Posted on 08/17/2024 8:21:02 AM PDT by RandFan
A group of leading bipartisan senators conducting oversight of homeland security and governmental matters are demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas after an alleged Iranian agent was charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for orchestrating a scheme to assassinate a politician or U.S. official — potentially former President Trump.
Pakistani national Asif Merchant was charged with seeking to carry out a murder-for-hire, the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York said earlier this month.
"This dangerous murder-for-hire plot exposed in today’s charges allegedly was orchestrated by a Pakistani national with close ties to Iran and is straight out of the Iranian playbook," Wray said in the press release. "A foreign-directed plot to kill a public official, or any U.S. citizen, is a threat to our national security and will be met with the full might and resources of the FBI."
In a joint letter to Wray and Mayorkas on Wednesday, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) Chairman Gary Peters, D-Mich., Ranking Member Rand Paul, R-Ky., Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Chairman Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and Ranking Member Ron Johnson, R-Wis., noted that the court documents detailed that Merchant had been "orchestrating his assassination plot since at least April 2024 when he ‘flew from Pakistan to Istanbul and then on to Houston, Texas on or about April 13, 2024, to recruit individuals to carry out his plot to assassinate U.S. government officials."
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BTTT
Crooks was probably one on the persons he recruited.
This guy was probably flown in using Biden/Majorkas’ phone app
It could well be...
I haven’t seen this widely reported? The Pakistani fellow?
That’s probably the last you’ll hear of him.
It was a DOMESTIC JOB!! imho.
It was a DOMESTIC JOB!! imho.
So... the assassination attempt “has all the hallmarks” of an Iranian operation.
Distraction? Iran the new Russia?
It doesn’t take a big stretch to imagine the intelligence community recruiting and importing foreign agents to undertake nefarious missions. It’s called “plausible deniability”.
anyone buying this bullsh*t??
i’d love to hear how the ‘iranian assassin’ made security leave a rooftop unguarded and how he was able to flim-flam the secret service counter snipers to hold fire while he gets off 8 rounds.
Iran 🇮🇷Iran 🇮🇷Iran !!!
Just becaust the FBI says that the Pakistani National "orchestrated" an assaination plot doesn't mean that there wasn't really a domestic source who orchestrated the Pakistani National to orchestrate the plot.
Yup.
Sounds like a TV program called Cover Up Stories.
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