“‘The government will have an opportunity to respond to these allegations in court,’ said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. ‘However, the accusations appear to be an attempt to discredit law enforcement for personal gain, at the expense of the Muslim-American community.'”
It is much more likely, given the stifling politically correct environment within the FBI, that they hung Craig Monteilh out to dry for fear of offending the “Muslim-American community,” and now he is calling them on it.
“Man who says he spied on mosques for FBI files lawsuit,” by James Wagner for the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, January 31 (thanks to Twostellas):
Craig Monteilh says he lives in danger.
He’s been targeted for death by Islamic extremist groups, the Romanian and Mexican mafias and white supremacist groups. One fugitive now wants his head, he claims.
Today Monteilh, a 47-year-old fitness consultant, plans to serve papers on the people he says put him in this bind – his former employer, the FBI, and the Irvine Police Department.
Monteilh, who says he spied on mosques for the FBI as an undercover informant, filed a lawsuit last week claiming his agency handlers violated his civil rights and put his life in danger.
“They put me in prison with no protection,” he said. “There were hits on my life. I had to do what was necessary to survive in there in defense of my own life.”
He said his FBI supervisors reneged on a promise of severance and protection after a FBI supervisor muddled an operation that would have uncovered “bomb making materials” at a mosque, according to the complaint.
The lawsuit, seeking $10 million in damages, was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles on Jan. 22.
Monteilh, 47, spied on nearly a dozen mosques from July 2006 and October 2007 on the FBI’s behalf, posing as a Muslim convert, the suit alleges.
Two of the mosques were in the San Gabriel Valley, including the Al-Nabi Mosque in West Covina and the Masjid Al-Fatiha mosque in Azusa, he said.
“The government will have an opportunity to respond to these allegations in court,” said FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller. “However, the accusations appear to be an attempt to discredit law enforcement for personal gain, at the expense of the Muslim-American community.”…