Suspended Envoy to Iran Robert Malley to Teach at Yale

A new report prompts an interesting question: Who gets more access to Rob Malley, President Biden’s embattled Iran envoy, these days, members of Congress or Yale undergraduates? That the question needs to be asked at all is probably infuriating to the lawmakers who are tasked with conducting oversight of the State Department. The answer, worse.

Malley, the Biden administration’s point man on efforts to revive some version of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, was already one of the State Department’s most controversial figures when reporters learned last June that he had been quietly placed on leave without pay several weeks before. In April, reportedly, he had already been suspended when he was due to brief the Senate on Iran policy. His deputy showed up instead, and senators were told that he had a family matter to tend to. Subsequent reports revealed that he had been sidelined amid an investigation into his security clearance and whether he had mishandled classified documents, and then, that the FBI was involved in probing the matter.

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A new report prompts an interesting question: Who gets more access to Rob Malley, President Biden’s embattled Iran envoy, these days, members of Congress or Yale undergraduates? That the question needs to be asked at all is probably infuriating to the lawmakers who are tasked with conducting oversight of the State Department. The answer, worse.

Malley, the Biden administration’s point man on efforts to revive some version of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, was already one of the State Department’s most controversial figures when reporters learned last June that he had been quietly placed on leave without pay several weeks before. In April, reportedly, he had already been suspended when he was due to brief the Senate on Iran policy. His deputy showed up instead, and senators were told that he had a family matter to tend to. Subsequent reports revealed that he had been sidelined amid an investigation into his security clearance and whether he had mishandled classified documents, and then, that the FBI was involved in probing the matter.