Witness in terror trial is 'street smart criminal'

FBI agent David Rupert is described by an American source as ‘‘a street smart criminal who would anything for money’’, a defence lawyer for alleged Real IRA leader Michael McKevitt told the Special Criminal Court in Dublin today.

Mr Rupert, who worked for the FBI and British intelligence, is the chief prosecution witness in the forthcoming trial of McKevitt who is the first person charged in the Republic with directing terrorist activity.