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Muslim U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist tried to pass classified American information to Iran

Feb 13, 2019 1:16 pm By Robert Spencer

But if anyone had questioned her loyalty, he or she would have been denounced as a racist, bigoted “Islamophobe.”

“Iran Conducted Cyber Hacks on U.S., Recruited U.S. Air Force Officer to Steal Classified Info,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 13, 2019:

WARSAW, Poland—The Trump administration announced a new package of sanctions on Iranian entities tied to the cyber backing of U.S. individuals, a move that comes on the heels of American authorities indicting a U.S. Air Force officer who allegedly tried to pass classified information to Tehran after defecting to the country.

The Department of Justice announced early Wednesday that it had indicted Monica Elfriede Witt, also known as Fatemah Zahra, a former active duty U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist and Special Agent, for attempting to pass classified American information to Iran.

Witt had access to secret and top-secret information, according to the indictment, unsealed early Wednesday.

Witt was deployed to several overseas location to conduct “classified missions collecting signals intelligence,” including those of adversaries.

Witt had access to “classified information, including details of ongoing counterintelligence operations, true names of sources, and the identities of U.S. agents involved in the recruitment of those sources,” according to the indictment.

“In or around January 2012 to in or around May 2015, in Iran, and elsewhere outside the jurisdiction of any particular State or district, defendant [Witt] did knowingly and unlawfully combine, confederate, and agree with other persons, both known and unknown to the grand jury, including officers of the IRGC, to knowingly and unlawfully communicate, deliver, and transmit to a foreign government, specifically Iran, and to that foreign government’s representatives, officers, and agents, directly and indirectly, documents and information relating to the national defense of the United States, with the intent and reason to believe that the same would be used to the injury of the United States and to the advantage of Iran, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 794(a),” the indictment alleges.

The disclosure of this information leak was timed to coincide with an announcement by the Treasury Department that it is sanctioning a handful of Iranian entities for their role in cyber hacks on Americans.

The sanctions hit an Iranian-based entity tied to the country’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, or IRGC. This includes “efforts to recruit and collect intelligence from foreign attendees [of various conferences], including U.S. persons, and four associated individuals,” according to the Treasury Department.

Sanctions also were leveled on “a separate Iran-based entity and six associated individuals involved in the targeting of current and former U.S. government and military personnel as part of a malicious cyber campaign to gain access to and implant malware on their computer systems.”…

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  1. brane pilot says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 1:25 pm

    We are experiencing a form of immigration that has no precedent in American history.
    People are not coming here to become Americans.
    They come here as cultural and political colonists pursuing foreign agendas that are hostile to this country, its culture and its people.
    Immigration law needs to change to confront this fundamental change.
    The numbers need to go down.
    Way down.

    • The Crusader says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 1:32 pm

      Agreed

    • Jay says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 1:49 pm

      Brane Pilot : great post. You are 100 % correct. There is no acclimation to becoming Americans like
      my grandparents did when they came legally thru Ellis Island! Build the wall! This traitor seems to
      have arrived under the Obama administration. No more to say than that!
      God bless America and Pres Trump!

    • Savvy Kafir says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 2:02 pm

      Agreed. The situation here in the U.S., and throughout the West, is unprecedented, and requires new laws & policies. Laws & policies designed to bring the number of Muslims in the West down to ZERO.

      In the meantime, it is obviously absurd to allow Muslims access to any classified information. Would Churchill have hired Nazis to staff Bletchley Park or the S.O.E., or any other intelligence service? The idea is absurd. And it’s just as absurd now, regarding Muslims in Western intelligence services. We can make do with non-Muslim translators of Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, etc. — and non-Muslim experts on various Muslim countries. It’s not worth the risk hiring Muslims for those jobs.

      • zeeman says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 7:02 pm

        yes,yes,yes, You are right on. Why the hell place Muslims in such sensitive positions? It’s just asking for trouble…and we got it.

        • Hari Singh says

          Feb 14, 2019 at 8:44 am

          You couldn’t get in the OSS the predecessor of the CIA during WW2 if you were born in a foreign country.

        • Chiclette says

          Feb 15, 2019 at 2:11 am

          Agreed! Do NOT put “foreigners” in any government position where there is access to sensitive information. Change the laws.

        • Christopher Kelley says

          Feb 16, 2019 at 11:09 am

          And there is John Brennan, folks! It’s NOT just “foreigners”!!!

      • gravenimage says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 7:18 pm

        We really don’t need to change out laws for Muslims. We just need to start enforcing the laws we do have–and that includes not importing enemy combatants.

      • DP111 says

        Feb 14, 2019 at 1:24 pm

        In Britain she would qualify for a detached house and all Benefits.

        • Dave says

          Feb 14, 2019 at 5:23 pm

          And probably a job on the local council housing department.

      • DirkaDirka says

        Feb 14, 2019 at 1:38 pm

        The government needs a large paradigm shift with regard to immigration. How they can be so willingly blind is criminal. As previously stated by other posters, these people are not migrating to the US or other western countries to become integrated into their societies and cultures. They are coming here to make us a shittier place more of a reflection of their original homeland. This is cultural jihad and it needs to be fought, just as one would fight against opponents in an a militarized war.

    • Frederick King says

      Feb 14, 2019 at 6:25 am

      Yahoo reported she converted after defecting. I do not believe that.

  2. The Crusader says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    They have to make an example of these TRAITORS Either the death penalty or prison for life with no chance for parole.

  3. Kesselman says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 1:55 pm

    When do the authorities ever learn the lesson: never, I say never, take in a Moslem ever so “remote” from the Mohammedan religion. Especially when we talk about our Armed Forces? Did the U.S. Military take in Germans during WW2—although not Nazis? Wake up, come to your senses!

  4. Ldf says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 2:05 pm

    If you understood how intelligence gathering works (and has worked), you would know how important native speakers are to our intel services. Unfortunately this may create a small risk of counter intelligence or defection, but it usually does not, as immigrants have left the nations of their birth (or parents’ or grandparents’ births) and come to the US to escape oppression or violence.

  5. FYI says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    Apparently Monica is a convert to islam;another failed ex-Christian who discovers “allah the best of deceivers” and the “religion of peace” and doesn’t get the irony of it.She read the koran and decided “islam is not an aggressive or violent religion”{pope francis came to the same conclusion:It seems a “proper reading” does not mean a Proper Reading}

    The Conversion to islam package:

    It comes with an automatic rights ..

    Treason
    antisemitism
    antichristianity
    Bearing false witness{taqqiya,tawriya,taysin,muruna,daurura,kitman}
    hatred of others[al walaa wal baraa}
    freedom to violate God’s Exodus 20 Commandments and be rewarded for doing so
    jihadist violence

    For the man:grow the beard ,adopt the Arabic Supremacist name{al Amriki,al Hollandi etc}(For the black guy who converts to islam;IGNORE the bit about muhammed,the “White guy with the white hair and the white face”, the slave trader in black people sahih muslim 3901)

    For the woman:start wearing that hijab girl!But you might be amazed to know the origins of the hijab{..you see Umar told muhammed and muhammed told “allah”…}

    Along with a 5 times a day show of false piety the convert is required to follow the sunnah of islam’s prophet muhammed; a mass murdering{Abu Dawud 4390} lying{al tabari 6;111} polygamous, pederast and the ‘holy writings of a theologically wrong commandment-of-God violating book ,the koran.

    islam:God’s way of separating the wheat from the chaff.It’s the chaff that find allah and islam
    {2 Thessalonians 2 v 10-12}

    baal is defined as “the best of deceivers”
    lucifer is defined as “the best of deceivers”

    …..allah is defined as “the best of deceivers” k3:54

    • FYI says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 2:31 pm

      And BTW she was an “intelligence specialist”.

      Seriously?How is that even possible?

      What intelligence exists in the mind of a woman stupid enough to join a misogynistic cult whose god classifies woman’s worth as being HALF that of a man k2:282?

      A god who doesn’t even understand Science{the sun sets in a muddy pool,the moon is a lamp,the stars are missiles to be used against devils,ants and babies can talk..}

      • wm1 says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 3:32 pm

        Notice the dates. She did her treasonous dirt during the pro-Islamic, pro-Iranian Obama/Hillary regime.

        Think they may be complicit? Very likely.

        • Frederick King says

          Feb 14, 2019 at 6:28 am

          Wonder if the Pakistanis hillary usd in the White House did anything wrong ? They did all move back there.

      • Frederick King says

        Feb 14, 2019 at 6:26 am

        We have touse people that speak Farsi and other languages.

  6. Rarely says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    On Obama’s watch. I wonder what I meant by pointing that out.

  7. observer says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 3:50 pm

    The
    worst
    of
    this
    news
    is
    that
    it
    is
    n-o-t u-n-b-e-l-i-e-v-a-b-l-e !

    A muslim intelligence specialist.
    In America!

    It’s like Saudi citizens learning to fly airliners in America.

    muslim + intelligence specialist
    = irreconcileable !

    Thank you Robert.

  8. somehistory says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 4:04 pm

    This reminds of the movie, “Invasion of the Body-Snatchers.” There was much warning given before the complete takeover, but those who might do something, refused to listen until they had their bodies snatched…and then it was too late.

    This moslim, hired as a “specialist” in secret stuff. Bad idea. Much like the moslim hired to “train” the FBI on islam. Also a bad idea.

    There is an old song and a line in it asks, “When will they ever learn?” If they ever do, what will they then do?

    • Rarely says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 4:39 pm

      The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.

      • somehistory says

        Feb 13, 2019 at 5:30 pm

        Rarely
        ++2

  9. Gene says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 4:52 pm

    I wonder if this had anything to do with Islam? No, sorry for even asking that. That is a obvious dead end. Maybe it was Russia colluding with the Trump campaign.

  10. Rueben_Singh says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 5:10 pm

    Never trust a moslem. Full Stop
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3713816.stm

  11. sheliak says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 5:54 pm

    The Iranian military has publicly boasted for years it has infiltrated US command and control systems. Why is anyone surprised?

  12. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 6:59 pm

    Muslim U.S. Air Force Intelligence Specialist tried to pass classified American information to Iran
    ………………..

    No one should be surprised by this.

  13. mortimer says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 7:00 pm

    Muslims in such positions should be taking regular lie-detector tests.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 7:49 pm

      We should not allow Muslims to infiltrate the military and security. Would we have let Nazis do the same during WWII?

  14. Savvy Kafir says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:26 pm

    If we don’t change our laws so that we can rid the West of Islam, sooner or later, Islam will prevail. It always does, when its devotees invade territories that don’t put up an effective resistance to keep them out.

    Laws are changed all the time, for reasons far less urgent than this. This situation requires new thinking & a new approach. If we can’t adapt to changing circumstances, we are doomed.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 13, 2019 at 9:35 pm

      Savvy Kafir, you are right that we have to recognize the threat of Islam. But I still do not believe that we have to change our laws for Muslims. We did not have to change our laws to fight Fascism.

      It should be common sense not to employ those who share the same ideology as our enemies. This need not require new laws.

      • Savvy Kafir says

        Feb 14, 2019 at 4:49 pm

        Graven — During World War II, the fascist soldiers were on foreign battlefields, where our soldiers fought and defeated them. And the fascist civilians were in foreign lands. Today the enemy is within the gates, in their millions. It is a totally different kind of war; and it requires very different remedies — including changing the laws of Western nations so that the enemy can be expelled.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 14, 2019 at 5:47 pm

          Savvy Kafir, you are mistaken in believing that there were no Nazis and Nazi sympathizers in the US during WWII–and while some were foreigners, many were homegrown.

          Before the war, there were Hitler Youth camps here and a huge Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden.

          Concerns about Nazi infiltration–and espionage and sabotage–were high here, and for good reason.

  15. Savvy Kafir says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:29 pm

    This was meant to be a response to gravenimage’s comments. This new comments system continues to be glitchy.

  16. Savvy Kafir says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 9:30 pm

    And….it happened again.

  17. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 13, 2019 at 10:25 pm

    “I am a traitor to America because my religion requires me to be.”
    Samir Khan

  18. Mark Solheim says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 9:36 am

    What are we doing allowing Muslims in the Military in the first place? No oath they take is Valid. No Muslim should ever be allowed into the Military or to hold Public Office!

  19. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Feb 14, 2019 at 7:48 pm

    Let’s have a little more information about this woman…

    – “Monica Elfriede Witt” is a very German-sounding name. Is she a native speaker of German? She was born in Texas and learned Farsi at the expense of the U.S. Air Force.

    – Is the “anti-American propaganda commercial” available on YouTube?

    – Looking at her distinctive higher-than-wide facial physiognomy, what race is she? Aryan? Osage? 1/1024 Cherokee? (I’m currently reading “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI”.)

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