[ Investor's Business Daily] Editorial - An alarming number of Arabs and Muslims have landed sensitive government jobs only to be caught later spying for the enemy. Federal prosecutors say Fairfax County Police Sgt. Weiss Rasool, an Afghan immigrant, tipped off a fellow mosque member that he was under FBI investigation. When agents went to arrest the terrorist, they found him and his family destroying evidence. Thanks to post-9/11 data-sharing, local police like Rasool now have access to classified FBI files on terror suspects maintained with the National Crime Information Center system. In May, the Energy Department revoked the security clearance of an Egyptian-born nuclear physicist because of "conflicting allegiances." Waheeda Tehseen, an EPA toxicologist whose husband worked for Pakistani intelligence, turned out to be an al-Qaeda fundraiser.
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