Is CBS about to Give a Medal to a Possible Hizbullah Spy? Is a Presidential Pardon Next?

Here’s the 60 Minutes promo for Sunday’s program as posted by CBS on YouTube:

"Ex FBI & CIA terror fighter Nada Prouty was herself accused of aiding terrorism, but in her first interview, she denies she was anything other than a patriot. 60 Minutes investigates her case Sunday."

The 60 minutes YouTube clip shows an attractive, articulate woman who vaguely looks like actress Julie Roberts. “I love the country, I believe in the country.” The popular TV show will present Nada Nadine Prouty this Sunday as a terrorist fighter who, she states, she “went to Iraq and put her life on the line.”

Here’s a reminder of who Nada Nadine Prouty is: She’s a Lebanese national who fraudulently obtained U.S. citizenship and used it to secure employment in the FBI and CIA. Her sisters and sister-in-law also obtained citizenship through sham marriages, and one sister later married a Detroit restaurateur suspected of raising $20 million for Hizbullah. He fled to Lebanon before his arrest.

According to the U.S. Justice Department, NNP pleaded guilty in November 2007 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.”

Click here to read the Justice Department’s detailed report, “Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Unauthorized Computer Access and Naturalization Fraud.”

Prouty’s roommate (and one-time sister-in-law) Lebanese citizen Samar Spinelli was also arrested on naturalization fraud. Here’s the Justice Department report on her. Spinelli was able to sneak into the U.S. Marine Corps where she was a commissioned captain and served in Iraq.

Prouty’s sister, Elfat El Aouar, was sentenced to 90 days in prison and stripped of her U.S. citizenship for citizenship fraud. She served the sentence simultaneously with an 18-month term she received in May 2007 for helping Chahine in his tax evasion and Hizbullah fundraising scheme. Chahine’s son, Khalil Talal Chahine, is serving a 20-30 year sentence for murder.

Incredibly, when it came time to be sentenced in May 2008 Prouty received no jail time, $975 in fines and fees, and no deportation (the Feds reportedly requested no deportation because she knew too much about American intelligence agencies). Likewise, Spinelli received no jail time and a $500 fine.

Watch NBC News’ account which reports, "NNP had a much bigger role than officials at the FBI and CIA first acknowledged. In fact, Prouty was assigned to the CIA’s most sensitive post, Baghdad, and participated in the debriefings of high-ranking al-Qaida detainees."

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