The ultimate enabler

Iranian missiles flying over Israel on Oct. 1. Photo: Wisam Hashlamoun/Anadolu via Getty Images

Without the US as ultimate enabler, Israel would cease to exist, something to consider when seeing how Israel is "interacting" with neighboring states. Now comes a security breach, which sounds legitimate, regarding Israel's expected response to Iran's Oct 1 missile attack, a most disconcerting turn of events possibly opening the gates of hell known as WW III.

To whit.

U.S. officials are extremely concerned about a potentially major security breach after two alleged U.S. intelligence documents about Israel's preparations for an attack on Iran were published by a Telegram account affiliated with Iran.

Why it matters: The alleged leak comes as Israel completes weeks of preparations for a retaliation against Iran, which attacked Israel with a barrage of ballistic missiles on Oct. 1.

The leak could be an attempt to disrupt the Israeli operation.

The Pentagon and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the leaked documents, but did not dispute their authenticity.

The data.

The documents are attributed to the US Geospatial Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency, and they note that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran’s blistering ballistic missile attack on 1 October. They were sharable within the “Five Eyes”, which are the US, Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

The documents, which are marked top secret, were posted to the Telegram messaging app and first reported by CNN and Axios. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The investigation is also examining how the documents were obtained – including whether it was an intentional leak by a member of the US intelligence community or obtained by another method, like a hack – and whether any other intelligence information was compromised, one of the officials said. As part of that investigation, officials are working to determine who had access to the documents before they were posted, the official said.

The horror, the horror ...