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2016-02-29 Home Front: WoT

Iranian-"American" dodged Navy Intel, kept secret clearance while spying

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Posted by Steve White 2016-02-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 “I don’t understand how that wasn’t picked up as a red flag,” said Greg Rinckey, a partner with firm Tully Rinckey who works on security clearance cases. “This is exactly what you are concerned about when you are looking at security clearance adjudication: Foreign passports, foreign bank accounts that a foreign government could transfer money into. Why this didn’t happen is very concerning.”

Why is happening? Please have a quick look at the Oval Office.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-29 02:30|| 2016-02-29 02:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, at least he wasn't a Jewish dentist with contacts in Israel.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-29 03:11|| 2016-02-29 03:11|| Front Page Top

#3 You can't fire a government employee. I bet he is still receiving a salary.

Posted by jvalentour 2016-02-29 06:45|| 2016-02-29 06:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Back in the day, at Chattahoochee High, one of my platoon buddies was turned inside out by the FBI. His crime....? He'd been in a college choir which toured the USSR for a week.
My father, in his turn at the Benning School for Boys, was investigated because the town in which his father "claimed" to have been born didn't exist. Simple, things were tough in upstate NY and the town went out of biz with the records going to the county. Not a bad gig for the FBI guys, what with the draft and Tarawa and the Bulge and all.
Maybe this clown was so obvious everybody figured he couldn't be a spy being this obvious.
Perhaps all the resources went to vetting the Tsarnaev clan.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-02-29 06:48|| 2016-02-29 06:48|| Front Page Top

#5 “Whoever was doing the security clearance investigations was asleep at the switch,” Graham said.

...or did they receive a handsome performance award for 'spotting and assessing?"

Been a while now, but I don't seem to recall any mention made of MAJ Nadal Hasan's last security clearance periodic update.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-29 07:08|| 2016-02-29 07:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Besoeker:
WRT Hasan: About a year after he cut loose, the
Army announced it was going to investigate nine officers who--perhaps--had been in a position to stop Hasan's greased slide to Ft. Hood. So I suppose there were OER, letters for the file, etc.
A couple of guys who had just demobbed said that won't get you anyplace. Nobody can afford to give a Muslim soldier anything but "perfect", and keep his own career. Now, you'd think we'd like to see moral courage anyway. Problem is, once a Muslim soldier gets something other than "perfect", he's a victim of Islamophobia and his Teflon gets another layer.

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2016-02-29 08:28|| 2016-02-29 08:28|| Front Page Top

#7 When they asked me if I had ever belonged to a paramilitary organization, I said "Sure, I was in the Boy Scouts!"

That didn't go well.

Posted by Skidmark 2016-02-29 08:39|| 2016-02-29 08:39|| Front Page Top

#8 See if "Jarrett" shows up on his contact lists.

Posted by Pappy 2016-02-29 12:07|| 2016-02-29 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 Pappy
I have to hope somewhere I the bowels of the IC a tracking of ValJar has been kept for future reckoning. As sure as God made little green apples she's a traitor.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2016-02-29 12:50|| 2016-02-29 12:50|| Front Page Top

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