"Last week FBI Director Kash Patel fired 12 FBI agents that specifically deal with Iran counter intelligence (CI-12)."
Looking like reprisals for the raid on Mar-a-Lago
Recall that for similar reasons Andrew McCabe was fired from the FBI in the Trump first term to limit the performance of the counter-terrorism division.
Iran will almost certainly be out for blood now that U.S. and Israeli forces took out Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, MS NOW's Rachel Maddow said on Monday — but the very group of U.S. counterintelligence officials tasked with keeping Americans safe from their retribution is out of a job because of a longstanding Donald Trump grudge.
"They're really good at this," Maddow said of Iran. "They can reach all around the globe to kill people when they want to, and they have done it ... They've killed or tried to kill their own dissidents and whistleblowers and political opponents, not over not only just over, you know, all over the Middle East, but throughout Europe. They have killed people. They've even tried to kill people here in the United States before."
"Their security services have reached all around the world to kill people, and they have done it sometimes by finding turncoats ... They've done it sometimes by just sending out their own agents into the world," said Maddow. "They have done it even by partnering with just straight-up criminals, by partnering with mobsters and drug gangs in order to carry out targeted killings for the Iranian regime. And they have done it for decades. I mean, you think Russia is good at flinging people out of windows and dosing people with exotic poisons all over the world? The Russians are pikers at this sort of thing compared to the Iranians, who have not only been doing it for decades, they have been very good at it for decades."
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In fact, some analysts believe the latest attacks on Iran and the assassination of Khamenei might even expand the IRGC’s control over the Iranian state.
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FBI fired agents probing Iranian threats over ties to Mar-a-Lago investigation. “The ouster of at least a dozen staffers from a counterintelligence unit, known as CI-12, which operates out of the Washington Field Office, was ordered by FBI Director Kash Patel. www.alternet.org/mar-a-lago-f...
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