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Another Iranian agent embedded in the regime?

2024-11-05

[TopSecretUmbra] Another Suspected Iranian Mole Unmasked Inside the Biden Administration: Just how many Friends of Tehran are working in top government jobs for Biden-Harris?

On the eve of America’s election, Democrats and their media wing are putting in overtime suppressing stories that are unflattering to Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz. As this newsletter just reported, Walz has longstanding ties to the People’s Republic of China which are highly concerning from a counterintelligence perspective. Just don’t expect the mainstream media to investigate any of this, especially so close to the election.

However, when it comes to espionage, Democrat problems with Iran are even worse than with China. Going where the legacy media fears to tread, Top Secret Umbra has exposed the shocking extent of Iranian penetration of the current White House, which extends back to President Barack Obama’s two terms in the Oval Office. Regarding the all-important matter of cadres, President Joe Biden represents Obama’s third term, while Harris would be his fourth.

Take the astonishing case of Rob Malley, Obama’s Iran fixer, the academic-turned-bureaucrat who made the Iran Deal, formally the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a reality in 2015. Pres. Biden brought Malley back into the White House in 2021 to revive JCPOA, which Pres. Trump killed in 2018. As the top mullah-whisperer for Team Obama-Biden-Harris, Malley hoped to deliver better relations with Tehran, but that fell apart in the spring of 2023 when Malley’s top-level security clearances were yanked, and he was escorted from his office at the State Department. Malley fell under suspicion for espionage and was placed under FBI scrutiny.

It's been 18 months since Malley’s high-flying government career fell apart, but we still don’t know what happened. Repeated inquiries by Congress about the status of the FBI investigation into Malley’s misdeeds have been stonewalled by the White House. The Beltway rumor mill has it that Malley illegally downloaded classified information to his personal email, which then got hacked by Iranian spies. Making the bad situation worse, Malley then lied to the FBI about his actions.

The Biden administration is running out the clock on the Malley scandal, hoping it fades away. As it might. Malley’s been soft-landed back into elite academia, a cushy gig at Princeton, while the Democrats and their media helpers have shown no interest in ascertaining what exactly was going on between Tehran and Team OBH’s top Iran expert. At best, Malley is uncomfortably close to the mullahs and their clerico-fascist regime; at worst, he’s his generation’s Alger Hiss. It’s not like the legacy media is going to ask questions anyway.

Regrettably, the Biden-Harris administration is packed with friends and protégés of Malley’s. The absurd case of Ariane Tabatabai is illustrative. Another academic-turned-bureaucrat, the Iranian-born Tabatabai was appointed to a very sensitive job in the Pentagon by the Biden White House. As the chief of staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, Tabatabai enjoyed access to an astonishing array of highly classified information, particularly regarding covert action. She was unmasked in Sept. 2023 as an agent for Tehran going back a decade. Tabatabai worked for a front for Iranian intelligence called the Iran Experts Initiative, which sought to improve the regime’s image in the West. Despite this, the Biden administration kept Tabatabai in her ASD SOLIC job. After her exposure as Iran’s agent, Tabatabai visited the White House at least eight times, for (presumably classified) meetings. Just as with Malley, the administration stalled Congressional inquiries into the Tabatabai case, while the Democrats and their media wing showed no interest in the scandal. Last week, this newsletter revealed that, at last, Tabatabai has been removed from ASD SOLIC and “kicked upstairs.” She’s been named the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training, which is a promotion yet with reduced access to Pentagon secrets.

Then there’s Phil Gordon, another Democrat foreign policy maven who’s bounced between government and the Council on Foreign Relations for many years. He’s long been close to Kamala Harris and has served as the vice president’s National Security Adviser since 2022. Gordon’s been chummy with Malley for decades, while they worked together to deliver Pres. Obama his Iran Deal. Under Obama, Gordon held top jobs on the National Security Council and at the State Department. Gordon co-authored several op-eds with Ariane Tabatabai, all of them with a pro-Tehran bent. He is also close with the National Iranian American Council, an NGO which advocates for the mullah regime and is considered a front for Tehran by Western counterintelligence.

The Biden White House official who should be fretting over all these Friends of Tehran holding top jobs in the administration is Maher Bitar, who’s the NSC’s senior director for intelligence programs. As such, Bitar is the White House’s top coordinator with the Intelligence Community. Another Malley protégé, Bitar worked in plum jobs for the Obama administration. He’s anything but a hardliner on Iran. When he was a student a Georgetown University, Bitar held a leadership role with Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical activist group that’s pro-HAMAS. Since the Gaza War, SJP has organized anti-Israel protests on college campuses nationwide. It’s no mystery why Bitar isn’t purging the Biden-Harris administration of Friends of Tehran.

The real mystery here is why the Biden White House, like the Obama administrations before it, is crawling with Iranian agents and their apologists. Counterintelligence seems to exist only in theory for Team OBH, at least when Iran is involved. People who are known to be cuddly with America’s enemies shouldn’t be eligible for TOP SECRET security clearances, much less top national security jobs. But that’s exactly what’s happened since 2009 under three Democrat administrations. With so many of these troubling cases, this pro-Iranian pattern cannot be deemed a coincidence or accident, rather a design.

How many Iranian moles are operating in the upper echelons of the Biden-Harris administration? Officially, nobody knows, while nobody in the legacy media will ask. Counterintelligence experts in Washington, DC, do ask, that’s their job, albeit in hushed tones. Counterspies inside the Beltway tell me that another suspected Friend of Tehran recently was unmasked, and the implications of this case are deeply alarming for U.S. national security.

His name is Lawrence W.K. Casselle, and he’s one of the top officials in the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Although little known to the public, DSS are Foggy Bottom’s cops, the federal agents who guard American diplomats abroad as well as foreign government dignitaries when they visit the U.S. Importantly, DSS also provides counterintelligence oversight to the State Dept.

Casselle, a native of Las Vegas, joined the State Dept. as a Diplomatic Security special agent in 2003, following graduation from Hampton University on an ROTC scholarship, then four years on active duty with the U.S. Army as an infantry officer. Casselle’s DSS career has been very successful, with tours at home and abroad, including serving on the protective detail of then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice from 2006 to 2008. He served as a Regional Security Officer in Kabul, then as senior RSO based in Belize. Casselle got important international experience in 2018-19 when he served in Baghdad as the DSS liaison to the Department of Defense’s Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve (that’s the Pentagon’s term for our war against the Islamic State in the Middle East). Following that, he got the White House plum job of NSC Director for Counterterrorism (2019-20), then was promoted to be chief of staff for all DSS (2021-23).

Casselle this summer came under suspicion for his ties to Tehran. When he was serving in the Middle East, apparently during his tour in Baghdad, Casselle became close with a foreign woman. They developed a romantic relationship, IC insiders tell me, and Casselle used his powerful job and State Dept. connections to help his new friend. Inconveniently, his paramour turned out to be an operative for Iranian intelligence.

How compromised Casselle is by this scandal isn’t yet known. IC counterspies tell me that they are trying to establish how close to Tehran Casselle got during his close relationship with that Iranian spy, but the State Dept. isn’t cooperating energetically with the counterintelligence investigation. If one of Foggy Bottom’s rising stars turns out to be an Iranian mole, the embarrassment to the department will be serious. Casselle’s superiors want this mess to simply go away.

Casselle isn’t just a top U.S. diplomat, he’s African American, which puts him perfectly in tune with the Biden-Harris emphasis on DEI in the federal government.

There are dire national security consequences if Casselle went rogue. In his DSS position he holds TOP SECRET-plus security clearances, while during his two-decade career he’s held several jobs offering access to a wide array of U.S. intelligence secrets.

If Casselle was coopted by Iranian intelligence through his unwise love life, Tehran could have gotten its eyes on a massive number of American secrets from numerous agencies far beyond Main State.

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Saving Face: How US Leaks Devalued Israel's Strike on Iran

2024-10-27

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Leonid Tsukanov

[REGNUM] Tel Aviv gathered its forces

Learn your political geography, Mr. Tsukanov: the capitol of Israel is Jerusalem, not Tel Aviv, and has been so since Israel declared independence in 1948. All the Jew-hating part of the world pretending otherwise will not change that fact.

and carried out a long-awaited and announced operation - on the night of October 26, the Israeli Air Force carried out a series of strikes on targets in Tehran, Karaj and Eslamshahr; echoes of the attacks were heard in Mashhad and Hamadan. Iranian air defense facilities deployed in Syria were also hit.

However, the Israeli operation was emphatically restrained and demonstrative. This suggests that the strike on Iranian territory was more an attempt to save face than a full-fledged revenge on Tehran.

Or possibly it was Israel’s first step in shaping the battlefield to come: Iran no longer has radar arrays to give notice of incoming Israeli bombers, nor factories mixing the propellent for its surface-to-surface missiles. And national morale will suffer for having to sit under the Israeli attack without being able to answer it — how shocking that Allah permitted such abuse of his most beloved believers!

According to CBS, the Israeli attack was limited to military targets, with nuclear and oil facilities untouched.

…as demanded by the Biden-Harris administration.

In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces reported only two dead soldiers.

However, today's attack is unlikely to be the last. On the contrary, Tel Aviv will probably continue to prepare new operations in the Iranian direction.

It could happen…

At the same time, Israel will gradually strive for even greater autonomy from the United States in making military and political decisions, since detailed information about its plans became public the day before due to the fault of the Americans.

Under the current administration, that seems likely.

In mid-October, scanned copies of secret US Defense Department reports appeared on a number of pro-Iranian channels. The documents, accompanied by images from American military satellites, contained detailed information about the transfer of Israeli forces to the "front lines" in preparation for an anti-Iranian retaliatory operation.

Such an untimely leak damaged relations between Washington and ~~Tel Aviv~~ Jerusalem and deprived the Israeli army of the element of surprise. Although the Israelis tried, albeit without much success, to finish what they had started by launching a series of strikes on Iranian territory.

In addition, the leak has fueled "spy mania" in both countries. In Israel and the US, there are calls to "untangle" the Iranian intelligence network and punish those responsible. Especially since one of the persons involved in the investigation was previously suspected of "friendship" with the IRGC.

However, it should not be ruled out that the Israelis this time suffered not so much from the activities of Iranian agents, but at the hands of those wishing to use “inquisitorial” methods for career advancement.

INFORMATION LEAKED
Based on leaked Pentagon data, pro-Iranian channels have already presented a fairly complete picture of the future Israeli “retaliatory action.” The movement of at least 40 ballistic missiles from their permanent bases to the Ramat David (northern direction) and Ramon (southern direction) air bases was recorded. At least 16 more Golden Horizon missiles were delivered to the Hatzerim air base in Israel’s Southern District.

In addition, data received from American satellites indicated that Israeli aircrew had stepped up their training in ultra-low altitude flights. The G-550 AWACS aircraft and Boeing 707 tankers were also involved in the maneuvers, which goes beyond simple “accounting sorties.”

Activity at the Haifa naval base has sharply increased, with sporadic movement of the Israeli navy beginning, which was also seen as preparation for a combined attack.

Everything indicated that the Israelis had no plans to abandon their usual route through the airspace of Syria and Jordan towards Iraq, from where it would be most convenient to launch missiles at Iranian targets.

At the same time, the Iranians were unable to draw any clear conclusions about which objects would be hit based on American materials. According to preliminary data, energy facilities (including nuclear facilities), army infrastructure, and the IRGC were in the probable strike zone.

In reality, the night operation involved far fewer forces and resources than the American satellites “revealed”: the demonstration of retaliation turned out to be more important to the Israelis than the retaliation itself.

THE STRUGGLE FOR POSITIONS
After the scandal with the leaks that cost Israel the element of surprise from the attack, Washington became preoccupied with finding the culprits. The main suspects almost immediately included Ariane Tabatabaei,

…alternately spelt Ariane Tabatabai…

an American of Iranian origin who is an employee of the staff of advisers to Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and specializes in low-intensity conflicts.

At one time, Tabatabaei was part of the US-Iran negotiating team and was engaged in restructuring the "nuclear deal" project to suit the conditions of the Joe Biden administration. However, her diplomatic work did not last long. After a conflict with the head of the negotiating team, Tabatabaei left it and took the position of senior political adviser in the Department of Defense.

It is noteworthy that Tabatabaei has come under the scrutiny of American security forces for the second time in the last few years. Before that, in 2023, they tried to accuse her of creating a network of small informants who supplied Iranian intelligence with information about the activities of US government agencies, as well as about the Pentagon's military and technical projects. However, due to the lack of hard evidence, the case fell apart. At the same time, Tabatabaei's career in the US Department of Defense continued.

Most likely, it was the scandal of 2023 that provoked increased attention to the person of Austin's adviser from American law enforcement. However, there are also those who call for "unwinding" the investigation further.

Thus, the "gray cardinal" of the leak scandal is called the former US State Department employee Robert Malley, who worked on the "Iranian direction" during the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Allegedly, it was he who at one time facilitated Tabatabai's employment and her rise to high positions.

Detractors recall that Malley was dismissed from service in 2023 due to “mishandling classified materials.”

Such vague wording usually conceals accusations of trading in sensitive information.

Given the ongoing fight for lucrative positions within the State Department and the Pentagon (which has intensified many times over in the wake of the upcoming US presidential elections), Tabatabai could well have become a bargaining chip. In that case, a controlled leak of classified documents would simultaneously discredit both her and Malley, and deprive the latter of the opportunity to slip out of the FBI's sight.

US security agencies are still being rather stingy with the details of the high-profile case, but their statements already suggest that at least three employees of the defense department are under investigation. It is possible that this list will expand as the chains of communication are unraveled.

ISRAEL BLAMES THE US
Despite the fact that the Israeli leadership denied the fact of the data leak for a long time and called what was happening an “internal matter” of the United States, after the United States officially confirmed the authenticity of the leaked documents, ~~Tel Aviv~~ Jerusalem was forced to admit that the retaliatory operation had been discredited.

It is clear from the tone of Israeli officials that the incident has dealt a blow to relations between ~~Tel Aviv~~ Jerusalem and Washington. First of all, the Israelis are asking two questions: why did the US conduct such detailed monitoring of the preparation of the anti-Iranian operation and why were they unable to ensure the safety of such valuable data?

And the second question quickly came to the fore. ~~Tel Aviv~~ Jerusalem, which had previously suffered from a series of minor spy scandals involving Iranian agents directly on the country's territory, reacts extremely painfully to the miscalculations of its allies, especially when they strike at Israeli strategic interests.

In this case, the appearance of "Tehran informants" in high offices is perceived as nothing less than the degradation of the American military machine. This idea runs through the publications of the Israeli government press like a red thread. Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet is effectively placing responsibility on the United States not only for the failure of the retaliatory operation, but also for the growth of Iran's activity in general.

At the same time, Tehran’s role in what happened is deliberately maximized: according to the interpretation of a number of publications, the Iranian leadership coordinated the operation in Washington “in manual mode.”

Of course, the leaks incident is unlikely to lead to a freeze in US-Israel cooperation. In this case, the US risks finding itself in a situation where the White House's "red lines" in the Middle East will not be immutable for ~~Tel Aviv~~ Jerusalem.

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Kamala Harris Stonewalls Congressional Probe Into NatSec Adviser's Ties to Iran Influence Network

2024-08-16

[WFB ht Insty] Vice President Kamala Harris is stonewalling a congressional inquiry into her national security adviser's ties to an Iranian government influence network, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R., N.Y.) launched the inquiry last month into Harris adviser Phil Gordon's longstanding relationship with Pentagon official Ariane Tabatabai, who was outed last year as an alleged member of an Iranian-run influence network that reported back to Tehran's foreign ministry.

Cotton and Stefanik gave Harris an Aug. 9 deadline to provide detailed information about Gordon's relationship with Tabatabai and links to pro-Tehran advocacy groups, which the lawmakers said raise questions about his eligibility to hold a top-secret security clearance. Harris did not reply.

"You failed to respond by my deadline or to appropriately address this threat to national security emanating from your staff," Cotton wrote to the vice president's office on Thursday, according to a copy of the letter obtained by the Free Beacon. "The presence of such an obvious security risk in your inner circle should have elicited your utmost attention. It raises the question of whether you've been aware of Mr. Gordon's possible links to the Iranian regime and simply find your policies aligned enough with Tehran's interests that ties to that regime don't concern you."

Gordon has emerged as one of Harris's closest foreign policy advisers and is expected to play a central national security role if she is elected president, including potentially as secretary of state. Harris has already onboarded several campaign advisers who support increased diplomacy with Iran, including Ilan Goldenberg, her former Middle East adviser and current campaign liaison to the Jewish community.

Harris has also expressed a willingness to publicly clash with Israel and pressure it to stop confronting Tehran's terror proxies, including Hamas and Hezbollah. She called in March for an immediate Israeli ceasefire, rebuking the Jewish state for sparking a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Gaza.

"I understand that it may be difficult to discern Iranian agents from the left-wing ideologues on your staff," Cotton wrote. "But you have the responsibility to make these difficult distinctions and appropriately vet the people you elevate to positions of distinction and trust."

According to an initial July 31 investigatory letter from Cotton and Stefanik, Gordon published multiple articles with Tabatabai "blatantly promoting the Iranian regime's perspective and interests."

Those pieces were published after Tabatabai was alleged to be working for the Iran Experts Initiative, an influence network that included several American policymakers associated with the Biden administration's former Iran envoy, Robert Malley, who was indefinitely suspended from his job amid allegations he leaked classified information.

In a March 2020 article, Gordon and Tabatabai "claimed continued sanctions on Iran would create 'catastrophe' in the Middle East," according to Cotton and Stefanik's letter. In another piece, Gordon and Tabatabai claimed economic sanctions on Tehran could prompt Iran to "lash out with attacks on its neighbors, and on Americans and American interests in the Middle East."

"Each prediction was as wrong," Cotton and Stefanik said last month, "as it was biased in favor of Tehran."

Tabatabai was found to have visited the Biden-Harris White House at least eight times after her links to the Iranian influence network were exposed, the Free Beacon first reported earlier this week. Those visits included meetings organized by the White House Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting nominees across the government.

Gordon met in February at the White House with Ali Vaez, a pro-Tehran analyst who, along with Tabatabai, reportedly has ties to the Iranian influence operation, visitor logs show.

Harris, Cotton said in his latest letter, must "immediately investigate Mr. Gordon's ties to the Iranian regime and provide responses" to the July 31 letter.

Cotton further notes that, since that initial letter, Gordon has continued "to demonstrate a pattern of anti-Israel bias, which furthers Iranian interests."

In an Aug. 10 tweet, for instance, Gordon said he is "deeply concerned about reports of civilian casualties in Gaza" and accused Israel of targeting "innocent Palestinians."

"If he's willing to ridicule Israel so unfairly in public," Cotton wrote to Harris, "we can only imagine what he is telling you in private."

A Biden-Harris administration official derided Cotton's letter as "baseless and absurd" and defended Gordon's "career as a national security expert and public servant respected on both sides of the aisle."

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Top foreign policy GOPers threaten to subpoena State Department for classified info on suspended Iran envoy Rob Malley

2024-07-31

[NYPost] Top Republicans on committees overseeing US foreign policy threatened to subpoena the State Department on Tuesday after the agency failed to fork over information about suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley, according to a letter exclusively obtained by The Post.
He stinks of Iranian corruption
Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul (R-Texas) in the letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote that they were "deeply" troubled by more than a year of obfuscations over Malley’s departure.

"Mr. Malley’s alleged misconduct is serious, and the Department’s lack of transparency and blatant disregard for the urgency of our requests is unacceptable," Risch and McCaul wrote.

"We have been made aware that there may be a classified response to our letter but have yet to receive it," they added.

The GOP lawmakers asked for "fulsome answers" to their questions by Friday — or they "will be compelled to pursue compulsory processes to secure any documents, materials, and testimony" relevant to the matter, which would include issuing subpoenas.

Risch and McCaul pointed to their earlier letter on May 6, which uncovered "troubling allegations" of President Biden’s special envoy to Iran storing classified material on his personal email account and cellphone.

That material was later accessed by a "hostile cyber actor," the lawmakers said at the time.

They also wanted to know whether Malley tried to send the classified material to anyone without a security clearance and whether Iran was responsible for the alleged hack, among several other queries related to the State Department and FBI’s ongoing investigation into the matter.

Since his security clearance was pulled in April 2023, Malley has been put on unpaid leave and has become the subject of State Department Office of Inspector General and FBI investigations.

He also landed plum teaching gigs at Princeton University and Yale University since quietly leaving the State Department.

Of course they hired him for their students. Who was it that gave the former Taliban minister a full scholarship, even though he couldn’t read in any language?

Blinken has his own "longstanding relationship" with Malley, which should prompt more transparency about the investigations, Risch and McCaul noted.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry launched an influence campaign during the Biden administration that ensnared at least two top aides to Malley and a third who was selected due to having a role at a think tank that Malley formerly ran, Semafor previously reported.

That campaign was known as the Iran Experts Initiative.

The probe findings and reported details are reminiscent the FBI’s 2015 criminal investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for storing tens of thousands of emails on unsecured private servers. At least 81 of the email chains discussed classified information, that investigation found, and seven referenced classified material at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level — but the bureau never recommended criminally charging Clinton.

Malley had previously served as a top negotiator of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, during the Obama administration.

In that role, he advocated for sanctions relief on Tehran in exchange for temporary restrictions to its nuclear program — policy changes that were reversed by the Trump administration.

Though it has tried, the Biden administration has thus far failed resurrect the Iran nuclear deal, which former President Donald Trump’s State Department withdrew from in 2018.

“Rob Malley remains on leave,” a State Department spokesperson told The Post. “Nevertheless, the Department has provided Congress with relevant information on personnel inquiries relating to Iran policy.”

“We have been and will continue to be in frequent contact with Congress on issues pertaining to Iran,” the spokesperson added.

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Leading Republicans reveal allegations on why Biden envoy to Iran was suspended

2024-05-08

BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] "Specifically, we understand that Mr. Malley’s security clearance was suspended because he allegedly transferred classified documents to his personal email account and downloaded these documents to his personal cell phone," the letter, signed by House Foreign Affairs Chairman Mike McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Affairs ranking member Jim Risch (R-ID), read. "It is unclear to whom he intended to provide these documents, but it is believed that a hostile cyber actor was able to gain access to his email and/or phone and obtain the downloaded information."
But, but, but Hillary ?
Robert Malley began his career during the Clinton administration and earned his name as the architect of former President Barack Obama’s 2015 Iran nuclear deal. He attempted to revive the deal in 2021 under Biden to no avail. He was suspended in April 2023.

Emphasis added.

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State Dept Investigation of Biden's Iran Envoy Broadens Into Probe of His Suspension

2024-02-20

[Hot Air] The curious suspension of Robert Malley grows even more curious -- and perhaps just as curious as how he got hired at all, if not more.

Joe Biden's special envoy to Iran got mysteriously suspended last spring by the State Department, but the White House never informed Congress of it. The Tehran Times somehow acquired and published the State Department's suspension memo last September, much to the chagrin of Congress, which demanded some answers toute suite on Malley's status.
Does Bob have a home in Rehoboth Beach by chance ?
Now Semafor reports that the State Department's IG wants some answers, too. Nearly a month ago, the IG office informed the relevant congressional committees that they would expand their existing probe into Malley's conduct to include members of the State Department involved in the suspension -- and what took place afterward. This is in addition to the FBI investigation into the conduct that resulted in the suspension in the first place:

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The World Is on Fire, but Here Is the Defense Department's Highest Priority

2024-02-03

[RedState] You would think that the Department of Defense (DoD) would have their hands full right now. The war between Russia and Ukraine drags on, war between Israel and Hamas continues, and China continues its saber-rattling over "reunification" with Taiwan. The United States might not be directly involved in all of those conflicts, but we will have some role to play. The Defense Department is concerned about terrorism. But before you get excited over the fact that there might be someone at the DoD with their priorities straight, think again. They are not worried about the thousands of potential terrorists sneaking across the southern border. They are worried about home-grown terrorists, you know, the right-wing kind.

The DoD's Office of Special Operations/Low Intensity Conflict (SO/LIC) supervises overseas special operations. Recently, they invited "all" office employees to hear Bruce Hoffman, a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Jacob Ware, a research fellow at CFR, talk about their book entitled "God, Guns, and Terrorism" on...wait for it...domestic right-wing extremism. It gets better. The Chief of Staff for the SO/LIC Office is a woman named Ariane Tabatabai. She was recently investigated for her ties to an Iranian influence network. It gets even better. Tabatabai is also a founding member of something called the Iranian Experts Initiative. They are a group of analysts who allegedly cooperated with Iran's Islamic regime to promote the official position on Iran's nuclear program in the middle of negotiations on a nuclear deal with Iran.

It is unknown whether the invite to all SO/LIC employees was mandatory. Nor did the email explain why the topic of domestic terrorism was relevant to DoD employees, as domestic terrorism does not fall under their purview. Unfortunately for the DoD, the SO/LIC Office, and Hoffman and Ware, the supply of right-wing extremism does not meet their apparent demand. After the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the DoD called for a review of military personnel to weed out any "extremism" within the ranks. Less than 100 members of the military were found to have engaged in any "extremist" activities. But the DoD wasn't convinced. It spent two years hunting down extremists in the military to no avail. The final report on a study that began in 2021 and was quietly released in December of 2023 “found no evidence that the number of violent extremists in the military is disproportionate” to U.S. society."

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund funding pro-Palestinian groups, at least one Israel calls ‘terrorist’ org

2023-12-05

[NYPost] Pro-Paleostinian groups such as those who spread hate at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting this week, have been lavishly funded by the Rockefeller family’s main charitable arm.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has links to two groups the Israeli government designated "terrorist organizations," a review of public records by The Post shows.

Founded in 1940, the famous clan’s $1.3 billion fund — where Justin, Wyatt and David Rockefeller Jr. sit on the board of trustees — has shelled out more than $2.6 million since 2018 directly or indirectly to at least six anti-Israel organizations, several of which openly celebrated Hamas
Hamas

...the braying voice of Islamic Resistance®,...
’ Oct 7 terrorist attack on the Jewish state.

Samidoun Paleostinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, whose logo was affixed to an ad promoting Wednesday’s rally, is a "fiscally sponsored project" of the nonprofit Alliance for Global Justice.

In August 2022, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund gave the Alliance $100,000.

Israel designated Samidoun a terrorist organization in February 2021 and Germany banned it last month.

Samidoun, founded in 2011, condemned the United Kingdom in 2021 for classifying Hamas a terrorist organization, and cheered the Oct 7 terrorist incursion:

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has awarded at least $215,000 to Defence For Children International-Paleostine, according to their website and IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
tax forms.

The Israeli government declared the group a terrorist organization in October 2021.

Undeterred, the fund issued a new $50,000 grant to the organization in 2022.

The fund gave at least $490,000 for "general support" to the Jewish Voice for Peace, according to public grant disclosures on their website since 2019.

Despite its name, the group is a notorious anti-Israel organization and a front for mainstreaming antisemitic ideas, critics say.

A Grand Central demonstration organized by the group in October led to more than 300 arrests.

"Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism. JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel," according to the Anti-Defamation League.

The group has been banned by Columbia University for repeatedly holding "threatening" campus events, the school said last month.

The fund has also donated at least $515,000 to the The Tides Center, earmarked specifically to support Paleostine Legal, a pro-Paleostinian advocacy group, records show. The nonprofit trumpeted the Oct 7 attacks as "one of the most significant acts of Paleostinian resistance."

"It’s the height of irony that the Rockefeller Foundation supports the anti-Israel, Soros-funded Tides Foundation and many other antisemitic Israel-bashing groups, that are now holding ugly, disgusting, vile Jew-hating displays at the Christmas Tree event at the Rockefeller Center," said Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America. "Just desserts I say."

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund also sent at least $710,000 to the Adalah Justice Project and $605,000 to the Middle East Policy Network (also known as al-Shabaka).

Both organizations celebrated Hamas’ Oct 7 attacks in public statements.

The fund defended the grants and noted that it donated to more mainstream Israel groups as well, such as J-Street and the The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

"We categorically reject any claim that our grantee organizations support, materially or ideologically, acts of terrorism," said spokeswoman Sarah Edkins "Advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion for people of all races, ethnicities, and genders is critical to our mission, and RBF is deeply concerned about indications of growing antisemitism."

Edkins added, "The Fund’s only relationship with Alliance for Global Justice is as the fiscal sponsor for one grantee of our Sustainable Development program, South Bronx Unite."

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Israel's UN ambassador slams Soros for donations to 'pro-Hamas groups' seeking destruction of Jewish state

[FoxNews] Report claims Soros organization has given millions to US groups who allegedly support terror group

Left-wing activist billionaire George Soros
...either Ernst Stavro Blofeld or Auric Goldfinger come true...
is facing intense criticism from Israel’s ambassador to the U.N. for pumping over $15 million into a network of nongovernmental organizations that allegedly support Hamas
Hamas

...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
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"George Soros’ donations to organizations that seek the destruction of the State of Israel as a Jewish state is shameful. However,
a person who gets all wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package...
I am not surprised," Israeli ambassador Gilad Erdan told Fox News Digital.

"For years, Soros has backed and transferred money to organizations supporting BDS that want to isolate Israel," added Erdan, who has been leading the diplomatic campaign at the U.N. to spell out Hamas’ crimes against humanity. "They have never been about real peace or any solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict."

BDS is an abbreviation for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign targeting the Jewish state. The German and Austrian parliaments classified BDS as an antisemitic movement that resembles the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses during the nascent phase of the Holocaust.

Rachel Ehrenfeld, author of "The Soros Agenda," told Fox News Digital, "Support of pro-Hamas, pro-Paleostinian groups in the U.S. is not limited to foreign entities. It also comes directly and indirectly from U.S.-based foundations. George and Alexander Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF) is one of them."

"Soon after he settled in the White House, Biden appointed Robert Malley as his special envoy to Iran," Ehrenfeld wrote in her book. "Malley is the former president and CEO of the Soros-funded, Brussels-based International Crisis Group, which, like Soros, has been criticizing Israel and praising Hamas. "

The U.S. and the European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
have designated Hamas a foreign terrorist organization. A number of recent probes claimed to show OSF funneled significant funds into virulently anti-Israel NGOs that are allegedly pro-Hamas.

Fox News Digital reported in October on Biden’s now-suspended Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
envoy Malley for his push to engage with the U.S.-designated terrorist movements, Hamas and Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
-based Hezbollah.

"There's so much misinformation about them. ... I speak to them and my colleagues speak to them [Hamas], and now we may disagree with them, but they have their own rationality ... none of them are crazies," Malley said in the film "Cultures of Resistance®."

The New York Post noted last month that Soros has funneled over $15 million to groups who are anti-Israel and carry water for Hamas’ agenda.

OSF donated $13.7 million to the Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,-based Tides Center, a number of whose recipients are nonprofits who reportedly justify the obliteration of the Jewish state.

Tides supports the Illinois-based Adalah Justice Project, which posted a photograph on Instagram of a bulldozer demolishing Israel’s security fence on the day of Hamas’ bloody slaughter with the caption, "Israeli colonizers believed they could indefinitely trap two million people in an open-air prison... no cage goes unchallenged."

When pressed in a number of Fox News Digital press queries if Soros’ philanthropic empire, OSF, considers Hamas a terrorist organization, a spokeperson for the OSF based in London refused to answer.

The OSF spokesperson, however, said the "Open Society Foundations utterly condemn the brutal attacks on Israeli citizens on Oct. 7. We grieve for the lives lost and injured and those taken hostage and their families. Like so many others around the world today we also feel the same pain for the Paleostinian citizens whose lives are now being lost in tragically mounting numbers because of the conflict."

The OSF spokesperson added, "There must be accountability for the war crimes and breaches of humanitarian law that have occurred."

When asked about the accusations that OSF funds pro-Hamas NGOs, the OSF spokesperson noted, "Any of our grantees have different perspectives and routinely disagree with each other, but our funding strategy, which has evolved over 20 years, is targeted towards working towards a secure future where rights and freedoms are respected. There is strict U.S. anti-terrorist legislation that determines which organizations a foundation like OSF can fund. We devote a lot of effort to ensuring full compliance."

In 2007, Soros wrote an opinion article for the Financial Times in which he slammed the U.S. and Israeli governments for not recognizing Hamas as the legitimate government of the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip.

OSF has also funded two progressive NGOs called Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and IfNotNow. On the day Hamas massacred 1,200 people, JVP issued a statement that "the source of all this violence" was "Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression."

The names of the Jewish NGOs are misleading, mainstream experts on antisemitism argue. The Jewish NGO Anti-Defamation League wrote that "Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a radical anti-Israel and anti-Zionist activist group that advocates for the boycott of Israel and eradication of Zionism."

The ADL added, "JVP does not represent the mainstream Jewish community, which it views as bigoted for its association with Israel." OSF has pumped at least $650,000 into the JVP’s coffers since 2017.

According to the ADL, the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
chapter of IfNotNow circulated a flier that showed an image of a paraglider, a clear reference to the Hamas bully boyz who invaded Israel as part of their aerial campaign to wipe out Jews. IfNotNow is one of the principal organizers of the U.S.-based campaign against Israel since Oct. 7, noted the ADL. According to reports, IfNotNow received $400,000 from Soros’ OSF.

JVP, which was founded in California, supported the Hamas-animated "Great Return March" in 2018, a precursor to Oct. 7, which was a series of attempts by Paleostinians in Gaza to invade Israel by breaching its security border barrier.

OSF provides funds to obscure Jewish NGOs whose mission is to exploit their Jewish identity to turn the bashing of Israel (and support for terrorism) into a politically and socially correct campaign, according to critics like Joshua Muravchik.

Writing in the Jewish magazine Commentary, he noted, "Deploying its ’Jewish’ identity in attacking Israel is JVP’s métier, one might say its purpose. The cutting edge of this work, as the episode of SJP’s tweets illustrates, is to deflect accusations of antisemitism."

Soros’ son, Alex, recently took over the reins of his father’s $25 billion fortune. In June, Israel's minister of diaspora affairs and social equality, Amichai Chikli, told Fox News Digital, it "looks like the son is a replica of his father. We have no expectation that his son will be a big Zionist."

Fox News Digital reached out to JVP, The Tides Center and IfNotNow for comment. They did not immediately respond.

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Meet the Iranian-born Biden military aide reportedly under investigation for major influence campaign: ‘Clear and present danger'

2023-11-23

BLUF:
[NYP] ....sitting in the Pentagon with a high-level security clearance is Ariane Tabatabai, the Iranian-born Biden military aide who reportedly is under investigation over an Iranian influence operation whose tentacles reach deep into Washington’s military and diplomatic establishment — and nobody in the government will explain why.
She oughtta be investigated for that haircut
Eyes on Tehran

Not only is Tabatabai the chief- of-staff to the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier, but, according to Navy sources, she recently became a US reserve naval intelligence officer.

Tabatabai has completed her five-month training at the Center for Information Dominance in Dam Neck, Va., according to a fellow officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, and expressed concern that Tabatabai retains her security clearance, despite the counterintelligence investigation.

The officer says Tabatabai would receive access in her reservist intelligence role to such sensitive information as staff rosters and movements of US ships and submarines in the Persian Gulf, all of which is clearly of interest to Iran amid the current Gaza conflict.

"The Navy has been actively training her to be an intelligence officer and giving her access to, not just what she has in her civilian job, but access to all the need-to-know information that a reserve unit has," says the officer.

"This naval reserve [role] gives her more clearance and access. Everyone she has contact with in the Navy intelligence realm is now potentially outed."

The officer says Tabatabai’s security access has been a source of ongoing concern among colleagues, especially as "the investigation has been going on for so long."

"It’s a clear and present danger in that even if [the investigation] affords her the right to due process, her clearance still should be on hold, and she should not have any access to go into the Pentagon or any other military installation."

The FBI reportedly has been shut out of the Tabatabai probe, and it is not known which agency is in charge.

Tabatabai bio.

Emphasis added.

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Biden's Hamas conundrum

2023-10-29

(JNS) Since Oct. 7, American Jews have seen their civil rights trampled every day. Jewish students are subjected to constant intimidation, assault, battery and threats from Hamas supporters on campus. From coast to coast, the stories are depressingly similar. University authorities refuse to protect them from their pro-Jewish genocide peers.

Then, too, on Thursday, the New York Police Department told the Jews of Brooklyn to stay off the streets on Shabbat afternoon. Pro-Hamas will be demonstrating, and the police said that they will be unable to protect Jewish residents as the terror supporters march through their neighborhoods.

How is this happening? How is it that at a time of maximum peril, law-enforcement bodies are doing all but nothing to defend the Jewish community? Why is the FBI not arresting terror supporters as required under U.S. law? Why is the U.S. Justice Department not directing local authorities to defend the Jews?

A good place to begin to look for answers is the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. That powerful division is led by Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke.

Clarke’s appointment in 2021 caused an uproar in Jewish circles because she has a record of anti-Semitic activism and was an ardent supporter of the pro-Hamas, anti-Jewish Black Lives Matter movement.

In 1994, as the head of the Black Students Association at Harvard Law School, Clarke invited Wellesley College Professor Tony Martin to speak at Harvard. Martin had just written a Protocols of the Elders of Zion-style anti-Semitic book called The Jewish Onslaught.

Clarke defiantly defended Martin at the time and attacked the Jewish students who expressed concern about her move. She never apologized for her actions. Instead, ahead of her Senate confirmation, she told progressive, anti-Israel Jewish reporters and activists that she "regretted" the invitation. That was enough for them to declare that the allegation that Clarke remains hostile towards Jews is slander.

U.S. President Joe Biden has a problem. He staffed his administration at all levels and across departments with hardened ideologues, many of whom have records of hostility towards Jews and support for Hamas, Iran, and other terror groups and regimes. Under Biden, these officials have advanced his Middle East policies that until Oct. 7 were largely aligned with the interests of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis.

Now that those policies have been shown to be counterproductive, and at least partly responsible for the threats America now faces to its core Middle Eastern interests, the same officials remain in their positions and continue to direct the Biden administration’s policies.

Consider the Palestinians.

U.S. policy towards the Palestinian Arabs is directed by the U.S. Special Representative to the Palestinians, Hady Amr. Amr is a longtime supporter of Hamas. In 2018, at the Qatar-based offices of the Brookings Institute, Amr was the lead author of a Brookings policy paper titled, "Ending Gaza’s Perpetual Crisis—A New U.S. Approach."

Amr’s basic recommendations were to change terror financing laws to permit U.S. contractors to work with Hamas, as well as to use any new round of war between Israel and Hamas to launch a new three-pronged policy towards Israel and Hamas.

Amr’s plan accepted Hamas as a legitimate actor. It called for the Palestinian Authority to unite with Hamas and reorganize under Hamas’s leadership in light of Hamas’s stronger support among Palestinians. Finally, it called for the United States to coerce Israel into making unreciprocated concessions to Hamas and the P.A., even though Amr acknowledged that the concessions would endanger Israel. Among other things, he called for Israel to end its maritime blockage of the Gaza coast and permit Hamas free access to the sea.

As the architect of Biden’s Palestinian policies, Amr’s Brookings paper was a blueprint for many of the policies adopted by the administration, including its willingness to fund Hamas indirectly through the P.A. and U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the U.N. agency operating in Gaza. Some 90% of UNRWA employees are Hamas members.

Amr remains in his position.

The ongoing Iran problem

Biden appointed Iran apologist Robert Malley to lead the administration’s Iran policy. Malley’s policy was so pro-Iranian that several career U.S. State Department officials—not known for their hostility to Tehran—resigned in protest.

...And to repay the administration for its appeasement, Abdollahian used his speech to threaten the United States with war if it continues to support Israel. Since Oct, 7, and as the administration clings stubbornly to Malley’s pro-Iran policies, Iranian proxies in Syria, Yemen and Iraq have repeatedly attacked U.S. forces in the region.

The Pentagon’s continued refusal to fully acknowledge Iran’s direction of Hamas’s acts of genocide is further indication that Malley’s policy remains Biden’s Iran policy.

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High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted, trail leads from Tehran to D.C. passes directly through the offices of Robert Malley and the International Crisis Group

2023-10-25

[Tablet] The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.

On Thursday, Maier told a congressional committee that the Defense Department is "actively looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting my chief of staff top secret special compartmented information."

The emails, which were exchanged over a period of several years between Iranian regime diplomats and analysts, show that Tabatabai was part of a regime propaganda unit set up in 2014 by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Iran Experts Initiative (IEI) tasked operatives drawn from Iranian diaspora communities to promote Iranian interests during the clerical regime’s negotiations with the United States over its nuclear weapons program. Though several of the IEI operatives and others named in the emails have sought to portray themselves on social media as having engaged with the regime in their capacity as academic experts, or in order to promote better understanding between the United States and Iran, none has questioned the veracity of the emails.

The contents of the emails are damning, showing a group of Iranian American academics being recruited by the Iranian regime, meeting together in foreign countries to receive instructions from top regime officials, and pledging their personal loyalty to the regime. They also show how these operatives used their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy toward Iran, first as outside "experts" and then from high-level U.S. government posts. Both inside and outside of government, the efforts of members of this circle were repeatedly supported and advanced by Malley, who served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor with Iran under both the Obama and the Biden administrations. Malley is also the former head of the International Crisis Group (ICG), which directly paid and credentialed several key members of the regime’s influence operation.

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VDH: Hamas and Amoral Clarity

2023-10-13

[American Greatness] One unexpected blowback from the medieval Hamas’s barbaric murdering of hundreds of Israeli civilians is the revelation of current global amorality.

More than 20 Harvard university identity politics groups pledged their support to the Hamas murderers—to the utter silence for days of Harvard President Claudine Gay.

34 groups, originally. But some walked it back after it became clear there were consequences for their posturing.

Americans knew higher education practiced racist admission policies. It has long promoted racially segregated dorms and graduations. And de facto it has destroyed the First Amendment.

But the overt support for Hamas killers by the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd on a lot of campuses exposes to Americans the real moral and intellectual rot in higher education.

Democratic Socialist members of the new woke Democrat Party openly expressed ecstatic support for Hamas’s bloodwork.

Their biggest fears were not dead fellow Americans or hostages, or some 1,000 butchered Jewish civilians. Instead they were fearful that righteous Israeli retaliation might destroy the Hamas death machine.

Palestinians for years fooled naïfs in Europe and the Obama and Biden administrations into sending billions of dollars into Gaza.

They weren’t naive. They were on the other side.

These monies were channeled to tunnel into Israel, to obtain a huge rocket arsenal, and to craft plans to wipe out Jews.

The Biden administration has blood on its hands.

Indeed. And considerably more than $6 billion worth.

....Biden and company quickly restarted the defunct Iran appeasement deal—a leftover from the anti-Israeli Obama administration. No surprise, they appointed radical pro-Iranian activist Robert Malley to head the negotiations.

Malley allegedly has leaked American classified documents to Iranian officials and is under investigation by the FBI. He did his best to place pro-Iranian, anti-American activists into the high echelons of the U.S. government.

Biden was intent on forcing South Korea to release to Iran $6 billion in sanctioned frozen money.

That expectation of cash ensured Iran would be reimbursed for its present terrorist arming spree.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken shamefully tweeted that Israel should settle for an immediate ceasefire. No wonder he soon withdrew his unhinged posting.

That idiocy would be the moral equivalent of an American ally in December 1941 urging the U.S. to seek negotiations with imperial Japan after its surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor—to avoid a "cycle of violence."

...Once the mass murdering started, the amoral clarity of our "allies" was stunning.

NATO partner Turkey openly sided with the killers.

Of course. All Muslim Brotherhooders together.

It —along with Blinken—called for a cease fire—at the moment the Hamas death squads had finished, and Israel was ready to hold Hamas to account.

Qatar, where the U.S. Central Command is based, proved little more than a Hamas front.

It offers sanctuary to the architects of Hamas killing. And Qatar ensures a safe financial pipeline to Hamas from Iran and the radical Arab world.

Some of the most vehement current supporters of the Hamas death squads were immigrants to America from the Middle East.

Oddly, they apparently had fled just such illiberal Middle East regimes to reach a tolerant, democratic, and secure United States.

Yet they now endorse the Hamas butchering of Jewish civilians. Its savagery is aimed at executing, raping, and beheading Jews, and then mutilating their bodies.

Hamas apparently hopes to shock the Israeli government into voluntarily committing suicide—in line with the ancient Hamas agenda to destroy the Jewish state.

In a strange way, this reign of death has become a touchstone, an acid test of sorts that has revealed the utter amorality of enemies abroad and quite dangerous people at home.

It is past time that Americans deal with the medieval world that was revealed this week rather than keep dreaming in the fantasy world of our government.

Americans need to stop illegal immigration and restore their southern border, while ceasing all immigration from unhinged, hostile nations.

The military must return to its deterrent role and fire its woke commissariat.

Our leaders must accept that in the last three years of the Biden administration, serial American appeasement abroad, disunity at home, and social chaos have encouraged an entire host of enemies —China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Middle East illiberal regimes, and former friends like Turkey and Qatar.

And our enemies dream of doing to us what we just saw in Israel.

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