The spy scandal almost nobody is talking about (10-23-2024--hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the program. It is Wednesday, October 23rd. Less than, hang on a second, I got a political call coming in on the... Okay. Let me just turn this off. All right. So yeah, the election right around the corner, just less than two weeks away. We'll be doing election night coverage here on News Talk 1110 WBT. And I would love to have you join us and be a part of, let us be a part of your election night.

[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I was going to say celebration, but we don't know. So celebration slash morning. 704-570-1110. But I want to start with a bit of a scandal that I don't think is getting really any attention. And it's about espionage.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The United States is investigating an unauthorized release of classified documents that assesses Israel's plans to attack Iran.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Three U.S. officials told this to the Associated Press, who of course did not name them because we don't do that anymore.

[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_00]: A fourth U.S. official, also unnamed, because again, we don't do that anymore, said that the documents appear to be legit.

[00:01:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The documents are attributed to the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: They call it the NGA, which I find a bit offensive. It should be the NGIA or the NGIA.

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Also the NSA, the National Security Agency.

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And I have to admit, I wasn't even aware that the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency even existed.

[00:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The documents note that Israel was still moving military assets in place to conduct a military strike in response to Iran's ballistic missile attack back on October 1st.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: They were shareable documents amongst the Five Eyes, who I believe was one of the villains in the Pink Panther series.

[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Five Eyes.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: You could see everything.

[00:02:56] [SPEAKER_00]: No.

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That's U.S.

[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_00]: It's Great Britain.

[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Not to be confused with England.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Or

[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: the U.K.

[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_00]: It's Great Britain, which is different, as I understand it.

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: How does one island...

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I know they had a big empire and everything, but how does one island have all of these different names?

[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I still don't understand.

[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I tried to watch a video years ago that tried to explain

[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_00]: all of the names and what they encompassed and what they don't...

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: By the end of the video, the person doing the video was more confused than the beginning of the video.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, so the Five Eyes are the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: How did New Zealand make the cut here?

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.

[00:03:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, of all the countries to add to the Five Eyes, like, we already have Australia,

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and they're way bigger than little New Zealand, right?

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So how did you...

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're right in the same neck of the woods.

[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_00]: How did...

[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_00]: How did you end up with New Zealand in this Five Eyes mix?

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Probably because they couldn't call it Four Eyes, because that's insulting, right?

[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_00]: All the negative connotations with four eyes.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: So you had to get a different number.

[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So they went with five, and they were like, uh, okay, fine, Australia.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_00]: No, we can't call this Four Eyes.

[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, who's that next door to you, Australia?

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You like those guys?

[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, New Zealand, you're in.

[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_00]: The documents have been marked as top secret.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, the markings don't make something classified.

[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_00]: The nature of the information makes it classified.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_00]: I learned this during the Hillary Clinton scandal about all of her classified documents

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that were on her homebrew server that she controlled and then wiped, like, with a cloth,

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_00]: and smashed her phones with hammers and such.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, and then some of the stuff ended up on the laptop of Anthony Weiner,

[00:05:14] [SPEAKER_00]: because I think it was part of his Tinder profile or something.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So, no, I'm kidding.

[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: He, um, no, he was married to Uma Abedin,

[00:05:23] [SPEAKER_00]: who, as I understand it now, is married to Alex Soros, son of George Soros,

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_00]: who is taking random photos with all of the politicians that he has hunted down and captured.

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like it's, uh, it's almost like, you know, like the hunters mount the heads of the,

[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: of their kills up on their walls and stuff.

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Soros is doing this with the different Democrats in his,

[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_00]: in his apartment.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's like his, you know, million dollar, multi-million dollar, uh, penthouse suite.

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And he's taking pictures with these various Democrats.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And so that's the vibe I get from it.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_00]: But now, uh, Alex is, uh, he's with Huma.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Because Huma left Weiner.

[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not, that's not what I meant.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That, I know how that sounds.

[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_00]: That's not how I meant it.

[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_00]: She left Anthony.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And, uh, because of his sexting, uh, with, uh, the, uh, 15 year old in, uh, Gaston County.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So she had the documents apparently also, and they got over onto the Weiner laptop.

[00:06:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, and, uh, that's how I learned that the information isn't necessarily,

[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_00]: it's not classified because it is marked classified.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_00]: It is classified because the information is classified.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That you put the mark on it because of the nature of the information.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: The documents are marked top secret.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And they got posted to, uh, the messaging app called Telegram.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was first reported Saturday by CNN, uh, CNN, as well as Axios.

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_00]: the matter publicly.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And because that's how we do journalism now.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The investigation is also examining how the documents were obtained, including whether it

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: was an intentional leak by a member of the U.S. intelligence community, or if it was obtained

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_00]: by another method, like maybe a hack and whether any other intelligence information has been

[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_00]: compromised.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: As part of the investigation, officials are working to determine who had access to the

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: documents before they were posted.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_00]: The U.S. has urged Israel to take advantage of its elimination of Hamas leader, Yaya Senwar.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Who, by the way, did you hear that his bodyguard that was with him at the time of the whacking,

[00:07:57] [SPEAKER_00]: um, dude was a teacher for a U.N.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: RWA school, the UNWA, as I like to call it.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_00]: UNWA, the, uh, yeah, really the, the United Nations Relief Workers Agency, UNWA, that runs

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_00]: all the schools that, you know, teach the Palestinian children for now, what, three generations on

[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_00]: how there's no higher calling in life but to murder Jews.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'm as shocked as you are that a U.N.

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_00]: employee would be the bodyguard of a Hamas leader.

[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_00]: That is just so off-brand.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, they act as, you know, shelters and fronts for Hamas weapons caches and, um,

[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and staging areas and hideouts and bunker entrances and the like.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: But, I mean, to work as a bodyguard, man, that is just beyond the pale.

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the documents first appeared online Friday on a channel on Telegram.

[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And they claimed that they had been leaked by somebody in the U.S. intelligence community.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Then, later, the U.S. Defense Department.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: The information appeared entirely gathered through the use of satellite image analysis.

[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That is the, the, the, the GA, the GIA, I would call it, the National Geospatial Intelligence

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Agency.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's regarding, like, satellite imagery, drone imagery, and stuff like that, as I understand

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: it.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so that's where a lot of this information came from.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_00]: The Telegram channel involved in the leak identifies itself as being based in Tehran,

[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Iran's capital.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It previously published memes featuring Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and material in support of Tehran's self-described axis of resistance, which includes Middle East

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_00]: militant groups armed by Iran.

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So, it's a pro-Iran Telegram channel that published the information.

[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, called it very concerning.

[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_00]: John Schindler, who is a former, uh, spy guy, he writes a substack, as all spies do, um,

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_00]: called Top Secret Umbra.

[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that means, but, um, he had a very lengthy write-up on this.

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[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, so John Schindler writing at Top Secret Umbra.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: He's a former NSA guy.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And he says,

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody stole highly classified U.S. intelligence documents and posted them on the open internet,

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: exposing America's sensitive spy sources and methods to the world.

[00:11:47] [SPEAKER_00]: If it sounds familiar, well, it should.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00]: In recent years, the Department of Defense and the intelligence community have been plagued by leakers stealing highly classified intelligence and exposing it to the public and our enemies.

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: You'll recall in 2010, it was Bradley Manning, a.k.a. Chelsea Manning.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Then in 2013, Edward Snowden.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: 2017, reality winner.

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Who turned out not to be such.

[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Most recently, there was Jack Tejera in early 2023.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_00]: That was the guy from the Massachusetts Air National Guard.

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_00]: All these cases raise fundamental questions about DOD and IC security.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So Department of Defense and intelligence community.

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Their security, their vetting procedures and issues regarding the suitability of maladjusted millennials and zoomers to hold sensitive national security positions.

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I detect just a little bit of generational contempt here.

[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think it's fair to say that, you know, all millennials and zoomers, hashtag not all millennials.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're all looking to leak classified documents online.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_00]: We are aware of this kind of stuff happening over the course of our entire existence.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_00]: All as soon as you have an intelligence agency, you're going to have people inside it that leak out the information for one reason or another.

[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't feel it's proper to blame, you know, entire generations for this thing.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: But there has been quite a few of these cases now that we're aware of.

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_00]: These are just the ones that we know of.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_00]: So there it does seem like there's been a little bit of an uptick over the last 10 or 15 years.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: He says what has happened in recent days now is similar, but more politically charged and potentially much more serious.

[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Last Friday, U.S. classified documents or what are purported to be such appeared on the Telegram channel called Middle East Spectator, which has 170,000 followers and boasts a pro-Iranian take.

[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_00]: On news.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: It's affiliated Twitter account claims to be based in Iran.

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_00]: This channel stated that it had received the documents that day.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: So on Friday.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: From, quote, an anonymous source on Telegram who refused to identify himself, adding that their authenticity could not be verified.

[00:14:52] [SPEAKER_00]: But the documents were explosive in their content.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The first was a classified report titled Israel.

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Air Force continues preparations for strike on Iran and conducts a second large force employment exercise.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: 1516 October 2024.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: So it definitely reads like a government title of a document.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Like that has way too many words to be written by somebody outside of GovCo.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_00]: This is current intelligence describing Israeli Air Force exercises in preparation for a major attack on Iran, presumably in retaliation for Tehran's recent missile attack against Israel.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_00]: This report is derived from NSA signals intelligence reporting in mid-October.

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And it is supported by imagery intelligence from the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_00]: He goes on to say it mentions that not just covert UAV activity.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So those are the drones.

[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: It mentions not just covert UAV activity by the Israeli military, but also Israeli Air Force exercises with two kinds of air launched ballistic missiles, which rank among the Israelis most modern and secretive weaponry.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_00]: This is detailed, top secret intel derived from spy satellites, and it is meant only for U.S. audiences.

[00:16:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Did you know that none of these guys are connected to the Internet?

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So somebody had to have taken this off of the internal channel and then uploaded it and got it onto an Internet based platform.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: And I suspect that's going to be their undoing.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: So I got a message here from Russ.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: He says a classmate of mine worked at the Pentagon for a lot of his career.

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_00]: He was there for W, Obama, Trump and Biden.

[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_00]: During two of those administrations, the Israelis would only share some critical information if they wanted to make sure that Iran and its proxies would get it quickly.

[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So this was their channel.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: If you want Iran to know something, give it to us.

[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_00]: We'll be sure and let them know.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice.

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_00]: That's some good stuff.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Usually sharing with the five eyes would help keep a lid on stuff.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But more recently, they've all been so antagonistic that any one of them could be sharing this intel.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, as I understand it, this came from America's spy agencies.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And so if it was shared with the five eyes, it could have gotten out through one of the other four countries.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Or it could have just come directly from the U.S.

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: According to the John Schindler write-up on this, and it's a very, very lengthy piece.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just giving you the highlights.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: But if you really want to go deeper into this, you can read his piece.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Again, he writes at Substack, top secret Umbra.

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_00]: U-M-B-R-A.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Umbra.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what that means.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: But according to the report, quote, the IAF continued covert UAV operations on 16 October.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_00]: UAVs enable long-range covert surveillance in Iran and throughout the region.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: So, in other words, Schindler says Israeli secret eyes in the sky are on top of things, right?

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_00]: They're watching this stuff.

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And then the report says, quote, we did not observe any Jericho 2 medium-range ballistic missiles activity on October 16th.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Israel likely dispersed these missiles on 1 October.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And we lack indications that the dispersal has concluded.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The dispersal is almost certainly defensive.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: We have not observed indications that Israel intends to use a nuclear weapon.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Which they totally don't have, everybody.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, officially, Schindler says the U.S. government pretends that Israel does not have nuclear weapons.

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But the spooks have known the truth for many decades.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Namely, that Israel has lots of nukes.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The good news is that the intelligence community assesses that Israel doesn't plan to nuke Iran.

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The bad news is that the Geospatial Intelligence Agency cannot track Israel's nuclear platforms like the Jericho 2 with real precision.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_00]: So, good news, we don't think they're going to use it.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Bad news, we have no idea if they're going to use it because we can't see where they are.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: This is, right?

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Man, this is some money well spent on our intelligence, huh?

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The leak of these two highly classified current U.S. intelligence reports on Telegram landed like a bombshell.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Like a Jericho 2, maybe?

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Here was proof that Israel is seriously preparing to strike Iran good and hard no matter what the Biden administration thinks about that.

[00:20:18] [SPEAKER_00]: So, always keep in mind that this could be information that we want Iran to have, right?

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: This could be stuff that we want them to have.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And then you do the head fake, right?

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Israel, like, lets it be known.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, look at us moving all this stuff in preparation for this kind of an attack.

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And then, boom, different attack.

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't even see it coming because you were planning for this other attack, right?

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So, that's possible.

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_00]: To get the most basic question out of the way, yes, he says, these documents are real or at least they certainly appear to be.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking as somebody who has seen many such top secret plus intelligence reports from myriad intelligence community agencies.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So, this is the top secret plus.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: I think Dean Wormer created that one.

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_00]: If these purloined documents are not real, they were assembled by an intelligence service which has seen a lot of such highly classified U.S. IC reports in order to convincingly fake one of these, right?

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_00]: So, if it's not true, it's not real, it certainly looks like it.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: And it was made by somebody who has seen a bunch of them.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, he says, Occam's razor.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: You know me.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm an Occam's razor kind of guy.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the closest shave you can get.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And so, you just say it's probably real.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a bona fide scandal here.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Since these reports appeared on a Telegram channel, which is at a minimum very friendly to the Mullah regime and is quite possibly controlled by Iranian intelligence,

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: it's reasonable to conclude that the intent of the leak was twofold.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: One, to curtail any Israeli attack on Iran, right?

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you put it out there with the hopes that they won't move ahead with this attack because now it's been outed, right?

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't want to risk doing it if you know we're coming.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it would be on brand for the Israelis to be like, yeah, we're doing it anyway.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Try to stop us.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: And then just, you know, having lots of success and then everybody's even, you know, more mad at the further humiliation at the hands of the Jews.

[00:22:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The other goal potential is election interference by Iran, right?

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: So, one, they could be trying to cause trouble for Israel's friends in D.C.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: The current Biden-Harris administration doesn't count among those friends, by the way, at least not in the Israeli eyes.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: So, it could be construed as an Iranian effort at election interference so close to November 5th,

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: which is something that Tehran has been seeking to do between the hacking of the Donald Trump campaign emails,

[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_00]: trying to fence them to journalists while contracting would-be assassins to try to assassinate Trump

[00:23:02] [SPEAKER_00]: by revealing to the world that U.S. intel knows plenty about Israel's plans to strike Iran.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody who is friendly to Tehran is seeking to influence American politics and their interaction with Israel.

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: So, these are the two goals.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Or, I would submit if it's, it could just be a plant.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: I think that would be a third thing, is that Israel or the U.S. or somebody, they did this,

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: and maybe it's real intel, and maybe Israel is actually doing this stuff,

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: knowing that Americans are spying on them and banking on America,

[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: somebody inside the intelligence community to leak it, right?

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: So, it's a setup.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: That's possible, too.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_00]: The counter-spies have to first rule out the most alarming possibility,

[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_00]: which is that Iran got access to these highly classified reports because their hackers have infiltrated

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: our most secret IT systems and networks, and that cannot be ruled out.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Their top hackers are pretty good.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They represent a significant global threat, but, he says,

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: this possibility is also the least likely explanation for how the documents wound up posted on Telegram.

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_00]: He says it is similarly relatively easy and straightforward to rule out.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: So, he doesn't think that's what happened here.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And that brings us to the more likely possibility that somebody inside the U.S. government,

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: with access to the reports, decided to steal them and leak them,

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_00]: presumably to help Iran or at least hurt Israel and its friends in America.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: There is some good news on this front, though,

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: partly in response to the Chelsea Manning or Bradley Manning, whatever,

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: and the Edward Snowden leak disasters.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_00]: John Schindler says,

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: our counter-spies have quality tools at their disposal to firmly shut the barn door

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: after the classified horses have run out.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: So, that's good. I feel better.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: With current forensics,

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: it's relatively simple to determine who printed off which classified documents with precision,

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00]: including exactly where and when.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: I believe that's how they busted the reality winner chick.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I always felt like she was like the victor on Survivor, you know,

[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_00]: when I saw all those stories.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Reality winner, arrested.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Like, wait, Richard Hatch?

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the only one I know.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway.

[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It is likely there are multiple Iranian moles, though, lurking inside the DOD and the IC at present.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: In truth, the Obama-Biden-Harris administrations,

[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_00]: which have governed this country for 12 of the last 16 years,

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: have been positively Swiss-cheesed with well-placed friends of Tehran holding top jobs.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: This sensitive issue has been largely avoided by the media.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: At the heart of the dubious affair lurks Rob Malley,

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: the academic cum bureaucrat who made the 2015 Iran deal for Obama,

[00:26:08] [SPEAKER_00]: then was brought back by Biden to resurrect the Iran deal after Trump had killed it.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Malley failed to accomplish that,

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: but he did wind up at the center of a spy scandal himself,

[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_00]: which the White House has struggled mightily to suppress.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: So he says, and he goes in depth on Malley and all of this,

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_00]: but he's like, we can rule out Malley

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: because he's been out of classified access since spring of 23.

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: So he doesn't think Malley is the leaker,

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: but he was a mentor for a generation of Democrat foreign policy cadres

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: with an interest in Iran and the Middle East.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, like when I was reading about this scandal,

[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, the question I keep asking is,

[00:26:50] [SPEAKER_00]: why do we believe, why would anybody believe,

[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_00]: that the tentifada mindset is contained to academia, right?

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Why would that, why would we assume that?

[00:27:03] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a guy named Phil Gordon,

[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_00]: who is Harris's national security advisor.

[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And one of his protégés is a woman named Ariane Tabatabai.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's how she pronounces that.

[00:27:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Despite being unmasked over a year ago as leading,

[00:27:19] [SPEAKER_00]: a leading member of a Tehran controlled influence operation,

[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_00]: she has somehow managed to maintain her position

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: as the chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense

[00:27:29] [SPEAKER_00]: for special operations and low intensity conflict.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_00]: They call that Solik.

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to call it that because I don't want to have to read that name again.

[00:27:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That position is one of the most sensitive in the Pentagon.

[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It requires top secret plus clearances.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_00]: How Tabatabai has maintained all of that for more than a year

[00:27:49] [SPEAKER_00]: after she was outed as a tool of Tehran is a genuine mystery.

[00:27:56] [SPEAKER_00]: He says, I'm not putting my money on the Biden-Harris administration

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: getting to the bottom of the leak mystery too quickly.

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The scandal here isn't that somebody stole the highly classified intel

[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and passed it to an Iranian outfit to post it on the internet.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The real scandal is that team Obama-Biden-Harris

[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_00]: has allowed our government to be penetrated at the highest levels

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: by agents of Iran and related Islamist groups

[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_00]: that are enemies of America and the West.

[00:28:23] [SPEAKER_00]: He says, Russia-gate was largely imagined.

[00:28:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Iran-gate is painfully real.

[00:28:30] [SPEAKER_00]: For Democrats, counterintelligence has become a partisan cudgel

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: to beat up Republicans.

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Often with spurious McCarthyite accusations,

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: not the gravely serious national security matter which it is.

[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Electing Harris, who surrounded herself with Friends of Tehran,

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: an enormous security scandal, which our media ignores,

[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: her election would guarantee more intelligence leaks

[00:28:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and worse, all as World War III looms.

[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, the Washington Examiner quotes the Pentagon,

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Pentagon spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder,

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_00]: who denies that Ariane Tabatabai is responsible for the leaks.

[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Say it's not her.

[00:29:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The Pentagon has denied allegations linking a specific department staffer

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_00]: to the leaks of two purported classified documents

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER_00]: that held sensitive information related to Israel's expected retaliation against Iran.

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?

[00:29:37] [SPEAKER_00]: So the DOD says,

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: no,

[00:29:42] [SPEAKER_00]: she is not responsible for the leaks

[00:29:45] [SPEAKER_00]: because this has been flying all over the interweb, right?

[00:29:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Almost with as much reach as classified documents.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER_00]: So she is not the leak.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Now, we can all be assured, though,

[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_00]: because the FBI is leading the investigation, everybody.

[00:30:05] [SPEAKER_00]: The FBI is in charge.

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And so we have nothing to worry about.

[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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