When FBI agents stormed the luxury D.C. Navy Yard apartments of two men impersonating federal law enforcement in April, what they found was stunning: weapons, fake law enforcement badges, and extensive surveillance equipment, including video cameras.
Josh Hawley; Claremont Institute diva, Putinist, traitor, racist, misogynist, Christian Nationalist soldier, Running Man, dick, or all of the above? You decide, but Finland already has.
I’d forgotten about this incident - yet another stain on the reputation of the secret service (among others).
Taherzadeh admitted to providing more than $90,000 in gifts to Secret Service agents.
So much corruption and incompetence to keep track of, but it seems it is being remembered by somebody important.
Run away! Run away!
Josh, no one with a brain is going to listen to a clown like you.
Then the entire thing was about petty crooks doing petty crimes? That makes about as much sense as the Secret Service accidentally deleting all the text messages sent on January 5 and 6. I have less and less confidence in Federal law enforcement. They have gone full banana republic.
Time to haul DHS Inspector General Joseph Cuffari back into the spotlight, in front of the January 6 Committee, live for 12 straight hours, and find out just what the hell is going on.
Subject One?
Next up, Taherzadeh will run for governor of Washington, D.C.
Hee Hawley speaks and continues to make an asshole of himself.
Has this agent been dismissed from Jill Biden’s detail? If not, why not?
That included giving an agent on First Lady Jill Biden’s security detail and that agent’s wife “a generator, a doomsday/survival backpack,” and an offer to purchase a $2,000 AR-15.
Guy Reffitt
87 months.
No terrorism enhancement.
Also no parole in Federal prison… 
WTF is this? Is it just a world of Whitey Bulgers? The crime doesn’t make sense and neither does the explanation.
Infiltrating the President’s SS detail to spy on some neighbors?
Who does great big crimes in order to commit relatively small crimes, and why just a wrist slap?
Not buying it.
Whoah there Nellie.
Everyone knows you gotta start with Assistant Regional Manager at Dunder Mifflin and work your way up.
Oh, I’m sorry, Assistant to the Regional Manager…
"Taherzadeh was charged in April along with one other defendant, Ali. Ali has pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors alleged on Monday that there was a previously unknown, unindicted co-conspirator also involved in the scheme, referred to only as “subject one.” "
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“unindicted co-conspirator” Now where have I heard that before? (scratches chin)… … Oh Yeah … Michael Cohen, trump’s former lawyer, was indicted along with “some guy” called “individual one” who was not indicted. Now it would be interesting to know if these two unidentified people were…ummm… no, couldn’t be…could it? At the time everyone assumed “individual one” was donald trump himself. Both one and the same?
Hmmmm…
He really doesn’t seem very smart; like Trump, he just knows how to mooch off others. That’s his only talent. It’s an idiot’s Ponzi scheme. He gets to live the “high life” and be a bro’s bro, with the expectation that continually flashing fake government IDs will keep anyone from taking too close a look. So long as everyone around him was obligated to him or benefitted from being around him and everyone thought he was some sort of officious person, he was content to just coast on other people’s money. (He seems like someone who watched Catch Me If You Can and thought it was a How-To.)
I don’t think he was purposefully “infiltrating” the President’s SS detail. They happened to be someone who had a connection to the building that he had coopted and he was just schmoozing them like everyone else. That’s my read on it. The media are making hay out of the Presidential connection, but it’s probably also one of the reasons someone on the outside finally took notice.
You’re not wrong; I mean, that’s a perfectly valid set of questions… typically, though, someone pleading guilty to a whole raft of crimes, without a lot of context for motivation is someone you should, as a first approximation, suspect of cooperating with prosecutors, against a larger target.
Time will tell.
The “Ministry of Silly Walks” in actual reality. Never thought that Monty Python would be politically prescient.
They sure did predict 2020 politics in America with their Election Day sketch–Sensible Democrats against Silly and Very Silly Republicans!
And you’ll never make it unless you wear 37 pieces of flair!
#MixedMetaphors
Former associates of Taherzadeh’s told TPM that before national security, he tried to get into tech, running a web hosting company and using the proceeds to finance a lifestyle of red bull, vodka, clubbing, and high-end car rentals.
Failing in this glitzy ambition, Taherzadeh then began relying on the Federal Government’s National Security operations for help in realizing his dreams of fancy cars, cheap drinks, disco dancing, and girls.