5 Iranians captured at US northern border

The border crisis just got a lot scarier. A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Border Patrol agents nabbed five Iranians trying to sneak across the U.S.-Canada border near Champlain, New York. 

That’s right, our northern border, not the usual southern flashpoint. And these weren’t just random migrants. As counterterrorism expert Jonathan Gilliam warned Fox News Digital, Iranian sleeper cells could already be "hiding in plain sight”" in the U.S., especially after Iran’s recent threats against America following U.S. airstrikes on its nuclear sites June 22. 

By the way, where has Reza Aslan been hiding lately?

CBP’s Swanton Sector, covering the rural Vermont area near Highway 89, posted the details on Facebook: "On July 1, Border Patrol Agents from the Champlain, New York Station, responded to suspicious activity near Mooers Forks, NY. where the noisy cows go.

Agents located a minivan occupied by five citizens of Iran and two citizens of Uzbekistan." All seven had prior arrests for illegal border crossings and are now detained, awaiting deportation. CBP didn’t mince words: Border security is national security and directly correlates to public safety, Swanton Sector Agents remain vigilant and committed to protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws."

But let’s talk about the bigger picture. Gilliam, a former FBI special agent and terrorism task force member, didn’t hold back when he told Fox News, "Where these sleeper cells may be is in plain sight. And that's the real terrifying part of this is that putting people in place, as we've seen over the past four years, everyone's scrambling because certain amounts of people could come in here and get in here." 

He’s not wrong. The Biden administration’s border policies, joke that they were, have left the door wide open. Gilliam pointed out the absurdity: "They could even go to the border and say they [want to] seek asylum, and the Biden administration, instead of putting them into DHS housing or ICE housing and holding them there so they could have their first appearance. To be vetted and whether or not they get asylum."

This isn’t just speculation. The State Department’s 2023 terrorism report, released last December, laid out a chilling pattern of Iranian operatives stirring trouble in Western countries. Take this example: "In 2023 the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment charging three individuals connected with Iran in a plot to assassinate an Iranian dissident in New York City." Or this one: "Also in 2023, a United Kingdom court found a man guilty of attempting to collect information for terrorist purposes on the London-based Iran International, a media company that is critical of the Iranian regime." 

And it’s not just the U.S. and UK, there's also Albania, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark. They have all had to deal with Iranian plots, from arrests to expulsions to foiled assassinations.

Iran’s not playing games. Just look at the anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on June 20, where worshippers saluted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, unified in their rage against Israel, and, by extension, us. 

With our northern border now a revolving door for potential threats, you have to wonder: How many more are already here, blending into the chaos Biden’s policies have enabled? CBP’s doing its job, but they’re fighting a flood with a cereal bowl. 

When will the White House wake up?

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Chinese Spies Busted Snooping on U.S. Navy: Another Day, Another CCP Plot

Well, folks, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is at it again, and this time, they’ve been caught red-handed, pun intended. 

Two Chinese nationals, Yuance Chen and Liren Lai, were nabbed by the FBI for allegedly playing James Bond for Beijing, spying on U.S. Navy personnel and bases while trying to recruit our service members for the CCP’s Ministry of State Security (MSS). Because apparently, the CCP thinks our Navy is just a Craigslist ad for their espionage schemes.

According to a juicy scoop first reported by Fox News, Chen, a Happy Valley, Oregon resident, and Lai, who waltzed into Houston on a tourist visa in April 2025, were arrested last Friday. The Department of Justice (DOJ) says these two were running a covert op for the MSS, China’s main foreign intelligence outfit. Their mission was to gather intel on Navy bases and personnel, recruit potential turncoats, and even orchestrate a shady “dead drop” cash payment. You know, standard spy stuff, straight out of a Tom Clancy novel, minus the charm.

The FBI, with a little help from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS—not the TV show, sadly), swooped in and cuffed the unhappy Chen in Happy Valley and Lai in Houston. 

FBI Director Kash Patel didn’t mince words, telling Fox News Digital, “Today’s arrests reflect the FBI’s unwavering commitment to protecting our national security and safeguarding the integrity of our military.” He added, “The individuals charged were acting on behalf of a hostile foreign intelligence service, part of the Chinese Communist Party’s broader effort to infiltrate and undermine our institutions. Thanks to outstanding coordination with our partners, including NCIS, we disrupted those efforts and sent a clear message: the United States will not tolerate espionage on American soil. Our counterintelligence operations remain focused, vigilant, and relentless.” 

The DOJ’s criminal complaint, filed in the Northern District of California, lays it all bare. The MSS, which apparently moonlights in snooping on civilians when it’s not busy with counterintelligence, recruited Chen through Lai back in 2021. By January 2022, the dynamic duo [aka Frick and Frack] was allegedly in Guangzhou, China, setting up a $10,000 cash-stuffed backpack drop in a Livermore, California day-use locker. Real cloak-and-dagger vibes. They didn’t stop there, either. The pair kept working for the MSS, scoping out Navy personnel who might be tempted to betray their country for a quick buck.

In 2022 and 2023, Chen and Lai took their spy tour to a U.S. Naval installation in Washington State and a Navy recruitment center in San Gabriel, California. At the recruitment center, Chen allegedly played paparazzi, snapping photos of a bulletin board listing Navy recruits’ names, programs, and hometowns—most of which, surprise, were listed as “China.” Those photos, the DOJ claims, were promptly sent to an MSS officer in China. Subtle, guys. Real subtle.

The MSS wasn’t just sitting back sipping tea, or ordering a combo plate either. 

They allegedly gave Chen a playbook: what to say to potential recruits, how much cash the MSS could dangle, preferred Navy job assignments for their targets, and tips to keep Chen from getting caught. 

Spoiler: He got caught. Chen even cozied up to a Navy member on social media, arranging a tour of the USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego and feeding information about the sailor back to the MSS. Meanwhile, Chen made trips to Guangzhou in April 2024 and March 2025 to huddle with MSS officers and discuss his paycheck for these dirty deeds.

Lai, for his part, claimed he was just an innocent online retailer visiting Houston for a two-week business trip in April 2025. 

Sure, and snakes have hips.

By May 9, Lai was spotted road-tripping from Houston to California and back to Junction, Texas, well past his supposed two-week stay. Nothing screams “tourist” like a multi-state jaunt with a side of espionage soup.

Both Chen and Lai are now staring down charges of acting as unregistered foreign agents, which could land them up to seven years in prison and a $250,000 fine each. 

Assistant Attorney General John Eisenberg summed it up nicely: “Hostile foreign intelligence services like the PRC’s Ministry of State Security dedicate years to recruiting individuals and cultivating them as intelligence assets to do their bidding within the United States. Under my leadership, the National Security Division will continue to defend our nation and way of life by rooting out and exposing our adversaries’ clandestine spy networks.” In other words, the CCP’s spy games just got a time-out.

So, there you have it. Another day, another CCP plot to undermine the U.S. military. You’d think they’d get tired of losing at this game, but apparently, Beijing’s got a thing for playing the villain. Stay vigilant, folks. These spies aren’t exactly hiding in plain sight, but they’re trying.

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Looks like the Pentagon leaked Israel's secret plan

It's hard to tell whose side the Biden-Harris administration is really on in the war between Israel and Iranian-backed Hezbollah and Hamas. While they provided the Jewish State with weapons after the October 7 massacre by Hamas of Israelis, the administration became somewhat ambivalent as to their allegiance to Israel once their ally started winning the war. 

University leftists revealed their hatred of Jews and support for the terrorists, and the administration worried that supporting Israel would hurt them with American Muslims and the useful idiots who support their hatred.

Earlier this month, Iran launched a huge ballistic missile strike and we all knew that their would be an Israel retaliation, but we didn't know when, where and how.

But then there came a massive security leak and whether the leak is related to the impending presidential election, we don't know for certain. This is a likely reason Israel hasn't attacked since the Pentagon leaked whatever plans they had. 

More disturbingly, the fact that there has been a massive breach of national security documents is something that should worry all of us. There is also a fear that more confidential information will be disclosed (via CNN):

The leak is “deeply concerning,” a US official told CNN.

The documents, dated October 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator.”

They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the US and its “Five Eyes” allies — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. They describe apparent Israeli preparations for a strike against Iran. One of the documents, which says it was compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says the plans involve Israel moving munitions around.

Another clusterfrack for the Biden-Harris clown show as we enter the final stretch before next month's election. 

Finally, it's obvious we have Iranian spies collecting information and may be imbedded in sensitive places in our sensitive agencies.

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DOJ actually does its job: charges over a dozen alleged enemy spies

Attorney General Merrick "Judy" Garland made an announcement Monday that the DOJ is charging 13 people for allegedly spying for the Chinese in the United States. This is the first time since assuming the position of AG that Garland has done something good for the country.

Garland made the charges public at a news conference at the Justice Department and described the situation as a "significant national security" investigation. Thus far, only two of the alleged spies have been arrested while the other eleven remain at large.

The charges involve three separate criminal cases, two of which are being prosecuted in the DOJ’s Eastern District of New York and the third filed in the District of New Jersey where you are not permitted to pump gas for yourself.

One set of charges came from information obtained from a double agent. The DOJ said the person works for the FBI, but agents of the People's Republic of China believed his allegiances were with the forever smiling Xi Jinping.

The double agent met with suspected Chinese intelligence officers who allegedly sought insider information on a criminal probe into a Chinese-controlled telecommunications company.

In a different case, alleged Chinese spies are accused of harassing a Chinese-born American resident with the intent of bullying the person into returning to China. The agents even appeared at the target’s New York home and threatened him with multiple Chinese finger traps.

The home visits amounted to “harassment and attempted repatriation by force” of the victim, according to the DOJ.

Seven defendants face charges in connection to the home visits. Of these, two have pleaded not guilty and five remain at large in China, according to  NBC News.

The remaining set of charges involve four Chinese nationals who allegedly tried to recruit American academics and federal law enforcement individuals to work as Chinese state spies. This is almost as bad as having a spy working as a Democratic Senator's driver, or a spy sleeping with a Democratic Congressman from California, or having the President's family tied to the CCP via their bank records.

These Chinese spy recruiters have allegedly been attempting to ensnare Americans into working for China from 2008 to 2018, according to the DOJ.

FBI Director Christopher Wray pointed to the indictments as evidence that the United States government is finally working against the potent threat of Chinese espionage.

“Beijing may think our adherence to the rule of law is a weakness, but they’re wrong,” Wray said. “We’re disrupting Chinese government criminality and aggression not just while adhering to our values, but by adhering to our values.

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A pair of Hamasshole spies nabbed by security agency

Two Hamasshole spies, one an Israeli citizen of Arab descent and the other from the Gaza Strip, were caught in Israeli territory by Israel’s Shin Bet security agency and the Israeli police, according to a joint statement from the authorities on Thursday.

The Shin Bet, better known by the acronym Shabak, is Israel's internal security service whose motto is     גֵן וְלֹא יֵרָאֶה‎, ["Defender that shall not be seen" or "The Unseen Shield"]. They are headquartered in Ramat Aviv.

“The Shin Bet takes very seriously any direction of terrorist and espionage activity from the Gaza Strip and will continue to work together with Israel Police and the IDF in order to detect and thwart any hostile activity by these organizations in advance,” the agency said in a statement.

Hussein Biari, an Israeli citizen with close family ties to Gaza and terrorism, and Gazan Mahmoud Ahmad, who held a trade permit allowing him to travel into Israel, were arrested in late November.

The media gag order on their case was lifted on Thursday morning.

According to the Shin Bet, Ahmad was recruited in 2019 by Gaza-based terror scumcrumpets Hamas and Biari was recruited in 2020. They undertook intelligence missions throughout Israel for the Hamassholes with photographs and gathering sensitive information about military bases, Israeli Defense Force troops, and defense missile Iron Dome battery locations.

Not surprisingly, Democratic Reps. Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI), Alexandria Obviously-Commie (NY), Ayanna Pressley (MA), and Cori Bush (MO), did not vote to fund Israel's Iron Dome defense system because that would save the lives of  Israeli men, women and children.

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Biari also is alleged to have incited violence within Israel’s Arab communities during the May 2021 Operation Guardian of the Walls where Israel and Gaza clashed, and for illegally obtaining and possessing weapons for use in a future terror attack. [H/T World Israel News]

Muhammad Khalawa, a top Hamasshole, was the handler who directed the mission. 

Biari and Ahmad reportedly met with Khalawa and other Hamassholes in Gaza for their training, to get assigned additional missions, and relay the intelligence they had gathered in order for Hamas to kill Jewish civilians.

The two alleged crap weasels were formally indicted in Israeli court on Thursday, on security related counts that could land them decades in prison where they will be provided with a Koran and prayer mat, 3 halal meals and a gym.

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Death sentence issued by Iran for accused U.S. spy

The Islamic Republic's judiciary in Iran has issued a death sentence for a person they have accused of spying for the United States. In addition, the Iranian courts have sentenced individuals who they have accused of spying for us and the UK up to ten years.

The prosecutors in the notoriously corrupt Iranian legal system have requested the accused U.S. spies be put to death for their alleged crimes. [It's as bad as being gay in Iran if you get accused of spying.]

One supposed spy, Ali Nafariyeh. "has been sentenced to 10 years of prison and fined with the payment of $55,000 for spying for the CIA benefit." The fine will be used to buy Korans and bullets.

Gholamhossein Esmayeeli, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary [his friends call him Gholaminsane], made the announcement on Tuesday in Tehran, according to the Islamic country's state-controlled [fake news] press.

Another accused spy, Mohammad Babapour, will receive a similar sentence.

"Another individual, namely Amir Nasab, has also been sentenced to 10 years in prison for spying for Britain," Esmayeeli said.

The individual sentenced to death has appealed the decision to Iran's court, though it remains unclear if Tehran will stay the execution. If they go through with killing this person, it will be President Trump's decision to deal with it how he chooses to do so. At the very least, he will have the Ayatollah investigated for corruptions.

"Members of the [spy] team were identified last year with strenuous efforts of the Iranian security forces and its agents were identified in Iran's sensitive centers, including the nuclear and defense centers and the country's public infrastructures and most of them were arrested," Esmayeeli said when the alleged spy operations were first announced in July.

According to sources who wish to remain anonymous because they don't actually exist, the Iranian security forces used the "Eeny Meeny Minee Moe" method of investigation to capture the alleged spies.

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Sen. Feinstein colluded with Chinese spies anonymous source tells Vinny Boombots

"I sometimes say that in my last life maybe I was Chinese"--Dianne Feinstein

According to my man in the field, Vinny Boombots, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been secretly hiring Chinese spies to work for her, sources revealed. These sources don't want their identities released as they are worried Feinstein may have them killed by the "Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique" as mentioned in the movie "Kill Bill."

They put nothing past her.

But it comes as no surprise that Feinstein claimed to be surprised to learn of this allegation. That may be due to the fact that while political scrutiny of foreign meddling is at its peak, the story has been hiding in plain sight, and the media likes it that way, so how is she supposed to know about her senate personnel if she can't read about it in The Times?

The story involves China and Feinstein, the former chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which in her case may be an oxymoron, Boombots asserted. It was buried deep inside a recent Politico exposé on foreign attempts to infiltrate Silicon Valley for purposes of espionage.

Former intelligence officials...[said] Chinese intelligence once recruited a staff member at a California office of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and the source reported back to China about local politics. (A spokesperson for Feinstein said the office doesn't comment on personnel matters or investigations, but noted that no Feinstein staffer in California has ever had a security clearance]. 

But then again, no one in China who has read all of Hillary Clinton's emails has a U.S. security clearance either, but that's for another time.

The plot thickens and sickens:

According to four former intelligence officials, in the 2000s, a staffer in Senator Dianne Feinstein's San Francisco field office was reporting back to the MSS [China's Ministry of State Security, it's intelligence and security arm]. While this person [let's call him "Odd Job"] who was a liaison to the local  Chinese community, was fired, charges were never filed against him. (One former official reasoned this was because the staffer was providing political intelligence [an oxymoron like 'jumbo shrimp'] and not classified information--making prosecution far more difficult.) The suspected informant was 'run' by officials based at China's San Francisco Consulate, said another former intelligence official. The spy's handler 'probably got an award back in China' for his work, noted this former official, dryly.

This leads us to many questions, some of which are:

So who was the spy and how long was he being watched? What information about "local politics" was he passing to China? How close was he to Feinstein? Were they cuddling or sparking? Does her husband care? Did Feinstein expose herself . . . to potential blackmail [you have a dirty mind]. Is firing really the correct punishment for spying? Will Hillary Clinton ever go to prison as promised by Trump?

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