Dan T. Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 This is a strange story and could get darker... from the Washington Post Two men accused of posing as federal officers to get close to U.S. Secret Service agents - The Washington Post The FBI on Wednesday arrested two men charged with impersonating federal law enforcement in an investigation that has placed four U.S. Secret Service members on leave. Federal authorities accused Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, of obtaining handguns, rifles and other material to pose as Department of Homeland Security employees. They said the men used the guise to get closer to members of federal law enforcement and the defense community — including a U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to the first lady’s protective detail. Taherzadeh provided members of the Secret Service and an employee of DHS with items such as “rent-free apartments (with a total yearly rent of over $40,000 per apartment), iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia,” according to an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in D.C. Taherzadeh also offered the employees use of vehicles he said belonged to the government and offered to buy a $2,000 assault rifle for an agent assigned to protect the first lady, the affidavit said. The complaint said that four members of the Secret Service were placed on administrative leave as of April 4. The Secret Service said in a statement Thursday morning that the investigation is ongoing and that personnel on leave have been restricted from accessing Secret Service facilities, equipment, and systems. They claimed they were “special police” officers involved in undercover gang-related investigations and probes related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the affidavit states. Other residents told the inspector the men used several apartments in the building, claiming the Department of Homeland Security paid the rent, and used an SUV equipped with emergency lights they identified as “their official DHS vehicle.” Two men accused of posing as federal officers to get close to U.S. Secret Service agents - The Washington Post They were arrested at a luxury apartment a few blocks from Nationals Park. So many questions. Who are these guys? What is their motivation for lavishing such expense gifts to Secret Service and other Federal agents? How could they afford it? Where did the money come from? Again, what is the motive? It's one thing to play cop. But to spend thousands of dollars on housing and equipment for federal agents... it seems like another shoe is going to drop in this case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 USSS not doing great recently. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 That’s super odd. And targeting the First Lady? I mean maybe it was to get to president Biden end the end but… just weird. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Get the waterboard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tshile Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 Also I would think the secret service has a protocol for verifying other law enforcement officers before actually working with them… 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 7, 2022 Author Share Posted April 7, 2022 I want to hear some background on who these guys are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadySkinsFan Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) If they're infiltrating the Secret Service to get to the President and family and probably Vice President too, they're infiltrating other agencies too. If these people are US citizens, then it's a problem of domestic terrorism. If they're foreign citizens, that's a bigger problem of terrorism. We need really serious prison time for people committing terrorism, and I mean a few decades. We're too lenient and people are getting bolder. Edited April 7, 2022 by LadySkinsFan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 People don’t spend that kind of cash for nothing. They were after something and it sure would be nice to know what. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 https://www.kctv5.com/2022/04/08/man-accused-washington-dc-impersonation-case-may-have-ties-kc/ More likely homegrown... Quote The investigation started not because of any tip, but because a postal inspector was at the apartment building investigating an assault on a mail carrier and residents pointed them to Taherzadeh and the other man as possible witnesses. What residents said about the men had the inspector concerned enough to inform Homeland Security, and it went from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Getting the feeling that what they were, was spies. Working on a mission of compromising law enforcement officers. What's surprising to me is that it sounds like they were gifting way too much. Should seriously have triggered the alarms on the targets. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Lol…WOT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) This has assassination plot written all over it. Think of what secret service does and the amount of resources devoted to compromising them, certainly wasn't about getting around their anti money-counterfieting efforts. Edited April 8, 2022 by Renegade7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmirOfShmo Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Found this thread as the bust was happening live... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, Larry said: Getting the feeling that what they were, was spies. Working on a mission of compromising law enforcement officers. What's surprising to me is that it sounds like they were gifting way too much. Should seriously have triggered the alarms on the targets. Right, this should've easily triggered these SS agents, which seems like why they are on leave, it worked on them and they became culpable. There's no telling what those SS agents already told them or were prepared to help them do at that point. Edited April 8, 2022 by Renegade7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 This is a job for Jack Bauer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fergasun Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Glad to read the affidavit. This feels worse than some of the USSS scandals recently. Ironic that "See something, say something" was missed for months and then caught by a Postman! I don't know what Congress did due to the last scandals. Also, some of the reporting is off. We don't know if they bought an entire apartment building. Seems like they could have been scamming the apartment as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted April 8, 2022 Author Share Posted April 8, 2022 29 minutes ago, Fergasun said: Ironic that "See something, say something" was missed for months and then caught by a Postman! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CousinsCowgirl84 Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 On 4/7/2022 at 11:46 AM, tshile said: Also I would think the secret service has a protocol for verifying other law enforcement officers before actually working with them… But the free guns bro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Renegade7 Posted August 2, 2022 Share Posted August 2, 2022 (edited) Between this and the Jan 6th mass text deletion, part of me wants to purge the Secret Service and refill its ranks. Edited August 2, 2022 by Renegade7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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