Update on Possible Hizbullah Mole:Despite Guilty Plea, Will She Get Off with a Slap of the Hand?

Since November 2007, this blog has been following the security ramifications of Nadia Nadime Prouty’s arrest. The Lebanese national fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship and used it to secure employment in the FBI and CIA. Her two sisters also obtained citizenship through sham marriages, and one later married a Detroit restaurateur suspected of fundraising for Hizbullah. He fled to Lebanon before his arrest.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, NNP pleaded guilty at the time 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 Hizbullah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

Prouty’s sentence will be handed down on May 13.

Last week, in an effort to knock down Prouty’s sentence to probation, her lawyer presented to a federal judge a pre-sentencing memo detailing some of her activities in the CIA and FBI. He claimed that she was involved in the investigation of the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000 and the investigation of the assassination of U.S. diplomat Lawrence Foley in Jordan in 2002. The next year, the lawyer claimed, she joined the CIA and worked in Baghdad. His memo also reveals that Prouty worked in Islamabad Pakistan as a legal attaché.

Imagine the access NNP had to top-secret intel working in the FBI and CIA headquarters and then in the various epicenters of Islamic terror.

According to Detroit Free Press reporter, David Ashenfelter, who has been following the case from its start, Prouty “likely will be allowed to stay in the U.S. because of the jobs she held at the FBI and CIA, authorities said.” Read Ashenfelter’s “Fake citizen worked on major terror cases.”

Despite her confessing to accessing files on Hizbullah and her family ties to a Hizbullah fundraiser, NNP could get off and her deportation could be cancelled. Amazing.

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