Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 194
What Just Happened?
“House Foreign Affairs Chair Michael McCaul told reporters both U.S. and Israeli intelligence operations failed to spot and warn ahead of the deadly terrorist attacks over the weekend,” Politico reports.
Said McCaul: “We’re not quite sure how we missed it. I’m not quite sure how Israel missed it. We know that it Egypt had warned the Israelis three days prior that an event like this could happen.”
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