Posted on 11/14/2007 9:08:35 AM PST by Fennie
WASHINGTON - A suspected Hezbollah mole who penetrated who penetrated the ranks of the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to falsely getting U.S. citizenship and snooping in FBI terrorism files.
Former waitress Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., admitted arranging a sham marriage with an American in Michigan to win U.S. citizenship. She parlayed that into sensitive jobs as an FBI special agent and a CIA operations officer, sources said.
Sources told The News that Prouty is believed to be a double-agent planted in the agencies by Hezbollah or its supporters, though government officials downplayed her ties to the Shiite terror group and the damage done...
Is she a blond?
More here on this very troubling case:
Hizballah’s Penetration of the FBI, CIA
By Steven Emerson
As noted by Michael Cutler, the sister-in-law of Hizballah-linked fugitive Talal Chahine pled guilty today to fraudulently obtaining her citizenship, using her illegally acquired status to attain employment with both the FBI and CIA, and illegally using government computers to gather Hizballah-related intelligence.
Nadia Nadim Prouty, aka Nadia Nadim Al Aouar, came to the U.S. in 1990 on a non-immigrant visa, overstayed her visa and entered into a fraudulent marriage in Michigan to a U.S. citizen. Prouty submitted a series of fraudulent affidavits, notably from her sister Elfat Al Aouar and her husband, Talal Chahine, attesting to the validity of Prouty’s marriage. According to the federal government, “As planned, [Prouty] never lived as husband and wife with her fraudulent ‘husband’ and the marriage was never consummated sexually.”
But Prouty did use her newly gained citizenship to get a job as a Special Agent with the FBI, which requires U.S. citizenship for employment, in 1999. Prouty was given a security clearance and tasked to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
According to prosecutors in the Eastern District of Michigan, Prouty used FBI computers - absent authorization - to run searches on herself, her sister and her brother in law, Elfat Al Aouar and Talal Chahine, owners of the popular Michigan-based restaurant chain, La Shish.
In May 2006, Chahine and Al Aouar were charged with tax evasion, with some of the proceeds allegedly funneled to Hizballah. As part of that case, the government asserted, in a written proffer that Chahine and his wife attended a fundraising event in Lebanon in August 2002 with Hizballah Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a Specially Designated Terrorist (see page 8), where the two men were the keynote speakers.
The proffer also claims that a search of El Aouar’s residence turned up a “thank you letter” for sponsoring 40 “orphans,” as well as images of Chahine and his family in front of a Hizballah outpost. According to the proffer:
“[t]he government is aware that the sponsorship of orphans is a euphemism used by Hizballah to refer to the orphans of martyrs. This is a common public relations and recruitment tool used by Hizballah. Hizballah gains favor with the public in Lebanon by supporting ‘orphans,’ while at the same time recruiting others into the terrorist organization willing to sacrifice their lives in terrorist operations based in part on the promise that Hizballah will take care of their families.”
As I wrote last year, Chahine is also connected to the Hizballah-linked charity al-Mabarrat, founded by Sheikh Fadlallah, still operating out of Dearborn, Michigan.
In 2003, Prouty resigned her position with the FBI and began working for the CIA - where U.S. citizenship is also a prerequisite for employment. Prouty is facing over 15 years in prison and $600,000 in fines for her crimes.
November 13, 2007 04:55 PM
http://counterterrorismblog.org/2007/11/hizballahs_penetration_of_the.php
No.
No, but the idiots at the FBI and CIA are.
Arggh...I wouldn’t even “sham marriage” that.
I assumed the FBI and CIA did competent background investigations on their applicants. I guess I was wrong.
When you add that to the fact that USCIS lost hundreds of thousands of files and issued visas without vetting, you can appreciate that she isn't the only one getting away with this.
That was a Val Plame joke...
I realize that.:<)
The Clinton administration abandoned background checks for White House staff when they weren’t passing.
mole???
The modern FBI cannot be concerned with minor issues like spys and traitors in their midst when they have to investigate more important events like violations of Political Correctness.
FBI manpower is not to be wasted on rooting out spies when it is needed to investigate high crimes such as what the white high scool kids at Jena, LA did to upset the six blacks that administered a brutal gang beating to one white student.
How many FBI agents were dispatched to Louisiana for this witch hunt?
Quite a few as I recall.
Our Justice Department has gone berserk.
They used to, back before the Clintons completely destroyed these institutions. The story of how they wrecked this process was very well detailed in Unlimited Access by Gary Aldrich.
For all of his faults, I think it's pretty safe to say that J. Edgar Hoover would have never made someone born in the Soviet Union a Special Agent of the FBI.
I can assure you, the background checks still happen. Not only on applicants, but current employees. But it looks like some people get a pass if they will help managers meet quotas. You know, the ones that don't exist.
bump
Whoever she was screwing at the fbicia needs to be fired!
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