Iran envoy Malley may have been on 'classified White House call' after clearance suspended, watchdog finds

Iran envoy Robert Malley may have taken part in a "classified conference call" with the White House after his security clearance was suspended, according to the State Department inspector general’s new report.

The State Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) did not interview Malley and could not confirm that he had been on the call, but his deputy notified a White House official that "Rob will call in" and that Malley had "accessed the controlled office where the call would have occurred."

At the time of the call, Malley’s clearance had been paused over misconduct allegations, but the envoy himself had not yet been notified. Malley – a controversial Washington figure who Republicans say is friendly to Iran – had been accused of storing classified information on his personal email account and phone.

​​That material was later accessed by a "hostile cyber actor," according to Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, the Foreign Relations Committee ranking member, and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the House Foreign Affairs Committee chair. They revealed this information in May.

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The FBI is investigating whether Malley committed crimes in moving classified information over to his personal email.

OIG found that State had "deviated" from the normal procedure of clearance suspension by not letting Malley know until senior department officials had been made aware.

Department officials also restored Malley’s access to sensitive but unclassified information after they had paused his clearance, worried that he might use a personal email account to conduct government business if they did not.

Sen. Bill Hagerty, Tenn., top Republican on the subcommittee on State Department Management, accused the