Sibel Edmonds -- Gagged by the Govt. (911 cover-up?)

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Lost In Translation

A 60 Minutes Special Report

Jun 5, 2004 12:31 pm US/Central
NEW YORK (CBS) This is the story of hundreds, if not thousands, of foreign language documents that the FBI neglected to translate before and after the Sept. 11 attacks because of problems in its language department - documents that detailed what the FBI heard on wiretaps and learned during interrogations of suspected terrorists.

Sibel Edmonds, a translator who worked at the FBI's language division, says the documents weren't translated because the divison was riddled with incompetence and corruption.

Edmonds was fired after reporting her concerns to FBI officials. She told her story behind closed doors to investigators in Congress and to the Justice Department. Most recently, she spoke with the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://cbs11tv.com/terror/terror_story_157133336.html

I think this will be on this Sunday's 60 Minutes. Pass this on to your friends and let them see for themsleves.

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JH: So, obviously, we have mid-level FBI people who have been told something. It was the mid-level FBI people who knew enough to squelch many of these investigations before they went further. So how did they know to do that? Can all of them have been incompetent?

SE: No. Absolutely not.


JH: So they got the word down from Mueller, probably.

SE: I cannot confirm that for sure, but I can tell you that there is so much involvement, that if they did let this information out, and if they were to hold real investigations--I'm not talking about this semi-investigation they're holding under this "Joint Inquiry"--the pure show of the 9/11 Commission that has been getting the mass media's attention. If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up. And I am appalled. I am really surprised. I'm taken back by seeing the mass media's reaction to this. They are the window to our government's operation and what are they doing?

http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I hope she doesn't get bumped in favor of romanticizing Reagan

[LittleApple81]

4. I think by Sunday even the networks must be feeling lack of oxygen

from this RR eulogy diarrhea.

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2. Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 Investigation Inadequate

"If they were to do real investigations we would see several significant high level criminal prosecutions in this country. And that is something that they are not going to let out. And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up."

-Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator

http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

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3. Sen. Hatch and Ashcroft blocking her testimony...

"JH: And it is the Attorney General who is blocking your testimony.

SE: Senator Leahy, on April 8, 2004, sent a very strong letter to Attorney General Ashcroft, citing my case stating that he, Senator Leahy, has been asking questions, and has a lot of issues that have not been addressed, and asking AG Ashcroft to come and provide answers. And AG Ashcroft for the past two years has refused. So he is calling for a public hearing. However, Senator Hatch, who is the Republican Chairman of the Senate, has been a road block. And Senator Grassley went on the record with New York Observer's Gail Sheehy and said that Senator Hatch is blocking this investigation from taking place and for this public hearing to be held by the Senate Judiciary Committee.


JH: So Hatch has the power to keep Leahy and Grassley....

SE: Correct. And now it is becoming a partisan issue. However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now."

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http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

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5. This is the story Bushco and the FBI does not want you to know..

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* An FBI language 'monitor' responsible for conducting top secret translations of conversations recorded during FBI investigations 'failed to translate intelligence-related information;'

* The FBI monitor had previously 'worked' for the very organization which the FBI was investigating. Additionally, the FBI monitor, who had access to vital top secret information, had 'unreported contacts' with a 'foreign national' who was a member of the organization in question;

* The FBI monitor failed to properly translate conversations in which the foreign national identified above was a participant.

"The FBI has now conceded that its security program was deficient and flawed. The security lapses already confirmed during the investigation of Ms. Edmonds' allegations demonstrate that the FBI has again failed to properly protect the American people. The FBI also retaliated against the whistleblower who courageously raised these issues, in an improper attempt to hide gross lapses in its own security program.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/articles/whistleblowerpr.html

[robbedvoter]

6. Also exclusive page one on AM-NY:

http://www.nynewsday.com/other/special/amny/

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7. FBI move to classify data draws anger in Congress

FBI move to classify data draws anger in Congress

Eric Lichtblau NYT Friday, May 21, 2004
WASHINGTON The Justice Department has taken the unusual step of retroactively classifying information it gave to Congress nearly two years ago regarding a former FBI translator who charged that the bureau had missed critical terrorist warnings, according to law enforcement officials.
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The officials said Wednesday that the secrecy surrounding the translator, Sibel Edmonds, was essential to protecting information that could reveal intelligence-gathering operations. But some members of Congress and some congressional aides said they were troubled by the move, which comes as critics have accused the Bush administration of excessive secrecy.
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"What the FBI is up to here is ludicrous," Senator Charles Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said in an interview. "To classify something that's already been out in the public domain, what do you accomplish? It does harm to transparency in government, and it looks like an attempt to cover up the FBI's problems in translating intelligence."

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http://www.iht.com/articles/520910.html

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8. Edmonds says Rice "lied" read the transcript (Democracy Now)

AMY GOODMAN: Sibel, in your testimony before the 9-11 Commission, Senator Grassley, a conservative Republican senator, said he finds you highly credible. It seems that what you have now said publicly, that the US knew before 9-11 airplanes could be used as weapons, that information was coming out before 9-11, contradicted what Condoleezza Rice had been saying before she was put under oath. It seems your testimony has changed her testimony. You said that what she originally said, before she was under oath and just speaking on the networks, et cetera, was an outrageous lie. What was it that you were saying?

SIBEL EDMONDS: Well, about a week before this hearing when Condoleezza Rice testified in front of the commission, she made the statement that we did not have any specific information. And at that time I said that statement was an outrageous lie because “we” includes the FBI, her advisers, and therefore, the statement was an outrageous lie. She corrected herself during the commission hearing by saying that she made a mistake, and she should have said “I” personally did not have any specific information, rather than using “we,” which again left this whole question of “we” unanswered, and the commission did not pursue, well, who does that leave behind. If she was not given this information, who was the rest of this “we?”

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/29/1513230