In a stunning embarrassment for the FBI, one of its employees with a top-secret security clearance travelled to Syria in 2014 and married a key ISIS operative she had been assigned to investigate, according to a media report.
Rogue employee Daniela Greene married Denis Cuspert also known as Abu Talha al-Almani, 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, CNN reported.
Cuspert had praised Osama bin laden in a song, threatened former President Barack Obama with a throat-cutting gesture and appeared in propaganda videos, including one in which he was holding a freshly severed human head.
Before travelling to Syria, 38-year-old woman translator lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation, according to federal court records.