[mentalgear]

> Top U.S. officials often take extra care when traveling to Israel, sometimes using burner phones and computers and taking extreme caution when speaking in hotel rooms during official trips, the current and former U.S. officials and experts said.

> Israel has “a hyper-aggressive intelligence service,” said Emily Harding, vice president of the Defense and Security Department and director of the intelligence, national security and technology program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. “They are exceedingly interested in what we are up to,” Harding said of the Israelis.

And these are considered their closest allies.

What do they do with others.

[like_any_other]

That's a big reason why they're "allies" - if Israel can identify which US politicians are pro/against Israel, they can promote or impede their rise to power accordingly.

[bushbaba]

The top U.S. officials do the same when traveling to any country. Everyone does this to everyone else.

[morby]

Not true. Israel has a reputation for being exceedingly intrusive and aggresssive with US personnel. Just go watch intel community interviews online.

[balex]

As is the US. Go watch same interviews.

[AlecSchueler]

So? The claim was "Everyone does this to everyone else"

[balex]

Agreed. The whole intensity discussion is pointless.