05-13-2024, 07:49 AM
(05-13-2024, 07:38 AM)masonbengals fan Wrote: "The Biden administration, working urgently to stave off a full-scale Israeli invasion of Rafah, is offering Israel valuable assistance if it holds back, including sensitive intelligence to help the Israeli military pinpoint the location of Hamas leaders and find the group’s hidden tunnels, according to four people familiar with the U.S. offers," reports the Washington Post.
Why would we be holding back information that would help pinpoint the locations of Hamas leaders and tunnels ?
How does this make sense ?
Some of the most likely reasons are that disclosing the information could expose assets we have in place and do not want to risk them being outed. Or potentially there has been a risk analysis done that the US feels acting on the information would be more harmful if Israel acts on it, but now with the potential for higher civilian casualties if Rafah is invaded it changes that calculus.
Obviously, these are just suppositions based on my general knowledge of policy analysis in the intelligence community. There are any number of reasons that we withhold information like this from allies, including to use it as leverage in situations such as these. Information is currency among nations.
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