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http://www.antiwar.com/blog/index.php?id=P1852
http://www.spacewar.com/news/2005/upine ... 29-51.html

he Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the translation unit of the Bureau's Washington Field Office.

At issue are the claims of Sibel Edmonds, a contract translator for the FBI hired in the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Edmonds reported that many of those hired to work in the unit could barely speak English; that they left secure laptop computers lying around while they went to lunch; that they took classified material home with them; and - even more disturbing - that one co-worker had undeclared contacts with a foreign organization that was under FBI surveillance.

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Thanks man, didn't see this post last night. :icon14:

It's been obvious the whole time that the DoJ doesn't have a leg to stand on with their "States Secrets" bs. Now they've finally admitted it.

Now I only wonder how much longer they can keep delaying the trial and keep the information it turns up, from being released to the public.

Eventually everyone will find out that the FBI fired her to keep a mole employed there. Her allegations go a lot deeper than what she's told about so far, too.

She said that a lot of what she uncovered turned out to involve a huge network of drug money, laundering and terrorist activities - and apparently the FBI fired her for uncovering it and not keeping her mouth shut when she did. This kind of network has been speculated about for a long time, but nobody has ever had any sort of solid proof of any of those kinds of connections.

It's a very very interesting case -- it's especially telling that the States Secrets act is practically never invoked, but Ashcroft used it to retro-actively classify information that was already publicly available, just to keep them from being able to hold the trial.

I wish somebody would shove a Mighty Eagle up Ashcroft's ass. I wonder what charges he would face if it were proved that he used the States Secrets Act maliciously and without grounds.

Two more articles on the story, BTW:

http://www.pogo.org/p/government/ga-050 ... ation.html

http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=990
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edit: Also btw, the Inspector General has already validated most of her complaints -- as well as co-workers she had that were willing to testify to corroborate her story -- and has also said the FBI has not even attempted to investigate the major issues that her case has brought to light.