Marc Thiessen's False Flag

Today, WaPo conservative commentator Marc Thiessen offered up a false flag on Donald's leaking of Israel's intelligence. By pointing the finger at the news media -- who reported in subsequent stories that Israel was indeed the source of the material that was provided to Russia -- Thiessen is hoping that you'll ignore the inconvenient truths.

Inconvenient Truth #1

The news media hadn't reported on the event until five days after the meeting in which Donald had revealed the intelligence to Russian officials in the White House. Regardless of the reporting of the event, the Russian government had the information in hand -- the damage was done at that point, not at the point where the press reported on it.

Why does this matter? Because Russia would have passed it on to its partners in the Middle-East -- Syria and Iran, who would have applied their own intelligence abilities to determine the source and people involved.

Inconvenient Truth #2

It didn't require advanced knowledge of the ME to guess that the source was Israel. I wrote last week about it:

There is one source whose information is so sensitive that US does not automatically share it with others: Israel.

Israel has deeply embedded spies all around the ME, relying more on human intelligence than the US' preferred method of technological intelligence.

Russia has spies in countries that are partners with the US -- the so-called Five Eyes -- as well as within the ME and could ably discern that this intelligence hadn't been shared with anyone else, therefore, likely came from Israel.

Inconvenient Truth #3

Donald never got permission from Israel to share this intelligence with Russia. If the US had been reluctant to share this very intelligence with its closest allies, then sharing it with a geopolitical foe is a perverse shattering of trust. That is the real problem. Going forward, Donald is isolating America from the rest of the world but not in a good way.