🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING NEWS on IRANIAN THREATS against Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nikki Haley and other politicians and top U.S. officials.

@ChuckGrassley releases new information on the Iran-backed assassination plot against Donald Trump -- and says the Iranian threat against the country is far larger than just targeting Trump.

Unclassified records Grassley has obtained reveal that Iran-backed plotters discussed potentially targeting American "politicians, military people or bureaucrats" including Trump, President Joe Biden, and former presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

Asif Merchant, a Pakistani native with Iranian ties who the Justice Department has charged for his involvement in the scheme, provided the evidence in an FBI proffer agreement.

Grassley has provided the FBI proffer agreement here:


“Bad actors are determined to wreak havoc on our country, and American political leaders across both parties are sitting squarely in the crosshairs. In this extraordinarily heightened threat environment, federal agencies ought to be laser-focused on building up public trust and reassuring the American people of their efforts to carry out their protective missions,” Grassley said in a statement. “I won’t stop pressing for answers until Congress and the American people are afforded the transparency they deserve.”

👉👉Just last week I wrote about this Iranian threat and how some U.S. protective agencies have been penetrated by Iranian assets-- I will provide the URL for that story in a link to this post.

Full Grassley press release below:grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/… Here's the story I wrote on 8/26/24:

Is Iranian Spying Hurting Efforts to Protect Trump, Harris, Biden?

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/…

🚨🚨BREAKING: Secret Service Dir. Rowe is addressing the whole agency right now in a conference call and is pressing for a complete "paradigm" overhaul and is advocating for major budget increases.

Says the idea/mindset that we're going to ask you to do more for less is over. "We can no longer operate with that mindset."

"We can no longer wear our people down."

"We have to win the day every day.... We have to be in state of readiness to be able to meet environment."

"I look at Butler as an opportunity also to examine our own paradigm, to examine our own methodologies, to challenge our assumptions, to look at the new dynamic threat environment in which we're operating in, to look at the demands in which we're placing on our people.

"We're rising to this moment. And so I see this as also not only a challenge, but an opportunity for us to make improvements to learn from this so that it never happens again." (cont.) Rowe says people are now getting the message that we can't "max-out" our people and not compensate them for it.

Says USSS special agents and employees "who have great love for their country and great love for what they do, candidly, the way we work people it's just not sustainable."

"And people are hearing that now. They are grasping it, and we are making that case now."

He's also outlining new technology and new interoperable and sophisticated communications plans.

I'll outline those in this email.

🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A Secret Service special agent partially responsible for developing the plan to secure the rally where former President Trump was nearly assassinated is under internal agency investigation for POSTING VIDEOS AND PHOTOS FROM HER PROTECTIVE ASSIGNMENTS TO SOCIAL MEDIA, according to several sources within the Secret Service community.

The female agent served as the official site agent for the July 13 event in Butler, Pennsylvania, that ended in an assassination attempt that nearly killed Trump and the murder of rallygoer Corey Comperatore in front of his family. RealClearPolitics is not naming the agent out of concern for her personal safety,

👉👉Dissension, ‘Toxicity’ Plagued Trump’s Secret Service Detail Before Assassination Attempt realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/… 👉👉An RCP analysis of the Butler rally site agent’s Facebook account found a photo that appears to be taken from Mar-a-Lago looking across the intercoastal waterway.

“A sunset to be grateful for …” the post states, including a heart and sunset emojis and the hashtags “#nofilter #southflorida #thankful #workmode …”

Sources familiar with the videos said most appeared on the agent’s Instagram account, which is marked private.

🚨🚨Re-Upping this story of mine from 2017 that somehow got lost in the reporter frenzy over “Russiagate” — Obama Admin Did Not Publicly Disclose Iran Cyber-Attack During 'Side-Deal' Nuclear Negotiations freebeacon.com/issues/obama-a… Same “spear-phishing tactic” as the one reportedly used against the Trump campaign.

👉👉State Department officials in the Office of Iranian Affairs on Sept. 24, 2015 sent an email to dozens of outside contractors. The email alerted the contractors that a cyber-attack had occurred and urged them not to open any email from a group of five State Department officials that did not come directly from their official  accounts.
"We have received evidence that social media and email accounts are being compromised or subject to phishing messages," the email, obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, states. "Please be advised that you should not open any link, download or open an attachment from any e-mail message that uses our names but is not directly from one of our official  accounts."
"We appreciate learning of any attempts to use our names or affiliations in this way," stated the email. Shervin Hadjilou, the public diplomacy officer in the Office of Iranian Affairs, sent the email and cc'd four other State Department officials who deal with Iran issues, including one cyber-security expert.state.gov
state.gov

🚨 WHY did the Secret Service COMMAND CENTER not tell its agents to prevent Trump from going on stage?
After reviewing the local Butler-area law enforcement's After-Action Report, (critical timeline attached to this post), it's still unclear to me if they were communicating with the Secret Service command center or a local command center at 5:45 p.m. when they were sending photos of Crooks to a Beaver County ESU group chat, then recommends they alert "command."

If local law enforcement sent the photos to the Secret Service Command Center, there's no way they should have let Trump out on that stage. ‼️One possible reason for letting Trump go on stage, I'm told from a source within the Secret Service community, is that the USSS Command Center is constantly getting flags of suspicious people --even though pics of Crooks were sent to the Secret Service Command Center at around 5:45 p.m., no one had seen a weapon yet -- so Crooks was flagged as a problem but not a "threat."

🚨🚨Once again, I first broke the Mark Kelly starting a spy balloon company funded by China's TenCent in 2020.

Then I did another story on it 2023 when the spy balloon was traversing the U.S.

Now @FoxNews giving @Axios credit for breaking this story after my THREE stories from 2020 and 2023.

BUT @Axios never got to the heart of the story and mainly bought into Kelly's excuses for it.
The Axios story also never addressed this:

👉The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) SUSPENDED the process to grant Kelly's company clearance for U.S. defense work. I have the emails from DCSA and I'll attach to this thread.

I've included the three main stories I wrote below.

Back in 2020, The spokesperson for Kelly's balloon company lied to me that they had secured DCSA's seal of approval.

The DCSA aims to protect U.S. security assets from malign foreign influence.

Here's the three stories I broke on in reverse chronology - the latest, in 2023, and then the two stories I first broke in 2020 on the same topic.

Did U.S. Firms Help Propel China's Balloon Fleet? - 2/24/2023
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Kelly Helped Secure Chinese Tech Giant's Stake in Balloon Firm - 7/9/2020
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Kelly Silent on Firm's Windfall from Chinese Tech Giant - 5/13/2020
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Former astronaut Sen. Mark Kelly started spy balloon company funded by China #FoxNewsrealclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/…
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/…
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/…
foxnews.com/politics/forme… Here's a screeen shot of the email I got ack from the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency -- @FoxNews you might want to call or email the agency...
@DCSAgov

https://x.com/susancrabtree/status/1817378804744200419

1/5🚨🚨 SEN. RON JOHNSON OFFERS INITIAL PRAISE FOR ACTING SECRET SERVICE DIR. ROWE, PROVIDES DETAILS ABOUT WHAT WAS DISCUSSED
.@SenRonJohnson calls his Rowe's morning briefing with senators "forthright," "confidence-building."

Just just got off the phone with Sen. Johnson, who said he was generally "impressed and encouraged" by acting Secret Service Dir. Rowe's briefing his morning.

"He was very forthright, definitely concerned about the morale of the men and women in the service, which I think we all need to be," Johnson told me. "They've got a big task ahead of them, but both he and the FBI Director were really, again, forthright is the best word I can say."

"As I said, this was a confidence-building briefing," Johnson said.

Johnson said he urged Rowe and a top FBI official present to provide more public information so "we don't allow conspiracy theories to spread."

"And I made the point [that] he way to do that is to be open and transparent, hold multiple briefings certainly start out by saying, this is incomplete, it's, preliminary.

"The public cuts you slack, but we need to know things as you know [them], and I think [he] definitely acknowledged that that's a good path to take."

"I think, if his higher ups will allow, I think that's exactly the direction he'd like to take." 2/2 🚨ACTNG SECRET SERVICE DIR. ROWE TELLS SENATORS COUNTER-SNIPER TOOK THE SHOT AS SOON AS HE COULD SEE CROOKS' HEAD, DID NOT WAIT FOR "COMMAND CENTER" PERMISSION.

Instead, a lip of the building was obscuring the shot, and Crooks took two first shots, then ducked beneath the lip, and then popped up for more shots, and that's when the Secret Service counter-sniper shot and killed him.

In my interview with Sen. Johnson, the Wisconsin Republican said he directly asked Secret Service Dir. Rowe if there was ANY delay in when the counter sniper had a shot on Crooks and when he took it because he had to radio back to a USSS command center to get permission.

Johnson told me: "According to him, that's false. ...They had him in sight once he stuck his head up to take the second round of shots.

...They should have told us a long time ago, but from my standpoint, that's the most important thing I learned from the briefing -- it was in response to my question.

More specifics in response to my follow-up question to break down exactly why the CS could not see Crooks:
So there is on [these metal roofs,] at the peak, there's a piece of metal up there. He didn't describe exactly, you know, how high. But when they had somebody [up there crawling then] crouch down, you could only just see the very crown of their head, so you couldn't see the rest of the body.

So, I mean, if you're a sniper, you're scanning things, you might see a dark spot, but not even recognize his head, I suppose... So he was not all that visible, but apparently, he came up above that metal partition, fired off two shots, sinked down below it, then came back up in the exact same location to fire the second round of shots when they took their shot.

So he wasn't in their sights for, you know, minutes, or, you know, even seconds. I mean, [as] soon as they got him in the sights, they basically took the shot. So again, I think that's news.

MUST-READ content of this online petition calling on Kimberly Cheatle to resign. ‼️ "Executive leadership bonuses" ‼️ cited as a reason the Secret Service is having manpower shortages and inadequate training, among a litany of reasons.

Also, THIS 👉 "instances of fraud, waste, and abuse regarding the Secret Service's selective promotion practices under Director Cheatle's leadership are also being swept under the rug."

"The current promotion practice is arguably not in keeping with the Merit Promotion Process (MPP), in which millions of taxpayer dollars have been spent perpetuating the Agency's false narrative that promotions are based on a 'merit based system,' when in reality the promotions have been based on alleged "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)". This has been most recently demonstrated earlier this year by the fast track promotion of a female agent (with only 7 years of employment - too junior to qualify as a WHIP or Lead) who hadn't completed the standard phase 2 protection time required for promotion. This agent also benefited from the 30x30 pledge and is now a supervisor over more senior agents at the New York Field Office."

Take a look at this: "At a time when the Secret Service is dealing with manpower shortages due to attrition, there have also been a number of recent Secret Service incidents indicative of inadequate training, no doubt correlated to the fact that the Agency is struggling with an insufficient training budget to incorporate much needed for mock up sets for realistic simulated exercises (i.e. White House, Fence Line, etc). Agency sources attribute the issue to budgeted training funds allegedly being reallocated for recruitment, promotional testing, and executive leadership bonuses.

change.org/p/demand-an-in… Any anonymous online petition calling for Secret Servcie Director Kimberly Cheatle to resign (which now has more than 10,000 signatures) says a female agent with a history of performance issues made "harassment" allegations against her superior in response to a poor performance evaluation. The source then says "agency executive leaders [i.e. Cheatle and other top brass] turned a blind eye to the "blatant misconduct" -- the female agent was illegally secretly audio-taping supervisors, and the source said the same agent was suspected of secretly audio-taping Presidents Obama and Trump while on the job protecting them.

My latest compilation of reporting: GOP Was Investigating Secret Service Before Assassination Attempt | RealClearPolitics realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/… 🚨New info from a source in the Secret Service community — Trump’s usual protective Secret Service detail was worked so hard (working 7 days a week with no days off) that many of agents assigned Saturday were temporary replacements from different field offices.

This is not the usual protocol for sitting presidents and vice presidents but “typical” for former presidents, (although no former presidents have run again in modern history.)

“Trump has a permanent detail, however it’s much smaller in the amount of bodies,” the source said. “His detail has been worked so hard with all the travel that they’re working 7 days a week with shift changes. so HQ sends in temp agents to supplement - not a good scenario. Mission Failure, IMHO.”

Dan Bongino is a former special agent in the Secret Service and is very close to Trump world. The Secret Service spokesman is disputing this assertion, but my reporting on the agency over a decade has shown me that there’s often more to the story than even agency spokesmen know or are allowed to know right away.

A @GOPoversight is already underway re: the agency’s readiness and DEI policies. Cheatle and other top officials no doubt will be grilled on this topic and also the agency’s reactive rules of engagement in this situation that requires counter snipers to fire only AFTER a shooter fires first.

https://twitter.com/susancrabtree/status/1812452227505926325

I can confirm that there is a petition circulating in the Secret Service community calling for an @GOPoversight committee investigation and the removal of Kimberly Cheatle as Secret Service director. The petition raises issues about DEI hiring superseding training and creating security issues first reported on in this @RCPolitics story from two weeks ago:
realclearpolitics.com/articles/2024/… Just three days ago, the House Judiciary Committee launched an investigation into DEI hiring and recruiting practices at the FBI. Now anonymous whistleblowers are calling for the same sort of Congressional investigation at the Secret Service.

https://x.com/JudiciaryGOP/status/1787557894537277849

BREAKING: Sources within the Secret Service community tell me the agent assigned to VP Kamala Harris was armed during the fight - that the gun was secured in the agent's holster until other agents physically restrained the agent and took the gun from the agent's possession.
I'm also told there are DEI concerns among the USSS community about the hiring of this agent. Other agents and officers within the USSS are asking questions about the agent's hiring process, whether the USSS did enough to look into the agent's background and monitor the agent's mental well-being because there have been widespread concerns about other strange behavior before this incident. For now, I am also withholding the agent's name. Other details: Sources say the agent in question was acted erratically upon showing up for a traveling shift at Joint Base Andrews. The agent ended up tackling the Senior Agent in Charge of the VP detail, got on top of him and started punching him. At this point, I'm told, the agent who was attacking the SAIC did indeed have a gun, but it was in the holster. Other agents are expressing relief that the agent did not shoot the SAIC.

Did U.S. Companies, Including Sen. Kelly’s, Help Propel China’s Balloon Fleet? If so, what should Washington do about it? #decoupling #China #technology ⁦@RealClearNews⁩ realclearpolitics.com/articles/2023/… “Sen. Kelly himself has first-hand knowledge of #China’s interest in near-#space balloon technology. He co-founded a balloon space-exploration company named World View in 2012. Just 2 yrs later, he helped facilitate investments for it from Chinese tech giant Tencent, #spyballoon

In this story from 7/21, I reported on the controversy regarding whether the Penn Biden Center and Biden's $1M+ "professorship" at Penn could have been funded -- at least in part -- by Chinese donations.

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/… U. Penn pres. said Penn never “solicited any gifts for the Penn Biden Center” b did not say if the U. directed any Chinese funds to the center.

In 2020, the Phil. Inquirer reported Penn received at least $258M in foreign $ - $68M from Chinese entities.
inquirer.com/business/unive…

.@IRFSummit International Religious Freedom Summit co-chairs @SamuelBrownback and @LantosSwettK condemn the $500,000 bounty put on Enes Kanter Freedom @EnesFreedom by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s govt. “We are appalled that the Turkish government has labeled Enes Kanter Freedom a ‘most wanted’ terrorist and put a bounty on his head. It is flatly unacceptable that any govt would openly target and endanger Enes — a courageous human rights activist and American citizen..."

Rep. Chris Smith on #Nicaragua's Ortega regime and its crackdown on the Catholic church, jailing of priests, kicking out nuns:

"It is unconscionable that we have not done everything we can to stop [international] loans from going to prop up this dirty dictatorship." .@TheWilsonCenter's Eddy Acevedo highlights #Russian military presence, GPS satellite in #Nicaragua:

"Ortega has allowed Russian military activity in Managua...He has posted military hardware from #Russia, including t T-72 tanks, and Russia's Tu-160 Blackjack bombers..."

.@ChuckGrassley in "strongly" opposing Garcetti for amb. to #India, laces into him over his claim he didn't know that his top staffer was sexually harassing people.

"For mayor Garcetti to claim he didn't know what was going on, defies reason."
Grassley points to a photo of a group that includes Garcetti in which the staffer, Rick Jacobs, is making a lewd gesture.

He stresses that his investigation into the matter talked to 19 credible witnesses who either witnessed Jacobs' behavior or were victims of it.

Thread:

So in the middle of these Jan. 6 hearings, the
@HouseForeign Affairs Committee is having a classified "briefing" on #Afghanistan tomorrow morning with several sr. @StateDept officials, according to multiple notices sent to members saying briefing will be "classified." Why is it a briefing and not a full hearing when there are American citizens who still remain in #Afghanistan and untold thousands of Afghan allies who Biden promised safe haven?

@StateDept referred me to the House Foreign Affairs Comm Dems for ?s about the ground rules.

Only 30 Americans and 170 Afghans/other foreign citizens on the first flight out of Afghan since 8/31 | Associated Press is reporting "A foreign diplomat, likewise speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn´t authorized to brief the media, said another 200 foreigners, including Americans, would depart in the next couple of days."

Contrary to claims made by the WH and State Dept that there were only a small # of Americans waiting to depart on the grounded planes in Mazar-e-Sarif, my sources tell me there are over 140 Americans on those flights that the Taliban is clearing to depart out of Kabul airport. These include Americans citizens, green-card holders (many wives) and their children.

The Taliban continues to block 6 planes from leaving while lawmakers, military vets and groups involved press @StateDept for more action.

143 Americans waiting to depart, and State could help clear passports and verify SIV applicants, sources tell RCP.

realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/… Sources familiar with the situation playing out at Mazar-i-Sharif airport in N. Afghanistan dispute the State Dept's assertion that only a "small number of Americans" are waiting to board planes to depart.

They place the number at 143, which includes Americans citizens and LPRs