Pentagon sieht wachsende Bedrohung durch Spionage durch Israel – Das Verteidigungsministerium hat die Bedrohungsbewertung der Spionageabwehr auf die höchste Stufe angehoben, und es wird angenommen, dass Israel die amerikanischen Verhandlungen mit dem Iran belauscht hat.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/us/politics/pentagon-sees-growing-espionage-threat-from-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.oFA.1WJo.cPLQNdlAbwJ8&smid=nytcore-android-share
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Recent U.S. intelligence reports have raised concerns about Israeli spy agencies eavesdropping on American negotiators working on a peace deal with Iran.
Israel and the United States have long known, and tolerated, that each was spying on the other. But an intensified Israeli effort to learn about U.S. positions in talks with Iran has crossed a line, according to some American officials.
The reports include concerns that Israel has stepped up its efforts to eavesdrop on senior American officials, including Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s top negotiator, Elbridge A. Colby, the Pentagon’s top policy official, and one of his main deputies, Michael P. DiMino IV.
I expected other allies to do the same tbh when the US is perceived as an unreliable ally and increasingly at odds with its partners, those partners have greater incentives to gather intelligence independently. That’s a predictable consequence of diminished trust and credibility.
This isn’t news. Israel spies on the US. The US spies on Israel. The US spies on France. France spies on the US…
Repeat for literally every US relationship with any state significant enough to have a meaningful intelligence agency. Everyone spies on everyone. And the frequency of efforts to spy go up when the stakes are higher.
This is a classic form of yellow journalism where you take something every country does and write an article about how one specific country is doing it. Par for the course for the NYT lately. (Tbf, they at least note that the US spies on Israel.)
Why is this reposted twice a day, every day? (I mean I know why)
Also, is anyone actually surprised? US and everyone else spies on each other.