In the FBI she was a Special Agent on an international terrorism squad . She worked on the USS Cole bombing case , the Khobar Towers bombing case , the Laurence Foley case , and other terrorism cases . In about 2003 she joined the CIA . She thought the CIA would allow her cultural background and linguistic abilities to be used more effectively in her work . She felt that in the FBI , linguists were treated as " second class citizens "
Khobar Towers bombing
Khobar Towers bombing
Nada Nadim Prouty