Israeli Ministers Melt Down in Cabinet Meeting Over Military’s Plan to Probe Oct. 7 Failures
An Israeli cabinet meeting devolved into a bitter argument Friday in the wake of the IDF chief announcing plans to launch an inquiry into the military’s failure to respond to the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
Several ministers lambasted IDF Chief-of-Staff Herzl Halevi during a discussion on “the day after” the Gaza War over plans for the IDF to form an investigatory team to probe the security lapses surrounding Hamas’ deadly incursion into Israel.
From The Jerusalem Post:
At issue was opposition to an IDF plan for an internal investigatory committee that would include former Defense Minister and former IDF Chief-of-Staff Shaul Mofaz, IDF intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi Farkash and former IDF southern command chief Sami Turgeman.
The committee would be tasked with investigating the military failures that contributed to the Hamas-led October 7 attack, in which over 1.200 people were killed and another 250 were taken hostage.
The results of the committee were intended for internal use, to immediately improve flaws in IDF operations moving forward, and were not expected to constitute a formal investigatory committee.
“This is our professional review – not about policy, but how the IDF acted,” Halevi said.
“Something happened here that the army should learn from. Tomorrow if an incident happens in another sector we want to understand what caused the failure in the chain of command. This is an operational investigation that has implications for the fighting in the north.”
Critics of the IDF investigation plans included allies of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, such as Transport Minister Miri Regev, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
The dispute reportedly turned into a shouting match between them and defenders of the IDF chief such as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Education Minister Yifat Shasha Biton.
“I didn’t know about the investigation, but I give the Chief of Staff my full backing. It is his job to check and investigate. If the chief of staff decided to establish an investigation team – I support him,” Gallant said, telling the ministers, “if they do investigations – it’s none of your business.”
Ben-Gvir reportedly defended his right to question the chief of staff, saying “not all criticism is blasphemy, we are the ministers and this is our job.”
Netanyahu himself ended the meeting at midnight.
Unlike other members of his cabinet, Netanyahu has avoided taking responsibility for the security failures on Oct. 7 amid calls for investigations into him and his government over what led to Hamas’ successful terrorist invasion that killed over 1,400 people.
“Everyone will have to give answers on the debacle — including myself — but all that will happen only after the war,” he said in an address to the nation. “As prime minister, I am responsible for securing the future of the state. And right now, my job is to lead the state of Israel and the people to a crushing victory over our enemies.”
Israel’s stunning security failure raised questions about whether an operational stand down had been ordered as false flag to justify a full-scale assault on Gaza.
According to Jewish Pro-Life Foundation leader Cecily Routman, government sources claimed Netanyahu ordered a 7-hour military stand down to allow Hamas to launch its attack to justify Israeli retaliation against Gaza meant to ultimately wipe the Palestinian enclave off the map.
“Israel as the most sophisticated intelligence in the world. There is no way the government didn’t know that that was going to happen,” Routman said.
Reports later surfaced showing the Israeli government was aware Hamas was planning a large-scale attack a year prior but allegedly didn’t take intelligence reports about it seriously.
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Jack Smith Prosecutor Discouraged FBI from Investigating Clinton Foundation in 2016
A top prosecutor now on special counsel Jack Smith’s team discouraged the FBI from opening an investigation into the Clinton Foundation in 2016 citing “negligible evidence” despite the existence of “multiple” Suspicious Activity Reports related to “hundreds of thousands of dollars in foreign transactions,” Fox News reported.
Ray Hulser, the former chief of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section (PIN) serves on Smith’s team currently prosecuting former President Donald Trump.
According to Special Counsel John Durham’s report released in May 2023, Hulser is also the official who “declined prosecution” of the Clinton Foundation in 2016.
The Durham report, which investigated the government’s “Russia collusion” probe into Trump, noted that in January 2016 “three different FBI field offices, the New York Field Office, the Washington Field Office, and the Little Rock Field Office, opened investigations into possible criminal activity involving the Clinton Foundation.”
Those three investigations led to Hulser running interference for Clinton as the 2016 election was nearing.
From Fox News:
The Durham report revealed that because three different FBI field offices opened investigations related to the Clinton Foundation, there was a “perceived need to conduct coordination meetings between the field offices, FBI Headquarters, and appropriate U.S. Attorney’s offices,” as well as “components” from main Justice Department.
“These meetings likely were deemed especially important given that the investigations were occurring in an election year in which Clinton was a declared candidate for President.”
One meeting detailed in the report took place on Feb. 1, 2016. Present for that meeting were several FBI officials, as well as Criminal Division Assistant Attorney General Leslie Caldwell and Hulser, who, at the time, was Public Integrity Section chief.
The report also said during that meeting, Hulser “declined prosecution” of the Clinton Foundation on behalf of the DOJ’s Public Integrity Section.
Durham interviewed Hulser as part of his investigation, and in his report noted Hulser claimed the FBI briefing about the Clinton Foundation was “poorly presented and that there was insufficient predication for at least one of the investigations due to its reliance on allegations contained in a book.”
During that Feb. 1, 2016 meeting, “Hulser downplayed information provided by the New York Field Office CHS [confidential human source] and recalled that the amount involved in the financial reporting was ‘de minimis,’” the report states.
Durham in his report said his team reviewed the information the FBI had on the Clinton Foundation, including presumably Suspicious Activity Reports, which showed “a narrative describing multiple funds transfers, some of which involved international bank accounts that were suspected of facilitating bribery or gratuity violations.”
“The transactions involved occurred between 2012 and 2014, and totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars,” the report stated.
This just further exposes the deeply political nature of Smith’s unhinged prosecutions against Trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
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