How deep does the rabbit hole of Iran sympathizers in the US government go? This question was the subject of discussion Fox and Friends First had with Representative Mike Waltz (R-FL), who said former Special Envoy Robert Malley was "just the tip of the iceberg."
To reiterate, Malley had his security clearance revoked in June over alleged mishandling of classified information. Representative Brian Mast (R-FL) demanded answers as to why in August, which he did not receive.
In September, evidence suggested that a member of Malley's staff, Ariane Tabatabai, was a possible spy for the Iranian government though the Defense Department claimed she was "thoroughly and properly vetted." However, nobody on Tabatabai's staff could answer when asked by Rep. Mast how she was cleared.
When combined with previous statements by Malley saying Hamas (who are supported by Iran) is acting in rational self-interest and "none of them are crazies" in a 2009 interview and his previous work in helping the Obama Administration create the Iran nuclear deal, it is not difficult to connect the dots with the Biden Administration's apparent appeasement of Iran.
Fox and Friends host Todd Piro asked Rep. Waltz if the Hamas attack against Israel would have happened if the United States had not been appeasing Iran at Malley's direction, to which he answered that "he was absolutely responsible for this approach."
"[Malley] is an Iranian regime sympathizer, but what is so disturbing is that he had a whole network of people throughout the US government. And I believe we have only seen the tip of the iceberg. We know that one [member] of his network is over in the Pentagon Special Operations Directorate [Tabatabai] for policy as the Chief of Staff and still has access to classified systems. We in Congress want to know how she got it in the first place and what is being done about it," said Rep. Waltz.
Earlier in October, Waltz spoke with Maria Bartiromo on the same topic, asking why Tabatabai and other members of Malley's network have not been removed, though Congress has not received word on any updates.
