Former CIA director: Strong US-Israel intel ties

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00:00Yeah, I'm just picking up on that. I mean, I'd like to ask you, I mean, clearly very close

00:04coordination between Israel and the United States on intel, on military matters. How would you

00:11describe the overall mission and this joint force when it comes to collective intelligence?

00:22Well, the intelligence and military relationships have always been very strong between the US and

00:28Israel. And they were made even stronger when Israel was included as part of the US Central

00:33Command, as opposed to the European Command, which was really sort of a hangover from the past.

00:38In a sense, I guess that they thought that the individual who's commanding Central Command should

00:43be focused, if you will, on the Arabs and others in the Middle East, and that European Command could

00:48look after the Israelis. That was changed a number of years ago. That relationship has improved ever

00:55since dramatically, literally operating hand in glove when it comes to this kind of endeavor.

01:01And that's been very, very good, as it turns out, in operational terms, as we have seen with this

01:08very, very impressive 12-day campaign by Israel and also the very impressive strikes by the United States.