article_snippet: However Craig Monteilh was really a petty criminal with forgery convictions who was hired by the FBI to go undercover as part of an intelligence surveillance operation after 9/11.
article_snippet: Craig Monteilh went public with an intelligence surveillance operation after Craig Monteilh cover was blown in 2007, which exposed some of the government's little-known methods of anti-terrorism policing.
article_snippet: Craig Monteihl, a petty criminal, was recruited by the FBIas an informant as part of post-9/11 surveillance operations.
article_snippet: Speaking with HuffPost Live on Monday, Craig Monteilh said Craig Monteilh was paid to seek out potential threats and gain 'personal information' about such people.
article_snippet: Agents sought Craig Monteilh out after Craig Monteilh spent some time in prison for using fraudulent checks.
article_snippet: his mission was to obtain email address and phone numbers of anyone suspicious and get the names of any of anyone suspicious associates, which Craig Monteilh would then feed back to Craig Monteilh the FBI handlers.
article_snippet: Craig Monteilh says Craig Monteilh now realizes Craig Monteilh was motivated by money and was spying on innocent people .
article_snippet: In retrospect, Craig Monteilh says the money distracted Craig Monteilh from what was actually happening. '
article_snippet: After Craig Monteilh went public with what Craig Monteilh'd done, FBI FBI defended FBI tactics, claiming such operations had prevented further terrorist atrocities in the wake of 9/11.
highlights_snippet: Craig Monteilh spent time in prison for using fraudulent checks .
  
highlights_snippet: Craig Monteilh was recruited by the FBI as a mole as part of post-9/11 surveillance .
  