Why hasn’t this bitch been deported?
An Iranian-born Pentagon official is to keep her top-level security clearance despite being named as part of a covert influence campaign run by Tehran — and being called a “spy” by Republicans.
Ariane Tabatabai appeared to be a willing recruit in the covert influence operation run by Tehran’s Foreign Ministry, according to a trove of leaked files revealed last month by Semafor.
She was previously a key aide to the suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley, whose secret ties to Tehran sparked congressional uproar.
Since early 2022, Tabatabai has been chief of staff to the Pentagon’s assistant secretory of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, Christopher P. Maier.
Malley was quietly placed on unpaid leave in June for his alleged mishandling of “protected material.”
But the Pentagon will let Tabatabai, 38, keep her $153,434-a-year job, along with her top secret security clearance, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday.
“Ms. Tabatabai’s employment and clearance processes were carried out in accordance with all appropriate laws and policies,” Pentagon official Rheanne E. Wirkkala wrote to Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) last week.
Republicans reacted with fury to news that Tabatabai will keep her job — and her access to the Pentagon’s most sensitive secrets — and called her an Iranian “spy.”
“Biden’s DoD is REFUSING to revoke the security clearance of an Iranian spy working at the Pentagon,” Ernst wrote on X. “More of POTUS’s appeasement strategy that has emboldened [Iran] & its proxies, like Hamas, & threatened our nat’l security.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) said he may subpoena Tabatabai as part of his committee’s probe into Malley.
A Pentagon official told The Post: “The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has enrolled all Defense Department service members, civilians, and contractors with a security clearance in its continuous vetting program, which is a process that involves regularly reviewing a cleared individual’s background to ensure they continue to meet security clearance requirements and may continue to hold positions of trust.”
Tabatabai, 38, who was brought up in Tehran as the daughter of one of the country’s leading political thinkers, has openly argued that Iran is “too powerful to contain” — and has urged the United States to align with the Islamic republic and break its ties with Israel and the Gulf states, for America’s own good.
Her background and writings cast doubt on the wisdom of the Pentagon’s defense of the Iranian-born Tabatabai, whose Pentagon perch gives her access to America’s critical military intelligence.
She’s openly collaborating—committing treason with Iran—against America, but the twats at the Pentagon are letting her keep a top secret clearance and her position.
This is her boss.
There’s a pattern when it comes to the depraved indifference of officials in charge of America’s security and their habit of allowing the enemy right through the front door of high level government positions.
Egyptian-born terrorist Hesham H. Islam was actually hired as a Pentagon aide, in spite of having ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist groups. Major Stephen Coughlin, an intelligence analyst was fired for questioning Islam’s access to classified information and briefing the connection between groups like the Muslim Brotherhood and terrorism.
They also rub elbows with them. Just months after 9/11, the pentagon invited Al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki to dinner. Former FBI director Robert Mueller’s ‘Outreach’ Hamas pal Kifah Mustapha, hosted a fundraiser for the terrorist group in July of 2009.
During B. Hussein’s regime, his nuke deal with Iran involved giving payoffs to Iranian banks, paying $400 million in ransom to the Iranian thugs for hostages, and essentially giving them the green light to make bombs.
With shitbags like this in charge, who the fuck needs enemies?
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https://www.semafor.com/article/09/28/2023/pentagon-probe-iran-report
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