Nakoula Basseley Nakoula

Obama and Hillary Clinton and their Democrat mouthpieces, aided by elected Dem officials and liberal media hacks, have spent the better part of a week trying to wash their hands of responsibility for the Middle East meltdown; the raging anti-Americanism; the 9/11/12 attack on the U.S. embassy in Cairo; and the murderous, successful 9/11 anniversary plan on Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the consulate in Libya.

It's as if they, Obama and Hillary, are the victims here.

As we learn more about Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, scapegoat and a principle filmmaker of Innocence of Muslims, things are getting a little messier.

Smoking Gun reveals that Nakoula was a U.S. government informant.

In remarks stressing that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday sought to quash Arab concerns that the “disgusting and reprehensible” movie was somehow produced or condoned by American officials.

However, Clinton’s attempt to distance the U.S. from “Innocence of Muslims”--and, by extension, its felonious producer--may be complicated by the revelation that Nakoula Basseley Nakoula became a government informant after his 2009 arrest for bank fraud, The Smoking Gun has learned.

Though many key documents from the U.S. District Court case remain sealed, a June 2010 sentencing transcript provides an account of Nakoula’s cooperation with federal investigators in Los Angeles (and how his prison sentence was reduced as a result).

Nakoula, 55, was arrested in June 2009 for his role in a check-kiting ring that stole nearly $800,000 from six financial institutions by using stolen Social Security numbers and identities. Nakoula was named in a six-count felony indictment accusing him and unnamed “co-schemers” of perpetrating the bank fraud.

Denied bail, Nakoula, a married father of three, was locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in L.A. when he began cooperating with Justice Department lawyers and federal agents. During a series of debriefing sessions, Nakoula provided investigators with a detailed account of the fraud operation and fingered the man who allegedly headed the operation, according to comments made by his lawyer at sentencing.

Nakoula identified the ring’s leader as Eiad Salameh, a notorious fraudster who has been tracked for more than a decade by state and federal investigators. In his debriefings, Nakoula said he was recruited as a “runner” by Salameh, who pocketed the majority of money generated by the bank swindles, according to James Henderson, Nakoula’s attorney.

...With an Arabic interpreter standing by, Nakoula told Snyder about his decision to inform. He explained, “I decided to cooperate with the government to retrieve some of these mistakes or damage happened. I want to cooperate with the government that they can catch with this other criminals who is their involvement.”

In return for Nakoula’s cooperation, prosecutors provided Snyder with a letter noting that his substantial assistance to authorities warranted a sentence reduction.

Nakoula helped the U.S. government.

Obama and Hillary should give the guy some credit. Each time they blame him for the Islamists' anti-American rioting and murder around the world they should at least give Nakoula a shout-out for his help.
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