A new report from Vanity Fair has emerged this week regarding a scandal from over six months ago. This was related to President Trump having “leaked” details about Israeli anti-ISIS operations to the Russian ambassador.
Back in May, it was alleged Trump had provided them intelligence related to an ISIS laptop bomb plot, inadvertently uncovering the Israeli operation inside Syria that secured the information. Conflicting reports said Jordan was actually the source.
Vanity Fair says they believe to have reconstructed what happened, an Israeli operation jointly launched by special forces and Mossad, which infiltrated an ISIS cell, and passed the intelligence gathered on to Trump.
The Israeli operation took place way back in January, and the “leak” to Russia was spun by many as proof Trump was irresponsible with classified data, and risked intelligence-sharing with Israel. This narrative, however, all rested on the assumption that Russia would undermine Israeli intelligence sources inside ISIS, which was unlikely to be the case.
The plot was to plant a bomb on a Russian airliner via a laptop computer. Had it succeeded and it ever come to light that we knew and withheld that information, like Israel did regarding the attacks on 9/11, the Russians would have interpreted is the US as silent accomplices. They might not have paid us back in kind but it would have set back relations with them irrevocably.
Trump did good.
“Trump did good”
Inadvertently.
It wasn’t a “leak”; it was informing the Russians of Israel’s actions.
The United States and Israel have absolutely no business in Syria -they weren’t asked by the legitimate government of Syria to operate there nor have they been attacked by Syria. They are just intruding there and up to no good. What if Syria invaded Northern Israel supposedly to chase ISIS there? The screams of outrage would be tremendous. Anyway, for the US, don’t we have a full plate already in Iraq and Afghanistan? Why don’t we finish up there first? Of course, the Israelis are worried – and rightly so – that peace talks among Syria, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah are likely to mention the Golan Heights, which belong to Syria, notwithstanding Israeli oil and water pursuits there.
He didn’t even mention Israel, that came out later when some Obama loyalist in the security services blabbed it all over the media to make Trump look bad.
Trump: my kind of American Leader!
Israeli anti-ISIS dont exist. Israel runs ISIS.