Posted on 05/17/2008 8:27:53 AM PDT by khnyny
DETROIT - A former federal agent who pleaded guilty to faking a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship and improperly searching FBI databases was sentenced Tuesday to pay $975 in fines and other fees, but will serve no prison time.
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn said Nada Nadim Prouty, 38, "erred in judgment" 19 years ago when she lied to enter the U.S. in 1989 from her native Lebanon, but has provided "exemplary service to the country" as a federal agent.
Cohn also signed an order revoking Prouty's citizenship, but Prouty's attorney Thomas Cranmer said after the hearing she will not be deported.
Government officials have said they would not deport her because of her knowledge about matters of national security. U.S. Attorney's Office spokeswoman Gina Balaya said Tuesday her Immigration status was "in limbo."
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I don’t see what the big deal is. /sarc
That bears repeating. The stench coming from Washington DC is becoming unbearable.
Perhaps some of the best and brightest in the system have retired already.
I don’t know. There are times I wish I’d actually studied in school and become an arrogant attorney. This is one of those times.
Obviously, Ramos and Compean didn’t/don’t have drug or Arab money behind them.
There’s an axiom that goes: Don’t embarrass the Bureau. Usually it meant woe to that agent whose actions brought unwelcome publicity to the FBI.
Another axiom said: Don’t fall in love with the FBI, because the FBI will not fall in love with you. Again, it served as a warning to Agents that the interests of the FBI came above all other considerations. No career is guaranteed.
Both have now been turned on their heads. And all because some anonymous FBI agent did half a job in conducting the background investigation on this spy when she applied to the Bureau for a job. So great is the FBI’s shame in this pathetic tale that they’ll agree to anything to get it off the front page, even to the extent of falling completely in love with a rogue agent, and allowing one mole to embarrass the crap out of the Bureau with total impunity.
Of course, somewhere in Butte, Montana, or maybe the FBI field office in Barrow, Alaska, sits a lonely agent who had the job of vetting this spy, and didn’t quite catch even the immigration fraud, which even the most raw rookie Immigration Inspector would’ve seen in a heartbeat. And he sits in that lonely outpost because you just “don’t embarrass the Bureau.” Well, maybe not all the time.
But at least they’re consistent. Apparently the interests of the Bureau have trumped all other considerations here, including national security, national reputation, the concept of law enforcement, and an independent judiciary. But, of course, that isn’t what the original axiom really was meant to convey.
Other than that, no big deal.
Essentially, she’s a spy. Why aren’t we treating her as one?
There was a time when she wouldn’t have been able to get a security clearance for a job like that.
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn
Anyone of us could get in more trouble for a few speeding tickets.
"There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. ...
Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter.
From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.
I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.
I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct;
that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing."
-- Daniel Webster 1837
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
A murderer is less to be feared."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
2008 - 19 = 1989.
That makes me feel very old.
True then and true now.
/8^)
The town as a whole is infested with these kind of vermin.
What p*sses me off is that me and my siblings are 13th generation (Mayflower) Americans, but, would the Fed hire me for any jobs .... NO!
OR they were desperate for Arabic speakers. (No excuse, but it's another way of looking at how she got hired.)
But your family would help America, and those in power appear to have other ideas.
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