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Information about this federal worker who wanted to harm Israel can be found here: “US government worker charged with leaking classified documents on Israel’s plans to strike Iran,” by Eric Tucker, Associated Press, November 13, 2024:
Now let me guess…
A man who worked for the U.S. government has been charged with leaking classified information assessing Israel’s earlier plans to attack Iran, according to court papers filed Wednesday.
The man, identified as Asif William Rahman, was arrested by the FBI this week in Cambodia and was due to make his first court appearance in Guam.
He was indicted last week in U.S. court in Virginia on two counts of willful transmission of national defense information — felony charges that an carry significant prison sentences.
It was not immediately clear whether Rahman had a lawyer or which federal agency employed him, but officials say he had top secret security clearance….
How did a man named “Asif William Rahman” somehow managed to obtain “top security clearance” from the U.S. government? Do you think there just might be something about his name, and the ideology he harbors, that ought to have disqualified him from such clearance? Do you think those judging him didn’t want to be seen as have denied him the top security clearance lest they be accused of “Islamophobia”? Are no eyebrows raised at the FBI and the CIA when they are asked to vet people named Asif, Rahman, Mahmoud, Ahmed, Muhammad, Abdullah, Feisal, Yahya, Sadiq, Ismail, Moussa, Khaled, Yassir, and so on and so bloody forth?
Who were the agents who vetted Asif Rahman and decided he could be given that top security clearance at the CIA? Will they now be investigated for their failure? And will the CIA and the Pentagon look again at their Muslim employees, and Muslim sympathizers in their ranks, who have received that same level of security clearance as Asif Rahman?
Given what we know about the ideology of Islam, and how it inculcates the belief that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings,” shouldn’t we be wary of having Muslims, no matter how ingratiating and plausible they present themselves, in any position that would provide them with a top security clearance?