If that's in the NY Times, it's an intelligence leak

Something is fragile when it could have been made robust. Or else there's a opportunity for gun-grabbing moles and infiltrators to cause trouble in the U.S. military, when there need not be any such opportunity.

Israeli intelligence services do not trust the U.S. military. Why should we trust them?

Their goals and objectives, together with those of the Vatican, are in violent opposition to the bearing of arms by law-abiding U.S. citizens.

SCOTUS and most of the appeals courts in the U.S. are all but exclusively Jewish and Catholic as far as anyone can tell. No religious test can be required for holding public office in the United States according to the Constitution, but when have our courts ever respected the U.S. Constitution on U.S. soil over the foreign authorities of Rome and Israel?