Translator keeps blowing 9-11 whistle on FBI; U.S. Keeps shutting her up

[Generator]

Sibel Edmonds, the translator, said in an interview Monday with the Voice that the Florida case illustrates the issues and evidence she has been trying to make public for two years. Edmonds claimed to have translated testimony in criminal and counter-intelligence cases involving different FBI field offices, going back into the late 1990s. Much of this involved tracking money, she said.

Among the Farsi translators working for the FBI, she said, it was common knowledge that a longtime, highly regarded FBI "asset" placed in Afghanistan told the agency in April 2001 that he had information from his contacts there that bin Laden was planning a major attack, involving the use of planes, in one or another of big American cities—Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York among them. The agents who took down the information from the spy wrote up reports and sent them to their superiors. That was the last the agents heard of the matter.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa summarized the Edmonds case in questioning FBI director Robert Mueller: "I would also like to, on a second point, figure out why the FBI is going back in time and classifying some pretty basic information that's already in the public sector in regard to classification of information that we have received in Congress from a whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds. We have, for instance, an e-mail sent out by the chairman's office last week saying that the FBI is classifying two-year-old information that the committee got in two previous briefings. Ms. Edmonds worked for the FBI as a translator and was fired after she reported problems. As part of the committee's legitimate oversight, we looked into that. The e-mail I have is right here. And so I'm very alarmed with the after-the-fact classification. On the one hand, I think it's ludicrous, because I understand that almost all of this information's in the public domain, and has been very widely available. On the other hand, this classification is very serious, because it seems like the FBI would be attempting to put a gag order on Congress."

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0421/mondo1.php

[Sliverofhope]

1. kick n/t

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. I do hope the attorneys for the 9/11 families get testimony on tape

Before Edmonds can be suicided.

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[loudsue]

3. Sibel Edmonds is soooo courageous!

She's pissed....and she has every right to be. I hope she stays safe.

:kick::kick::kick::kick:

[mmonk]

4. Keep Sibel's name out there

[Alerter_]

5. who are the "foreign intelligence" groups recruiting in the FBI?

MI5? Mossad? ISI? Al Qaeda? If what Edmonds says is correct, we have serious cases of espionage and treason on our hands.

[HootieMcBoob]

6. Kick

This is the thing that will eventually be the most damning piece of evidence of the criminality of this group.

[monkeymind]

7. Why is Congress such pussies?

they keep farting around with "comittees" and "briefings" while the criminals(i.e. GOP) are still fucking up the world.

[wiggs]

8. Status?

So where does this stand? Isn't the Justice Department supposed to rule on the gag order soon?

Will her testimony be part of the 9/11 commission report?

What is the timetable for all this?

Isn't this really important and shouldn't newspapers be editorializing about this every day?

Doesn't this go to secrecy issues, LIHOP issues, checks and balances issues?

[leesa]

9. Think so wouldn't you? Welcome to the other side of the looking glass

[newyawker99]

11. Hi wiggs!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[kimchi]

10. kICK

for a brave translator

[dusty64]

12. We CAN'T have

the truth come out, no matter the cost.