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NBC: Saudi Arabia Thinks Obama Leaking Intel to Iran
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On March 28, 2015 @ 10:47 pm In The Point | No Comments
This is really where we are now. It’s one thing for Israel to suspect that Obama has made deliberate decisions to leak intel about its plans for an Iran strike. But now we’ve got the Saudis saying it and NBC reporting it.
NBC’s Richard Engel reported Friday that U.S. officials were stunned they were not given any notice before Saudi Arabia launched attacks against Houthi rebels. According to Engel, military leaders were finding out about the developments on the Yemen border in real time.
Engel said officials from both the military and members of Congress believe they were not given advanced warning because the Arab nations do not trust the Obama administration after they befriended Iran.
“Saudi Arabia and other countries simply don’t trust the United States any more, don’t trust this administration, think the administration is working to befriend Iran to try to make a deal in Switzerland, and therefore didn’t feel the intelligence frankly would be secure. And I think that’s a situation that is quite troubling for U.S. foreign policy,” Engel said.
Troubling is an understatement. Saudi Arabia used to have the inside track in D.C. while Israel would launch surprise operations without informing the US, like the strike on Saddam’s nuclear or Assad’s nuclear program, more recently. Now the Saudis are treating the US as an arm of Iranian intelligence and they’re not the only ones.
The strange situation we’re in is one where Muslim countries whose hands are far more clean suspect us with cause of being tied up with Jihadist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.
The situation is reducible to Obama.
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