FBI translator marries ISIS operative!

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 reports.

Quoting federal court recordsm the CNN said the rogue employee, Daniela Greene, lied to the FBI about where she was going and warned her new husband he was under investigation.

CNN's portal published an investigation report titeld "The FBI translator who went rogue and married an ISIS terrorist".

It said Greene's saga, which has never been publicised, exposes an embarrassing breach of national security at the FBI—an agency that has made its mission rooting out ISIS sympathisers across the country.

It also raises questions about whether Greene received favourable 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, according to CNN.

It said the man Greene married was no ordinary terrorist.

He was reportedly 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.

In Germany, Cuspert went by the rap name Deso Dogg. In Syria, he was known as Abu Talha al-Almani, according to the report. He reportedly 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, CNN said.

Within weeks of marrying Cuspert, Greene, 38, seemed to realise she had made a terrible mistake, the report said. She reportedly fled back to the US, where she was immediately arrested and agreed to cooperate with authorities. She pleaded guilty to making false statements involving international terrorism and was sentenced to two years in federal prison. She was said to have been released last summer.