Tel-Chai Nation

In the past month, Nada Prouty, an illegal alien from Lebanon who was working as a spy for the Hezbollah, was arrested and plead guilty. She'd been allowed to work in the FBI and CIA, and her employers knew she was a spy yet allowed her to continue working for them for more than 4 years. She'd even been in a sham marriage in order to get her visas secured. As the NY Post said:

FBI fraudster Nada Nadim Prouty not only used a sham marriage to get jobs with access to secret terrorist intelligence - her current husband is a State Department employee who has held sensitive posts in Middle Eastern embassies, The Post has learned.

Her third hubby, Gordon Prouty, 40, now works for the State Department in Washington, a spokesman confirmed Friday night. He had been stationed at American embassies in Egypt and Pakistan.

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, refused to comment on Gordon Prouty’s job, or say whether he was under investigation along with his criminal wife.

“He’s not charged with any wrongdoing in this case,” Boyd said.

But the revelation surprised national security watchdogs.

“My God, she’s married to one of our people,” said Mike Cutler, a former US immigration special agent.

Nada Prouty, 37, admitted last week she faked her first marriage to a Michigan man in 1990, enabling her to get US citizenship that helped her secure jobs with the FBI and CIA. Her star as an agent rose, and officials trusted her to grill al Qaeda sympathizers.

She also confessed to sneaking into government databases for secret information on her sister and brother-in-law, both linked to the Middle East terror group Hezbollah.

One of the agencies credited with busting Prouty is the State Department’s diplomatic security service.

Gordon Prouty was a foreign service officer under Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In 1999, he transferred from Cairo to Islamabad, Pakistan, a State Department document shows.

Nada Prouty's former sister-in-law, Samar Spinelli, has also plead guilty in the immigration/marriage fraud scheme.

But now: just how many more of these illegal immigrant spies are going to be found working in top government jobs? One more reason why the US government system is in serious need of repair.

Labels: political corruption, terrorism, United States