CIA officer pleads to fraud {immigration, sham marriage)

Washington Times ^ | November 14, 2007

[3AngelaD]

A CIA operations officer and former FBI special agent pleaded guilty yesterday to fraudulently obtaining her U.S. citizenship and to using her access to FBI computers to check on investigations into her brother-in-law, a Hezbollah-linked businessman. Lebanese-born Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Detroit to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship by paying for a sham marriage; unlawfully accessing a federal computer system; and conspiracy to defraud the United States...

As part of the plea agreement, Prouty faces less than a year in jail but will be stripped of her U.S. citizenship. After any jail time, she will serve a period of probation under the supervision of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement but will not be deported, as is usual in such cases...

Prouty had been a "midlevel operations officer" at the agency, and joined in 2003...By that time her sister, Elfat el-Aouar, had been married for three years to Talal Khalil Chahine, owner of a chain of Middle Eastern restaurants in Michigan. In August 2002, Chahine was a keynote speaker at a Beirut fundraising event alongside Hezbollah's spiritual leader, Sheik Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, listed by the Treasury Department as a "specially designated global terrorist entity..." "There's no reason at this point to treat this as a counterintelligence case," the intelligence official said.... Chahine, a fugitive, faces two federal indictments...,

The plea agreement...stated that Prouty paid a U.S. citizen...to marry her after overstaying a student visa....Prouty used the marriage as the basis for a fraudulent naturalization application, which resulted in her becoming a U.S. citizen. In April 1999...Prouty joined the FBI as a special agent, was granted a security clearance and assigned to the bureau's Washington field office to work on a team investigating crimes against U.S. citizens overseas.

[3AngelaD]

Hezbollah? Less than a year in prison? Will NOT be deported? What the....? This stinks. Why is this woman being rewarded?

[mewzilla]

Related link....

C.I.A. Officer Admits Guilt in Seeking Hezbollah Files

[bvw]

And Pollard is locked up in max. Jews get hard time, Arabs get lavish jumbo jets home after probation.

What would an IRA man get? Oh, that's right. He'd become Director. (Just kidding on the last.)

[Rummyfan]

"There's no reason at this point to treat this as a counterintelligence case," the intelligence official said....

WTFO?

[Ken522]

"There's no reason at this point to treat this as a counterintelligence case," the intelligence official said.... WTFO?

Because if this was to be treated as a CT case, then the people working CT to protect the CIA from infiltration would be shown to have failed - and we can't have that, not with Harvard-educated GS-18s!

[mtbopfuyn]

but will not be deported, as is usual in such cases

With stripped citizenship she'll be eligible for government freebies.

[doodad]

Why do we have non citizen working in Langley? And ones from certian countries without proper vetting? ARGH!

[Verloona Ti]

A poster over at gates of Vienna mentioned an Arab translator who warned the FBI that moslem translators were deliberately mistranslating and ignoring terrorist chatter . She was "blown off", and when she persisted, she was fired. The GOV poster concluded that the FBI is so mired in PC that it is worse than useless-it has become a positive danger to the survival of this nation. This *may* be an article about that person, but there's been so many problems with the FBI-like the agent who WASN'T fired for refusing to 'spy' on fellow moslems-that it may be a different translator.

[grandpa jones]

Valerie Plame

Oh, wrong case.

[Verloona Ti]

Oh, and here's a page with the name of the moslem agent who refused to tape fellow moslems, and some other interesting quotes on the FBI's problems.

[expatguy]

This is only the tip of the iceberg FRiends.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[From One - Many]

Arab translator who warned the FBI that moslem translators were deliberately mistranslating and ignoring terrorist chatter

So a little truth slipped out....Someone(s) will not be happy about this. koran says....Lie to the Infidels....mooselimbs obeying the koran, who would have thought it. After America is hit again, and even the President has said, America will be hit in a way to make 911 appear small and insignificant, our government will hire more translators to lie to the infidel. Vicious circle....

[DancesWithBolsheviks]

Ridiculus. The guy who aided her citizenship fraud via sham marriage should also be deported.

[3AngelaD]

My God that story about your bank is horrific. Any updates on that? What does Treasury or the Comptroller of the Currency have to say about such a rule? Do Americans have to go to Nuevo Laredo and get a fake matricula card in order to open a bank account. What does the Texas Department of Banking say? This is an outrage, and it also appears that bank doesn’t want your business unless you are a Mexican.

[khnyny]

"There's no reason at this point to treat this as a counterintelligence case," the intelligence official said.... WTFO?"

Because if this was to be treated as a CT case, then the people working CT to protect the CIA from infiltration would be shown to have failed - and we can't have that, not with Harvard-educated GS-18s!

Outrageous stuff. They're not exactly living up to their resume's are they? Sometimes I think I could walk down the street and find people more capable. There is quite a lot to be said for street smarts and instincts.

If I was king I'd fire the a$$hats that signed off on this woman being hired in the FBI and CIA, and those who did the background check.

[khnyny]

Google Nada Prouty. She just got her CPA license this past year in the state of Virginia. IIRC, one of her relatives fled the country for tax evasion.

You just cannot make this stuff up, folks. (shakes head)

[3AngelaD]

So she will have a fall-back job now that her spying career has fallen through? I think the State of Virginia needs to know about this.

[3AngelaD]

I just emailed the head of the Virginia Society of Certified Public Accountants and asked her what they are going to do about this. We’ll see.

[expatguy]

No, no updates and yes I think it is horrible, but I don't think it is just me - I'd like to know what exactly Americans are doing about it.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[VOA]

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