Israel spied on talks the U.S. and its allies are having with Iran over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Espionage
among friends is not exactly new. In fact, the newspaper reported that
the White House discovered the operation when U.S. intelligence agencies
"spying on Israel intercepted communications among Israeli officials
that carried details the U.S. believed could have come only from access
to the confidential talks."
The current and former officials
who revealed Israel's spying to the newspaper did not object to Israel's
actions. But what they did object to was, in the words of the Journal,
"Israel's sharing of inside information with U.S. lawmakers and others
to drain support from a high-stakes deal intended to limit Iran's
nuclear program."
"It is one thing for the U.S. and Israel to
spy on each other. It is another thing for Israel to steal U.S. secrets
and play them back to U.S. legislators to undermine U.S. diplomacy," a
senior U.S. official, briefed on the matter, told the newspaper.
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