this ain’t the only one...The State Dept is as corrupt
And her name is?
Hezbollah clearly qualifies as an “enemy.”
So this is treason.
But the FBI and CIA would rather not have the embarassment of exposing their workings as incompetent. That comes first.
I want to know why this woman was employed by the FBI. Any other non immigrant aka American citizen would be put through the ringer before they are hired. Why didn’t they know about the sham marriage. We are going to PC ourselves right into the grave.
“expected to plead guilty”, “accused of passing information to sympathizers of Hezbollah.”
“no evidence of actual espionage”
Well is that is not spying, what is?
When your country is bidding for World Dominion, stuff like this is just a cost of doing business. I trust all of the peace-through-violence types keep this in mind as they stoke their rage.
We need a modern day “Tail-gunner Joe” to weed-out the islam-a-Nazis from our government. Transferring the State department clintonistas is a good start.
“..the woman, from Lebanon, entered the United States on a student visa and earned citizenship through a sham marriage.”
Very important information has been left out. What is her religious affiliation? Who was her husband and what is his religion?
Former FBI Agent Accused Of Leaking Info
DETROIT, Nov. 13, 2007(CBS) A 37-year-old woman who previously worked as an FBI agent and a CIA analyst, pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges involving her disclosure of information to people outside the government, CBS News has learned.
Sources say Nada Nadim Prouty, a Lebanese national and resident of Virginia, entered the United States on a student visa and earned citizenship through a sham marriage.
While officials say there is no evidence of actual espionage and no evidence that she was working as a spy, she is accused of passing information to sympathizers of Hezbollah, a group the U.S. has labeled a terrorist organization.
Sources say she came under suspicion after performing a number of computer searches unrelated to cases she had been assigned to.
According to a Justice Department press release, Prouty pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hezbollah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.
“It is a sad day when one of our public servants breaches our security and trust,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein. “This defendant engaged in a pattern of deceit to secure U.S. citizenship, to gain employment in the intelligence community, and to obtain and exploit her access to sensitive counterterrorism intelligence. It is fitting that she now stands to lose both her citizenship and her liberty.”
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Illegal immigrant worked for FBI, CIA, stole ‘sensitive’ info
Woman was sister-in-law of fugitive La Shish restaurant owner, stole info on investigation
November 13, 2007
By DAVID ASHENFELTER
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The sister-in-law of the indicted fugitive owner of the La Shish restaurant chain got sensitive jobs at the FBI and CIA, despite being an illegal immigrant, federal prosecutors said in court documents unsealed today in Detroit.
The woman, Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., also tapped into a sensitive FBI computer to find out what federal investigators knew about her, La Shish restaurant owner Talal Chahine, and her sister, who is married to Chahine.
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Prosecutors said she took an unknown quantity of classified information home with her. It’s unclear what happened, or what she did with the information, prosecutors said.
The information pertained to a federal investigation of Chahine and his possible involvement with Hizballah, which has been declared a terrorist organization by the U.S State Department.
In 2002, Chahine and his wife, Elfat El Aouar, attended a fundraising event in Lebanon, where the keynote speakers were Hizballah leaders.
Prouty pleaded guilty to conspiracy, unauthorized computer access and naturalization fraud during a 30-minute hearing before U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn. The most serious charge, naturalization fraud, carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Under the terms of a plea deal with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Prouty would face a prison sentence of 6-12 months, be stripped of her U.S. citizenship and be ordered deported. Prouty hired an unemployed U.S. citizen to marry her in 1990, a year after she entered the country and overstayed her student visa.
However, prosecutors said she won’t be allowed to leave the U.S. because she used to work for the FBI and CIA and has access to sensitive information vital to homeland security.
It remained unclear why background checks the FBI and CIA conducted before hiring her didn’t reveal her illegal immigration status. Also unclear is why the forerunner agency to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t find out about the marriage fraud.
Court documents said Chahine, who fled to Lebanon in 2005 to avoid tax-evasion charges, vouched for the legitimacy of her marriage.
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If true, this really is the last straw.
During the clinton years, the FBI employed a lot of Muslims as “double agents.” Many of these people were involved in the OKC bombing. Almost certainly their primary loyalties were to Islam, not the FBI.
But at least they were not actual agents.
In the old days it would have been extremely rare to hire a foreign born agent for the FBI or the CIA, because of the dangers of dual loyalties, or inserted spies and double agents.
These agencies have both been broken ever since the Church Commission trashed them, and both got far worse during the clinton years, when he filled them with his own corrupt stooges.
Bush has done zero, nada, zilch to fix these problems he inherited, unfortunately. He seems content to let the clintons and their friends in the media to continue to run them.
Dumb bastards, she's a spy by definition.
Can you believe the woman is an illegal. Just damn, way to go government.
Maybe it was Hillary’s BFF?
Son of a B1tch! We’re at war, this country has been attacked and this bimbo trades state secrets for cash?
Bring back the rope or the firing squad. Better yet, drop her off at any American Legion and let the boys have at it. PC will be the death of us.
How did she end up doing the job she had with access to info??? Sheesh
Plenty of choice comments at a related thread:
Ex-FBI Agent Accused Of Security Breach
CBS News via Drudge ^ | Nov. 13, 2007 | NA
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Former FBI special agent and CIA analyst Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, admitted searching FBI databases for information on relatives suspected of having ties to Hezbollah, and fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship. (U.S. Marshals Service) ABC News
Ex-FBI, CIA Worker Admits Taking Classified Information Lebanese National Searched for Intel on Relatives Allegedly Tied to Hezbollah By PIERRE THOMAS, JACK DATE, THERESA COOK and JASON RYAN Nov. 13, 2007—
A former FBI special agent and CIA analyst pleaded guilty Tuesday to using her database access privileges to search for information on relatives suspected of having ties to a reputed terrorist group, and who fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship. In federal court in Detroit Tuesday, Lebanese national Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, pleaded guilty to secretly obtaining information about ongoing FBI national security investigations. She is suspected of passing it on to relatives suspected of having ties to Hezbollah, a group that the U.S. government has classified as a foreign terrorist organization. "Right now, CIA and FBI are both trying to find out what more she might have known, what more she might have passed on to Hezbollah, and was she in fact sent here by Hezbollah in the first place to penetrate the United States intelligence services," former government counter-intelligence official and ABC News consultant Richard Clarke said.
"As a special agent," court documents said, Prouty "was granted a security clearance" and assigned to a unit investigating crimes against U.S. citizens overseas.
While employed as a special agent, Prouty entered the FBI's computer system "without authorization, and beyond her authorized access, to query her own name" and those of her sister and brother-in-law. Those relatives later attended a fundraising event whose featured speaker was a U.S.-designated terrorist linked to Hezbollah. The criminal information states that Prouty acted against FBI policy and took "an unknown quantity of classified information home with her." Prouty's sister, brother-in-law and others were charged in federal court last year for an alleged scheme to cover up more than $20 million in cash funneled to individuals in Lebanon. Her sister, Elfat El Aouar, pleaded guilty to tax evasion last year and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. El Aouar's husband, Talal Chahine, is considered to be a fugitive and is thought to be in Lebanon, according to U.S. law enforcement officials.
Prouty resigned from her job as a midlevel CIA operations officer last week, after working at the agency for three years. According to an official familiar with the investigation, she worked for the National Clandestine Service, which runs covert operations. Before joining the CIA in 2003, the FBI employed Prouty as a special agent, starting in 1999.
In an embarrassing twist, the investigation has also uncovered that Prouty fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship, admitting in court documents that she paid a man to marry her in 1990 so she could obtain citizenship after her student visa expired. Sources told ABC News that officials at the highest levels of government have been briefed on the case, which is seen as an embarrassment for two of the nation's top intelligence agencies. Both the FBI and the CIA have launched internal reviews looking at organizational security procedures. The case raises important questions about how careful and effective the vetting of employees is at the nation's premier law enforcement and intelligence agencies. FBI agents are supposed to be regularly polygraphed and take lie detector tests before obtaining a CIA job.
"This is a failure of three systems," Clarke said. "It's a failure of the FBI background system, including polygraphs. It's a failure of the CIA hiring system, including polygraphs. And it's a failure of the FBI's computer system security, because she was able to obtain information that she shouldn't have had access to about Hezbollah, which she probably passed on to Hezbollah, a terrorist group." As part of the investigation, the government is conducting a damage assessment. Officials told ABC News the amount of information they suspect was leaked appears to be limited, but investigators are checking all the ex-agent's contacts within both agencies and looking to see what databases she might have tapped into. CIA spokesman Mark Mansfield issued a statement on the investigation, saying that the CIA cooperated with the investigation and that Prouty "was a midlevel employee who came to us in 2003 from the FBI where she had been a special agent. The naturalization issue occurred well before she was hired by the Bureau." Mansfield confirmed that Prouty resigned from the CIA as part of her plea agreement.
"It is a sad day when one of our public servants breaches our security and trust," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein said Tuesday. "This defendant engaged in a pattern of deceit to secure U.S. citizenship, to gain employment in the intelligence community, and to obtain and exploit her access to sensitive counterterrorism intelligence." "It is fitting that she now stands to lose both her citizenship and her liberty," Wainstein added. The plea agreement recommends that Prouty face a prison sentence between six and 12 months, and pay a maximum fine of $250,000. The documents also indicate Prouty will be on supervised release for two to three years after serving her sentence.
http://www.abcnews.go.com/WN/FedCrimes/story?id=3859991&page=1