, it came late Monday with the revelation that
Israel had spied on the nuclear talks between the United States and
Iran.
“The White House discovered the operation,” according to the blockbuster account by Adam Entous in The Wall Street Journal,
“when U.S. intelligence agencies spying on Israel intercepted
communications among Israeli officials that carried details the U.S.
believed could have come only from access to the confidential talks,
officials briefed on the matter said.”
Talk about spy vs. spy, the old Mad magazine trope
featuring two pointy-nosed, masked cartoon creatures. The National
Security Agency, eavesdropping on Israeli officials (as usual, according
to the revelations of Edward Snowden),
overheard them discussing intelligence their own spies had gathered by
spying on U.S. officials talking about the Iran negotiations.
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