The FBI agent, Daniela Greene
An FBI translator with a top-secret security clearance traveled to
Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to
investigate, CNN has learned.
The rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she
was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation,
according to federal court records.
Greene's saga, which has never been publicized, exposes an
embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI—an agency that has
made its mission rooting out ISIS sympathizers across the country.
It also raises questions about whether Greene received favorable
treatment from Justice Department prosecutors who charged her with a
relatively minor offense, then asked a judge to give her a reduced
sentence in exchange for her cooperation, the details of which remain
shrouded in court-ordered secrecy.
The man Greene married was no ordinary terrorist. He was Denis
Cuspert, a German rapper turned ISIS pitchman, whose growing influence
as an online recruiter for violent jihadists had put him on the radar of
counter-terrorism authorities on two continents.