The Failure of Counter-Intelligence

By Douglas Farah

The case of Nadia Nadim Prouty and her ability to acquire citizenship illegally, security clearances and sensitive employment in both the FBI and CIA, raises many disturbing issues.

But underlying this failure and numerous other penetration efforts by Islamist groups is the large-scale failure of U.S. counter-intelligence efforts for many years. There are numerous cases of Chinese infiltration agents, Islamist penetration and Russian penetrations that underscore the shrinking ability to monitor or detect the spies working in this country.

The capacity has been rapidly shrinking for several decades and, despite the .......

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