CIA employee who leaked classified docs re: Israel's plans to strike Iran will plead guilty

Well, here we have another fine example of how the internal workings of the intelligence community can become as leaky as a sieve. As if William Rahman, a CIA employee since 2016, decided it was his personal mission to become the unofficial town crier of classified information. On Friday, he pleaded guilty to charges that he not only retained but also merrily transmitted national defense secrets, according to the US Department of Justice.

In his own words, or rather, in the legal confession that he made, Rahman admitted to having downloaded, printed, and distributed classified documents. Not once, but several times throughout 2024. In the spring, he was caught with his hands in the cookie jar of secrets, printing five documents labeled 'secret' and 'top secret', taking them home like they were his personal reading material. He then engaged in a bit of home-based espionage, altering these documents before distributing them to those who had no legal right to see them.

To cover his tracks, he deleted his digital footprints, returned the documents to the CIA for shredding, and presumably patted himself on the back for his cleverness. But, as autumn turned the leaves, he repeated this performance, this time with ten more top-secret documents.

The plot thickens—or rather, the leak widens—on October 17, 2024, when he printed two documents detailing Israel's plans to strike Iran. These plans, which were supposed to stay within the confines of secure briefings, found themselves on the internet, courtesy of a pro-Iranian Telegram channel named "Middle East Spectator".

Rahman, aged 34, from Vienna, Virginia, now faces the consequences of his actions in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. One wonders if the irony of leaking secrets to protect one's own secrets is lost on him.

This case is not just about one man's indiscretions; it's a stark reminder of the fragility of our security apparatus when individuals decide to play fast and loose with national secrets. It's a narrative that could be straight out of a spy novel, if only it weren't so disturbingly real.

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Fake News: Muslim girl lies about being pushed onto tracks

Vienna, Austria -- Birthplace of Dr. Sigmund Freud, an appropriate place for this crazy story to take place. But perhaps it isn't as crazy as it seems, for it seems that these kinds of lies are fodder for the Islamic propaganda gristmill. 

A 14-year-old Muslim girl (let's call her Ayisha as that was the prophet's 6-year-old wife's name) has created an outrage on social media. She claimed that a bystander pushed her onto the railway tracks yelling "terrorist" at her.

According to her story, she was saved by another bystander who pulled her back onto the platform "at the last second," and ran off to the hospital. Her Turkish native parents filed a criminal complaint stating she was assaulted.

Naturally, the social media went berserk. Without any evidence, an anti-discrimination and racism group immediately went political and blamed Austrian Foreign and Integration Minister Sebastian Kurz for the attack. It was his fault because he said on Friday that he wanted to ban public servants, including teachers, from wearing the hijab or Islamic headscarf.

The proposed ban caused discontent as it was stricter than even France's laws where only the full anti-Muslim-rape cloth full-body armor is banned, better known as the burqa. 

But now the girl is being accused of lying. Investigators couldn't find a shred of evidence of the alleged assault after combing through CCTV at the time and place the alleged incident occurred at the S-Bahn train station.

Police spokeswoman Irina Steirer said: 

"We have looked through the CCTV and at the time when the incident is alleged to have occurred, nothing can be seen on the records . . . Both the alleged victim and the accused are captured on CCTV, but nothing ever happens and they are both simply getting on the train."

The girl will be brought in for questioning "as soon as possible," and she could be charged with slander and filing a false report.

She should have just made a fake bomb for "Show and Tell." Who knows, maybe she could get to meet the President of Austria.


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Iran once again flips us off

Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Vienna to  "follow up on the steps necessary to implement" the P5+1 nuclear deal. And, according to the State Department "Secretary Kerry also raised the cases of our detained and missing U.S. citizens," Mark Toner said in a statement.

As it stands, there are four Americans that have been held hostage in Iran before the nuclear deal was discussed and agreed to, but it happened again when Siamak Namazi, a U.S. businessman who had been working out of Dubai, was arrested at the beginning of October while visiting a friend in Tehran.

Namazi comes from a prominent Iranian family. His father was governor if Khuzestan province and the family came to the U.S. in 1983.

The charges against Namazi are not known in detail but you'd be making a good bet if you put your money on espionage or spying.

Political scientist and president of the Eurasia Group, Ian Bremmer tweeted: "Siamak Namazi, solid analyst & US citizen I've known well for a decade, arrested in Iran. Charges unclear, almost certainly unfounded."

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif) said Namazi's arrest is "the latest show of contempt for America."

It also shows Iran's lack of fear of America and the weakness of this administration.

The other Americans imprisoned in the terrorist nation of Iran are: Marine veteran Amir Hekmati (over 4 years); Saeed Abedini (over 3 years); Jason Rezaian (since July 22, 2014); and retired FBI agent Bob Levinson (missing over 8 years).

Mark Dubowitz, executive director of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies said that Namazi is "closely tied" to the Iran lobby in Washington D.C., including the pro-nuclear deal National Iranian American Council (NIAC). He claims that Namazi has positioned himself in-between three mafia-like Iranian families that control Iran: the Rafsanjani/Rouhani group, the Revolutionary Guards, and the office of the Ayatollah scumcrumpet. 

"And I think it should put to rest the delusion that there's any moderate forces in Iran," Dubowitz said. He believes Namazi was targeted because he's "fallen out of favor with the Supreme Leader and/or the Revolutionary Guards and their intelligence services."

The NIAC released a statement downplaying Namazi's involvement with them.

Wouldn't it be great if Obama would put to rest his delusions about political Islam?


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Iran, a plan, a man, Kablam!

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden believes that the US has lost its edge in the Iran nuclear giveaway deal. "I would actually fear that the Iranians have the upper hand right now," he told Fox News Sunday. "I actually fear we have painted ourselves into a corner where we believe that any deal is better than no deal at the present time."

John "The Biker" Kerry is in Vienna at this time negotiating with the terrorists who chant "Death to America," "Death to Israel," every morning as an Islamic ritual. 

Hayden believes that what we are asking for of the Iranian lunatics, does not prevent them from obtaining a nuclear weapon which will be used to bring about the return of the Twelfth Imam as they start a nuclear holocaust. 

It should come as no surprise that the deadline of June 30 will, like all the other deadlines, not be met, as Iran bides their time while working frenetically to build the bomb. 

Of course, Obama administration officials say that they are "unconcerned" about the timeliness of the talks--they all have the keys to the Obama bomb bunkers. Or maybe they're simply naive. 

Let's be real: if Iran doesn't want inspectors going wherever they want to go in order to inspect whenever they wish, the Ayatollah has something evil up his robes besides himself.


Obama said that no deal is better than a bad deal (he was quoting Netanyahu), but I believe that he believes any deal is better than no deal.

Knowing that John Kerry is doing our negotiating should scare all of the Western world as well as Israel.



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