9/11: 2 FBI Whistle-Blowers Allege Lax Security, Possible Espionage

Washington Post ^ | 6/19/02 p A10 | James V. Grimaldi

[Liz]

In separate cases, two new FBI whistle-blowers are alleging mismanagement and lax security -- and in one case possible espionage -- among those who translate and oversee some of the FBI's most sensitive, top-secret wiretaps in counterintelligence and counterterrorist investigations.

The allegations of one of the whistle-blowers have prompted two key senators -- Judiciary Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) -- to pose critical questions about the FBI division working on the front line of gathering and analyzing wiretaps.

[Liz]

Rest of article at source link.

[Seeking the truth]

#584......wow.....thanks for the post.

[truthkeeper]

Sheer insanity...again.

[hobbes1]

In December, Edmonds said the woman and her husband, a U.S. military officer, suggested during a hastily arranged visit to Edmonds's Northern Virginia home on a Sunday morning that Edmonds join the group.

"He said, 'Are you a member of the particular organization?' " Edmonds recalled the woman's husband saying. "[He said,] 'It's a very good place to be a member. There are a lot of advantages of being with this organization and doing things together' -- this is our targeted organization -- 'and one of the greatest things about it is you can have an early, an unexpected, early retirement. And you will be totally set if you go to that specific country.' "

Edmonds also said the woman's husband told her she would be admitted to the group, especially if she said she worked for the FBI.

Yet, She's fired, and they are out and about...

[Joe Driscoll]

They fire her?!

Here is a tip for the FBI. Re-translate everything the co-worker has done and see if there are any disparities. Case closed one way or another.

[browardchad]

Later, Edmonds said, the woman approached her with a list dividing up individuals whose phone lines were being secretly tapped: Under the plan, the woman would translate conversations of her former co-workers in the target organization, and Edmonds would handle other phone calls. Edmonds said she refused and that the woman told her that her lack of cooperation could put her family in danger.

Looks like the Coleen Rowley memo is just the tip of the iceberg -- and the "woman" still works for the FBI, while Edmonds has been fired. No wonder Mueller said the next attack is "inevitable."

[doc30]

It is beginning to sound like the FBI is with the terrorists and not with the country they are sworn to serve. And it just reinforces the idea that people of muslim/arab origin are not to be trusted under and circumstances. Once the desperate cry for Arabic translators went out and they were hired, the FBI became theirs.

[Eroteme]

Tip of the iceberg is right.

This unnamed co-worker plotting to mistranslate and withhold info is married to a U.S. military officer. And it is he who tries to entice Edmonds and then threatens her when she refuses.

And Edmonds reports all of this to Dale Watson, head of the counterterrorism division. And Edmonds is fired for being "disruptive."

If the plan is to aid and abet terrorist operations in the U.S., and someone disrupts it by blowing the whistle, the accurate term for that person would be "disruptive."

[gaspar]

The danger is not in the translation, but in the translator informing the person or institution being investigated that the FBI is on the trail. The question to ask is, "Where was the supervision?" Betcha that the supervisor was transferred to Atlanta.

[ChadGore]

Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.)

Leaky Leahy asking about leaks ?

Pot, kettle, black.

[Fred Mertz]

This unnamed co-worker plotting to mistranslate and withhold info is married to a U.S. military officer.

I found this aspect of the story most disturbing too.

[timestax]

It is beginning to sound like the FBI is with the terrorists and not with the country they are sworn to serve. And it just reinforces the idea that people of muslim/arab origin are not to be trusted under and circumstances. Once the desperate cry for Arabic translators went out and they were hired, the FBI became theirs. 7 posted on 6/19/02 5:50 AM Pacific by doc30

DITTO !!

[Liz]

Leaky Leahy asking about leaks ? Pot, kettle, black.

His nickname? The "Tin Man."

[Liz]

Here is a tip for the FBI. Re-translate everything the co-worker has done and see if there are any disparities.

Thanks. The FBI needs all the help they can get.

[aristeides]

I wonder how many of the obstructive FBI managers owe their positions to the Clinton administration. I wonder how many agents the FBI now has learning Arabic and other Middle Eastern languages at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey.

[Djarum]

BTTT

[Liz]

I wonder how many of the obstructive FBI managers owe their positions to the Clinton administration.

Big problem for Bush..........Clinton holdovers.....

[gd124]

A Washington Post reporter discovered Edmonds's name in her whistle-blowing letters to federal and congressional officials and approached her for an interview.

Edmonds said that on several occasions, the translator tried to recruit her to join the targeted foreign group. "This person told us she worked for our target organization," Edmonds said in an interview. "These are the people we are targeting, monitoring."

Edmonds would not identify the other translator, but The Post has learned from other sources that she is a 33-year-old U.S. citizen whose native country is home to the target group. Both Edmonds and the other translator are U.S. citizens who trace their ethnicity to the same Middle Eastern country. Reached by telephone last week, the woman, who works under contract for the FBI's Washington field office, declined to comment

Edmonds isn't an Arabic name, so I think it is fair to say that the only country in the Middle East without Arabic names is Israel, therefore I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say she was trying to be recruited by Mossad.

[aristeides]

Edmonds isn't an Arabic name, so I think it is fair to say that the only country in the Middle East without Arabic names is Israel, therefore I don't think it is too much of a stretch to say she was trying to be recruited by Mossad.

Could be a married name. Since "Sibel" is a name used in Turkey, I suspect that's where she's from. And that would mean the organization that tried to recruit her is the prohibited Refah Partisi, or one of its affiliates in Europe, like Milli Görüs.