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2024-11-13 Home Front: WoT

CIA official with top security clearance charged for leaking highly classified docs about Israel's plans to strike Iran

[NY Post] A CIA official has been charged with leaking highly classified US documents about Israel’s potential plan to strike back against Iran over a missile attack.

Asif W. Rahman,

…or when his mother is mad, Asif William Rahman …

who worked overseas for the agency and held a top secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday over the leaks, the New York Times reported.

His arrest comes after the top secret materials started circulating online last month detailing Israel’s apparent intention to retaliate after Iran launched a barrage of missiles back on Oct. 1.

The files, which were prepared by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in part detailed satellite imagery tied to the potential Israeli strike, as well as the various kinds of missiles on hand.

The top secret files were only meant to be seen by those with proper clearance in the US and the other members of the "Five Eyes" intelligence alliance — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

Rahman’s clearance with the CIA meant he had access to sensitive compartmentalized information, which is typical of employees who handle classified materials.

The FBI had revealed last month that it was probing the source of the leak, saying at the time it was "working closely with our partners in the Department of Defense and intelligence community."

Rahman, who is being brought to a federal court in Guam to face the charges, is charged with two counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information.

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-13 10:21|| || Front Page|| [11136 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran Proxies

#1 He may have to wait a while for the next Dem president to spring him.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-11-13 12:39|| 2024-11-13 12:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Asif W. Rahman, who worked overseas for the agency and held a top secret security clearance, was arrested by the FBI in Cambodia on Tuesday over the leaks, the New York Times reported.

Forced play was it? Nasty old Cambode's.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-13 12:45|| 2024-11-13 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 That was quick! Did something change?

Posted by SteveS 2024-11-13 12:46|| 2024-11-13 12:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Ariane Tabatabai passed her polygraph examination!

Posted by Shuper Clairt5942 2024-11-13 13:05|| 2024-11-13 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 /\

Or so said her polygrapher.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-13 13:11|| 2024-11-13 13:11|| Front Page Top

#6 An intelligence operative arrested in non-extradition Cambodia? George Clooney better pick someplace else to hide from his Diddy habits.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-11-13 13:18|| 2024-11-13 13:18|| Front Page Top

#7 Ariane should kiss her Security Clearance goodbye

Posted by Frank G 2024-11-13 13:22|| 2024-11-13 13:22|| Front Page Top

#8 @#6 "... in non-extradition Cambodia?"

I've seen a few people fall (ungracefully) across the Thai/Cambo border.

Posted by Bangkok Billy 2024-11-13 13:34|| 2024-11-13 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Why did a CIA official in Cambodia have access to these plans!?!?!?

Posted by DarthVader 2024-11-13 14:46|| 2024-11-13 14:46|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ Perhaps he was given the plans and told precisely what to do with them. If a foreign intelligence service stumbled over the scheme, they would have been obliged to notifiy the US Embassy.

At that point the Cambodian cover for action would have been blown.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-11-13 15:46|| 2024-11-13 15:46|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Knowing Israel and Iran would just continue tit-for-tat attacks against each other, and the possibility for this to then spiral into a much greater conflict; maybe this guy was sold out, by given him the plans, knowing there was a very high probability he would leak them?

Posted by Deadeye Elmotch3393 2024-11-13 16:26|| 2024-11-13 16:26|| Front Page Top

#12 Just hang her from a meathook in the CIA HQ lobby. Let them walk past her everyday as they go to work so they know what the price of treason is. She'll probably last a day or two, they can live with screams and whining.

Time for an example to be set.

Posted by Silentbrick 2024-11-13 18:33|| 2024-11-13 18:33|| Front Page Top

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