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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Nov 13, 2024, 09:03 AM Nov 13

FBI arrests alleged leaker of US intelligence documents related to Israel's attack plans against Iran

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 9:01 AM EST, Wed November 13, 2024


CNN — The Justice Department has charged a man for allegedly leaking highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to court documents and a person familiar with the case.

Asif W. Rahman was indicted last Thursday for willfully retaining and transmitting national defense information, according to court documents. He was arrested Tuesday in Cambodia and will first appear in court in Guam, though the department has asked a federal judge to move him to Virginia to stand trial.

Rahman was employed by the CIA, according to a person familiar with his employment. Court documents indicate he was employed by the US government. Rahman held a top secret security clearance and could access sensitive compartmentalized information. The New York Times first reported Rahman’s indictment.

The documents were posted by a Telegram account in mid-October 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.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/13/politics/israel-iran-attack-plan-leak/index.html

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FBI arrests alleged leaker of US intelligence documents related to Israel's attack plans against Iran (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 13 OP
Oh please Botany Nov 13 #1
Who is the person on the right? I don't recognize him. tornado34jh Nov 13 #3
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Winter 2017 Oval Office. Botany Nov 13 #4
Okay, I recognize the name now. tornado34jh Nov 13 #5
Give the man what Trump got. Autumn Nov 13 #2
Traitor... Blue_Tires Nov 13 #6
My goodness that was fast. Amazing how things can move when moniss Nov 14 #7

tornado34jh

(1,294 posts)
3. Who is the person on the right? I don't recognize him.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 11:59 AM
Nov 13

I feel like he is someone I have heard of, but again, I'm not that good at recognizing faces unless it is someone really well known.

Botany

(72,481 posts)
4. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Winter 2017 Oval Office.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:04 PM
Nov 13

And Trump has just given him top secret information about an Israeli agent who was
inside ISIS in Syria.

tornado34jh

(1,294 posts)
5. Okay, I recognize the name now.
Wed Nov 13, 2024, 02:58 PM
Nov 13

At first I thought he looked like someone from the Middle East, maybe Saudi Arabia or Qatar. But yeah, we all know who he is. But it doesn't surprise me as Russia is friends with Syria, al-Assad in particular.

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