FBI Agent Accused of Fraudulently Acquiring Clearance

According to a report in yesterday’s Los Angeles Times, federal officials have charged a former CIA and FBI employee with fraudulently acquiring U.S. citizenship, and a security clearance.

Nada Nadim Prouty [is]...accused of improperly taking classified information home while at the FBI, and of working with other Lebanese nationals in what appeared to be a conspiracy to gain U.S. citizenship through fraudulent marriages and then get government law enforcement, intelligence and military jobs with security clearances.

Officials…insisted that thorough background checks had been done. FBI spokesman Stephen Kodak said agents interviewed family, friends and associates in the U.S. and Lebanon to make sure Prouty did not pose a security risk, and that Prouty passed a polygraph test.

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