GOP lawmakers allege Biden's Iran envoy kept classified material on personal email, cellphone that were hacked

Republican lawmakers revealed "troubling allegations" against President Biden’s embattled peculiar envoy to Iran, Robert Malley, who is said to person stored classified worldly connected a idiosyncratic email relationship and cellphone that were aboriginal accessed by a "hostile cyber actor."

The apical Republicans connected the Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs committees sent a missive to the State Department connected Monday requesting confirmation of their findings against Malley, who was placed connected unpaid permission past June and had his information clearance suspended amid a State Department probe for allegedly mishandling classified documents.

The letter, which was obtained by Fox News Digital, was addressed to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and included a fistful of allegations against Malley that stemmed from an probe launched by Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking subordinate James Risch, R-Idaho, and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul, R-Texas. 

"We stay profoundly frustrated by the Department's deficiency of responsiveness to our requests for accusation needed to behaviour due oversight," the lawmakers told Blinken successful the letter, which was archetypal reported by the Washington Post. "Due to the Department’s evasiveness and deficiency of transparency, we person worked to glean accusation from different sources. Our ain investigations person uncovered the pursuing accusation and troubling allegations. We inquire that you corroborate the accusation we person learned."

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Robert Malley, who was placed connected unpaid permission past June and had his information clearance suspended amid a State Department investigation, speaks successful Rome connected Nov. 30, 2017. (Riccardo De Luca/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

The 2 Republican lawmakers added, "Specifically, we recognize that Mr. Malley’s information clearance was suspended due to the fact that helium allegedly transferred classified documents to his idiosyncratic email relationship and downloaded these documents to his idiosyncratic compartment phone. It is unclear to whom helium intended to supply these documents, but it is believed that a hostile cyber histrion was capable to summation entree to his email and/or telephone and get the downloaded information."

The GOP lawmakers besides asked Blinken for further accusation regarding the nonstop reasoning down Malley's suspension, arsenic good arsenic the classification levels of the documents helium stored connected his idiosyncratic devices and accounts that were said to person been hacked.

Among the galore questions, the Republicans asked Blinken was whether Malley sent classified worldly to individuals who lacked information clearances and whether the alleged cyber histrion was affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG), the Iranian military, oregon quality services.

The lawmakers besides requested accusation connected however Malley's idiosyncratic email and/or cellphone were hacked, arsenic good arsenic whether the Biden medication has plans to let Malley to instrumentality to the State Department.

"The allegations we person been privy to are highly troubling and request contiguous answers," the lawmakers concluded successful their missive to Blinken. "These allegations person important interaction connected our nationalist information and radical should beryllium held accountable swiftly and strongly."

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Robert Malley testifies during a proceeding of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee connected Capitol Hill connected May 25, 2022. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

President Biden tapped Malley successful January 2021 to effort to revive the 2015 Iran atomic deal, nether which Tehran agreed to bounds its atomic programme to marque it harder to get a atomic limb successful instrumentality for economical sanctions relief. In 2018, President Trump opted to termination the woody and reimpose sanctions connected Iran.

Malley stepped backmost from his State Department relation soon earlier Iran's merchandise of 5 U.S. citizens to location apprehension arsenic portion of a woody nether which they would yet permission Iran and $6 cardinal successful Iranian funds successful South Korea would beryllium unfrozen.

Malley confirmed past June that his clearance was being investigated, but said helium was assured of a affirmative outcome.

"I person been informed that my information clearance is nether review. I person not been provided immoderate further information, but I expect the probe to beryllium resolved favorably and soon. In the meantime, I americium connected leave," Malley said to Fox News astatine the time. 

"While I americium connected permission from the State Department, I americium highly grateful for the accidental to enactment with the adjacent procreation of nationalist servants," Malley said successful the statement. "I look guardant to my clip astatine Princeton and returning to authorities work successful owed course."

President Biden tapped Robert Malley successful January 2021 to effort to revive the 2015 Iran atomic deal. (Maksim Konstantinov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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A spokesperson for the State Department confirmed to the New York Post connected Tuesday that Malley remains connected permission and that the section has fixed Congress accusation connected unit inquiries related to Iran policy. The spokesperson did not, however, remark connected the allegations revealed successful the missive to Blinken from Risch and McCaul.