Ex-fed agent fined for fake marriage, data search

[rainbow4321]

WTF? So her "national security knowledge" keeps her in the country after she faked documents to get here/stay here..and she abused her CIA/FBI security clearance and only gets a slap on the wrist? Why does it seem we are only getting 1/4 of the real story here?

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hDr9czvHsyQ9Y1ORpYujQQUS05EgD90L4NP8N

A former FBI and CIA agent was fined Tuesday but won't be sent to prison or her native Lebanon for faking a marriage to gain U.S. citizenship and improperly searching an FBI database.

Nada Nadim Prouty, 38, "erred in judgment" when she lied to enter the U.S. in 1989 but has provided "exemplary service to the country" as a federal agent, U.S. District Judge Avern Cohn said.

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Government officials have said they would not deport her because of her knowledge about matters of national security; the judge noted there was no evidence she was a spy.
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As an FBI special agent, Prouty made unauthorized searches on a computer database for possible links between her relatives and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, authorities say

[Ian David]

1. Well, it's not like she's GAY. n/t

[AndyTiedye]

2. They CAN'T Deport Her Now, She Knows Too Much!

Seems like they can't prosecute her either, presumably because of whom else she could take down.

[rainbow4321]

3. Apprently, some are counting her time spent in Iraq as punishment enough

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-mi-guiltyagent,0,6407699.story

He also read an excerpt of a letter from an unnamed former CIA colleague, who cited her dedication while working in Iraq in 2003 when the insurgency was spreading and the agency was "understaffed and underappreciated" in Washington.

"This is sufficient punishment in light of the totality of the circumstances," Cohn said.

(so, yeah, there is no telling on what/who she could squeal on about our presence over there)


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More on who she searched (same article)


Prouty was not authorized to search the database for her name and that of her sister, Elfat El Aouar, and brother-in-law, Talal Chahine. Chahine was the owner of the former LaShish Middle Eastern restaurant chain.

Chahine is believed to have fled to Lebanon in 2005 to avoid federal tax charges. He is accused of skimming more than $20 million in cash and sending it to Lebanon.

Elfat El Aouar was sentenced last May to 18 months in prison for tax evasion and sentenced to 90 days in prison and stripped of her citizenship in February after pleading guilty to citizenship fraud.