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2023-11-23 Home Front: WoT
Meet the Iranian-born Biden military aide reportedly under investigation for major influence campaign: ‘Clear and present danger'
BLUF:
[NYP] ....sitting in the Pentagon with a high-level security clearance is Ariane Tabatabai, the Iranian-born Biden military aide who reportedly is under investigation over an Iranian influence operation whose tentacles reach deep into Washington’s military and diplomatic establishment — and nobody in the government will explain why.
She oughtta be investigated for that haircut
Eyes on Tehran

Not only is Tabatabai the chief- of-staff to the Pentagon’s assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier, but, according to Navy sources, she recently became a US reserve naval intelligence officer.

Tabatabai has completed her five-month training at the Center for Information Dominance in Dam Neck, Va., according to a fellow officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, and expressed concern that Tabatabai retains her security clearance, despite the counterintelligence investigation.

The officer says Tabatabai would receive access in her reservist intelligence role to such sensitive information as staff rosters and movements of US ships and submarines in the Persian Gulf, all of which is clearly of interest to Iran amid the current Gaza conflict.

"The Navy has been actively training her to be an intelligence officer and giving her access to, not just what she has in her civilian job, but access to all the need-to-know information that a reserve unit has," says the officer.

"This naval reserve [role] gives her more clearance and access. Everyone she has contact with in the Navy intelligence realm is now potentially outed."

The officer says Tabatabai’s security access has been a source of ongoing concern among colleagues, especially as "the investigation has been going on for so long."

"It’s a clear and present danger in that even if [the investigation] affords her the right to due process, her clearance still should be on hold, and she should not have any access to go into the Pentagon or any other military installation."

The FBI reportedly has been shut out of the Tabatabai probe, and it is not known which agency is in charge.

Tabatabai bio.

Emphasis added.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 07:06|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran Proxies 

#1 The FBI reportedly has been shut out of the Tabatabai probe, and it is not known which agency is in charge.

Suspension of access? Absolutely not! 'Red Badging' (visitor with escort) is so demeaning. Key phrase "FBI shut out."

I can't even begin to imagine what must be going on here.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 07:20||   2023-11-23 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A reservist with access and a writer. These people come in quite handy from time to time.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 07:45||   2023-11-23 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 I can't even begin to imagine what must be going on here.

Whistleblower Protections
Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-23 09:09||   2023-11-23 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Like Ratshita, the "sexy librarian glasses" ain't gettin' it for her...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-23 09:14||   2023-11-23 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 dont hire muslims. for anything.
Posted by irish rage boy 2023-11-23 17:44||   2023-11-23 17:44|| Front Page Top

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