https://wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-all-but-stopped-s…
U.S. intelligence agencies all but stopped spying on Hamas and other violent Palestinian groups in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., instead directing resources to the hunt for the leaders of al Qaeda and, later, Islamic State, according to U.S. officials familiar with the shift.
Calculating that Hamas had never directly threatened the U.S. and burdened with other spying priorities, Washington ceded the responsibility to Israel, confident that its aggressive security services would detect any threat, the U.S. officials said. It should have been “a well-placed bet,” said one senior counterterrorism official.
With more than 30 Americans dead and 10 missing, mounting fears of a regional war, and billions of dollars in U.S. military hardware headed to the Middle East since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, some officials say the U.S. misjudged the threat to U.S. national security.
@S0v3reignSyrup7mos7MO
Misjudging the threat to national security has been a 20 year theme for the US
Russia, Middle East and China
And when you look at threats from the economic and technological vectors add China’s engagement in the global south
@RepublicAveryLibertarian7mos7MO
Why would they ? Hamas never threatened the US or any other country.
@GerrymanderEagleRepublican7mos7MO
We ignored Russia for a long time too. Only had 1 Russian expert intel officer at NORAD and he was 70.
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