American officials are trying to determine the source of the leak, which describes military drills and weapons placement, and how damaging it might be.
The leak of a pair of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents describing recent satellite images of Israeli military preparations for a potential strike on Iran offers a window into the intense American concerns about Israel’s plans. It also has U.S. officials working to understand the size of the improper disclosure.
The two documents were prepared in recent days by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which is responsible for analyzing images and information collected by American spy satellites. They began circulating on Friday on the Telegram app and were being discussed by largely pro-Iran accounts.
The documents, which offer interpretations of satellite imagery, provide insight into a potential strike by Israel on Iran in the coming days. Such a strike has been anticipated in retaliation for an Iranian assault earlier this month, which was itself a response to an Israeli attack.
Biden: Please no…
Netanyahu: Waves eyebrows.
Ugh, what a toxic relationship. The U.S. bends over backwards for Netanyahu, not Israel, Netanyahu, and he’s going to snipe Biden/Harris at the last second anyway. He could literally cost Harris the election.
And, you know, lead to tons of death and destruction and literal genocide. But thats a secondary concern in his quest to stay in power.
Do you genuinely think that Joe Biden or Kamala Harris are either one opposed in any way shape or form to the actions of Netanyahu or the Israeli state?
Kamala Harris has come right out and said that she will always support Israel, literally no matter what. Joe Biden has openly declared himself a zionist for the last 4 decades. They are both overwhelmingly supportive of Israeli colonialism and have both committed to funding and arming the Palestinian genocide. This genocide has been happening with guns and money that the Biden administration provided to them. He has had the entirety of the past year to condemn the Palestinian genocide and to recognize Palestine as a free nation. Instead, him and his administration have chosen hundreds of times to interfere in international processes to end the Palestinian genocide. He is very literally a genocide supporter.
Can we please stop pretending that this genocide is a controversial bypartisan issue in American politics? The Republicans and the Democrats are both maintaining official party stances of complete and unconditional support of the Palestinian genocide.
Yes it’s just the optics that they’re unhappy about. Netanyahu is publicly humiliating them.
For decades.
he’s going to snipe Biden/Harris at the last second anyway.
Tbf he’s not sniping them at the last second. His intentions have been very clear since the first few days of the “war”.
Agreed. I dont think Netenyahu gives a crap about anything or anyone in America except insomuch as it furthers Israeli land grabbing and murder interests.
Israelis overwhelmingly approve of trump. “58% of Israelis would vote for Donald Trump, while just 25% would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris.” from https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/the-shift-nearly-60-of-israelis-say-theyd-vote-for-trump/
So yes, they will cheerfully shank Harris with an October surprise if they can.
I mean they’ve been shanking her for like a month now no? They’re literally either planning or executing an extermination operation in North Gaza right now. I say planning or executing because I don’t know if the ramped up attacks can be interpreted as the elimination operation we’ve been hearing about or not. And to make matters worse they opened up another front with Lebanon and intend to strike Iran. I think we can already call the current situation an October surprise.
Agreed, although in dealing with Israel, things can always get worse. Its all so shameful for Israel, the US, and its western world order servants. Its indicative of massive decline of our ideals and soft power across the globe, which will have second and third order consequences… and for what?
History will not look kindly on this era of boomer leadership.
The US bends over for Israel, or do you think Netanyahu was in charge when they sunk the USS Liberty?
Israel’s problem are deep and cultural, it is not the fault of just one bad man.
All true, but Netanyahu was/is facing an ouster if elections come back.
Great, another destabilization event in the middle east that the US will have to get mixed in. This shit is so tiring. Fuck off Israel.
You are mixed in it by proxy already. Without the support of the US Israel would not have gone as far as it has.
Leaks like this are intentional and put out there to give fair warning that they can see what your doing.
As its a US election year don’t expect action until after November; when Biden either withdraws military support (most likely won’t happen), punches the sanctions button super hard, or pushes for a major change in the dynamic in some way.
No matter the option the next president inherits a shitshow of a problem.
Israel has to drag the US into another great war before the election.
But instead of preventing that, the Biden administration stationed some more US soldiers in Israel, so that an escalation can hit some of them and give justification for the US to join in.
Israel has to drag the US into another great war before the election.
As though we’re being dragged. Given the current administration, we’re joyously frolicking into war along with our best buddy Netanyahu with the Turtles’ “Happy Together” playing in the background.
War always favours the incumbent at election time, so the cynic in me thinks the US is dragging its feet quite purposely.
at least 20m immigrants
Fuck me, I’m tired of this shit. Sure let’s just make a clusterfuck bigger and drag another nuclear capable (?) country further into the conflict. Fuck off you dumb mf’s. Yes the attack on Israel was terrible, but don’t try to hide your (Netanyahu’s) faults by starting wars and killing other people. And don’t let me hear the “they started” argument, you look like fucking childeren.
in for a penny, in for a pound.
if you’ve got to buy bacon, you might as well buy the whole hog.
a “leak” of something that they’ve been saying they are going to do for weeks.
heck of a job, NY times. Way to catch those startling leaks.
I mean it tells us it’s both more than empty rhetoric and going to happen relatively soon. Not the most surprising of information, but not pointless either.
Did anyone seriously think it was only empty rhetoric after Iran’s missile attack?
Thea leak is not the “that” it is the “when” and “how”, which in military context are extremely vital information.
I mean, thats not detailed in the article anywhere but you may be right. If you’re adding detail maybe add a link to what you’re asserting?
The western articles are deliberately vague, so as to not get into legal trouble.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/19/politics/us-israel-iran-intelligence-documents/index.html
Another document says it is sourced to the National Security Agency and outlines Israeli air force exercises involving air-to-surface missiles, also believed to be in preparation for a strike on Iran. CNN is not quoting directly from or showing the documents.
But it is clear, that these leaks must have contained some more detailed information of how strong the strikes are planned to be, which weapon systems are planned to be used and so on.
For the “when” that is always flexible within reason.
Biden’s got a genocidin’ chubI hope the US says good luck you’re on your own on that one.
Doubt it. The US has an even bigger hard on for Iran than Israel does.
Unfortunately, yeah…sigh
The US has nothing to gain by attacking Iran. The younger generation of Iran want change and the older generation that supported the Islamic Revolution are dying off. Attacking them would only consolidate support behind the government
My pessimism leads me to believe that the US wants this, and is using Israel to get it.
The Israelis seem a bit preoccupied.
it seems that America will follow them into war with anyone
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