WICKER, COLLEAGUES DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY ON IRAN-LINKED DOD OFFICIAL. Armed ServicesLeader: ArianeTabatabai's SecurityClearance Should Be Suspended

Roger Wicker ^ | 9/29/23 | Roger Wicker

[hardspunned]

– U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, today led a letter signed by 30 of his Senate Republican colleagues demanding a full accounting of actions taken by a senior Pentagon official who has close links to the Iranian government.

Ariane Tabatabai, the chief of staff to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, was reportedly engaged in an Iranian government-linked initiative to bolster the Iranian government’s image and reinforce Tehran’s national security views. Leaked emails show Tabatabai asking the Iranian government for input on her speaking engagements and offering to consult with the Iranian government on a congressional briefing that she was invited to give.

[hardspunned]

For over a year the administration knew about her and did nothing. How many more to be revealed when American troops begin to be killed in large numbers?

[Brian Griffin]

The document should have been marked classified. Each person who had custody of a copy should have been recorded. Each custodian should be questioned.

[Brian Griffin]

Your loyalty has been questioned. If you wish to do so, affirm your undivided loyalty to the USA by signing the loyalty oath/affirmation under penalty of law.

Signed - haul off to court
Not Signed- yank clearance permanently & escort out Ariane of the building

[lurk]

There are perhaps thousands like her inside each agency, plying the interests of our enemies.

At the least she should lose her job and security clearance forever.

[Carl Vehse]

Investigate the administrators of ArianeTabatabai and all of those involved in provided her with security clearance. They should all be subject to losing their security clearance and being fired.

[trebb]

If I had been doing what she’s been doing, I would have been tossed in jail instead of being allowed to enlist - and forget ever getting a Security Clearance...and they went after President Trump for having documents he was allowed to have because of the position The People elected him to.

[pepsionice]

Whatever they decide upon...has to be quick. You can’t linger and allow Trump in January to focus on this and dish out punishment.

If I were guessing....she’ll just quietly disappear by mid-November, and show up a month later in Qatar. Question will then arise...what ELSE did she hand over to Iran?

[nopardons]

BTTT

[unread]

Securing democracy.. (spit)

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/author/ari-tabatabai/&ved=2ahUKEwjXtJv0vqSJAxUYM1kFHYYVMwAQFnoECEsQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0OLnLszQyh9H-J5KcVACNY

[slapshot]

We are talking GOPe here- Nothing will be done except the requisite strongly worded letter and move then on to govern in a “bipartisan fashion with their colleagues across the aisle”

As you can tell sick of this crap- The other side works like the Corleone’s: “it’s not personal it’s business”

Time to get the same attitude

[pepsionice]

Maybe, but if Biden’s crew don’t invent a fix...come January, even if she runs off to Qatar...Trump will probably tell some DoD guys to go fetch her and return her to a jail-house in Cuba. It won’t be a pleasant experience for the gal.

[Red Badger]

The Geneva Convention allows spies to be summarily EXECUTED........just sayin’...................

[EastTexasTraveler]

“senior Pentagon official who has close links to the Iranian government”

And nobody saw a problem with that.

[BikerJoe]

Each person who had custody of a copy should have been recorded. Each custodian should be questioned.

After having originated and used classified documents for decades, it just seems like the controls I was involved with have become either much sloppier, or it's the ole' case of "I'm important, I don't have to", or worse...