{"id":2114480,"date":"2023-12-03T10:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirby-says-us-intelligence-community-wasnt-aware-of-oct-7-hamas-attack-plans\/"},"modified":"2023-12-03T10:26:25","modified_gmt":"2023-12-03T15:26:25","slug":"kirby-says-us-intelligence-community-wasnt-aware-of-oct-7-hamas-attack-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kirby-says-us-intelligence-community-wasnt-aware-of-oct-7-hamas-attack-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby: US intel unaware of Oct. 7 Hamas attack plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkirby-says-us-intelligence-community-wasnt-aware-of-oct-7-hamas-attack-plans%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2114480&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>National Security Council Coordinator: US \u200dIntelligence Unaware \u2064of Hamas&#8217;s Plans to Target Israel<\/h2>\n<p>The National Security Council \u2063Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John \u200cKirby, stated on Sunday that the\u2062 United States intelligence community\u2062 had no knowledge of Hamas&#8217;s intentions to attack Israel \u200bprior to\u200c the October 7th\u200b incident. Kirby&#8217;s\u200d remarks \u200bcame in response to a New York Times\u200d report revealing that Israeli officials had obtained\u2062 Hamas&#8217;s plans over a year before the attack, resulting in over 1,200 Israeli \u200bcasualties.<\/p>\n<h3>Missed Opportunity for Israeli Military<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Times\u200b report, Israeli\u200b officials \u200cclaimed that if they \u2062had taken the\u2062 40-page document\u2064 more \u2062seriously, they could have\u200c prevented \u2063the attacks.\u2062 However, Israeli leadership dismissed the warning, believing that Hamas was incapable of carrying out such a\u2062 sophisticated operation.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby did not explicitly state whether Israeli intelligence \u200doperations had failed, but he emphasized\u2062 the need for\u2063 Israel to investigate what \u200bwent wrong. He \u200ddescribed intelligence as \u2063a \u2062puzzle, sometimes missing\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bernie-sanders-urges-house-democrats-to-vote-against-infrastructure-bill-unless-reconciliation-package-passed-cites-existential-threat\/\" title=\"Bernie Sanders Urges House Democrats To Vote Against Infrastructure Bill Unless Reconciliation Package Passed, Cites \u2018Existential Threat\u2019\">crucial pieces<\/a>, and acknowledged that\u2063 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had already \u200cacknowledged the failure on\u2062 their\u2062 part.<\/p>\n<h3>Uncertain Future\u2063 for Negotiations<\/h3>\n<p>Regarding\u2062 the recent temporary ceasefire, which ended on \u200bFriday and resulted in the release of over 100 hostages by Hamas in exchange for around 240 Palestinian prisoners released by Israel, Kirby expressed uncertainty about when negotiations for a permanent truce would resume. However, he assured that the United States remains actively involved\u200b in trying \u200bto bring the parties back to\u200d the negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What role \u2064does \u200cthe United States plan to play in facilitating negotiations \u2063for a \u2063permanent\u2064 truce between Israel and Hamas, and how will they ensure progress is made in\u200c light\u2064 of the recent temporary \u2063ceasefire<\/h2>\n<p><span>  In \u2064a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-continues-nuclear-program-aims-to-enrich-uranium-to-20\/\" title=\"Iran continues nuclear program, aims to enrich uranium to 20%\">recent statement<\/a>, the National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, John Kirby, expressed that the United States intelligence community had \u2064no prior\u200d knowledge of Hamas&#8217;s intentions to attack Israel\u2063 before \u200bthe\u200b October 7th incident. This \u200dcomes in response \u200cto a \u2063report by the\u200c New York Times,\u200d which revealed \u2063that Israeli officials had \u200cobtained Hamas&#8217;s plans \u2064over a \u200byear in\u2064 advance, resulting in significant casualties for Israel.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times report suggests that Israeli officials believed that they could have prevented the attacks if they had taken the 40-page document more seriously. However, they dismissed the warning, underestimating Hamas&#8217;s capability\u200b to carry out such a sophisticated\u200d operation.<\/p>\n<p>While Kirby did not explicitly state whether Israeli intelligence\u2063 operations had failed, he stressed the need for Israel to\u2064 investigate \u2064what went wrong. He described intelligence as \u2064a puzzle,\u200b acknowledging that sometimes crucial pieces \u2063can be missing. Nonetheless, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has already acknowledged \u2064the failure on their \u2063part.<\/p>\n<p>In terms\u200c of the recent temporary \u2062ceasefire, which\u200d concluded on Friday and \u200cfacilitated the release of over 100 hostages by Hamas in exchange \u2064for the release of\u200d around 240 Palestinian \u2064prisoners\u200c by Israel, Kirby expressed uncertainty about when\u200c negotiations for a permanent truce would \u2062resume. \u2063However,\u2063 he\u2064 assured that the United\u200b States remains\u200c actively involved\u200b in efforts to bring the parties back to \u200dthe negotiating table.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the United States intelligence \u2063community was not\u200d aware of\u2064 Hamas&#8217;s plans\u2062 to target Israel prior \u200dto\u200c the \u2063October 7th incident. The missed \u2062opportunity by Israeli officials to take the threat\u200d more seriously \u2062has raised concerns about their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-raise-alarm-over-sudden-reassignment-of-doe-intelligence-official\/\" title=\"Republicans raise alarm over 'sudden' reassignment of DOE intelligence official\">intelligence \u2062operations<\/a>.\u200c Moving\u200d forward, the future of\u200d negotiations for a \u2063permanent truce between \u200dIsrael and Hamas remains uncertain,\u200c although \u2062the United States\u2063 continues \u2062to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expert-china-knows-it-can-release-viruses-and-not-be-held-accountable\/\" title=\"Expert: China knows it can release viruses and not be held accountable\">actively engage<\/a> in facilitating \u2063the resumption \u200cof \u2064talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security Council Coordinator John Kirby stated that the US intelligence community had no prior knowledge of Hamas&#8217;s intentions to attack Israel on Oct. 7. Kirby&#8217;s response came after being questioned about a New York Times article revealing that Israeli officials had acquired Hamas&#8217;s attack plans well in advance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2114481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2114480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}