How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?

[mystery-ak]

October 22, 2024
How Were Crucial Intelligence Documents Leaked to Iran?
By Kenneth R. Timmerman

The leak of high-classified U.S. intelligence documents to the Iranian regime last week has triggered a much-needed counter-intelligence investigation to identify the source -- either a mole who has betrayed their country, or a cyber-hack.

The documents, which bore Top Secret/NOFORN and compartmented intelligence headers, described U.S. satellite spying on Israeli airfields as the IDF conducted exercises believed to foreshadow a massive airstrike on Iran.

The NOFORN designation means that the document cannot be shared with foreign nationals other than members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence-sharing arrangement the United States has crafted with the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

While the possibility exists that the materials were hacked from the highly-protected SIPRNET, the government's internal data base of highly-classified materials, there have been no public reports of any hacks of the SIPRNET by external actors.

Insiders, including former Army Private Bradley Manning and NSA contractor Edgar Snowden, have divulged reams of material from U.S. government classified holdings, but the government accused both of them of espionage, not hacking.

Last year, the Justice Department arrested a 21-year-old National Guard employee in Massachusetts in connection with the leak of more than fifty Pentagon documents, many of them classified, to a social media platform called Discord.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/10/how_were_crucial_intelligence_documents_leaked_to_iran.html

[DefiantMassRINO]

fax machine?

[Free Vulcan]

John Kerry?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Sky News Arabia reported that a DOD Director of Iranian descent was the culprit, Ariane Tabatabai, Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations.  This person was investigated in 2023 for another security mishandling.
Ariane Tabatabai
Ariane Tabatabai, who currently sits in the Pentagon with a high-level security clearance, is reportedly under investigation over an Iranian influence operation.
King's College London
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202410224828
https://nypost.com/2023/11/22/opinion/meet-the-iranian-born-biden-military-aide-reportedly-under-investigation-for-major-influence-campaign/

The DOD is furiously denying this happened.

[Bigun]

John Kerry?

Or Val Jarrett

[SZonian]

"...either a mole who has betrayed their country..."

There is no "mole", these traitors are right out in the open running things and appointing these enemies into positions of authority and power.

islamists bear no allegiance to any country, only to their pedophile moon god moHAMed.

If this is true about this Iranian, she should have been stripped of her clearance the first time and her clearance should have been adjudicated again.

[Free Vulcan]

Or Val Jarrett

Forgot about ferret face. 

[mystery-ak]

Let me run this idea by you guys....When I first heard this story my first thought was this was a ploy by Israel to catch a leaker/traitor in the US..

Create phony war plans send them to DC or however else it is done..then wait to see who and when they are leaked...just a thought..

I may have read too many Tom Clancy novels...

[Bigun]

Let me run this idea by you guys....When I first heard this story my first thought was this was a ploy by Israel to catch a leaker/traitor in the US..

Create phony war plans send them to DC or however else it is done..then wait to see who and when they are leaked...just a thought..

I may have read too many Tom Clancy novels...

I've read them all. Is that too many?

[mystery-ak]

I've read them all. Is that too many?

Never too many...

[mystery-ak]

Senior Pentagon Employee Named as Leaker of Israeli Retaliatory Strike Plans to Iran – Was Previously Outed as Iran Spy But Was Kept on Anyway
by Jim Hoft Oct. 22, 2024 1:20 pm

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. government is now investigating the unauthorized release of these documents, which are believed to have originated from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

Now, a senior Pentagon official has been identified as the primary suspect in a classified leak involving the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) plan to strike Iran.

The American official under suspicion has been named as Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian-American scholar of political science who currently serves as a senior policy advisor at the Pentagon.

The JewishPress.com reported:

    A Pentagon official told Sky News in Arabic that the investigation being conducted by intelligence agencies in Washington into the leaking to Tehran documents of the IDF plan to strike Iran has begun to indicate “suspicion” of the involvement of a senior employee in the Pentagon.

    The American official added that the employee suspected of leaking the documents is an American of Iranian origin named Ariane Tabatabai.

    Ariane Tabatabai is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran. Between 2021 and 2022, she served as an advisor to Robert Malley, the chief promoter of pushing a deal with Iran at any cost.

    Members of the US Congress, especially Republicans, have pointed out that Robert Malley was investigated after being suspected of having dealt with classified information without prior permission and of having secret contacts with Iranian figures.

https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1848732850234765546

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/senior-pentagon-employee-named-as-leaker-israeli-retaliatory/

[bigheadfred]

Senior Pentagon Employee Named as Leaker of Israeli Retaliatory Strike Plans to Iran – Was Previously Outed as Iran Spy But Was Kept on Anyway
by Jim Hoft Oct. 22, 2024 1:20 pm

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) confirmed on Sunday that the U.S. government is now investigating the unauthorized release of these documents, which are believed to have originated from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

Now, a senior Pentagon official has been identified as the primary suspect in a classified leak involving the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) plan to strike Iran.

The American official under suspicion has been named as Ariane Tabatabai, an Iranian-American scholar of political science who currently serves as a senior policy advisor at the Pentagon.

The JewishPress.com reported:

    A Pentagon official told Sky News in Arabic that the investigation being conducted by intelligence agencies in Washington into the leaking to Tehran documents of the IDF plan to strike Iran has begun to indicate “suspicion” of the involvement of a senior employee in the Pentagon.

    The American official added that the employee suspected of leaking the documents is an American of Iranian origin named Ariane Tabatabai.

    Ariane Tabatabai is an Iranian-American scholar of political science, writer, and senior policy advisor to the United States Department of Defense. After the Biden administration took office in January 2021, she joined the US negotiating team in nuclear negotiations with Iran. Between 2021 and 2022, she served as an advisor to Robert Malley, the chief promoter of pushing a deal with Iran at any cost.

    Members of the US Congress, especially Republicans, have pointed out that Robert Malley was investigated after being suspected of having dealt with classified information without prior permission and of having secret contacts with Iranian figures.

https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/1848732850234765546

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/senior-pentagon-employee-named-as-leaker-israeli-retaliatory/

Hang her.

[Bigun]

Hang her.

Along with all those who enabled her.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Hang her.

when was the last time we had a public execution?

[Wingnut]

when was the last time we had a public execution?

I'd watch. Pay for view or on ESPN.  Execution and Support Programing Network

[Smokin Joe]

Let me run this idea by you guys....When I first heard this story my first thought was this was a ploy by Israel to catch a leaker/traitor in the US..

Create phony war plans send them to DC or however else it is done..then wait to see who and when they are leaked...just a thought..

I may have read too many Tom Clancy novels...

Not so crazy. I have even suggested doing the same thing, with minor variations to track the leak.

[Fishrrman]

"Top  Iranian Pentagon Official Ariane Tabatabai Is The Israeli-Iran Attack  Plan Who Kept Her Top-Level Security Clearance Despite Previous ‘Spying  for Tehran’ Accusations
Tabatabai os a long time Iranian operative who who kept her security clearance  despite previous ‘spying for Tehran’ accusations. The Iranian-born  Pentagon official kept her top-level security clearance despite being  named as part of a covert influence campaign run by Tehran — and being  called a “spy.”"

This woman HAD BETTER BE prosecuted under a second Trump administration.

Although...
If Mr. Trump wins, sumthin' tells me she may leave the country before January 20, 2025...

[Smokin Joe]

"Top  Iranian Pentagon Official Ariane Tabatabai Is The Israeli-Iran Attack  Plan Who Kept Her Top-Level Security Clearance Despite Previous ‘Spying  for Tehran’ Accusations
Tabatabai os a long time Iranian operative who who kept her security clearance  despite previous ‘spying for Tehran’ accusations. The Iranian-born  Pentagon official kept her top-level security clearance despite being  named as part of a covert influence campaign run by Tehran — and being  called a “spy.”"

This woman HAD BETTER BE prosecuted under a second Trump administration.

Although...
If Mr. Trump wins, sumthin' tells me she may leave the country before January 20, 2025...

That would mean the Mossad could track her down, not that they couldn't make it look like a 'botched robbery' or an 'accident'.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The proper response to getting a traitor caught in your midst?  Promote them if you are in the Biden/Harris administration

Suspected Iranian Spy Ariane Tabatabai Receives a Pentagon Promotion
By Jennifer Van Laar | October 24, 2024

Ariane Tabatabai, a Pentagon official whose troubling links to the Iranian regime were revealed more than a year ago and who is reportedly suspected of being behind the leak of top secret US intelligence documents related to Israel, is no longer chief of staff for Assistant Secretary of Defense Christopher Maier.

Politico reports that Tabatabai has been promoted to Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training, a position she's (also) completely unqualified for:

ARIANE TABATABAI is now the deputy assistant secretary of defense for force education and training within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a position she was offered last month. She was previously chief of staff for assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict.

Note that Politico pointedly asserts that Tabatabai was offered the position last month, likely in an attempt to make people believe that this move wasn't in response to the document leak.

In her position as chief of staff to Maier, Tabatabai had access to extremely sensitive intelligence assessments because of what Maier's role entails:

ASD(SO/LIC) oversees and advocates for Special Operations and Irregular Warfare throughout the Department of Defense to ensure these capabilities are resourced, ready, and properly employed in accordance with the National Defense Strategy. In this role, the ASD:

Exercises authority, direction, and control of all special operations peculiar issues relating to the organization, training, and equipping of special operations forces
Is the Principal Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict Official within the senior management of DoD
Sits in the chain-of-command above USSOCOM for special operations-peculiar administrative matters; provides civilian oversight of the SOF enterprise.
Advises, Assists, and Supports the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on Special Operations and Irregular Warfare policy matters.
https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/10/24/suspected-iranian-spy-ariane-tabatabai-has-a-new-gig-n2181036

[Wingnut]

We will never know who leaked the info.   Because we know who leaked the info.

[Bigun]

I've been telling everyone that the Iranian Mullahs have been calling the shots here since 2008 minus 2016-2020.