The material leaked to the Times comes from "American and other officials briefed on the operation" and the "American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation."
A U.S. official said that several minutes before the pagers started exploding across Lebanon, Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant called U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and told him Israel was going to conduct an operation in Lebanon soon, but refused to give any specific details.
The U.S. official said the Israelis didn't tell the U.S. about the specifics of the operation, but added that Gallant's call was an attempt to avoid keeping the U.S. totally in the dark.
U.S. officials said they didn't see Gallant's call as a serious prior notice.
Then the officials turned around and leaked it all to the New York Times.
Still leaking details of an op a few hours after a briefing is a bit much even by D.C. standards.
Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-harris-admin-immediately-leaks-details-of-israeli-pager-op/
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