Posted on 05/20/2016 6:27:17 PM PDT by jazusamo
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Friday sought to unseal the to-date secret criminal case of an Islamic State defector after NBC News broadcast an interview with the New York man in which he spoke out against the militant Islamist group.
Unsealing the case could allow the U.S. Justice Department to make public details of why the man turned against Islamic State at a time when the government is trying to combat the group's online propaganda.
The 27-year-old man had been cooperating in investigations and had explored speaking publicly against the militant group "for some time" before agreeing to the NBC interview broadcast Thursday, prosecutors said in a letter filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
The man, identified only as "Mo," pleaded guilty under seal in November 2014 to charges including that he provided material support to Islamic State, the letter said.
U.S. authorities arranged the NBC interview after learning the network was preparing a story on Mo, who NBC said attended Columbia University, prosecutors said in the letter.
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I saw him on The Five. Seems remorseful.
Hey Mo!
Knuck knuck kunck knunk...
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