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'Able Danger' Stopped From Informing FBI |
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AP
AP staff
August 17, 2005 |
An Army intelligence officer said Wednesday he does not believe the 9/11 commission pressed hard enough for documentation of claims that military intelligence found a U.S.-based terrorist cell that included Mohamed Atta, who turned out to be the leader of the Sept. 11 attacks, prior to the terrorist strikes. |
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Four in 9/11 Plot Are Called Tied to Qaeda in '00 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
August 9, 2005 |
Washington - More than a year before the Sept. 11 attacks, a small,
highly classified military intelligence unit identified Mohammed Atta and three
other future hijackers as likely members of a cell of Al Qaeda operating in
the United States, according to a former defense intelligence official and a
Republican member of Congress. |
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National Security Watch: FBI whistle-blower petitions high court |
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U.S. News & World Report
Danielle Knight
August 5, 2005 |
Lawyers for Sibel Edmonds, the former translator for the FBI, have petitioned the Supreme Court to hear her case. Edmonds claims that she was fired in retaliation for reporting security breaches and possible espionage within the bureau. The FBI hired Edmonds, who is fluent in Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani, shortly after the 9/11 attacks. She was fired in 2002 and filed a lawsuit later that year arguing that her firing was in retaliation for blowing the whistle on other FBI officials. |
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What We Don't Know About 9/11 Hurts Us |
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LA Times
Robert Scheer
February 15, 2005 |
Would George W. Bush have been reelected president if the public understood how much responsibility his administration bears for allowing the 9/11 attacks to succeed?
The answer is unknowable and, at this date, moot. Yet it was appalling to learn last week that the White House suppressed until after the election a damning report that exposes the administration as woefully incompetent if not criminally negligent. |
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Inspector General Rebukes F.B.I. Over Espionage Case and Firing of Whistle-Blower |
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New York Times
Eric Lichtblau
January 15, 2005 |
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 - The F.B.I. has failed to aggressively investigate accusations of espionage against a translator at the bureau and fired the translator's co-worker in large part for bringing the accusations, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded on Friday. |
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Open Letter To Thomas Kean, from Sibel Edmonds |
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Sibel Edmonds Letter To Thomas Kean
Sibel Edmonds
August 1, 2004 |
After almost three years the American people still do not know that thousands of lives can be jeopardized under the unspoken policy of 'protecting certain foreign business relations.' The victims family members still do not realize that information and answers they have sought relentlessly for over two years has been blocked due to the unspoken decisions made and disguised under 'safeguarding certain diplomatic relations.' Your report did not even attempt to address these unspoken practices, although, unlike me, you were not placed under any gag. |
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'Security' Blocks FBI Critic Case |
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CBSnews.com
Kathy Mountcastle
July 7, 2004 |
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the civil lawsuit by Sibel Edmonds could expose intelligence-gathering methods and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments.
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Translator in eye of storm on retroactive classification |
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Boston Globe
Anne E. Kornblut
July 5, 2004 |
In a rare maneuver, Attorney General John Ashcroft has ordered that information about the Edmonds case be retroactively classified, even basic facts that have been posted on websites and discussed openly in meetings with members of Congress for two years. The Department of Justice also invoked the seldom-used "state secrets" privilege to silence Edmonds in court. She has been blocked from testifying in a lawsuit brought by victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and was allowed to speak to the panel investigating the Sept. 11 attacks only behind closed doors. |
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Al-Qaida Tried to Pentrate FBI's Translation Service |
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BreakForNews.com
Fintan Dunne
June 18, 2004 |
A transcript of the 9/11 Commission hearing on June 16, 2004 reveals that the FBI's intelligence translation service was a target for penetration by a senior Al-Qaida operative. |
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Questioning Nearly Every Aspect of the Responses to Sept. 11 |
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New York Times
Douglas Jehl
June 17, 2004 |
Now, in 17 preliminary staff reports, that panel has called into question nearly every aspect of the administration's response to terror, including the idea that Iraq and Al Qaeda were somehow the same foe.
Far from a bolt from the blue, the commission has demonstrated over the last 19 months that the Sept. 11 attacks were foreseen, at least in general terms, and might well have been prevented, had it not been for misjudgments, mistakes and glitches, some within the White House. |
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