What Was the Role of the Iranian Spy Ring in the US Government in the 'Intelligence Blunder' With Hamas?

Red State ^ | 10/09/2023 | Streiff

[SeekAndFind]

The brutal war Hamas launched against Israel is going into its third day. As the battlefield shifts from Israeli living rooms to the streets of the terrorist enclave of Gaza, many people are trying to understand what has happened. A logical first stop on the trail to understanding what appears to be an intelligence blunder dwarfing 9/11 is to find out why Iranian agents heavily infiltrated the Biden defense policy apparatus.

The obvious answer to the question is "yes," a thousand or so armed men don't cross your border and hunt women and children down in your towns without a major screw-up of some kind. Joe Cunningham has some solid things to say on the subject in Was There an Intelligence Failure in Israel?

Answering the obvious question and burning down the careers of a handful of people may feel good, but it doesn't answer why. 

Intelligence analysis is as much art as science. Rarely does any intelligence agency get fully actionable intelligence at the strategic level. Rather, people who are supposed to be authorities on a particular government or country or area sift through a lot of clues and indicators to make a best guess, for lack of a more accurate term, on enemy capabilities and intentions.

If you want a movie that explains why intelligence failures occur, my top recommendation would be "The Big Short." Take the story of the home mortgage meltdown of 2007, change it to analyzing intelligence, and you can see how hard it is for a dissenting view to be taken seriously. I would submit that more intelligence failures occur because they happen outside the favored narrative rather than a case of absolute surprise. The bits of information sifted through a colander labeled "Hamas will not escalate the level of violence" yield a result that, shockingly, predicts Hamas will not launch a surprise attack on Israel.

The other part of the equation is the quality of the information. Getting good information is hard enough, but when information or the interpretation of that information is corrupted, the task becomes impossible.

A week ago Semafor broke a major story about a secret effort by the Iranian government "to bolster Tehran’s image and positions on global security issues — particularly its nuclear program — by building ties with a network of influential overseas academics and researchers." One of the people recruited into this group was Robert Malley, Joe Biden's special envoy for Iran. Malley brought Ariane Tabatabai into government. Tabatabai ended up as chief of staff to Christopher Maier, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict, the Defense Department's top counterterrorism official. Tabatabai remains on the job even though we have emails from her checking in with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officials about what her views should be on various subjects.

When invited to Ben Gurion University in Israel, Ariane Tabatabai emailed Revolutionary Guards officer Mostafa Zahrani for his advice:
“I am not interested in going, but then I thought maybe it would be better that I go and talk, rather than an Israeli like Emily Landau who goes and disseminates disinformation. I would like to ask your opinion too and see if you think I should accept the invitation and go.” Emily Landau was a highly respected Israeli arms control & nuclear proliferation expert who passed away from illness in 2020.


pic.twitter.com/oHpagsBSfn— Alireza Nader علیرضا نادر (@AlirezaNader) October 2, 2023

Malley has been suspended from his position and is reportedly under FBI investigation for something, but, unlike anything dealing with Trump, no one is talking. In fact, the Biden bunch will not even answer questions from Congress.

The Department of Defense just blew past the October 3rd deadline.

We need answers on Ariane Tabatabai’s employment, her security clearance, and her relationship with the Iranian regime.

The Iranian regime’s unfettered access to the Biden administration is unacceptable.


https://t.co/sAdH2JpCm4— Armed Services GOP (@HASCRepublicans) October 4, 2023

Tablet Magazine describes the whole story in High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington. RedState has touched on the issue in Shocking: Shadowy Iranian 'Youth Network' Secretly Influences America's Foreign Policy and Ted Cruz Slams Biden Administration Over Revelations About Iranian Influence in the Government.

Who remembers this headline June 2023?

Biden special Iran envoy had his security clearance suspended over ‘personal conduct,’ mishandling ‘protected’ info 🇮🇷

Sept 26th
Kash Patel Exposes National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan's Iranian Ties 🔥💣https://t.co/GYhiJzVK7L
link ⬆️ pic.twitter.com/dds6rsw3R4— Joni Job (@jj_talking) October 7, 2023

DeathToAmerica Iran-enablers Of A Feather:

Blinken is also an old schoolboy chum and classmate (in a fancy Paris lycée) in France... of Iran-agent Robert Malley. pic.twitter.com/yl8aIRy4ts— Jack Jolis (@JackJolis) October 9, 2023

See Antony Blinken's Palestinian Attack Response Was So Absolutely Awful That He Deleted It.

Put this in the context of the same policy that released $6 billion to Iran (Former State Department Advisor Decimates Biden Team Excuses About the $6 Billion for Iran) to be placed in a bank in Qatar, which is Hamas's major source of funding and where top Hamas leaders live to be safe, and you would be right to wonder how deeply our Iran policy is run from Tehran. By the way, this is not new behavior if you consider Biden to be Obama's third term. It was Obama who cut a deal to give Iran nuclear weapons, but one of the architects of that deal was Ben Rhodes, who had difficulty obtaining a security clearance because, it was rumored, of his ties to Iran.

If Iranian agents advise senior policymakers in the Biden NSC, Pentagon, and State Department, it would be no shock that intelligence would be interpreted through the lens of that advice. It also wouldn't be a shock that someone who asked an IRGC officer how to testify to a Senate committee might have similar conversations about what to expect in the way of a US response.

The danger is not that this was an intelligence blunder; blunders happen, and blunders are fixable. The danger is that it was a blunder made possible by the high-level penetration of the Biden foreign and defense policy apparatus by Iranian agents of influence. If that is the case, then this represents the most colossal failure of intelligence due to foreign penetration in our history.

[dfwgator]

The Corporate Media will always protect Democrats from scandal.

[combat_boots]

Green glass

[combat_boots]

The global media with arms in the US

[Navy Patriot]

America has the very best Intelligence Officers money can buy.

[nuconvert]

Israel has their own intel. Apparently they screwed up too.

[laplata]

Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s aid/handler knows all about this. She helped run it.

[Eagles6]

Bttt

[4Runner]

So many articles posted on FR repeat the mantra that Israel is an ally of the US. While in fact that had been the case for many years, since 2008 and the election of Obama/Biden, both Muslim-lovers, that relationship soured. Israel since then has been given short shrift repeatedly by Washington. It is perfectly reasonable to assume our intelligence services knew of the impending attack yet did nothing to alert the Israeli government, and further, that the decision not to do so could have originated within the Oval Office itself.

[neverevergiveup]

Likely.

[ronnie raygun]

O’sh##face allowed them in the door

[RoosterRedux]

Bfl

[COBOL2Java]

Put this in the context of the same policy that released $6 billion to Iran (Former State Department Advisor Decimates Biden Team Excuses About the $6 Billion for Iran) to be placed in a bank in Qatar, which is Hamas's major source of funding and where top Hamas leaders live to be safe, and you would be right to wonder how deeply our Iran policy is run from Tehran.

Wow. That meant 600 mill for The Big Guy!

[NautiNurse]

The traitor weasel Robert Malley, high school buddy of Antony Blinken:

[NautiNurse]

The media and the U.S. Government are protecting the enemy within:

High Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington

Reports: Iran spy ring penetrated top policy levels of Biden Administration

Suspicion surrounds ex-Iran envoy Rob Malley after Israel attack: ‘Worst State Department scandal’

[mware]

This one has Obamas name all over it.

[Thunder90]

Apparently Chinese and Russian intel agencies were involved.

[unread]

"our intelligence services knew of the impending attack yet did nothing to alert the Israeli government, and further, that the decision not to do so could have originated within the Oval Office itself."

I'm thinking that Biden doesn't even know what day it is, but Obama, Valerie Jarrett and the deep state, that's an other thing altogether..

It seems I read somewhere that the CIA is made up mostly of foreign agents. They very well could be folks with absolutely no allegiance to to our nation whatsoever, and Definitely not Israel..

[dforest]

Seems to me that Congress Critters should be walking over to the White House and seeking a resignation from Biden and his administration.

Funny how that would never happen in these days. The car must go over the cliff because nobody cares to stop it.

[tlozo]

What Was the Role of the Iranian Spy Ring in the US Government in the 'Intelligence Blunder' With Hamas?

Israeli intelligence was so fooled that IDF officials publicly said Hamas would not start a war.

In fact, senior IDF and defense ministry officials said publicly last week that Hamas — which has since sent dozens of gunmen storming across the heavily-armed border under a fusillade of rockets — was not particularly interested in open conflict.

The hearing, which followed recent clashes along the border, saw the officials state that the militant group would not initiate war, the outlet said.

https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/vaunted-israeli-intelligence-agency-blindsided-by-hamas-attack-reports/