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They'd hire her back in a minute. And, they say, she wasn't a spy for Hizballah. Others, however, differ.
Nada Nadim Prouty Update by James Gordon Meek for the New York Daily News (thanks to Jeffrey Imm):
WASHINGTON - An illegal Lebanese immigrant who lied her way into FBI and CIA jobs was so well-regarded that she got an undercover assignment in Iraq to aid U.S. counterinsurgency efforts, intelligence sources said Thursday.Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship and snooping on FBI files on Hezbollah, worked in the CIA's Baghdad station sometime between 2003 and 2006 and had a knack for passing as a local.
She also demonstrated a talent for breaking captured Al Qaeda "high-value targets," an intelligence source told the Daily News.
"She was not only good at debriefing HVTs [high-value targets], she was able to pose as a native Arab and easily blend in," said the source.
Prouty was a covert CIA operations officer "just like Valerie Plame," the source added, referring to the spy infamously outed in a 2003 newspaper column.
She was so good that some in the agency want to hire Prouty back one day, the source said.
Officials again yesterday insisted Prouty is not suspected of espionage or of being a mole for the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah. "There is no indication at this point that she was engaged in espionage" for Hezbollah while at the CIA, said a senior U.S. official familiar with the case.
In fact, the CIA fears she'll be assassinated for her U.S. spy work if she's ever deported to Beirut, two sources said.
Other knowledgeable sources are convinced otherwise. Her brother-in-law is a fugitive Hezbollah fund-raiser who helped her lie to win U.S. citizenship seven years before she joined the FBI in 1999.
She scoured FBI files for his name, Talal Khalil Chahine. She once worked for him in Detroit. Her defenders say she was rifling files out of worry for her sister, who married him in 2000....
Posted by Robert at November 17, 2007 8:36 AM
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Maybe she was too good in her job and someone wants her outed. I't natural for people of that region to be concerned about the well being of family members, specially when they have highly sensititive jobs as working for CIA.
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at November 17, 2007 9:26 AM
This is not the first time the CIA has been played:
http://www.peterlance.com/TRIPLE%20CROSS%20Timeline.pdf
Apparently some lessons take long to learn. It is better to simply have informants on the payroll than to provide classified/secret clearance to those experts in taquiyya.
-XRDC
Posted by: XRDC at November 17, 2007 10:00 AM
Is she a Maronite Christian or a Muslim ?
Her support for the Hesboes and looking out for them and her bro-in-law suggest the latter.
Clarification ?
Posted by: dgene at November 17, 2007 10:25 AM
The second valerie plame (the poster child for NON-EVENT events) was mentioned in equally complimentary light by "the source", the alarm bells went off all over the place as to who this "the source" was. Credibility of "the source" went to zero.
(The CIA folks I know said plame's rep ranged from "wasn't all that" to "useless as t*ts on a boar hog", and politics reeketh over-not a single mention even close to positive).
Unnamed sources are like a grab bag...you take your chances, and it's not always gonna be straight up.
Hey, at least the author's good enough to show there's no consensus by any means about this woman (and that's an understatement).
at November 17, 2007 10:39 AM
Another episode of 'spy versus spy'. Or, 'will the real spy please stand up'. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction...way stranger...
Posted by: duh_swami at November 17, 2007 10:49 AM
So were are we going with this? Obviously this covertition appears to have played a valuable role based on this short article. Have we heard the last of Nada Nadim Prouty? Do we just kick her out onto the street with all her gathered abilities and skills? Something is amiss here, specially after so many years on the job. Who will right a more defintive story on the life and times of Nada Nadim Prouty.Smart CIA operatives don't just kick someone like this out the door, There has got to be more than what is going on hear.
Posted by: Mackie at November 17, 2007 11:00 AM
Here is Debbie Schlussel's investigative story on Nada Nadim Prouty
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/11/shocker_hezboll.html
Posted by: Mackie at November 17, 2007 11:07 AM
If there is, the public won't know about it...
by the way, (forgivable mistake),
they're not called "spies" & "operatives"...
Agency personnel in the operations directorate are called "officers", or "NOC"s...
("operators" however is a term never used "en clair", and another issue entirely-they're among the "stars on the wall" with no names)
"operative" is never used...except by the MSM in james bond mode...lol
at November 17, 2007 11:08 AM
"In fact, the CIA fears she'll be assassinated for her U.S. spy work if she's ever deported to Beirut..."
Hmmmm.....
at November 17, 2007 11:16 AM
"What the hell is going on out there?" said Vince Lombardi to his Packer team. Very appropriate in these cicumstances. How could our 'highest' intelligence services be so lame. "Central INTELLIGENCE Agency", a contradiction of terms said Capt. Mancuso of the sub Dallas in Clancy's Hunt For Red October. Maybe 'we' should 'throw the bums out' and hire the private security outfit protecting our officials in Iraq (the name escapes me). The private sector always does a better job.
Posted by: countywolf at November 17, 2007 11:23 AM
More info stories on Prouty
http://www.slate.com/id/2178018/entry/0/fr/rss/
http://www.wakeupfromyourslumber.com/node/4653
Posted by: Mackie at November 17, 2007 11:24 AM
If she wasn't a spy for Hezbollah, why was she reading the FBI's files on them?
Posted by: aynrandgirl at November 17, 2007 12:08 PM
IMO the CIA is trying to do a massive CYA campaign because they got buffaloed by a amateur and tripped up by their own laziness.
Then again HUMINT was never a CIA strong point.
One thing about the CIA is that they never learn from those who betray them. They keep hiring and promoting marginal characters like Hansen or those with dubious background like Prouty.
Posted by: waltc at November 17, 2007 12:19 PM
"IMO the CIA is trying to do a massive CYA campaign because they got buffaloed by a amateur and tripped up by their own laziness."
That, too...among others
"Then again HUMINT was never a CIA strong point"
It used to be...until political correctness infested it.
"One thing about the CIA is that they never learn from those who betray them. They keep hiring and promoting marginal characters like Hansen or those with dubious background like Prouty."
Hansen was FBI, but you're on the right track.
Perhaps you're thinking of Aldrich Ames.
Either way...those who betray them aren't always rogues...some former elected officials have also that (2 executive branch, the rest legislative).
They're infested with PC wonks now, rendering them hopeless, aka, FUBAR. That's hopw prouty got in to begin with...in 1999.
at November 17, 2007 12:37 PM
Maybe 'we' should 'throw the bums out' and hire the private security outfit protecting our officials in Iraq (the name escapes me). The private sector always does a better job.
Posted by: countywolf
That would be Blackwater, which just opened up an intelligence division called Greystone or something like that and they also employ paramilitaries to work for the CIA.
Posted by: Bonniea at November 17, 2007 5:49 PM
Bonniea:
To qoute the Doobie Brothers, "Oh Blackwater, keep on rollin'"
Lol
Posted by: Drewbenstein at November 17, 2007 7:49 PM
It'd undoubtedly work a lot better...problem is, the 5th column politburo won't allow something that would actually work (and would also undoubtedly keep their 5th column asses out of the intel loop, thus preventing them tipping off the enemy as they've done before)...that, and they're not infested with political correctness.
Posted by: jcom972 at November 17, 2007 10:55 PM
nothin gnew in all this, afetr didn't our own government including state department and bush got misled by iraqis who had their own interests in mind in having the us invade iraq to oust saddam? our govenmnet was played like a fiddle by these lieing arabs.
Posted by: desidude at November 18, 2007 10:40 PM
as did French & German intel who sent it to us as well, and that's just two of many (and so were a LOT of the Bush-hating politicians that touted the same stuff before W was even there yet, including clintonsky & algore)
at November 18, 2007 11:49 PM
This would make a great spy film-- maybe even a Bond flick. We could even title it "The Spy who Scr*ew*d Us."
at November 19, 2007 1:26 PM
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