The FBI is investigating whether a former Biden administration Iran envoy, Rob Malley, moved classified information onto his personal email and downloaded it to his personal mobile phone. Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said they believe “a hostile cyber actor was able to gain access to his email and/or phone and obtain the downloaded information.” The two lawmakers expressed frustration with the lack of information shared by the State Department.
Watch the above video as Straight Arrow News contributor Ben Weingarten asserts that Republicans must leave no stone unturned in their investigation of Rob Malley.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
Why is the Biden administration stonewalling congressional investigators for the past year over the sidelining of Iran envoy Rob Malley? Conventional wisdom would say the White House wants to skirt a potentially explosive classified document and foreign collusion scandal implicating a prominent official. But there’s also a compelling argument that the Biden administration is hiding Malley to conceal an even graver scandal: its treacherous and disastrous Iran-first policy that Malley has personified, helped execute, and that has accelerated since he departed for the Ivy League.
Now, to be sure, the Malley story is bad enough on its own that the administration would want to put a pin in it. As I recently detailed at Real Clear Politics, the Iran envoy, seen as a longtime appeaser of an apologist for a swamp, has had a security clearance suspended, was put on unpaid leave, and ultimately revealed to be under FBI investigation for having allegedly transferred classified documents to a personal device that a hostile cyber actor purloined.
Questions posed in a mail letter from congressional investigators to the State Department suggest that not only do [sic] obtained the documents, but that Malley himself may have disseminated them to affiliates of the Iran experts initiative.