While President Trump’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were working around the clock to secure a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. intelligence agencies were apparently feeding them false information.
The two men, credited with achieving what decades of politicians couldn’t — getting Hamas to agree to a ceasefire and release hostages — revealed in a shocking “60 Minutes” interview that the CIA was painting a drastically different picture.
According to Witkoff, even as Arab mediators from Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey reported that Hamas was ready to make peace, the CIA insisted the opposite.
“We were getting, because of our relationships… we were hearing that Hamas was positive on the deal, and yet I was reading intelligence reports every day, and getting briefings from the CIA three times a day, and those intelligence briefings were suggesting that Hamas was going to say no,” Witkoff told CBS’s Lesley Stahl.
For days, the CIA reportedly warned Trump’s team that Hamas would reject any deal — a claim that directly contradicted what Middle Eastern negotiators were saying from their own firsthand conversations.
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