Senator Tom Cotton, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced a bill requiring the CIA to expand and enhance intelligence sharing with Mossad and other Israeli agencies on virtually every subject in West Asia. The legislation would bar Congress from suspending, reducing, or limiting such sharing, with exceptions only for a presidentially-defined national security concern.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would formally integrate the CIA with Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies. The legislation, reported by the source at 20:49 Jerusalem time, requires 'expanding and enhancing' intelligence sharing with Israel on virtually every subject in West Asia. It also prohibits any suspension, reduction, or limitation of such sharing, with the sole exception of 'national security concerns' defined exclusively by the President — meaning Congress would have no legislative power to restrict intelligence flow to Israel.
The bill follows a broader push by Republican lawmakers this month to formalize and deepen U.S.-Israel strategic ties. As The Zioneer reported, Republican lawmakers recently advanced a bill recognizing Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria (Jun 8, 21:26 Jerusalem). Separately, reports have emerged of deep operational cooperation between CENTCOM and the IDF, and of Pentagon concerns over Israeli intelligence activity within the U.S. — reflecting a complex and intensifying intelligence relationship.
The Cotton bill, if passed, would lock the intelligence-sharing framework into statute, making any future reduction subject to a presidential override mechanism. The proposal is likely to face scrutiny from Democrats and from agencies concerned about operational autonomy and counterintelligence risks.
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