“It’s frustrating that we’ve developed this national law enforcement intelligence-sharing network that basically takes disinformation straight from the rightwing social media fever swamps and puts it out under the imprimatur of law enforcement intelligence, so it becomes an amplifier of disinformation rather than a corrective to that disinformation,” German said.
There’s as much reason to take IDF as face value as it to take it from the GRU, or whatever the Russian/Chinese/Saudi equivalent is…
They lie constantly and intentionally and get caught frequently doing so.
Which is probably why US Law enforcement identify with them so much…