US security services breach, 4 suspended.
According to the CNN website, the two men, named “Arian Taherzadeh” and “Haidar Ali”, have been posing as US Department of Homeland Security agents for the past two years and have been giving expensive gifts to federal agents in Washington. The two infiltrators also promised to buy a gun from a secret service officer who was tasked with protecting the life of Jill Biden, the wife of the US president.
The U.S. Secret Service has suspended four agents linked to two men accused of impersonating federal law enforcement officers who authorities said gave gifts worth thousands of dollars to agency personnel including one assigned to protect President Joe Biden’s wife.
The two Washington men, Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, appeared in federal court on Thursday a day after being arrested. Prosecutors said they plan to charge them with conspiracy in a scheme in which they are accused of posing as U.S. Department of Homeland Security agents.
Taherzadeh offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a Secret Service agent assigned to protect first lady Jill Biden and told other government officials they could have access to what he claimed were “official government vehicles,” the FBI said.
