Gravy, what about the Seibel Edmonds story do you find compelling?
I don't know much about it beyond things I read yesterday, so please help me out if you know more.
911truth.org writes this in their pamphlet:
Why didn't the 9/11 Commission explain these issues?[...]Testimony by FBI translator Sibel Edmonds revealing foreknowledge of 9/11 and infiltration of the department by a foreign operative.
And my response (comments in brackets are mine):
Okay, now you may be on to something. I haven’t looked into it in depth, but he story of Sibel Edmonds seems to be worthy of more attention. This is the kind of thing I wish the "9-11 truth movement" spent its time on: specific allegations – by a credible person "in the know" – of serious flaws in our national security system. A summary from your website, 911Truth.org:
[From Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002] Sibel Edmonds worked as a language specialist for the FBI’s Washington Field Office [She had top-secret clearance]. During her work with the bureau, she discovered and reported [what she believed to be] serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. After she reported these acts to FBI management, she was retaliated against by the FBI and ultimately fired in March 2002. Since that time, court proceedings on her issues have been blocked by the assertion of “State Secret Privilege” and the Congress of the United States has been gagged and prevented from any discussion of her case through retroactive re-classification by the Department of Justice.
Edmonds says she uncovered untranslated and poorly-translated documents that were gathered prior to 9/11 and that pointed to an aircraft-as-missile plot. She also reported concerns about a coworker who may have been involved in espionage – a very serious charge in that department. Some of her other allegations were mundane, such as travel voucher abuse and timesheet fraud. She says that she brought her concerns to the highest level, including Director Mueller, and was stonewalled and eventually fired. She is gagged from giving any details about the case bacause then-Attorney General John Ashcroft apparently had the matter “retroactively classified.”
Her open letter to Thomas Kean, head of the 9/11 Commission, is filled with specific allegations and is a very scary read.
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0802-06.htm It alleges that the FBI's counterterrorism department is rife with the kinds of problems you might expect to see in a Board of Education bureacracy, not in a place where matters of national security are paramount, and that these problems have been deliberately covered up.
A summary of an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General is here:
http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0533/app7.htm
The OIG investigation summary supports some of her claims, but doesn’t mention anything about 9/11…is that because it’s all classified? While there are without doubt national security implications to the case, and intelligence-gathering methods to protect, parts of the Sibel Edmonds case smack of a coverup of incompetence in crucial areas, and retribution against a whistleblower. The vigor with which she has pursued the matter in the courts seems to indicate that this is more than a case of someone seeking revenge against an unjust employer. See her website here:
http://www.justacitizen.com/
