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Nada Nadim Prouty Update. For details on the huge implications of this case, see here. "More details on ex-agent's security breach," by Josh Meyer for the Los Angeles Times (thanks to Sr. Soph):
DETROIT -- An illegal immigrant from Lebanon who became an agent for the FBI and CIA allegedly used her access to sensitive U.S. government secrets to help her brother-in-law, a suspected major fundraiser for the terrorist group Hezbollah, according to new details concerning a national security breach that emerged Wednesday.In court documents and interviews, federal authorities said that as part of a criminal conspiracy, Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, illegally accessed top-secret FBI investigative files on five occasions and most likely shared the information with the suspected Hezbollah operative. When she pleaded guilty to unauthorized computer access and naturalization fraud charges three weeks ago, authorities revealed only that Prouty had accessed the FBI's Hezbollah files once, and said nothing about her sharing information about ongoing investigations with anyone else.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said Prouty illegally accessed the FBI's Hezbollah investigative files in 2002 and 2003, at a time when she was a Washington, D.C.-based FBI field agent who was not working Hezbollah cases. Prouty accessed them electronically, "without authorization and in excess of her authorized access," the prosecutors said in a court filing.
At the time, her sister's husband, Talal Khalil Chahine, 51, was under investigation by the FBI in Detroit for his suspected ties to Hezbollah. The Lebanon-based group was designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization in 1997.
The Detroit suburb of Dearborn is home to the largest Lebanese community outside of Lebanon, and for years the FBI's Detroit field office has had numerous investigations underway into Hezbollah's fundraising network here. Authorities say the group is supported by donations from wealthy local supporters and a wide array of criminal activities.
Authorities now believe Prouty was illegally accessing the FBI files to determine for Chahine and perhaps others what the FBI knew about the group's presence here, and that she accessed an investigative file on Chahine, according to the court filing and interviews. At the time, Chahine was suspected of raising large sums of money for Hezbollah within the local community and of meeting with top Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon.
Posted by Robert at December 7, 2007 12:26 PM
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Perhaps a suitable punishment would be to give her a burka and exile her to the glorious paradise of Iran (after informing her new hosts that her marriage was a scam...thus proving she was alone with an unrelated, unmarried man.
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at December 7, 2007 1:11 PM
I am wondering how long it will take for Dearborn to petition the UN to be recognized as an Independent Islamic state? I think the Serbian president should fly to Dearborn to support them, maybe it will buy them some political peace with thier neighbors.
-Sarcasm-
Here is a rather alarming history of Dearborn.
http://www.familiesoftibnin.com/History%20of%20Arabs%20in%20Dearborn.htm
Posted by: ethoman at December 7, 2007 1:29 PM
And people accused Paul Sperry of Islamohobia when he wrote "Infiltration".
What do you have to say for yourselves now?
Posted by: Mike at December 7, 2007 2:28 PM
"An illegal immigrant from Lebanon who became an agent for the FBI and CIA allegedly used her access to sensitive U.S. government secrets ...."
....reminds me of Sandy Berger and the case of the stolen (and never returned) secret documents hidden in the pants trick....and , as far as I know, he is not Muslim.....
at December 7, 2007 2:39 PM
Tell me the character of this story hasn't changed over the last few weeks. More and more facts and connections seem to keep surfacing...I wonder why? Is something big about to break? Normally the feds go to great lengths to bury these sorts of embarassments and keep them from public scrutiny.
Posted by: livefreeordie! at December 7, 2007 2:40 PM
I would say that this woman is in a lot of trouble.
How much damage she caused, and how many killings she abetted will never be known. Don't give her the death penalty, or prison, send her to Lahore, Pakistan to live with the Naseems. The Naseem's always have room for one more double or triple agents, and semi retired jihadi's. There under the protection of Sharia lite, and the Naseems 'Wuslim' sect, she too will be able to post on JW/DW.
I do hope she will be prosecuted all the way to Pakistan, and all her accomplices along with her.
Naseems gain is our loss...but it is a good thing we are losing her. Sort of like removing a bad tooth...
at December 7, 2007 3:11 PM
Who precisely, I wonder, are the 'wealthy community members'?
What, precisely, I wonder, are the 'wide range of criminal activities', and who was conducting them?
If clear evidence exists - names, transactions, criminal convictions, etc - then: assets frozen and confiscated; closing of incriminated mosques; stripping of citizenship; deportations.
Seems to me that the distinction between much that one might call 'Islam-on-the-ground' and an organised crime gang a la the Triads or the Mafia, begins to look like a distinction without a difference.
RICO, please.
Posted by: dumbledoresarmy at December 7, 2007 4:05 PM
From above:
. . .exile her to the glorious paradise of Iran
and
. . .send her to Lahore
I think that would be a very bad idea. She managed to infiltrate our security agencies. It would be foolish to assume that she isn't well connected from within, as well as without. Exiling/deporting her would be gifting further intelligence to dar al islam.
There was a time, not long ago, when treason was a capital offense worthy of the death penalty.
The Israeli spy, Jonathan Pollard was convicted on one count of spying for Israel, receiving a life sentence in 1986 with a recommendation against parole.
Nada Nadim Prouty should never see the light of day again. It is time to send a clear message to dar al islam that none of their brethren stand above the law of the United States.
at December 7, 2007 4:52 PM
Remind me again why Israel hasn't bombed Hizballah to bits.
Posted by: RoobartSbunsar at December 7, 2007 5:14 PM
@ topic
this is not the work of an innocent person,
it's clear and unmistakable espionage by prouty.
at December 7, 2007 11:04 PM
The FBI is our only remaining defense against the Global Jihad - the CIA, the State Dept., the DIA, etc. consistently play into the hands of the enemy. Now, the rot of dhimmitude is penetrating it, too. Read about the brazen jihadists and spies working as "translators" for the FBI in "Infiltration" by the hero Paul Sperry. No wonder, considering that the current FBI director Robert Mueller mandated "sensitivity training" at the FBI in response to 9/11 (1) and refuses to use the term "Islamic terrorism" !
Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.
Posted by: Enragedsince1999 at December 8, 2007 1:42 PM
I think that this crime of espionage should be tried in public, and, if found guilty, should include a public execution.
Posted by: thelittlegreekwoman at December 8, 2007 7:14 PM
I've linked to you here: http://consul-at-arms.blogspot.com/2007/12/re-illegal-alien-fbi-agent-accessed.html
Posted by: Consul-At-Arms at December 9, 2007 12:42 AM
Only part of the story here. Before she started her career, she worked in the restaurant chain of the man her sister ultimately married. He is not only accused of tax evasion in funding Hezbollah, but has been indicted for sending some $20 million to Hezbollah out of his restaurant chain's receipts. Somehow he learned of the indictment and pending arrest and was able to flee to Lebanon ahead of the Feds. Wonder how he found out?
Posted by: Fran at December 9, 2007 3:55 PM
I want all of you to ask yourslef this question: If I were and IRS agent and my brother was accused of cheating on his taxes, would I access his records. If your answer is yes, congratulations, you are a truth teller. I your answer is no, you are the opposite of a truth teller. The only question would be whtether or not you file the appropriate forms for doing so.
You would want to make up your mind based on all the evidence, wouldn't you. Wouldn't you want to know if your brother was telling you the truth of the matter.
You say, "But she could give her brother a heads up about something that he could cover up." Spoken like a person who has never seen an FBI file! Field agents NEVER put the important things into the computer. EVER.
at December 9, 2007 5:15 PM
What I am confused about is I thought (am I naive) that the FBI did a background check on every one they employed. How did this get by. Were they too PC?
Posted by: furryface at December 11, 2007 1:56 AM
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