Posted on 12/05/2024 5:34:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next director of the FBI, was recently targeted by an Iranian hacking campaign.
According to the Washington Examiner, multiple sources claim that the FBI had informed both Patel and President-elect Trump of the cyberattack. The Trump transition team issued a statement that did not confirm such a hacking attempt, but nevertheless condemned Iran and praised Patel’s past work on counter-terrorism.
“Kash Patel was a key part of the first Trump administration’s efforts against the terrorist Iranian regime and will implement President Trump’s policies to protect America from adversaries as the FBI Director,” said Trump transition spokesman Alex Pfeiffer in a statement.
President-elect Trump announced Patel as his choice for FBI Director over the weekend, via a post on his Truth Social website. Patel will replace incumbent Director Christopher Wray, whom Trump is expected to fire shortly after taking office. Patel previously worked for Congressman Devin Nunes during his tenure as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and also served as the chief of staff to the then-Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller.
“Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American people,” said the president-elect. “Kash did an incredible job during my First Term, where he served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council.”
President-elect Trump has been the target of several attempted hacks by the Iranian regime, presumably in retribution for his actions against Iran in the past. In January of 2020, then-President Trump ordered a missile strike that eliminated Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and a leading sponsor of global terrorism. President-elect Trump has repeatedly threatened to bring Iran’s nuclear ambitions under control with further sanctions and other measures upon his return to office.
My opinion:
It is a hoax. I am sure that the NYT will have plenty of smear stories about Kash that they will claim came from Iranian (probably FBI) source. It is becoming easy to see the hoaxes developing after watching so many in the past.
It is a hoax. I am sure that the NYT will have plenty of smear stories about Kash that they will claim came from Iranian (probably FBI) source. It is becoming easy to see the hoaxes developing after watching so many in the past.
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It’s a setup hoax. By claiming Patel is a target of a foreign adversary they get all sorts of blanket unfettered authority to wiretap, eavesdrop, and snoop on the target - Patel.
More than likely, either the “democrazy” RATs or their maggots in the yellowstream “media” put the Iranians up to it.
Naturally
Anyone who thinks Iran is not probing everywhere they can is either incredibly naive or being intentionally deceitful..
All the attacks on Trump were carried out with the goal of preserving Obama and John Kerry’s idiotic Iran Deal.
BTTT.
The FBI is well past losing all credibility.
Yeah…sure…everyone knows Iranian hackers are the world’s best!
HOORAY Kash!
Remember what the FBI did to reporter Cheryl Atkinson’s computer and her husband’s computer? They planted spyware on her computer, probably to try to find her contacts in government for investigative reporting. And they planted child porn on her husband’s computer, probably an attempt to destroy her family.
Have become the FIB!
BTTT
“It is a hoax. I am sure that the NYT will have plenty of smear stories about Kash that they will claim came from Iranian (probably FBI) source. It is becoming easy to see the hoaxes developing after watching so many in the past.”
Absolutely.
“Anyone who thinks Iran is not probing everywhere they can is either incredibly naive or being intentionally deceitful..”
Occam’s Razor. Far too convenient especially with timing. They are setting up a scapegoat and backdoor for data since Trump cut out the fed transition team.
Very unfortunate to say, but you can “almost” trust the word of the Iranians before you can trust the word of our own government.
If there was a Hack, it was an Inside Job by one of the 3 U.S. Federal Agencies.
Or was it the CIA, using Iranian ‘protocols’, Snowden warned us about this. Notice how they do not provide any PROOF for their claims. I’m surprised these aren’t anonymous sources...
The “Iranian’s” last is Smith . . .
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