Attorney General Todd Blanche joins Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio and Pete Hegseth living on US military bases amid Iran security threats
US Attorney General Todd Blanche has relocated to secure military-base housing under FBI protection, joining Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller as intelligence agencies warn Iranian plots against American officials have reached an advanced stage.
United States Attorney General Todd Blanche is living on a secure U.S. military installation under heightened federal protection, expanding an extraordinary roster of senior Trump administration officials who have moved out of private Washington-area residences into guarded military housing amid escalating security threats tied to Iran and domestic harassment.
According to reporting by NewsNation and follow-up disclosures Thursday, Blanche relocated onto a military base earlier this year with expanded Federal Bureau of Investigation protective coverage, though Justice Department and FBI spokespeople declined to comment publicly on specific threat assessments surrounding the nation’s top law-enforcement officer.
Blanche’s living arrangement places at least five top-tier Trump administration principals inside fortified military perimeters simultaneously: Blanche, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller. Former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem had also previously shifted into guarded military quarters following targeted threats.
Intelligence warnings point to ‘advanced-stage’ Iranian plotting
The revelation of Blanche’s military housing follows confirmation earlier this week that Bessent and his family abruptly vacated their Washington-area residence for a military base after U.S. intelligence agencies concluded that Iranian plotting against current and former American officials had progressed to an “advanced stage.”
Bessent has spearheaded Washington’s financial maximum-pressure campaign designed to sever Tehran’s oil revenues and international banking channels, and officials noted that public property disclosures had exposed his private residential address.
Blanche’s Justice Department has simultaneously sat at the center of counterterrorism prosecutions targeting Tehran’s external networks. Federal prosecutors recently unsealed terrorism-related indictments against three Iranian-backed operatives accused of involvement in nearly 20 attacks and attempted strikes across Europe and the United States — including a September surveillance and sabotage plot targeting RAF Fairford in England, a strategic airfield used by American heavy bombers and recently adjusted U.S. Air Force tanker deployments.
Announcing those charges, Blanche vowed that Washington would aggressively prosecute anyone plotting attacks against bases or personnel tied to U.S. military operations.
Tehran warns of strikes ‘beyond the region’ despite diplomatic feelers
Security protocols around Trump Cabinet members remain at elevated levels even after President Donald Trump suggested earlier this week that direct combat operations in Iran were winding down alongside backchannel Gulf diplomacy.
Early Thursday, Iran’s deputy chief of the Armed Forces General Staff warned that U.S. military installations and strategic interests remained within range of Iranian missiles and long-range drones, asserting Tehran had updated its target lists with “no geographical restrictions” should hostilities resume — underscoring why federal protective agencies continue keeping key national-security and Cabinet principals inside military compounds.