Ric Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence under President Donald Trump, said on a Nov. 10 podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that he estimates that the hands-on intelligence gathering people probably did know and had raised red flags, but that higher-ups may have played down the warnings because of political or conceptual biases or considerations. He said he had encountered this phenomenon all the time in the U.S. Intelligence Community.
On Nov. 27, it was reported by Israeli Channel 12 News that it had obtained internal emails from Unit 8200 (the Israeli military signals intelligence unit, similar to the National Security Agency) where allegedly already on July 6, an experienced non-commissioned officer (NCO) specializing in Hamas had exposed Hamas’s operational plan, in chilling details, and its intensive training for implementing it.
