Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on US officials: Report

Pentagon raises alarm over Israel’s ‘unhinged’ spying on US officials: Report Submitted by Elis Gjevori on Sat, 06/06/2026 - 19:17 US officials say Israeli spying on Washington has intensified during the war with Iran Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump (Brendan Smialowski, Ronen Zvulun/AFP) Off The Pentagon has raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to its highest category, amid growing alarm that Washington’s supposed closest Middle East ally is intensifying efforts to spy on senior US officials. The warning, reported by NBC News and The New York Times on Saturday, exposes behind the scenes tensions in a relationship Washington often treats as untouchable. The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency recently issued the new assessment as tensions grow between the Trump administration and Israel over the Israeli-US war on Iran .