What is the definition of “treason” again? Oh yeah, giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
“High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington,” by Lee Smith, Tablet, October 1, 2023:
The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier.
On Thursday, Maier told a congressional committee that the Defense Department is “actively looking into whether all law and policy was properly followed in granting my chief of staff top secret special compartmented information.”
The emails, which were exchanged over a period of several years between Iranian regime diplomats and analysts, show that Tabatabai was part of a regime propaganda unit set up in 2014 by the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The Iran Experts Initiative (IEI) tasked operatives drawn from Iranian diaspora communities to promote Iranian interests during the clerical regime’s negotiations with the United States over its nuclear weapons program. Though several of the IEI operatives and others named in the emails have sought to portray themselves on social media as having engaged with the regime in their capacity as academic experts, or in order to promote better understanding between the United States and Iran, none has questioned the veracity of the emails.
The contents of the emails are damning, showing a group of Iranian American academics being recruited by the Iranian regime, meeting together in foreign countries to receive instructions from top regime officials, and pledging their personal loyalty to the regime. They also show how these operatives used their Iranian heritage and Western academic positions to influence U.S. policy toward Iran, first as outside “experts” and then from high-level U.S. government posts. Both inside and outside of government, the efforts of members of this circle were repeatedly supported and advanced by Malley, who served as the U.S. government’s chief interlocutor with Iran under both the Obama and the Biden administrations. Malley is also the former head of the International Crisis Group (ICG), which directly paid and credentialed several key members of the regime’s influence operation….
somehistory says
Where is Judge Roy Bean when you need him? Oh, wait, Bean was a crooked “judge.”
Much like many “judges,” and a whole barge full of crooked politicians, today. This crook, along with the woman who works for iran at the state department, need to be arrested, charged and tried for their crimes of treason.
Sir Peter says
And shot
OLD GUY says
Makes one think that treason is now called Diplomacy and as a diplomat you are exempt from the laws of the host country. I wonder how many people in Washington have diplomatic immunity?
JOHN LLOYD SCHARF says
The President and Congress have not declared war on; nor named Iran as an enemy. There are no crimes in the Constitution and government officials have qualified immunity.
Section 3 – Treason Note
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Jim Campbell says
Iran
Designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism in 1984, Iran continued its terrorist-related activity in 2019, including support for Hizballah, Palestinian terrorist groups in Gaza, and various terrorist groups in Syria, Iraq, and throughout the Middle East. Iran used the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF) to provide support to terrorist organizations, provide cover for associated covert operations, and create instability in the region. Iran has acknowledged the involvement of the IRGC-QF in the Iraq and Syria conflicts, and the IRGC-QF is Iran’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad. In April 2019, the Secretary of State designated the IRGC, including the Qods Force, as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). Iran also used regional proxy forces to provide deniability, in an attempt to shield it from accountability for its aggressive policies. https://www.state.gov/reports/country-reports-on-terrorism-2019/iran/
gravenimage says
The idea that Iran is *not*an enemy of the United States is just risible.
Wellington says
Malley’s suspension is a mere technicality in the broader scheme of things. What is not a technicality but of momentous weight nonetheless is that one Western nation after another is now led by fools, ignoramuses, actually complicit malevolent people, a host of cowards, avaricious scum, et al. Joe Biden comes to mind here. So does Justin Trudeau. And so many others, including those in charge of other major Western institutions like the Roman Catholic Church, now headed by a most miserable excuse for a Pope, and by enormous financial enterprises like Vanguard and BlackRock.
The weight of reason, common sense and moral intelligence is on the defensive in our time (well, when hasn’t it been it could be asked but with far more dire consequences precisely because of the age we live in, what with modern technology, easier communication and all that?).
I hope these positive “forces” will prevail. Sadly, at this point in time, I think they will not. And, if not, then mankind is doomed to enter a dark age like no other deficient era in mankind’s history, such as the ancient Greek dark age (c. 1100- 800 B.C.) and the dark age which ensued from the demise of the Roman Empire to the time of Charlemagne (c. 500-800 A.D.) and even beyond into the 11th century.
Man never learns. The “sanitizing” of Islam by the West in the past half century and the re-introduction of the rot which is Marxism via modern Western Leftism stand as “monuments” to mankind’s aggregate imbecility and not to any potential greatness resident in the species, Homo sapiens. Damn.
Daffy Duck says
Hear, hear! By the by: ‘The weight of reason, common sense and moral intelligence is on the defensive in our time (..)’ Our whole ‘science department’ is falling apart, the very fundament of our strength…
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
A depressing but accurate post, my compliments.
Back in 1974, when Vanguard Group was first founded by Jack Bogle, it was a first rate non-woke financial services company. And in 1976, Jack launched the very first S&P 500 index fund.
Now it is totally woke, and poor Jack must be turning in his grave.
Joe says
This reminds me of the time that Huma Abedin was chief of staff for HRC when HRC was secretary of state. Huma was still on the masthead of the Muslim Brotherhood magazine. Any research would have discovered that. Even when people complained Huma kept her job. And, Huma had a wholesale operation of taking confidential documents and putting them on her husband’s (Anthony Wiener) computer. There were thousands upon thousands of felonies for doing that. In addition, according the the NYPD at the time, the computer was acting as a server. The logs showed that the documents were downloaded to IPs in the Middle East. The DOJ decided it was not something they wanted to investigate.
bagsgroove says
All rotten to the core.