NBC reports, citing two current and one former US officials, that the Pentagon
has increasingly warned Israel is stepping up espionage against the United
States and that the Defense Intelligence Agency issued an
internal counterintelligence assessment elevating the threat level for Israel to
"critical." Officials said the DIA’s concern centers on alleged Israeli
monitoring of senior US officials to obtain internal deliberations and decisions
on how the Trump administration might handle a conflict with Iran. The Israeli
embassy in Washington called the allegations "completely false." A White House
official said the story is "false" and that its sources "know nothing of the
facts."
