Timothy Birdnow

This is good news but I want to know who he was working with and if others were involved in this. I strongly suspect this guy was not acting alone.

Man Charged in Leak of Classified Documents About Israeli Military Plans

You know full well this guy was acting in concert with people in the Administration. What we need to find out is who.

FTA:

"A C.I.A. official has been charged with disclosing classified documents that appeared to show Israel’s plans to retaliate against Iran for a missile attack earlier this year, according to court documents and people familiar with the matter.
The official, Asif W. Rahman, was indicted last week in federal court in Virginia with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information. He was arrested by the F.B.I. on Tuesday in Cambodia and brought to federal court in Guam to face charges.
The documents were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which analyzes images and information collected by U.S. spy satellites. It conducts work in support of clandestine and military operations.
Mr. Rahman, who worked abroad for the C.I.A., was set to appear in Guam on Thursday.
The information in the documents is highly classified and details interpretations of satellite imagery that shed light on a possible strike by Israel on Iran. They began circulating last month on the Telegram app. U.S. officials have previously said that they did not know from where the documents had been taken, and that they were looking for the original source of the leak."

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So how did this guy get a top secret clearance in the first place?

When I graduated from college I and my fellow Russian classmates (I studied Russian and history in college and had a certificate in Russian Scientific translation, although I fell one class short of getting the Russian degree and the Eastern Area Studies certificate because the professor who taught the philosophy of Mrxism/Leninism was on sabbatical) tried and failed to get jobs with the CIA and NSA. One girl, who had been an Army brat, was denied an NSA job solely because she had a distant cousin in East Germany and her father had been stationed in West Germany. They feared she could be a security risk. (I would add she was a BABE; I should have asked her out!) At any rate most of my classmates were denied such jobs because of niggling reasons that might suggest a security risk. Yet here we have a guy named Asif Rahman, who undoubtedly could be connected to Middle Eastern interests, getting so sensitive a security clearance. And this is nothing new; John Brennan actually voted for the Commmunist Party USA in an electiona nd disclosed that on his security clearance application and wound up becoming head of the CIA!

Times have really changed in our national intelligence.

And now we are going to probably see this guy quickly charged and convicted and disappear into the bowels of the penal system - and perhaps hang himself in his jail cell, or be struck by a bolt of lightning. But I suspect this will be the last we hear of him.

At a minimum he had to have contacts to deal with. You don't just one day decide to committ treason and pick up the phone and call Tehran with an offer. You have to know how to do it, who to call, and how to avoid detection. There are co-conspirators - Iranians at a minimum but I suspect people in the current Administration who wanted to hamstring Israel and thwart a possible attack on Iran by Israel.

My prediction is this story will vanish and so will that noodle Mr. Rahman. We'll probably hear he hanged himself, or was shanked by prisoners. But I imagine that will be covered up. Yes, the incoming Administration may well try to get this out, but I suspect the current crop of conniving convicts we call national security people will act switftly. They can't have this guy spilling his story to Newsmax or The Gateway Pundit.

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