The Pentagon has reportedly named Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Ariane Tabatabai, as the prime suspect for an alleged leak of classified documents, Sky News Arabia reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
Tabatabai, an American of Iranian origin, is also an officer in US Naval Intelligence.
According to the report, members of Congress wrote a letter in 2023 to US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin against keeping Tabatabai in her position.
The members of Congress urged Secretary Austin to “immediately suspend Tabatabai’s security clearance pending further review, as the State Department did with his former supervisor, Robert Malley,” the report stated.
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