November 19, 2007

The Nonexistent Ballad Of Jihad Jane

In another era, Nada Prouty might have had songs written about her. In this era, one struggles to find newspaper coverage of the woman the New York Post has dubbed Jihad Jane. Prouty has pled guilty to a number of charges stemming from her attempts to retrieve classified information on Hezbollah while working at the FBI and CIA -- and that may not be the extent of the damage from Jihad Jane:

FBI fraudster Nada Nadim Prouty not only used a sham marriage to get jobs with access to secret terrorist intelligence - her current husband is a State Department employee who has held sensitive posts in Middle Eastern embassies, The Post has learned.

Her third hubby, Gordon Prouty, 40, now works for the State Department in Washington, a spokesman confirmed Friday night. He had been stationed at American embassies in Egypt and Pakistan.

A Justice Department spokesman, Dean Boyd, refused to comment on Gordon Prouty's job, or say whether he was under investigation along with his criminal wife. ...

Nada Prouty, 37, admitted last week she faked her first marriage to a Michigan man in 1990, enabling her to get US citizenship that helped her secure jobs with the FBI and CIA. Her star as an agent rose, and officials trusted her to grill al Qaeda sympathizers.

She also confessed to sneaking into government databases for secret information on her sister and brother-in-law, both linked to the Middle East terror group Hezbollah.

Prouty's husband served in Egypt and Pakistan before 9/11, apparently. For the entirety of his marriage to Nada, Prouty has lived in the US -- but continued his work for the State Department. He left the office of resource management on Thursday for Thanksgiving vacation, but has not commented publicly on the case.

As Power Line notes, few would notice if he did. Michelle Malkin, Debbie Schlussel, and Douglas Farah have kept the story alive on their sites, but apart from the Post, the national media has shown little interest in the story. One has to wonder why; this story has all of the elements that make for gripping coverage. We have betrayal, sex, clandestine operations, government incompetence, and power. The only element missing is publicity. Why?

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