Mike Baker was an Analyst with the CIA. He confirms what I've been saying on replies to suggestions that Israel deliberately allowed the attack by Hamas.
It's a pretty sick viewpoint. Hamas only needs to learn lessons from tricks procedures we used back in WW2 to be able to fool a Western Intelligence service that have been lulled into expecting intelligence to be spoon fed to thgem through electronic devices and plants within Hamas.
My first reply on OOL:
"It's quite plausible that Hamas has learned not to use the electronic devices that Israel regularly hack into and eavesdrop and also have an affective regime to weed out moles. This is but one attack amongst many that have failed. It just may mean that this time Hamas got it right. But like with any terrorist group, the group only have to get it right once, the intelligence services have the get it right every time."
Was then backed up by my second:
"Security, distraction and old-fashioned non-electronic communications. Welcome to Hamas learning the tricks the UK used back in wold War Two. Whilst it's implausible that Israeli intelligence services missed the build-up, it's certainly possible if they thought they could eavesdrop electronically and get enough intelligence that way. It's very Western to ignore human intelligence and rely mostly on electronic surveillance. Much like the German raid on Coventry led to lots of conspiracy theories despite later revealing there was no unambiguous intelligence, the same may apply here. Hamas may have just gone dark, been able to keep information secure for once or released curated information to overwhelm Israeli intelligence services. Sadly it only takes that one success to lead to an atrocity like this."
Nice to be vindicated by an identifiable intelligence professional..
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