I just want to know who hired this woman. Is that too hard to do? Do they still have a job and are they still hiring people?

WASHINGTON — A former agent for the FBI and CIA pleaded guilty Tuesday to faking a marriage to win U.S. citizenship, clearing the way to being hired and given security clearances by the two intelligence agencies.

Nada Nadim Prouty, 37, emigrated to United States from Lebanon in 1989. She was given U.S. citizenship five years later and began working as a special agent at the FBI’s field office in Washington in 1999, according to a criminal information sheet filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.

While working as a special agent, Prouty improperly searched an FBI computer database for information about her relatives and links they might have to the Hezbollah terrorist organization, the criminal sheet showed. She joined the CIA in 2003 and resigned as part of her guilty plea Tuesday, officials said.

There’s no evidence that Prouty was working as a spy on Hezbollah’s behalf, two government officials said.

However, “This still continues to be an ongoing investigation,” said FBI spokesman Stephen Kodak in Washington.

The case raises questions about hiring practices and background checks by two of the nation’s most security-sensitive and secretive agencies.

Source: Fox

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