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Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran
Former Air Force Intelligence Agent Charged With Spying for Iran - The New York Times
A former United States Air Force counterintelligence agent was charged with espionage after she defected to Iran and helped it target her former colleagues, the authorities said.
In an extraordinarily detailed indictment made public on Wednesday, prosecutors disclosed that Monica Elfriede Witt, 39, gave the Iranians the code name and mission of a secret Pentagon program involving American intelligence operations. According to the indictment, she was working with members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The elite paramilitary group is known to carry out terrorist operations around the globe and has been sanctioned by the American government.
Prosecutors described how Ms. Witt provided a copy of her biography and job history in August 2013 to a person with ties to Iran’s intelligence services. That same month, she moved to Iran and, while living there, officials provided her with housing and computer equipment. She had access to ongoing counterintelligence operations and the true names of intelligence assets and the identities of American officials involved in their recruitment.
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'Federal authorities said that Witt defected to Iran in 2013, and allegedly provided the government with sensitive defense information and the identity of at least one U.S. intelligence officer. Before boarding her flight to Tehran, prosecutors said, she typed an email to an associate saying: "I'm signing off and heading out! Coming home." She closed with a smile emoji. '
My question to you the readeris, if she was spying for Iran as far back as 2009, 2013 and finally defected in August 2013? Why are we now learning about just another Obama failure? Seems like the damage is done and the indictment is of little meaning as a result.
Most of the security breaches have been made by individuals working for contractors and subcontractors employed by the CIA, NSA, etc., not career employees working in those agencies. The NY Times story is a little fuzzy but I don't understand why a contractor would given access to such sensitive details as personnel identities.
