Justice Dept. Opposes Bid to Revive Case against F.B.I. (Sibel Edmonds)

[G_j]

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/022605Y.shtml

Justice Dept. Opposes Bid to Revive Case against F.B.I.
By John Files
The New York Times

Saturday 26 February 2005

Washington - The government has told a federal appeals court that a suit by an F.B.I. translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of ineptitude should not be allowed to proceed because it would cause "significant damage to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."

Lawyers for the government said in a brief filed with the court on Thursday that the suit could not continue without disclosing privileged and classified information.

The translator, Sibel Edmonds, was a contract linguist for the bureau for about six months, translating material in Azerbaijani, Farsi and Turkish. Ms. Edmonds was dismissed in 2002 after complaining repeatedly that bureau linguists had produced slipshod and incomplete translations of important terrorism intelligence before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Ms. Edmonds also accused a fellow Turkish linguist in the Washington field office of blocking the translation of material involving acquaintances who had come under suspicion and said the bureau had allowed diplomatic sensitivities with other nations to affect the translation of important intelligence.

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** For a good background on this see this thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=104&topic_id=3176078&mesg_id=3176078

[rpannier]

1. This admins answer to everything they oppose is

"...it would cause "significant damage to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
For God's Sake...Somebody needs to call them on this.

[G_j]

2. kick

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3. Just Posted This To Latest Breaking News GJ

Don't know if they'll lock it or not, but it's there.

[G_j]

9. It's still there

& I just gave it a kick!

thanks

[MiniMe]

4. Translation

It might Disclose privileged and classified information about what a bunch of crooks we are. It could cause significant damage to our goals of destroying the middle class and the governments of other countries would realize that we don't give a hoot about them.

[Just Me]

5. I thought the DOJ admitted classified docs should be declassified.

I should have known there was no freakin' way this administration would allow anything along the lines of accountability and transparency. Otherwise, they couldn't continue to use the American people for profit. Assholes!!!! :mad:

[G_j]

6. and that is why this is so important !

I think this may the Achilles heel.
There are fighting like hell to cover-up.

[Al-CIAda]

7. Sibel Info-

CIA Factbook-
United States
consumer of cocaine shipped from Colombia through Mexico and the Caribbean; consumer of heroin, marijuana, and increasingly methamphetamine from Mexico; consumer of high-quality Southeast Asian heroin; illicit producer of cannabis, marijuana, depressants, stimulants, hallucinogens, and methamphetamine; money-laundering center

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2086.html


State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade
 -FBI Whistleblower

Sibel Edmonds- FBI Whistleblower, interview
SE: Everything – from drugs to money laundering to arms sales. And yes, there are certain convergences with all these activities and international terrorism.
CD: So with these organizations we're talking about a lot of money –
SE: Huge, just massive. They don't deal with 1 million or 5 million dollars, but with hundreds of millions.
CD: From your previous testimony and the examples I want to bring up next, it would seem that organized crime with terrorist links is really holding the reins inside powerful governments, even the American one. No?
SE: That may be, but I don't know. I didn't get high enough up on the ladder to find out. With all of this suspicious and unprecedented "state secrets" obstructionism from Ashcroft, it might seem that way, but I don't have any direct information.
CD: But what do think, within departments such as the Pentagon and the State Department. Do you suspect certain high officials may be profiting from terrorist-linked organized crime?
SE: I can't say anything specific with regards to these departments, because I didn't work for them. But as for the politicians, what I can say is that when you start talking about huge amounts of money, certain elected officials become automatically involved. And there are different kinds of campaign contributions – legal and illegal, declared and undeclared.
CD: Could this apparent toleration of dangerous criminal groups in the midst possibly be interpreted to mean that American policy is driven by the "ends justify the means" philosophy?
SE: But how are the ends possibly met by such activities? To this day, I just can't see how. What is happening does not benefit 99.9 percent of Americans – just a very small elite.
I'm no expert, but from what I have personally seen I can say that our national security is being compromised every day, because important investigations are being stopped, and potentially important clues are being overlooked. It's absolutely incredible that even after 9/11, certain individuals, foreign businessmen and others, among others, are still escaping scrutiny.
Okay, perhaps talking about the pre-9/11 world they could get away with saying "we didn't know," but to continue doing so – I mean, what if we are attacked by nuclear or chemical weapons, what will be their next excuse? That "we didn't know" it could happen? Come on! I can prove they are lying, because they know."

http://www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds-Story.htm

[G_j]

8. "I can prove they are lying,

because they know."

here is the reason for the"gag".
Among other things, we are talking about 9/11 here.

[G_j]

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