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>However they do it the old fashioned way of political pressure and negotiation. Jonathan Pollard would be the biggest contrary example. Here's an article tal
by mikem170 6y ago
>However they do it the old fashioned way of political pressure and negotiation.
Jonathan Pollard would be the biggest contrary example.
Here's an article talking about all kinds of other spying that Israel done in the U.S., enough that: "The intelligence community would always be urging the highest level of threats, while the State Department would be saying, 'This is not going to go over very well, we can't give this kind of rating, because there will be certain consequences in terms of travel warnings and restrictions.'"
https://www.newsweek.com/israels-aggressive-spying-us-mostly-hushed-250278 https://www.newsweek.com/israels-aggressive-spying-us-mostly...
- slg 6y agoOnce again this is traditional old foreign policy activity. We are probably doing the exact same spying on them. I'm not saying it is right, but it is accepted as a reality. It is different when this information is gathered for informational purposes which appears to be the case for Israel rather than when it is dumped on Wikileaks to achieve a specific political end like with the accusations of Russian meddling.
- shenberg 6y agoJonathan Pollard was not suborned by the Mossad, he literally decided on his own that he wants to spy for Israel and offered intelligence to a random army officer he met. Everyone spies on everyone, I don't think there's a single foreign office employee in Germany that was surprised say, that the US tapped Angela Merkel's phone, among other world leaders. The US spies on all its allies as well as enemies, it's basically table-stakes in international relations.