By Daniel Greenfield July 05, 2023 @ Sultan Knish Blog
Last year, the FBI conducted a raid of former President Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago. Biden’s
Justice Department bypassed normal protocol for the raid, sidelined the
FBI’s Miami Field Office, refused to assign a U.S. Attorney’s Office
and pressured the FBI to go forward.
Next
year, the Biden administration encountered an internal case of one of
its top officials mishandling classified information. The mishandling of
classified information on Iran, the linchpin of the Trump indictment,
didn’t just hit any Biden official, but its special envoy for Iran.
Even as the Justice Department moved full speed ahead with targeting Trump, the State Department was aware that Rob Malley,
Biden’s special envoy for Iran, was being investigated for mishandling
classified information. Despite that, Malley remained on the job and
apparently retained his access to classified information until his
security clearance was pulled this spring.
Under investigation
and with his security clearance suspended, Malley still officially
remained the special envoy for Iran even though secretly he was no
longer able to conduct some of his duties. Only at the end of June when the story broke, did the State Department switch from calling Malley the envoy to Iran to finally stating that, “Rob Malley is on leave.”
Within
6 months, the FBI had gone from a criminal investigation of Trump to a
raid. It seems to have taken nearly that long for Malley just to be put
on leave and it appears that he would still be named as the special
envoy for Iran if the story of the investigation had not come out.
In
one of the most awkward moments in an administration whose press
conferences are full of them, State Department spokesman Matt Miller blurted out
that he had “no comment” on Rob Malley’s status before assuring
reporters that he was still the special envoy. And then Miller had to
announce that Malley was on leave and his second in command was carrying
on.
Prior to that, the State Department had offered
misleading answers such as, “the Department of State, the Special Envoy
for Iran, and his team remain deeply engaged on the formulation and
implementation of US Iran Policy” while refusing to name who the actual
envoy was.
The State Department had gone to great lengths to
cover up the status of one of its top figures involved in an issue of
major national security who was being investigated by the FBI. Not only
did it not disclose that Malley no longer had access to classified
information and had been forced to step away from some duties, but it
actively obstructed reporters from learning about it.
The State
Department’s official site, as of this writing, still names Malley as
the special envoy. The Twitter account and other official State
Department messaging accounts still carry Malley’s name. Had the story
not come out from Iran dissident sources, we still would not know about
it.
The surprise is not that Malley’s security clearance was suspended, it’s that he ever had it in the first place.
Robert Malley
is the son of Simon Malley: a key figure in the Egyptian Communist
Party and an adviser to terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. During his 2008
presidential campaign, Obama was forced to boot Robert Malley over his
meetings with Hamas on behalf of George Soros’ International Crisis
Group. Once in office, Obama brought Malley back and named him to a
succession of top positions even though Iranian opposition groups and
pro-Israel activists warned that Malley was sympathetic to Iran’s terror
regime and working against America.
Malley helped negotiate the
deal that allowed Iran to continue developing its nuclear program while
having sanctions lifted on the terror state. After Trump won, Malley
rejoined the Soros ICG and was accused of conducting backchannel talks
with Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif to undermine the
Trump administration in violation of the Logan Act. While Gen. Flynn,
Trump’s former national security adviser, was investigated for
violations of the Logan Act for lobbying foreign officials in support of
a resolution on Israel at the UN, Obama officials like Kerry and Malley
never faced an investigation over alleged Logan Act violations aimed
against America and Israel.
Biden brought in Malley as the
special envoy for Iran despite not only all of this history, but also
the fact that his son, Blaise Malley, was working for the Quincy Institute
run and funded by key figures in the pro-Iran movement, as well as
George Soros. Trita Parsi, Quincy’s executive VP, a dual Iranian-Swedish
national, founded the National Iranian American Council, described by
Iranian dissidents as the ‘Iran Lobby’ which has been accused of
violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
Robert Malley has
spent his time as special envoy for Iran offering to give the Islamic
terror regime anything it wants. America was “prepared to get back into
the deal as soon as possible – as soon as Iran is”, he had pleaded.
Iranian dissidents have held protests calling for Malley to be fired, condemned him and warned that he is working for Iran, not America.
The
Biden administration was well aware that Robert Malley was not just
another official. He was a political extremist who had been accused of
inappropriate ties to enemy nations and terror groups for decades, whose
father had been expelled from France, whose son was working for an
outpost of the Iran Lobby, and yet an investigation into mishandling
classified information was not only slow walked, but covered up to an
almost criminal degree.
The State Department misled Americans and
reporters about the status of its special envoy for Iran. And in the
process it also effectively misled much of the world which has been
monitoring the failed attempt by the Biden administration to restart the
Iran Deal. Including potentially Israel. After a week in which the
Biden administration had accused Israel of ‘leaking’ information about
its plans to implement a non-binding ‘temporary’ deal with Iran, which
was actually being leaked by Iranian sources, it has been caught
covering up the misconduct of its Iran envoy.
The Biden
administration’s coverup of its Iran envoy mishandling classified
information is in sharp contrast to its purported concern over Trump’s
handling of classified information on Iran.
An administration
genuinely concerned with national security, especially when it comes to
Iran, would never have appointed Malley as an envoy for Iran. Appointing
someone with his history and connections to any national security
position showed a total disregard for national security. Covering up for
him reveals the scope of the State Department’s complicity in Malley’s
actions.
As a New York Times story notes, “Mr. Malley is a
boyhood friend of Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken; the two attended
the same high school in Paris when their families were living in
France.” Beyond Blinken, Malley was embedded in the system by the
Clinton, Obama and Biden administrations. He is part of a larger network
of pro-Iran and anti-American officials within the State Department and
the larger ‘blob’ of think tanks, activists, lobbyists, reporters and
foreign agents that calls the shots on foreign policy. Malley’s alleged
sin is theirs.
The treatment of Trump does not reflect a concern
for the sanctity of classified information, but is motivated solely by
targeting the political opposition.
When you have the wrong
political views, the FBI will knock on your door even if you’re the
former president of the United States. And if you have the right
political views, even if you’ve been a walking security risk for two
decades, the State Department will cover for you and you’ll be able to
keep your title even while being investigated for mishandling classified
information.
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