Many writers and commentators alike have used critiques of the Arab family as patriarchal and oppressive to women for their own purposes, including justifying U.S. occupations. One self-described feminist, Nada Prouty, mobilizes this trope in her auto-biography, Uncompromised: The rise, fall and redemption of an Arab American patriot in the CIA. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) in which she recalls the verbal, psychological and physical abuse from her father and younger brother and how the prospects of an arranged marriage caused her to emigrate from Lebanon to the U.S. This emigration/escape is the first move in which she frames her self as “good” and her family – and collective Lebanese society – as “bad” for an American audience. Ultimately, she was accused of being a Hezbollah spy and was stripped of her U.S. citizenship. In this debacle, some media was clearly on the side of the FBI, with the New York Post declaring her “Jihad Jane.” After the Department of Homeland Security threatened to deport Prouty, she submitted her story to the television show “60 minutes.” The ensuing episode was the first installment in a media campaign to clear her name and stay in the U.S. Ultimately, she was successful. To garner enough of a public outcry, Prouty had to position herself carefully as a gun-totting, badass (but loyal) U.S. spy and an all-around American “good girl” immigrant. Strategically, she contrasted this with a self-narrative as an independent and individualistic Arab girl fighting against patriarchy within her own family and terrorist elements in the form of Al-Qaeda. Prouty privileged feminism by selectively critiquing patriarchy and gender inequality but in fact, suffered and acted on behalf of many oppressions beyond gender, perhaps most especially vis-à-vis Arab stereotypes as dangerous, terrorist and in need of subjugation by an occupying power. An alternative kyriarchal approach acknowledges the “master power” narrative, which includes religion and race/ethnicity as well as U.S. imperialist and world domination imperatives. Through a close reading of the memoir and an analysis of self-advocacy of Nada Prouty, this paper will explore how Prouty positively framed her spy work and her “bad” Arab girl self as she fortified the U.S. patriarchal system. I will argue that the intended responses from a US audience profoundly influenced the framing of a subjective “good” and “bad” girl-ness of this Arab American woman negotiating transnational moralities.