As Robert Spencer says, “So am I.” The Nada Nadim Prouty case has all the hallmarks of a mole exploiting the law and our own naivete to get into strategic positions in our intelligence and counter intelligence agencies for purposes as yet unknown. But to hear the CIA’s reactions to the case, it’s just a run of the mill immigration story.

Prouty, 37, admitted in court that she became a U.S. citizen by hiring an American to marry her. She then joined the FBI in 1999.

“That’s not uncommon – people do it all the time,” said a dismissive CIA source. The source strongly praised her undercover work in Iraq fighting insurgents, and said at worst she used bad judgment before joining the CIA.

Let’s walk that cat backward a little bit. Do people really gain US citizenship under false pretenses and then manage to get sensitive jobs in the CIA and the FBI “all the time?” And do these people usually happen to have connections to the terrorist group that holds the silver medal for killing Americans? If that’s not uncommon, if people are able to pull that series of feats off “all the time,” we’re in big trouble.

Read the whole article to get the full effect of former CIA officer Vincent Cannistraro’s defense of Prouty as just being “concerned about her brother-in-law,” who just happened to be involved with Hezbollah, and that explains the alpha and omega of her illicit searches of his name, her sister’s name and her own name on sensitive computer systems. The most logical explanation for those searches is that she was on the lookout for information about the brother-in-law that could tip her to if and more importantly how intelligence was being obtained about him. That would tell her quite a bit about means and methods being used against Hezbollah, knowledge that she could have used to help Hezbollah evade US intel. The least logical explanation is that she risked everything just to keep an eye out for her terror-connected relative. Granted, people aren’t always logical, but we’re talking about a person who hired a man to marry her so that she could become a US citizen and who was evidently impressive enough to get into the FBI and CIA and still have officers in the latter praising her after her confession.

There is something very much not right about the Prouty case, though like the Berger burglary, I doubt we’ll ever get to the bottom of it.