“The State Department never reported Malley’s suspension to the OIG, in violation of federal law”
Classified information is a very serious matter. Except 99% of the time when it’s not. About the only time that classified information is really a serious issue is when it can be used to raid a certain Florida venue.
The rest of the time it just doesn’t matter. Just ask Rob Malley and an entire administration that covered for him.
The Harris-Biden administration’s suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley may have taken part in a “classified White House-organized” call after his top secret security clearance was frozen over allegations of misconduct, according to the State Department’s internal watchdog.
The watchdog report politely describes this as deviating from normal standards. Much like Al Capone was deviating from normal negotiating procedures.
An official at the heart of the Iran outreach program had multiple State Department officials cover for him, lie on his behalf to Congress and to foreign governments to cover up the fact that he was under FBI investigation.
And it got worse from there.
On April 22, 2023, the State Department notified Malley of his clearance suspension and barred him from accessing the department’s “Sensitive But Unclassified [SBU] information system.”
However, days later, under pressure from senior officials, Malley’s access to sensitive information was restored, as was his access to his State Department email account.
State Department officials told OIG investigators that they believed restoring Malley’s access “presented a low risk” and there were worries the Iran envoy “might resort to using personal email to conduct official business” if the request was denied.
Incredibly, rather than cut off Malley’s access, State Department officials claimed to be worried that he would commit further violations by using his personal email. And sure, they could have asked him not to, but apparently they can’t trust him not to do so, or have no control over him, so they had to restore his access.
This question gets asked often these days, but who is actually running the damn country? Malley apparently. Or his protectors and political allies.
“The lack of supervision of Special Envoy Malley led to significant confusion as to what work Mr. Malley was authorized to do following the suspension,” the report states. “The Department failed to consistently notify employees who regularly interacted with Mr. Malley that he was no longer allowed to access classified information. These conditions likely led to Special Envoy Malley engaging on issues outside the limited scope of issues on which he was authorized to work.”
The correct term is “lied”. They lied to other employees. Or other employees lied about being lied to.
The State Department never reported Malley’s suspension to the OIG, in violation of federal law, investigators found.
The Department of State Authorities Act requires the State Department to report allegations of criminal activity and serious misconduct committed by senior level officials to OIG within 5 business days.
“OIG found that senior Department officials never reported Special Envoy Malley’s security clearance suspension to OIG as required by the Authorities Act,” the report states. “Even after the leadership of [Diplomatic Security] became aware of the allegations against Special Envoy Malley, they still did not report the matter to OIG.”
The special envoy “continued to work for approximately 10 weeks before he was placed on leave without pay and directed to cease working on Department business” the report, which will be released to the public on Thursday, noted.
“Robert Malley, a political appointee and close associate of the secretary, was treated very differently than a civil servant or foreign service officer,” the lawmakers said.
No kidding. Federal law was violated by top officials at the State Department. Will there be any consequences? And more to the point, why did so many officials collude to protect an official under FBI investigation?
How bad is the infiltration of our government by hostile actors?
somehistory says
Real. Very. Overwhelmingly. Despicably.
Gerard says
Right on sir!
Cynthia says
Since Obama and his protege Valerie Jarrett, our government has colluded with Iran against Israel. Remember billions of cash on a plane?
They hate Trump for disrupting this scam. Biden continued this policy of lifting sanctions and flooded them with cash, thus financing Iran and all all its proxies in US/Israel attacks. Yes, fundamentally hating and changing America.
ploome says
exactly
“How bad is the infiltration of our government by hostile actors?”
the bad peaked with Obama..but the infiltration is very deep.
Starting with pubic schools and on display at our universities..
gravenimage says
State Department Officials Colluded to Protect Iran Envoy Under FBI Investigation
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Just appalling–but not surprised at this point.
Hudders. says
The deeper one digs into the ubiquitous ties between the devilish, despotic islamic regime of Iran & the US people in positions of power, the more disturbed one eventually becomes.
Be it John Kerry for example & his family links, or the many active agents for pro Iranian policies, up to & including the BILLIONS of dollars the traitor ridden, allah appeasing Biden & Hussain Obama released to the demon terror machine; the nefarious influence & power that Iran currently has/holds in the US today is criminal, frightening & extremely dangerous indeed.
Like lancing a boil, removing a stinking rotten tooth, or removing a deadly cancer, Iran’s troublesome tendrils & anti western abilities must be exposed immediately & destroyed for good.
The Iranian muslim maniacs have long chanted death to America, so allowing the same agents of doom any purchase in the US is nothing short of national suicide insanity.
somehistory says
Hudders, it’s “national suicide” on purpose. Like the criminal who shoots at the police so they’ll shoot him. makes me wonder what do they believe is going to happen once the ‘body’ is dead.
Lowercase says
Hi Julie, I couldn’t agree more. Tony Bliar makes me cringe, and to think that David and I actually voted for him just demonstrates how easily we can be deceived.
As you say, when you think that there are more than 300 million people to choose from in the US, one would think that one or two honest and decent people could be found to lead the country. Such people exist, I’ve no doubt, but of course, unless they’re either immensely wealthy or completely unscrupulous, they don’t stand a chance of being elected. There is a huge and sinister government ‘machine’ behind the scenes that actually runs everything. A kind of political ‘mafia’, financed and influenced by billionaires that seem to have few moral scruples.
This country doesn’t seem to understand, or even be aware, that our enemies don’t need to be dressed as Nazis to present an existential threat to the safety and security of its citizens and their children and grandchildren. Part of the problem is that few people seem to read books any more and have very short attention spans. They no little or nothing of other ‘belief systems’ and it wouldn’t occur to them that many of those that enter this country actually hate us and our freedoms. Their religion teaches intolerance and urges them to either subjugate or kill the infidel.
Of course, the media pretends that they’re simply misunderstood friends, being totally ignorant of what their ‘holy book’ actually says:
“O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies. They are [in fact] allies of one another. And whoever is an ally to them among you – then indeed, he is [one] of them. Indeed, Allah guides not the wrongdoing people.”
~ Qur’an 5:51
The UK is infected with the same “national suicide insanity”
MrLogical says
In a saner time — not so very long ago, actually — it would simply be called what it is: Treason.
And it would have been dealt with swiftly and summarily. No longer. We’re now living in an insane world turned upside down and inside out. Led by ‘leaders’ with no sense of patriotism, honor, duty — and no moral compass nor grounding.
Jamie James says
Remember after 9 years investigation into Hezbollah, the night they were going to announce it. Obama did a nuclear deal that very night, and the whole thing went down the drain. I advise watching this, very powerful. The best docu I’ve watch in years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYrzCspU5BY
jule says
Along with Iran are all our Muslim Bros. Who is that guy Bittar? What about the years long plan for MB to take over control of of US by 2025. Its almost here. And with all the information–just what are we supposed to do? no one ever mentions what we are supposed to do?
OLD GUY says
These Muslim/Islamic countries have billions of dollars to bribe and buy people in government and our Education system. They spend that money because of their leaders hate for America, rather than spending it on programs that would improve the lives of their citizens at home.
It’s the same program our government uses called foreign aid, most of which ends up in the foreign countries leaders bank account. Remember Hunter Biden and his deals with Ukraine.