The Biden-Harris administration had been spying on Israel’s plans to respond to Iran’s attacks. Details of that surveillance and analysis appeared online and was spread by Iranian accounts.
Asif W. Rahman, a CIA official with top-secret clearance, has now been charged over the crime.
From the sound of his name, Rahman is likely a Pakistani. We don’t know yet if he’s an immigrant or born to immigrants. He was assigned to Cambodia. Why was a Pakistani CIA official in Cambodia given access to materials involving Israel and Iran?
One possible answer is that Iran operates in Cambodia. Iranians use Cambodia for drug trafficking operations and they have visa-free travel to Cambodia. It’s possible that Rahman was tasked with keeping an eye on Iran and was compromised by Iran. That’s purely speculative.
What is not speculative is that the source of the leak of Israel’s attack plans on a Muslim terror state came from a possibly Muslim CIA official whose sympathies appear to be with the Islamic Ummah, not with America or the free world. And that should raise questions about the practice of bringing in enemy nationals (Pakistan has close ties to Islamic terror groups and harbored Osama bin Laden) and giving them important roles in the United States government.
I don’t know that we should expect anything else from Rahman. We should expect more from the Americans who put him in a position to do harm to our interests. Only those of whom loyalty can be expected, can also be traitors. Rahman is not the traitor. Those who hired him and moved him up through the CIA are.
National security officials have refused to actually understand Islamic terrorism and have continued to hire and promote Islamists. That makes them a threat to national security.