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Former FBI Translator: U.S. Had Details Before 9/11
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| 4/1/04
Posted on 04/01/2004 8:17:51 PM PST by Stars&StripesNE
A former FBI translator told Salon.com the U.S. should have had an "orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001. There was that much information available."
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: fbi; lolexceprtingnewsmax; sibeledmonds
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To: SDR
A former FBI translator told Salon.com the U.S. should have had an "orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001. There was that much information available."We didn't have such an alert system.
If this person went straight to Salon.com, this person is not credible.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:19:14 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
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To: GeronL
Read the article. Grassley said she was credible. However, she is the same person who first made headlines in 2002 by blowing the whistle on the FBI's translation department.
I smell a rat.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:21:21 PM PST
by
Stars&StripesNE
(apologies, I don't give no damn apologies . I am JAWN, the hero.)
To: SDR
I smell a rat. One of the democ variety, per chance?
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:23:56 PM PST
by
FourPeas
To: SDR
Another government person comes out against our president. It's amazing that all these Democratic plants and Paul O'Neil are doing what they are doing.
To: SDR
As I recall, the government had a good idea that AQ was going to attempt a hijacking, and the evidence pointed it happening in Europe. That's it.
Of course, not only did Clinton turn down getting Osama repeatedly in the 90s, he also chose to ignore information extracted by the Philippine government that Islamists would try to use commerical airliners as flying bombs. Guess that would be yet another Richard Clarke failure.
To: SDR
WOW! Someone had knowledge that legally boarded passengers would take control of airplanes with nothing more than box cutters and crash them into buildings!?!?
We got smacked on 9/11 because RICHARD CLARKE spent BILLIONS on anti-terror measures and not one thing was done to stop legally boarded passengers from taking control of airplanes with box cutters.
To: SDR
People ridicule the President's system now saying it does nothibg and purposely brings fear to the country...could you imagine what they would've done to him had he implemented it in 7/01??
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:27:20 PM PST
by
God luvs America
(Howard Dean is a deranged lunatic!!)
To: SDR
Why are you excerpting articles from Newsmax?
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:28:37 PM PST
by
sinkspur
(Adopt a dog or a cat from an animal shelter! It will save one life, and may save two.)
To: FourPeas
We tap everything -- we don't have time to read it all. Are we going to push the govt to the same place we have pushed the street: DON'T hold onto any information/communication that is not directly related to an official action or you will be pursued later for political gain...
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:29:37 PM PST
by
max_rpf
To: GeronL; SDR
I am glad to see our security forces giving out all this information. We had tighter security in the Boy Scouts.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:30:13 PM PST
by
Lawgvr1955
(I am not completely worthless; I can always serve as a "bad example".)
To: GeronL; SDR; FourPeas; swilhelm73; Jim_Curtis; God luvs America
If this person went straight to Salon.com, this person is not credible. Anyway how many straight people write for or read Salon.com?
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:30:36 PM PST
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: SDR
This kind of crap is not going to work simply because the day it happened nobody believed it until they saw it with their own eyes.
To: GeronL
We didn't have such an alert system. Not that I'm aware of
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:33:23 PM PST
by
Mo1
(Do you want a president who injects poison into his skull for vanity?)
To: max_rpf
"A former FBI translator told Salon.com the U.S. should have had an "orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001. There was that much information available."" She is working from 20/20 hindsight. More proof that Liberals don't belong in the govt.
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:33:24 PM PST
by
max_rpf
To: Paleo Conservative
hahaha
My story is updated.. see FR homepage
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:34:00 PM PST
by
GeronL
(Hey, I am on the internet. I have a right (cough, cough) to write stupid things.)
To: SDR
Newsmax is using Salon.com as a reliable news source?
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:34:00 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: sinkspur
Sure is annoying.
To: Blood of Tyrants
That's good for a belly laugh! HAR!
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posted on
04/01/2004 8:36:41 PM PST
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Any day you wake up is a good day.)
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