John Shindler* discussed the Iranian ties of Robert Malley, Phil Gordon, Mahar Bitar, and Ariane Tabatabai on his substack. Shindler wonders why people cozy with America’s enemies have top secret clearances.
The real mystery here is why the Biden White House, like the Obama administration before it, is crawling with Iranian agents and their apologists. Counterintelligence seems to exist only in theory for Team OBH, at least when Iran is involved. People who are known to be cuddly with America’s enemies shouldn’t be eligible for TOP SECRET security clearances, much less top national security jobs, Shindler writes.
The next potential spy is deeply alarming:
Counterspies inside the Beltway tell me that another suspected Friend of Tehran was recently unmasked, and the implications of this case are deeply alarming for U.S. national security.
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His name is Lawrence W.K. Casselle, and he’s one of the top officials in the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Although little known to the public, DSS are Foggy Bottom’s cops, the federal agents who guard American diplomats abroad as well as foreign government dignitaries when they visit the U.S. Importantly, DSS also provides counterintelligence oversight to the State Dept.
Casselle became Deputy Assistant Director of DSS in May. Shindler’s counterintelligence agents told him he hooked up with a foreign woman who also happened to be an operative for Iranian intelligence. […]
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