New York Daily News
James Bamford, who has written several respected books on the intelligence community, said it’s not surprising CIA vets wouldn’t care that Prouty lied. It’s the difference between the CIA and FBI cultures, he said. “One agency teaches people to lie and break the rules. The other teaches them to tell the truth and obey the rules,” Bamford said. While FBI agents are indoctrinated to be morally pure because they often testify in criminal trials, “the CIA is the opposite,” he said. “The CIA was founded on subverting laws, going over walls and under fences.”
YID With LID
So Prouty infiltrates the CIA and passes info to Hezbollah and other terrorist interests, thus harming national security. She will get a slap on the wrist. Jonathan Pollard gave an ally information that it was supposed to have anyway–and is rotting in jail. Am I missing something?
PA Pundits
This woman had been given access to detainees in Iraq, she has allegedly given information to Hezbollah, her brother-in-law is a fugitive for funneling his restaurant profits to Hezbollah, and she is married to a State Department guy who has been a bigwig in more than a couple of U.S. embassies in the Middle East.
Rantburg
“This is not John Dillinger or Reilly Ace of Spies,” said the official. “She took an illegal shortcut to the American dream, then she made some inappropriate computer searches. At this point, there is no reason to treat this as a counterintelligence case. There is NO allegation she had ever ties to Hezbollah. You can’t let suspicions get ahead of the facts.”
The Truth Shall Set You Free
…the case gives Zionists more ammunition against the Arab-American Institute (AAI), a powerful advocacy group founded in 1985 by James Zogby, brother of pollster John Zogby. The AAI is headquartered in Washington DC, and works to mobilize Arab-American voters.
Something…And Half of Something
Nada Nadim Prouty, just another illegal immigrant, doing the spying that Americans won’t do
Counterterrorism Blog
…underlying this failure and numerous other penetration efforts by Islamist groups is the large-scale failure of U.S. counter-intelligence efforts for many years. There are numerous cases of Chinese infiltration agents, Islamist penetration and Russian penetrations that underscore the shrinking ability to monitor or detect the spies working in this country. The capacity has been rapidly shrinking for several decades, and, despite the threat of Islamist terrorists and the growing activities of the Chinese in both traditional and industrial espionage, the entire concept of a counter-intelligence has withered on the vine, from before the Clinton administration through the current administration. Currently, that capacity barely exists, according to my friends in the intelligence community.
Michelle Malkin
The illegal alien CIA/FBI agent Nada Prouty debacle keeps getting worse and worse, uglier and uglier, outrageous and more outrageous. Today, the NYPost reports that Prouty’s former sister-in-law also engaged in a bogus immigration marriage scam and is now a…Marine officer
WorldNetDaily
Intelligence official: ‘FBI might as well put out a sign – Double agents wanted’
Power Line
The lack of interest in the story is hard to understand. You might alsmost think that major news organization don’t take national security seriously. Among those who not only take the story seriously, but who are trying to draw appropriate lessons from the case, are Debbie Schlussel, Douglas Farah, and Michelle Malkin.
Human Events
An espionage case has come to light in Detroit that has a little of everything: besides espionage, there’s an illegal immigration angle, a Keystone Kops angle, and even involvement of major presidential candidates. It would make a great movie — if this kind of thing doesn’t kill us first.
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