By R. Cort Kirkwood (The New American)
Yet again, it appears that Israeli intelligence fed bogus intelligence to the United States, this time about the supposed Iranian threat to assassinate President Donald Trump by targeting Air Force One with a missile.
The supposed threat led to an elaborate scheme to let Trump board the jet, then hustle him off in a catering truck to a waiting Air Force plane, as The Washington Post disclosed on August 10.
But now the Post has reported that the CIA didn’t regard the intelligence as credible. The agency labeled the Israeli report “low confidence.”
The CIA’s designation means the Israelis might well have fed Trump a bogus yarn a second time, in this case to scare him and keep him focused on Iran. In April, The New York Times revealed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Trump in early February that regime change in Iran would be quite easily accomplished. U.S. intelligence analysts called that claim “farcical.”
The Post’s first report detailed Trump’s secret flight from Ankara, Turkey, to London after last month’s NATO Summit.
“The clandestine mission … was carried out unbeknownst to journalists and some White House staff members who believed they were on the same plane as the president, according to material reviewed by The Post, a U.S. official familiar with the operation and another person with knowledge of the president’s travel,” the newspaper reported.
That plane was the new Air Force One, a Boeing 747-8 that Qatar donated to the United States. But Trump reported on Truth Social he would use the old Air Force One for “old time’s sake”…
Read the rest here: https://thenewamerican.com/us/cia-assessment-of-israeli-intel-on-alleged-iranian-threat-against-trump-low-confidence/
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