WASHINGTON – CBS News — July 29, 2004
A newly disclosed letter confirmed charges by a former FBI interpreter that she was fired at least in part because she blew the whistle on incompetent workers at the bureau.
When the FBI fired interpreter Sibel Edmonds more than two years ago after only a few months on the job, it had no idea the can of worms it was opening up. And today it got yet another taste.
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The following text was sent in an WORD attachment to an email from FAA spokesperson Laura Brown following former head of the FAA Jane Garvey’s inability or unwillingness to answer simple questions about the timeline of events on the morning of September 11th 2001.
It was sent to members of the press whose business cards she had collected following Garvey’s embarrassing ignorance, as head of a key agency, regarding what happened that morning. NOTE from the editor: The 9/11 Commission staff had helped NORAD with their presentation at the May ‘03 hearings and reportedly getting their timeline straight (according to NORAD officials themselves) but by all appearance left Garvey blowing in the wind. It’s important to note that both agencies were VERY slow in responding to subsequent document requests by the Commission and ultimately had to be subpeoned.
Subject: FAA statement
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 19:25:12 -0400
From: laura.j.brown@faa.gov
To: kylehence@earthlink.net
(See attached file: FAA communications with NORAD.doc)
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[ACTUAL TEXT from 5/22/03 Official FAA Statement follows:]
FAA communications with NORAD
On September 11, 2001
Within minutes after the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center, the FAA immediately established several phone bridges that included FAA field facilities, the FAA Command Center, FAA headquarters, DOD, the Secret Service, and other government agencies.
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***The 9/11 Commission Report is available via a searchable interface which will cluster matching paragraphs into folders.
Source: www.vivisimo.com/911
By ERIC LICHTBLAU – The New York Times — July 29, 2004
WASHINGTON, July 28 – A classified Justice Department investigation has concluded that a former F.B.I. translator at the center of a growing controversy was dismissed in part because she accused the bureau of ineptitude, and it found that the F.B.I. did not aggressively investigate her claims of espionage against a co-worker.
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By Rupert Cornwell in Washington — 17 July 2004
UK – Independent
“The most important bank in the most important city in the world” was the boast of Riggs Bank, pillar of an old-line Washington establishment and banker of choice to the dozens of foreign embassies at the court of the global superpower.
Yesterday, 168 years of independence came to an undignified end as Riggs was sold off to a financial group based in Pittsburgh. The sale capped the worst two months in the bank’s long history, marked by a record fine for money laundering offences, accusations that it hid money for the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, and a growing scandal at its embassy banking division, featuring Saudi Arabia and Equatorial Guinea.
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Within a year, he and Yousef, a fugitive, went to the Philippines to work on a plot that would serve as the inspiration for the Sept. 11 attacks. “Project Bojinka” called for the bombing of a dozen U.S. jetliners over the Pacific over two days. Mohammed and his nephew began assembling chemicals, timers and other materials while also finding time to consider an assassination attempt on President Bill Clinton.
Yousef was captured in 1995. His uncle, on the lam from U.S. authorities, would settle in Afghanistan and turn his attention to even bigger plans.
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Mohammed is also suspected of killing kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in January 2002.
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By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer — Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Page A01
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Dear Editor,
Dan Eggan’s article “9/11 Report Says Plotter Saw Self as Superterrorist” forgets to mention probably the most disturbing part about KSM. He was indicted by the Southern District of New York in 1996 regarding his role in earlier plots against the United States, yet on July 23, 2001, he was granted a US visa to enter this country.
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EXCLUSIVE — By Pete Williams and Robert Windrem
NBC News — Updated: 4:01 p.m. ET July 24, 2004
WASHINGTON – Information about a criminal investigation of possible intelligence leaks by Sen. Richard Shelby was referred to the Senate Ethics Committee on Thursday, senior law enforcement and intelligence officials have told NBC News.
The information is related to a leak of intercepted al-Qaida communications just prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
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There is evidence of foreign intelligence backing for the 9/11 hijackers. Why is the US government so keen to cover it up?
Michael Meacher — The Guardian (UK) — Thursday July 22, 2004
Omar Sheikh, a British-born Islamist militant, is waiting to be hanged in Pakistan for a murder he almost certainly didn’t commit – of the Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. Both the US government and Pearl’s wife have since acknowledged that Sheikh was not responsible. Yet the Pakistani government is refusing to try other suspects newly implicated in Pearl’s kidnap and murder for fear the evidence they produce in court might acquit Sheikh and reveal too much.
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Ray McGovern — July 27, 2004
The 567-page final report released Thursday by the 9/11 Commission provides a wealth of data—indeed, so much detail that it is all too easy to miss the forest for the trees. Comments by the ubiquitous commissioners last weekend yield the clear impression that they would just as soon limit our horizon to the trees.
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