HEZBOLLAH SPY INFILTRATED FBI & CIA

According to reports by CBS News and the Detroit News, an illegal alien from Lebanon has admitted that she fraudulently obtained American citizenship through a sham marriage and illegally accessed secret FBI information about her relatives in the Hezbollah terror gang.

CBS:

According to a Justice Department press release, Prouty pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hezbollah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Detroit News:

Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., a sister-in-law of fugitive LaShish Restaurants owner Talal Chahine, pleaded guilty in federal court today to conspiracy to defraud the United States, unauthorized computer access, and naturalization fraud.

According to an information unsealed today, Lebanese-born Prouty gained U.S. citizenship in 1994 through a fraudulent marriage, joined the FBI's Washington Field Office as special agent in 1999 and joined the CIA in June, 2003.

She resigned her CIA post, described as "mid-level," last week, officials said.

Chahine, a fugitive believed to be living in Lebanon, was indicted for tax evasion in 2006 and accused by federal agents of supporting Hezbollah.

One of the allegations against Prouty is that while an FBI agent she went into a computer system without authorization in 2003 and obtained information about the Detroit's FBI office's investigation of Hezbollah.

This news underscores the importance of counter-intelligence work, and shows that we are still vulnerable to foreign spies because of our naivety and gullability.

As Robert Spencer notes:

Whew. This story has everything: an illegal immigration angle, a Keystone Kops angle, an espionage angle, a moderate-Muslims-condemn-terror-or-do-they angle, and more. It would make a great movie. If this kind of thing doesn't kill us first.

Debbie Schlussel writes:

The FBI and U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy (and before him, U.S. Attorneys Craig Morford and Jeffrey Collins) knew Prouty was a spy for Hezbollah back in 2003, but they allowed her to work for the FBI and CIA for over FOUR Years! They did not remove her from the job until the end of this past September--1.5 years after her brother-in-law was indicted for financing Hezbollah!!!!!!

Hat tip: Charles Johnson.