The US defense establishment has elevated its internal counterintelligence threat matrix regarding Israel to its highest possible designation. The emergency adjustment follows intelligence disclosures indicating that Israeli operatives have been actively intercepting the communications of top American diplomats and military planners, The New York Times reported.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Targeting Trump’s inner circle According to a comprehensive report published by , citing multiple senior American officials, a joint assessment compiled by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and companion military intelligence branches prompted the policy shift. Over recent weeks, the designated counterintelligence threat level posed by Israel was officially raised from “high” to “critical”. The intelligence community’s primary concern centers on an aggressive Israeli wiretapping campaign targeting US officials who are actively molding Washington’s shifting diplomatic framework with Iran. The classified logs explicitly name several high-profile targets of the surveillance intercept: US President Donald Trump’s chief negotiator tasked with brokering a diplomatic resolution with Tehran and the Pentagon’s top policy official, alongside one of his primary deputies. American intelligence veterans noted that while both Washington and Jerusalem have long maintained a tacit, mutually tolerated understanding that they conduct espionage operations against one another, Israel’s recent efforts to aggressively infiltrate and map out the Trump administration’s evolving negotiating positions have “crossed the line”.