Man who says he spied on Calif. mosques sues FBI

Source: AP

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A Southern California man who said he spied on mosques for the FBI has filed a lawsuit accusing the agency of letting him go to jail for work he did as an informant.

Craig Monteilh, 47, of Irvine, a fitness consultant, is seeking $10 million from the FBI in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles. Monteilh also sued the Irvine Police Department.

Monteilh said he infiltrated mosques for the FBI and gave the agency information about Ahmadullah Niazi, the brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard who pleaded not guilty last year to lying about terrorist ties on his citizenship papers.

But Monteilh said federal and local authorities let him serve time on a theft case related to prior work he did for the FBI and barred him from telling the court he was an undercover informant to clear his name.



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Listening to Robert Redford talk today about Leonard Peltier made me realize that their pattern is, screw up the case and find someone to hang. Same as they did with Bruce Ivins.

The one thing they get credit for from me is refusing to torture where CIA just went with it.

Not particularly likely his story is true.

It won't be the last.

There was a case in Houston in the early 1980s in which a man was prosecuted for all manner of crimes, and claimed he was being railroaded and set up by the US attorney, the CIA and the FBI. Turns out he was telling the truth, but he served a number of years in federal prison before that was finally established. I forget the guy's name. Seems it was Williams or Wilson.

The power of federal agencies and federal prosecutors is virtually limitless. They can get away with anything for years, maybe forever.