They need to bring back execution for treason.
The FBI is ramping up its hunt for accused traitor and former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence specialist Monica Witt, announcing a massive $200,000 reward for information leading to her arrest and prosecution after years on the run in Iran.
Witt, a former Air Force special agent trained in Farsi and entrusted with highly sensitive national security information, was indicted in 2019 on espionage charges after allegedly defecting to Iran and handing classified intelligence to the hostile Islamic regime.
According to federal authorities, Witt served in the Air Force from 1997 to 2008 and later worked as a Defense Department contractor with access to secret and top-secret intelligence programs, including the identities of undercover American intelligence personnel.
The FBI now believes she may still be actively assisting Iranian intelligence operations.
In a statement this week, FBI Washington Field Office Counterintelligence and Cyber Division chief Daniel Wierzbicki blasted Witt for allegedly turning against her own country.
“Witt allegedly betrayed her oath to the Constitution more than a decade ago by defecting to Iran and providing the Iranian regime National Defense Information,” Wierzbicki said, adding that the FBI believes she “likely continues to support their nefarious activities.”
Federal investigators say Witt attended anti-American conferences in Iran before ultimately defecting in 2013. Prosecutors allege she helped Iranian operatives identify and target her former U.S. intelligence colleagues and exposed a highly classified American intelligence program.
Witt enlisted in the US Air Force in 1997 as a linguist and studied the Persian language at the Defense Language Institute before becoming an Airborne Cryptologic Language Analyst. She was then assigned to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations as an enlisted counterintelligence special agent until separating from the Air Force in 2008. She continued working in intelligence as a military contractor until 2010.
After her 2012 conversion to Islam in Iran, Witt became increasingly focused on the religion and the region. Her master’s degree capstone presentation lauded them both, and she was soon affiliated with Marzieh Hashemi, a suspected Iranian intelligence operative. With Hashemi’s assistance, Witt defected to Iran in 2013 and provided the Islamic republic with assistance and intelligence stemming from her work for and with the US government.
……..At George Washington University (GWU), Witt’s classmates described her as withdrawn and quiet, though when she spoke about her military service, she described “drone strikes, extrajudicial killings and atrocities against children, all of which […] her colleagues in the military would brag about. She seemed distressed by what she called ‘gross incompetence’ by her superiors during her time abroad.” All of this allegedly gave Witt insomnia. Witt described herself as an isolated woman conflicted about her self-concept and sense of belonging.
Witt traveled to Iran in February 2012 to attend an International Conference on Hollywoodism that condemned the morality of the United States, promoted anti-Americanism, included an anti-Western sentiment, and “propagate[d] anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories including Holocaust denial”. The conference was orchestrated by the “New Horizon Organization”, and its sponsor was the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).[3] Mike Gravel, a former United States Senator, was another attendee of a Hollywoodism conference; he said of the IRGC there, “They were very sophisticated, and they’ve got young people, well-appearing people speaking English beautifully, […] They’re equipped to do the job of intelligence work, and if they find vulnerable people, they just capitalize on it.” Nader Talebzadeh, an organizer of the conference, would later say that Witt did not seem genuine in her exuberance about Iran and Islam.
While in Iran, Witt was voluntarily video-recorded identifying as a US military veteran and making statements critical of the federal government of the United States. These statements and her conversion to Islam were broadcast on Iranian television that same month. Contemporaneous with her graduation from GWU, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned Witt that she was a target of Iranian intelligence recruiting; Witt assured US authorities she would not give sensitive information to Iran. Within a month, Witt was hired by American-Iranian journalist and television presenter Marzieh Hashemi “in connection with the filming of an anti-American propaganda film that was later aired in Iran.”
This bitch is a self absorbed, narcissistic misfit who wants to purge her feelings of inadequacies with the empowerment of Islam and treason. How nice.
She’s a woman…in Iran. Islamofascist nation states and sharia law aren’t compatible with women’s rights. She’s liable to get a dose of reality when they no longer find her useful.