Whether it was incompetence, hostile espionage or an intentional leak, it was a blow to a US ally caught in a multi-front war — with President Biden, Veep Kamala Harris and the rest of their administration constantly carping about Israel’s tactics.
Countries spy on their friends all the time, but sabotaging them is another matter. It’s not clear how much more info leaked and could become public, or simply wind up in Tehran’s hands, potentially doing far more damage.
It’s near-certain the leaks came from somewhere in the administration; this top-secret info originated at a US intel agency and looks to be nothing that would legitimately be shared outside the US government.
And at least one top Harris-Biden official, now-suspended Iran special envoy Robert Malley, is thought to have stored classified material on his personal email account and cellphone, where it was later accessed by a “hostile cyber actor.”And anyone in this administration might leak thinking to help Harris-Biden goals: The White House, after all, is publicly fretting that Israel’s coming response to Iran’s recent, massive ballistic-missile attacks might go too far.
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