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Pay No Attention to This Spy Scandal, Move Along

By Larry Johnson on November 14, 2007 at 9:16 PM in Current Affairs

Nothing to see here. Please keep moving. Shades of Leslie Nielsen and Naked Gun (youtube version pasted below). What am I writing about? Check out the following from Jimmy Meeks at the New York Daily News:

A suspected Hezbollah mole who penetrated the ranks of the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to falsely getting U.S. citizenship and snooping in FBI terrorism files.

Former waitress Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., admitted arranging a sham marriage with an American in Michigan to win U.S. citizenship. She parlayed that into sensitive jobs as an FBI special agent and a CIA operations officer, sources said.

Lots still to know here but this much is certain:

Prouty passed a CIA polygraph. This should put to rest once and for all the nonsense that a polygraph is an effective counter-intelligence tool. It only works against uptight religious folks with guilty consciences. Folks like Aldrich Ames and Prouty can beat it.
The CIA and FBI are going to great lengths to try to tamp this story down. But you don’t blow an ops officer’s career just because she took a sneaky peek of an classified file. For Christ’s sake. She had clearances. She did something beyond read. Based on my own experience with classified computers you cannot read documents, even restricted documents, unless you have access to them. If you do not have the password, you cannot read it. It sure looks like Prouty did in fact have access to the document or documents in question.
My guess is that a source, recruited by either FBI or the CIA, tipped us off that we had a mole.

Along with James Meeks, Greg Miller of the Los Angeles Times also is following the story. Good work gents. Go get ‘em.

Thinker

Hmmmmmm Larry, I never guessed that would happen.

Maybe they should only recruit members of the Bush family for positions requiring the handling of sensitive information. They say that this is best handled by insensitive people. Of course, any drug dealers, users or ex users wouldn’t be welcome, I guess.

Problem solved, yes?

Cee

Ha! I just wonder how long they sat on this story before they released it to reinforce the idea that we can’t ever trust anyone who is Muslim.

Taters

This is quite informative Larry. Thanks. And yes, it hasn’t gotten the attention something like this deserves. You make a strong case regarding lie detector tests. The metro Detroit restaurant chain LaShish, has been a local favorite here for years. I appreciate your professional summation and a nice tie in w/Naked Gun. The point is not lost on the “Nothin’ to see here folks…”
Some of those scenes are pricless.

http://NoQuarterUSA.net Larry Johnson

That clip remains funny despite repeated viewings.

Cee

Okay. I watched it. OMG! Now I’m going to have to Netflix it.
I would have shot the guy who put his gun down when OJ came in the room.

Waiting in Texas

I read Isikoff’s story about this today. Two things immediately came to mind after reading article.
1. How does someone like Prouty get into the FBI and CIA – is it solely based on their language skills – or did someone see to it that she got in? 2. Does any of this have to do with what Siebel Edmonds knows?

Not trying to appear speculative in any way – that’s just what immediately came to mind.

Kathleen

If only Isikoff would apply his journalistic skills across the board on all alleged spying in the U.S.

Isikoff is extremely selective about just where he shines his spotlight.
Cee

How does someone like Prouty get into the FBI and CIA – or did someone see to it that she got in?

This is my guess.

I have a relative who was BORN here who has relatives in Yemen. For that reason she wasn’t able to work for the FBI.

Waiting in Texas

“2. Does any of this have to do with what Siebel Edmonds knows?”

To futher explain my thinking, Edmonds was hired on as a translator because of her language skills. So if Prouty was hired because of her language skills, how did she move up the FBI and CIA chain so fast? Seems like there has to be more to this story than meets the eye.

I’ll leave this question to all the intelligence professionals that post here.
Thinker

Hmmm guilt by association. A possible opportunity to smear Edmonds.

Very good Waiting in Texas. I too will be interested in the responses to your questions.
TheOtherWA

I read about her earlier today and that version didn’t do much to explain WTF happened. Thanks for clarifying things a little.
justsomeone

huuuum, my favorite part of the story is if she didn’t take the plea she could have lost her U.S. citizenship (besides doing hard time in the pen & paying a big fine) lost WHAT citizenship??? She committed fraud to obtain that which she could have lost? Where did these people go to law school? The University of William & Bonzo? They can’t be that inept. She’s not headed to prison & deportation is off the table, guess she gets an extreme makeover & goes on Dancing With The Stars.
http://antipolygraph.org George Maschke

Good point about the CIA polygraph. It’s worth noting that Prouty also passed an FBI pre-employment polygraph examination. As I’ve pointed out at AntiPolygraph.org, of the standard questions she would have been asked is something very similar to “Have you deliberately withheld any important information from your application?”
Kathleen

Larry important heads up. All serious enemies of the U.S. need to be held accountable. Always amazing what is ignored or brushed under the rug in the MSM.

The Aipac espionage story sure has been ignored by
the MSM for that matter almost all so called “progressive” blogs .

Rosen/Weismann espionage indictment
http://www.globalsecurity.org/intell/library/reports/2005/franklin_indictment_04aug2005.htm

http://www.newsfollowup.com/docs/aipac/rosen081406.pdf

The Israeli spies that Fox News reporter Carl Cameron reported about just after 9/11 were sure swept under the rug.

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWpWc_suPWo

2.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ci-tkaPrMA4&feature=related

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW-LWadsPx0

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7T4DhDLPrY

This four part series is difficult to track on you tube and the name of the series is often change

http://www.newsfollowup.com/id/docs/MemorandumtotheCommissionandSelectCommitteesbold.pdf

Cee

Only Muslim enemies count. Get with the program!!

http://www.food4humanity.org HoosierHoops

From MSN:
Prouty has agreed to submit to lie detector tests as the CIA assesses the damage.

Well now..call me crazy but if Prouty has already passed those lie detector tests with flying colors in order to get hired.How exactly are more of the same tests going to determine damage to the CIA?

Sometime-CIA-Defender

This new lie detector test involves towels and water.

Sorry… couldn’t resist.

Kathleen

Motivation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1bm2GPoFfg

Sure do not like this site. But the complete four part series on Israeli spying is here.

http://uk.youtube.com/user/SmokingGunOf911
Trace

Let’s remember that Prouty didn’t just pass the pre-employment life-style poly to get a blue CIA badge. The process includes an extensive background check going back at least 15 years or through high school, finances check, police check, interviews with neighbors and friends and a psych interview.
Waiting in Texas

NBC has picked up the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21796035/

so she was a waitress and shazaamm…..held a top post in Baghdad?

Siebel Edmonds is offering to tell her story and the AIPAC judge has said subpoenas will be issued for Condi Rice and others. any connections there?

Prouty would have been at FBI during Edmonds brief tenure.

Cee

so she was a waitress and shazaamm…..held a top post in Baghdad?

Maybe she had dinner with Michael Ladeen’s daughter after they got off work in the Green Zone.

Waiting in Texas

LOL Cee!!

If you go back and read the information on Edmonds brief period at the FBI, what was interesting was how long it took her to get on with all the bureaucratic red tape just to be a part-time translator.

Then along comes Prouty, without even a doubty…..

there’s more to this story.

pacos_gal

Andrea Mitchell and Robert Windrem of MSNBC also has a story on this, which says that she had a much larger role than previously has been mentioned by the FBI or CIA

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21796035/

“Current and former intelligence officials tell NBC News that Nada Nadim Prouty 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.”

One of my thoughts on this is that this shows that the intelligence agencies are quite desperate for agents that they can put into place in the middle east.

That being said, you have to wonder if there wasn’t more going on than meets the eye. The CIA and FBI would have to have known who her family is, which raises more questions about why she held the positions she held.
ybnormal

Larry, if your guess is correct, that “a source, recruited by either FBI or the CIA, tipped us off that we had a mole”, wouldn’t the next question be, was the mole of any use, to feed intentional mis-information back to whoever is behind her?

rugger9

It would if you knew this was a mole but her handlers didn’t know you knew. It’s similar that way to the breaking of codes.

You can feed misinformation to put the enemy off track.
You can see what is of specific interest to the enemy by what she’s looking for, pretty much in real time.

It hinges on whether the handlers clue in to your knowledge of her true status.

What I find interesting is the apparent lack of consequences to her, seeing as how she isn’t really innocent here.

mudkitty

But the MSM is assuring us that she’s not a spy.
TeakwoodKite

The questions must be asked. Will we ever truly know the answers? I am having difficulty understanding why this was person given a plea deal and bail while others are given enemy combatant status and held for years without habeas corpus…and worse.

The forensics on this one will be an interseting read. How does someone go from being a waitress to where this person ended up? Must have started with a FBI or CIA agent being served to much sugar in the coffee.

Question: What other methods besides polyies can vet a double agent?
Centrocitta

….Question: What other methods besides polyies can vet a double agent?….

Liquor Stores, Food Distributors, state energy departments — to name a few.
osama_been_forgotten

Maybe they should have had President Bush “look into her soul” to see if he could trust her?
Bill Keyes

Sorry to be off topic but ran across this quote related to the earthquake in Northern Chile yesterday…

“President Michelle Bachelet also flew there today, meeting with residents in a debris-strewn Tocopilla street when the strongest aftershock hit. Her bodyguards watched warily as power posts swung around her, but the president remained calm.”

Isn’t amazing to see the compassion she has to mingle with her people instead of just doing a fly over like like a certain NA Pres whose name rhymes with tush did when a unnamed Hurricane which rhymes with Patina devastated part of his country?

True leaders lead accept the responsibilities of leadership, don’t give a shit about staged photo ops and don’t pass the buck to others to help those are afflicted.

Our fearless leaders are best at jumping out of a helicopter to an already staged photo op (like FEMA in Socal fires) kissing a few babies promising the moon but delivering nothing and blaming it on local politicians.

Wish Michelle Bachelet would come here kickass and take names.
Kathleen

Use your open eye
Kathleen

Shades of Wolfowitz’s girlfriend Shaha Riza
rugger9

I agree with the “more to the story” crowd, and the comparison to Edmonds is on target. Look also what Valerie Plame had to do, so for this person to waltz in like this is extremely unusual.

I haven’t seen a pic yet, but is she a looker? If so, is it possible that she was recruited like the KGB does for hotties to access the pillow talk? Or is she like that MN DOT person gallivanting around the country after the I-35 bridge fell into the Mississippi River. Not a lot of other options, and noe of those are palatable either

Regardless of the prior point, and linking this to the issue of the “Minot-Barksdale six”, exactly how does this institutional incompetence make us safer? When politics becomes more important than professionalism and honesty, mole operations would become easier, since you only have to keep the little rules while you break the big ones.

If it isn’t incompetence, it is treason.

TeakwoodKite

There was a news clip of her leaving a building this morning….on CNN?
They failed to connect the dots….(a political scapegoat comment)
\
Question: What do you get when there are so many dots connected that the page turns to all Black? (or what ever color you like) Will some leave the light on for these poor buggers?

Mary Savannah

Just for fun, I ran the name Nada Nadim Prouty through on online anagram-finder. One result was more fun than I expected: “Mandatory id pun.”
TeakwoodKite

Slate has the “Factual Basis For Guilty Plea”
posted. Last paragraph.

http://www.slate.com/id/2178018/entry/0/fr/rss/
Trace

Checking on her current husband, Gordon, Intelius indicates that he’s probably Gordon A. Prouty, current and former places of residence as follow:

ACAMPO, CA
VIENNA, VA
MC LEAN, VA
BETHESDA, MD
STOCKTON, CA
WASHINGTON, DC
APO, AE
SANTA CRUZ, CA
LODI, CA

Leaving California aside, the others have a hint of CIAishness about them.
Mr.Murder

State Dep’t put the mole in.

Only way she could override the conflicting interest concerns that accompany her clearance…
TeakwoodKite

What was happening in Lebanon in 1989 when she came to the US on a student Visa?
Sometime-CIA-Defender

Take a wild guess, I’d say they caught on to her when she searched her own name and that of Chahine and her sister. Since Ames did the same, they are probably watching for that.
Trace

> I’d say they caught on to her when she searched her own name and that of Chahine and her sister.

The chronology doesn’t seem right for that:

Sep, 2000: Queried own name, sister’s, Chahine

June 4, 2003: Queried investigation into Hizballah by Detroit FBI office

June, 2003: Moved to CIA

Dec, 2005: FBI becomes aware of “this compromise”

Fall 2006: CIA moves Prouty to “less sensitive position”

Sometime-CIA-Defender

Good points, though I would expect that the word search only started an investigation, not provided conclusive proof. That is an awful long time between though…

ybnormal

What I’d really like to know is, how did Nada Nadim Prouty get hired? What qualified her for the jobs?

According to the JAMES GORDON MEEK NY Daily News story

Former waitress Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, of Vienna, Va., admitted arranging a sham marriage with an American in Michigan to win U.S. citizenship. She parlayed that into sensitive jobs as an FBI special agent and a CIA operations officer, sources said.

Parlayed? WTF are we talking about?

So let me get this straight; all you really need to qualify for a sensitive job as an FBI special agent and/or CIA operations officer, is some lame ass citizenship paperwork, and a career history in the food service industry.

This is truly good news! I’ve always wanted a Fed job, so I could get in on that robust Fed employee benefits plan. I’m going to have to look into this ASAP.

I had a relative with a well known CIA career. Unfortunately he can’t be a reference, he’s dead; but still, I worked in a restaurant for a while out of high school, so I got that covered. And citizenship is no problem – I have a family history in the DC area going back well before the revolution.

Seriously, I can’t find anything further reported about her resume or job application anywhere. I’m not sure what it means, but it must mean something that this story got out, but no one has been able to leak her career path. Curious.
Waiting in Texas

I recall the Kevin Costner movie No Way Out. The synopsis was that a high powered Senator had accidentally killed his mistress, so to cover this up, his handlers came up with a cover story about a mole in the CIA named Uri. The twist being that Costner’s character really was a double agent, but not the fictitious Uri, and who just happened to be in love with the Senators mistress.

Why bring this up? I’m beginning to suspect that there is a whole lot of “fiction” behind this Prouty story.

Good timeline, Trace.

Centrocitta

….his handlers came up with a cover story about a mole in the CIA named Uri….

Oh, very “interesting”. A mole named Uri or “Yury”.

graywolf

FBI and CIA:
Real “elite” outfits.
You can’t make this stuff up.

Unfortunately 3,000 people died because of these outposts of bumbling and stupidity.

Ames, Hanson, Edward Lee Howard?
See a pattern here?

And how many more that got away.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/ Leslie

3,000 people died on 9/11 because Bush couldn’t be bothered to listen to any of the repeated warnings of an impending attack or call a principle’s meeting until 9/4/01.

Too bad Bush was more concerned with: planning a war on Iraq; meeting behind closed doors with big oil to create “national” energy policies favorable to big oil; undermining the transparency of the entire US marketplace [Enron, et al]; spending the budget surplus and bankrupting the Treasury; taking more vacation days than any president in US history in his first year in office–including the entire month of August just days prior to 9/11; appointing convicted criminals to his administration; presiding over the biggest energy crises in US history and refusing to do anything about it…just for starters.

Speaking of 9/11: Bin Laden is still alive!

graywolf

Are you sure that Bush wasn’t “the man on the Grassy Knoll” in Dallas, 1963?

Did Bush refuse to take custody of Bin Laden?
NO, Clinton did.

Did Bush do nothing after the WTC attack in 1993?
No, Clinton did.

Did Bush do nothing after the attack on the USS COLE in 1999?
NO, Clinton did.

Did Bush pardon convicted Puerto Rican terrorists to buy votes for his wife?
NO, Clinton did.

Bush derangement syndrome;it’s a wonderful thing.

ybnormal

Did Clinton use an authorization to use force as a green light to de-stabilize the middle east and slaughter scores of innocent people far exceeding the actual fighters, with no end in sight.
—
No, W did.

Seeing everything as a nail, because your only tool is a hammer; it’s a wonderful thing.

anon

Hez’b'allah managed to infiltrate us?!

Oh, man, that’s RICH!

They’re a puny little guerrilla outfit mired in the rubble of Baghdad!

And they infiltrated the US! Even if she was recruited AFTER getting entrance and access, this is still ridiculous. The US dollar is worth less than the Canadian dollar and Hez’b'allah has a (wo)man inside the FBI and CIA!

Someone, somewhere, has some really baaad egg on his face for this.

Centrocitta

Well, see, it’s like this. Some foreign nationals are granted immigrant work Visas because they have special skills. For example, the Palestinian “Chef” from the West Bank living in Austin, Texas and working at Wendy’s who also, by the way, could not cook rice — his national dish. LOL.
Taters

Anon,
While I agree with the gist of your post, I take issue with your refence to HZ as being a puny guerilla outfit. I certainly think the IDF would not refer to them as a puny guerilla outfit. The IDF met a well disciplined fighting force and at the end of the day, the batlefield was not theirs.
And for their grand entrance – the bombing of the US Marine barracks (the French took casualties too)and the US Embassy in Beirut were both particularly deadly.

In the attack on the American barracks, the death toll was 241 American servicemen: 220 Marines, 18 Navy personnel and 3 Army soldiers. Sixty Americans were injured. In the attack on the French barracks, 58 paratroopers were killed and 15 injured, in the single worst military loss for the French since the end of the Algerian war.[5] In addition, the elderly Lebanese custodian of the Marines’ building was killed in the first blast.[4] The wife and four children of a Lebanese janitor at the French building also were killed.[6]

This was the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States Marine Corps since the Battle of Iwo Jima (2,500 in one day) of World War II and the deadliest single-day death toll for the United States military since the 243 killed on 31st January 1968 — the first day of the Tet offensive in the Vietnam war. The attack remains the deadliest post-World War II attack on Americans overseas. [7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

And while I would never condone the butchery in Lebanon at Sabra and Shatilla, the 1983 US Embassy bombing was devastingly horrific as well.

A total of 63 people were killed in the bombing: 32 Lebanese employees, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passersby.[1] Of the American dead, eight worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, including the CIA’s top Middle East analyst and Near East director, Robert Ames, and the entire Middle East contingent of the CIA.[2] An additional 120 or so people were wounded in the bombing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_1983_U.S._Embassy_bombing

anon

er rubble of Beirut I meant! Sorry, had Baghdad on the brain.
Thinker

YBN you have progressed this well, but what if Prouty was recruited in the knowledge she was a spy?

Was she to be used as insurance against Edmonds and another nail in the “towel head’s” coffin. If she was a Hezbolla double agent, or rather a CIA plant (have I got the terminology right?), you would expect to see some bizarre circumstances surrounding her “capture”. Have we seen that?

I would bet a penny to a pound, knowing the devious nature of those who serve, that this is business on schedule & just another day in the office. She was either set up, or was aware she was acting for the CIA.
Mr.Murder

State put her in to discredit the entire IC.

Negroponte’s promotion accompanies hers?

A Mediterranean shipping magnate’s son as the DNI and she gets promoted across two IC with all kinds of red flags to her background?

How bad does state want to make the IC look?

Nobody gets through that easy without help from the top. A Senior position, obviously not one involved with either of the IC groups at this time or they’d have made certain not to be implicated.

That leaves State or the DNI.

Pelosi gave Hastert glowing praise today for his days as House speaker, from the Gavel podium. If this is anywhere near Edmonds then it’s really all about Hastert. Don’t forget that fact…

Thinker

Thanks Mr M you came to the rescue again.
Cee

Denny left earlier than planned, didn’t he?

Waiting in Texas

“If this is anywhere near Edmonds then it’s really all about Hastert. Don’t forget that fact…”

could you expand on this please Mr. Murder? What about Hastert? thanks

Waiting in Texas

Nevermind – I just looked this up. I had forgotten about Hasterts role. I assume this is part of why he resigned?

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2386

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Centrocitta

I just want to correct something here. Prouty didn’t “win” US Citizenship. She “gained” it through marriage to an American. The only way an immigrant can “win” the right to US Citizenship is by winning the Greencard Lottery.

Also, there is a high rate of Sham marriage that takes place in the US every year. Many conned American spouses divorce these immigrants and report the information to Immigration. But INS usually doesn’t bother following up on these cases and the immigrant is entitled to remain a permanent resident and eventually apply for citizenship. If the immigrant has FBI, CIA contacts, then INS will look the other way even more. It’s always the unknowing US citizen spouse that gets the raw and expensive end of these deals. Of course, the divorce lawyers love it.

Centrocitta

….If the immigrant has FBI, CIA contacts, then INS will look the other way even more. It’s always the unknowing US citizen spouse that gets the raw and expensive end of these deals. Of course, the divorce lawyers love it….

Might also add that in the United States, Marriage, Divorce, and Birth information is a matter of Public Record. Mysteriously, though, some Divorce records have a way of disappearing, in which case, the conned American spouse would have every right to demand that the information be put back into the public record perhaps by contacting an important person.

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Trace

With regard to Mr. Prouty, it appears he was and may still be an FSO with Near East/Southwest Asia experience:

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/83405.pdf

United States Department of State
October 1999
State Magazine

FOREIGN SERVICE
Transfers

Prouty, Gordon A., Cairo to Islamabad

Centrocitta

Question? Why would a US Consul at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan approve a Visa for a recent accounting graduate to sit for a CPA exam in Billings, Montana when this particular visa applicant could not possibly pass the test because he was totally unfamiliar with the US Tax Code? Really, shouldn’t our civil service reps be more efficient on the job than that? I mean don’t we American citizens pay the salaries of these people?

Cee

As I documented in Sibel Edmonds’ Corrupt Boss is STILL the key to National Security, Sibel’s boss, Mike Feghali, engaged in all manner of espionage, including recruiting spies into the translation bureau and making sure that agents in the field didn’t receive translations that were directly relevant to ongoing investigations – including the 9/11 investigation. This has all been confirmed by the Inspector General’s report into Sibel’s case. Nonetheless, Feghali has been promoted and is now, currently, in charge of the entire Arabic translation desk, in charge of 300 translators, many of whom are his family and friends, and some “were openly celebrating the terrorist attacks on September 11.”

Who promoted Feghali, and why? Who are his ‘juice men’?

Why is Congress, and the media, silent on this matter?http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/16/83153/368

mudkitty

“Ours is not to question why, ours is but to do or die.”
Centrocitta

Is this guy, Feghali, an American citizen born on the soil or is he naturalized? If he took an oath of allegiance to the USA, he should be stripped of his US citizenship and deported and I don’t care who he works for!
TeakwoodKite

Vanity Fair Interview with Sibel Edmonds
found at:

http://infowars.com/articles/sept11/sibel_edmonds_interview.htm

Centrocitta

Question for all? Do all 300 translators work in Virginia?
ybnormal

FYI I looked at the CIA job search at
https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/language-positions/view-jobs/index.html

and with the exception of intern positions for students still in college, all positions require at least a bachelor’s degree. And none list waitressing as pertinent work experience.

So, why is there no reporting about the missing link from waitressing to operations agent? Not even a question?

Centrocitta

Did you ever hear of an “Accountant” that writes bad checks? And by the way, would anyone have any idea or could you make an intelligent guess as to which culture it is exactly that condones the most vile immorality and promiscuity? Turkish, Iranian, Iraqi, Saudi, Jordanian, Kurdish, Palestinian?
TeakwoodKite

They have a kids corner on that the site as well…

Trace

> all positions require at least a bachelor’s degree.

She has both a bachelor’s and master’s degree:

http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Prouty_Case.html

Bachelor’s degree from Detroit College of Business; came here on a student visa from Lebanon

Master’s degree in Business Administration from Bloomsburg University, PA

ybnormal

interesting but undated, unsourced and unreferenced data mining

Trace

> With regard to Mr. Prouty, it appears he was and may still be an FSO with Near East/Southwest Asia experience

According to
http://www.nypost.com/seven/11182007/news/nationalnews/jihad_janes_state_of_bliss_936973.htm
he’s still there:

“Her third hubby, Gordon Prouty, 40, now works for the State Department in Washington, a spokesman confirmed Friday night…

“A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, refused to comment on Gordon Prouty’s job, or say whether he was under investigation… “
Trace

Nada a NOC?

Meditating on cover arrangements just now, I remembered the story Busted illegal alien was great spy, say sources http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/11/16/2007-11-16_busted_illegal_alien_was_great_spy_say_s-1.html

*IF* the report below is correct, the part about passing as a local and blending in certainly suggests the possibility of non-official cover. (I suspect she found it easy “to pose as a native Arab” because that’s what she is.)

“Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, who pleaded guilty Tuesday to fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship and snooping on FBI files on Hezbollah, worked in the CIA’s Baghdad station sometime between 2003 and 2006 and had a knack for passing as a local.

“‘She also demonstrated a talent for breaking captured Al Qaeda “high-value targets,’ an intelligence source told the Daily News.

“‘She was not only good at debriefing HVTs [high-value targets], she was able to pose as a native Arab and easily blend in,” said the source.’

“Prouty was a covert CIA operations officer ‘just like Valerie Plame,’ the source added, referring to the spy infamously outed in a 2003 newspaper column.”
Thinker

Interesting. “A covert officer just like Valerie Plame”.

Can they stoop lower. This is stitch up!