US Phones Found Spyware; Pentagon Hits Critical Over Netanyahu
From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey
June 7, 2026 · 19 min
About this episode
The episode discusses the Pentagon's shift in its intelligence assessment of Israel amidst allegations of espionage involving American phones.
Right, so Netanyahu just lost something money and lobbying cannot buy back, and he did not lose it to Iran or to Hezbollah. He lost it to America's own Pentagon. The US military's intelligence arm has reportedly moved Israel from high to critical on its counterintelligence threat list, which means America's closest regional ally is now being treated like a hostile spy service by the very people who have spent decades treating it as untouchable. And it happened in the worst possible week for him so break out the tiny violins. This did not start with a dusty classification chart that only three people and a defence contractor pretending not to lobby for a living could love. It started with phones. American phones, used by US personnel inside Israel, with communications-tapping software reportedly installed on them in secret. Israel denies spying on American officials, because of course they do, though of course an allegation is not a conviction and a report is not a trial. But the damage does not wait for a courtroom, because the timing is brutal. At the exact moment the Pentagon is reportedly warning its own people to watch Israel, Congress is looking at a defence-bill provision…
People in this episode
Host: Damien Willey
Topics covered
- US-Israel relations
- Pentagon intelligence
- counterintelligence
- spyware
- military technology
- defense bill
Keywords
- Netanyahu
- Pentagon
- spyware
- Israel
- US military
- defense bill
- counterintelligence
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Pentagon, Israel, US military, Congress, Iran, Hezbollah
Products: communications-tapping software
Places: America, US
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