The Prouty Disaster - there are worst-case fears that the compromise of U.S. secrets could undermine future planned military operations against Iran

Your CIA at work.....and they have the NERVE to selectively leak whenever they make internal judgments in opposition to elected officials, and their representatives.

Weak U.S. counterintelligence blamed for disastrous terror penetration

The arrest and guilty plea of FBI Agent and CIA operative Nada Nadim Prouty is being viewed within U.S. intelligence circles as a disaster that has compromised some of the most significant intelligence sources on terrorism in the U.S. government. It is also the first major case showing that weak U.S. counterintelligence poses risks beyond foreign intelligence, to include penetration by foreign terrorist organizations.

Additionally, there are worst-case fears that the compromise of U.S. secrets could undermine future planned military operations against Iran, because of the close links between Hizbullah and Iran.

Former FBI special agent and CIA analyst Nada Nadim Prouty, 37. U.S. Marshals Service

Prouty pleaded guilty earlier this month to immigration charges and illegal computer searches related to her career in the FBI and CIA.

Intelligence agencies are seeking to play down the damage, real and potential from the case, which includes the compromise of terrorism source information.

Prouty pleaded guilty to conspiring with Samar Khalil Nabbouh, Elfat Nadim El Aouar, Talal Khalil Chahine and others to defraud the U.S. government through gain citizenship falsely.

The FBI failed to properly conduct a background investigation of Prouty before hiring her as a special agent in 1997 and the CIA also failed to conduct a background check of her before hiring her as a directorate of operations officer in 2003.

Both failures highlight continuing problems within the FBI and CIA regarding counterintelligence and counterterrorism.

Prouty had access to the FBI’s Automated Case Support computer system, which lists and includes details on ongoing FBI investigations. Since 2003 she had access to the most sensitive CIA secrets and held a top-secret, sensitive compartmented information clearance, which includes information about CIA informants overseas.

Prouty’s Hizbullah link was her brother in law, Talal Khalil Chahine, currently a fugitive.

Investigators believe she passed secrets to Chahine, a Hizbullah fundraiser, who is believed to have supplied the secrets to Iran, Hizbullah’s main sponsor.

Chahine, through his La Shish restaurants and along with Prouty's sister, Elfat El Aouar, was charged in 2006 in the Eastern District of Michigan with tax evasion in connection with a scheme to conceal more than $20 million in cash received from the eateries and to route funds to persons in Hizbullah in Lebanon.

FBI officials sought to play down the damage by claiming there is no direct link between Hizbullah and Prouty.

“Sure, they could not find her Hizbullah ID card,” quipped one intelligence source.