FBI translators ordered to work slowly

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/25/60minutes/main526954.shtml

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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.

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Edmonds says that to her amazement, from the day she started the job, she was told repeatedly by one of her supervisors that there was no urgency - that she should take longer to translate documents so that the department would appear overworked and understaffed. That way, it would receive a larger budget for the next year.

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Edmonds says that the supervisor, in an effort to slow her down, went so far as to erase completed translations from her FBI computer after she'd left work for the day.

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In fact, the supervisor who Sibel Edmonds says told her to slow down was promoted. Edmonds filed a whistleblower lawsuit to get her job back. A judge is currently considering the government's request to dismiss it on grounds it would compromise national decurity. And as for the FBI's Language Division, the bureau says it has dramatically beefed up its foreign language translation capabilities.
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sigh

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1. YASG!

Yet Another Smoking Gun.

Anyone remember the intelligence intercepts that they had spelling out the attack on 9/11 that didn't get translated until something like 9/14?

Guess we know why they took so long now...

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Appalling.

Saw this segment on 60 minutes last night. Combine this with the pattern of foreknowledge and secrecy surrounding 9/11, and it makes you sick.

They KNEW that what she was translating was important, and would have revealed that we had the evidence to stop the attacks, or at least give warning. They erased her work?! They told her NOT to work?!

This all just makes me wonder if they're not hiding something worse: evidence of working with the hijackers.

[ianbruce]

3. Astonishing!

This was on 60 minutes last night? Good thing I taped it. Simply astonishing...

[West Coast Democrat]

4. Was this a 60 Minutes Repeat?

I believe I saw this story months ago.