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Etats-Unis
- Sibel Edmonds, témoin à charge contre le
FBI -
Sibel Edmonds testify against FBI...
An
Interview with Sibel Edmonds
FBI Whistleblower Talks to
Antiwar.com
Antiwar 01/07/04
"Sibel Edmonds began working for the FBI shortly after the
Sept. 11 attacks, translating top-secret documents pertaining to
suspected terrorists. She was fired in the spring of 2002 after
reporting her concerns about sabotage, intimidation, corruption
and incompetence to superiors. She first gained wide public
attention in October of that year when she appeared on 60 Minutes
on CBS and charged that the FBI, State Department, and Pentagon
had been infiltrated by Turkish individuals suspected of ties to
terrorism. On October 18, 2002, at the request of FBI Director
Robert Mueller, Attorney General Ashcroft imposed a gag order on
Ms. Edmonds, citing possible damage to diplomatic relations or
national security. Edmonds is a key witness in a pending
class-action suit filed by 9/11 families against the government.
The following interview, conducted this past weekend for almost
three hours by telephone, reveals sordid new details about U.S.
intelligence practices..."
Classified
Letters Regarding FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds
The Memory Hole
"The following three letters were recently declared
classified, even though they had been considered unclassified
since their creation in summer and fall 2002. They regard Sibel
Edmonds, the former FBI translator who charges that the FBI's
translation service 1) is incompetent and corrupt and 2) received
specific warnings about 9/11 before the attacks..."
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Excerpts from Club Strategic Road 
27/03/04 :
27/03/04 - Etats-Unis – Révélations devant la
Commission d’enquête indépendante sur les attentats du 11
Septembre : le FBI avait, en Juin et Juillet 2001, des
informations détaillées selon lesquelles des terroristes
allaient attaquer les Etats-Unis avec des avions…
"We
should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of
2001"
Salon 26/03/04
« A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security
clearance, who has been called "very credible" by Sen.
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to
the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United
States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11,
2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being
plotted.
Referring to the Homeland Security Department's color-coded
warnings instituted in the wake of 9/11, the former translator,
Sibel Edmonds, told Salon, "We should have had orange or
red-type of alert in June or July of 2001. There was that much
information available." Edmonds is offended by the Bush White
House claim that it lacked foreknowledge of the kind of attacks
made by al-Qaida on 9/11. "Especially after reading National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice [Washington Post Op-Ed on March
22] where she said, we had no specific information whatsoever of
domestic threat or that they might use airplanes. That's an
outrageous lie. And documents can prove it's a lie."
Edmonds' charge comes when the Bush White House is trying to fend
off former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's testimony
that it did not take serious measures to combat the threat of
Islamic terrorism, and al-Qaida specifically, in the months
leading up to 9/11 ».
Sept.
11 commission cites intelligence agency failures
Govexec 24/03/04
« …A former FBI translator said Wednesday that the bureau
had "real, specific" information relating to the Sept.
11 attacks before they happened. Sibel Edmonds worked for the
agency working from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002.
Edmonds said she was hired to retranslate material that was
collected prior to Sept. 11 to determine if anything was missed in
the translations that related to the plot. In her review, Edmonds
said the documents clearly showed that the Sept. 11 hijackers were
in the country and plotting to use airplanes as missiles. The
documents also included information relating to their financial
activities. Edmonds said she could not comment in detail because
she has been under a Justice Department gag order since October
2002.
Edmonds has testified before the Sept. 11 commission, the Senate
Judiciary Committee and the Senate Select Intelligence
Committee… »
DOJ
Asked FBI Translator To Change Pre 9-11 Intercepts
tomflocco.com 24/03/04
« FBI translator Sibel Edmonds was offered a substantial
raise and a full time job to encourage her not to go public that
she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to
retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject
intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the
FBI and CIA.
Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph
examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working
part time with the FBI for six months--commencing in December,
2001.
In a 50 reporter frenzy in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds
said "Attorney General John Ashcroft told me 'he was
invoking State Secret Privilege and National Security' when I told
the FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the
pre 9-11 intercepts."
"I appeared once on CBS 60 Minutes but I have been
silenced by Mr. Ashcroft, the FBI follows me, and I was threatened
with jail in 2002 if I went public," Edmonds told
tomflocco.com.
When we asked her if it was really true that she had been bribed
by the FBI and DOJ, Edmonds said "You can interpret
it as that."
This writer personally asked Edmonds where the term
"State Secret Privilege" was derived. "The
term came from an October 18, 2002 DOJ memo to me from DOJ
spokesman Barbara Comstock," said Edmonds.
The former FBI translator said "My translations of
the pre 9-11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering,
detailed and date specific information enough to alert the
American people, and other issues dating back to 1999 which I
won't go into right now."
Incredibly, Edmonds said "The Senate
Judiciary Committee and the 911 Commission have heard me testify
for lengthy periods of time time (3 hours) about very specific
plots, dates, airplanes used as weapons, and specific individuals
and activities."
This explosive information has been kept under wraps by
the White House, CIA, FBI, and DOJ since Edmonds' 60 Minutes
interview segment.
The former FBI translator told tomflocco.com that "translators
before me had ongoing personal relationships with the subjects or
targets of the FBI and DOJ pre 9-11 investigations--linked to
intercepts and other intelligence--in June - July - August, just
prior to the attacks."
"I also became aware of a [terrorist] criminal investigation
going on since 1998," said Edmonds.
Patty Casazza, one of the 9-11 "Jersey Girls," said "Sibel
Edmonds told me that color coding terrorist threat alerts for the
American people is reflective of the intercept translations
received." Casazza and Edmonds gave no indication as
to whether FBI translators had doctored or adjusted translations [used in the decision-making
process] for Homeland Security
terrorist threat alerts, for political reasons.
"This whole situation is outrageous and I am going
public," said Edmonds, adding "I am
currently being advised by counsel. Thank you."… »
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