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From the comments yesterday, Med School Biochem asked:
AC what are your thoughts on the situation unfolding in Israel? How did Israeli intel not devote enough resources to pick this attack up? It’s probably going to end up with thousands of Israel dead. Major intel failure. Did intel take a vacay to embarrass Netanyahu perhaps?
I respond:
There are no intel failures. None. The powers of the intelligence gathering mechanisms are too great and the people who employ them too thorough and too completely lacking in any morals or restraints in their use.
I deal with this every day. You have no idea the tech they have, the manpower they field, the resources they expend, or how the people in the field are constantly, always, looking for how to completely know everything. We might as well be occupied by an alien race with technology so advanced it looks like magical powers to know everything.
There is zero chance this thing was not seen coming a mile away. There were probably hundreds of avenues which would have revealed it from monitoring of areas where weapons pass through which would have shown a surge, to monitoring of arms shipments at the source or destinations, to microphones and technical monitoring of everyone who would have been involved setting it up, to informants everywhere, to satellite videos of massing and training, to neighborhood watchers reporting 20-somethings all going out at the same time and heading in the same directions, to money flow monitoring, to movements of leadership to bunkers, to radio traffic indicating coordination, to probably hundreds of other threads, any one of which would have revealed the whole thing. They probably saw a spike in boot sales somewhere, and looked to see where they were all going.
They have said this was Israel’s 9/11. I am sure it was, in that Intel saw it coming a mile away, and the people running intel would get multi-million dollar per year defense jobs after they retire if they just let it happen, just like Pfizer with the Vax and Fauci, or Biden and Burisma, anywhere else there is money in politics.
And that is the rosy view. IMO, it is not impossible they all work for the same boss, which handed out this script six months ago so everybody could memorize their lines, and act it out. The rest of us are just pawns to this thing, if we continue to believe in silliness like patriotism and loyalty to our countrymen first.
Netanyahu knows. I do not know if he gets fully read in and is a player, or if he is just a honest guy who was kept out of the loop until it happened, and now he knows how it worked, but his hands are tied and he needs to play along, or they will launch another one. But either way, the whole thing had to have been seen a mile away from the positions of power, and once you go there, you begin to understand it could be much worse.
This is why nothing in intelligence with regard to capabilities, or how it operates should be classified. I am actually coming around to the fact we should have three or four years of mandatory service for every law abiding citizen, but not in the military – in the intelligence services, with a rotation through surveillance and technical monitoring. Everyone should know how massive their capabilities are, and how nothing gets by them. By keeping people clueless, you get this, which will kill at least thousands, and maybe tens of thousands of the best, and bravest on all sides before it is done, for people like the Rothschilds, who will never know the sting and clash of battle themselves, and who view those that do as fools.
Hamas: Number of Israelis taken prisoner many times ‘more than dozens.’ These people are legit victims, and in real physical danger I would assume. But it is important to understand, all of this is also theater, being run by people who will never actually endure any danger, and being done to elicit all these emotions. They are parading the dead bodies of women, parading women naked, showing terrified children. Those are visuals the guys who fight would tend not to make themselves, on either side. Would you? Having already been through this with our own 9/11, I tend to see it differently, and see a different enemy in need of being dealt with. Be interesting to know who slipped out of these areas which were attacked just before things began, like the Middle Eastern food cart/surveillance people who didn’t bother to show up to work on 9/11.
Israeli death toll from Hamas war rises to more than 150.
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan said the Hamas attack on Israel that happened on the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret, the final day of the annual High Holy Day cycle, “is our 9/11.” Understand, they all know how intelligence works, and that there is no way 9/11 happened, and our massive, Stasi-like, neighborhood-ized domestic surveillance machine missed it. Likewise, there is not way an operation this big happened, and they missed it.
Kash Patel feels American intel should have seen it coming:
the media is not asking how in the hell the Biden administration didn’t pick up intelligence on this multi-staged war effort by Hamas and Iran?
Answer- the Biden IC has been weaponized and reprioritized to meet the needs of the fake news and radical hacks in govt, focusing on diversity, climate change, and the sunrise. Just think if we had been the ones to miss this in @realDonaldTrump admin.
Trump’s IC did’t because we focused on taking out America’s enemies and making sure Iran never got a nuke.
Again, he acts like nobody saw it, rather than discuss the reality – all of them probably saw it, picking it up from multiple different threads. But they are all compromised and subverted by a massive, global, non-state intel op, which probably organized it to begin with. The technology is just too advanced, the recruitment of embedded informants too great. Intel doesn’t miss these things. It plans, it wargames, if figures out ahead of time where these things will leave traces, and what it needs to detect those traces, and it goes there and positions its assets to notice them. Everyone should really have the experience of trying to operate against it at some point. You need to see the tech, see the size of the informant networks, see how it is always looking for something interesting, focusing on the people it identifies as interesting, and see how where it operates, money and manpower are absolutely no object. It does not miss things.
Today appears to be an extreme intelligence failure not just for Israel but also for the United States. One of the principal missions of the US IC is to provide indication and warning (I&W) of attacks like this, especially against an extremely well armed ally.
Will need to look at how this was missed.
The Taliban asks Iran for passage across country to assist Hamas in annihilation of Israel — after Joe Biden armed the Taliban with $80 billion in US weapons and supplies. Including state of the art Night Vision, IR lasers, and Thermal sniping rigs.
It is unreal to see 4Chan change over night, as all the BBC threads, and inter-racial cucking threads, and Asian Waifu threads, and other disruptions give way to outrage news over the attacks:
IRS puts $500,000 tax lien on Rudy Giuliani’s condo just 3 miles from Mar-a-Lago.
Girlfriend of murdered Brooklyn activist fails to pick out stabbing suspect in photo lineup – as legal experts warn it could be ‘potentially crippling’ to prosecution’s case. You know what’s up.
Supreme Court temporarily reinstates Biden admin’s ‘ghost gun’ rule.
Math disaster in college: Would-be STEM majors can’t add 1/2 + 1/3.
Putin says Ukraine wouldn’t last a week without U.S. aid.
The immortal 1911 pistol, after 112 years, finally retired from U.S. Military service.
Trump’s lead over DeSantis nationally climbed 20 points since July.
Spread r/K Theory, because Israel at war means not much other news will be out there