US Intelligence Analyst Handed Classified Info to Hizbullahby Ezra HaLevihttp://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124248U.S. authorities have discovered that an FBI agent and CIA analyst leaked classified information to the Hizbullah terrorist organization.
According to CBS news, the female agent is “expected to plead guilty to charges involving her disclosure of information” to parties sympathetic to Hizbullah, who then passed it to the Iranian-backed group.
The woman is of Lebanese background and became a US citizen through marriage. CBS says the marriage was faked in order to obtain citizenship.
There is not enough evidence against her to charge the agent with espionage, although Hizbullah is considered a terrorist entity by the U.S. State Department and passing information to the group is considered to be a very serious crime.
The woman was caught when her agency account was flagged due to her conducting several searches unrelated to her assigned cases.
It remains to be seen what sentence will be handed down and how it will compare with the life sentence Jonathan Pollard is now serving after his conviction of one count of passing information to a friendly U.S. ally.
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