FBI Whistleblower Describes Government Muscle Tactics

Frome Wired Blogs:

A whistleblower who lost her job and was gagged by the Bush administration after revealing careerism, corruption and widespread incompetence at the FBI detailed her difficult search for justice to an audience on Monday at the American Library Association’s annual conference. Sibel Edmonds, hired by the FBI as a translator shortly after 9/11, was fired in 2002 after reporting a range of problems at the bureau, including:

• slothful, unqualified employees
• family members of diplomats suspected of spying who translated the wiretaps of their relatives
• ignored or overlooked intelligence warning of Al-Qaeda’s plans to hijack planes and attack major cities
• evidence of a Turkish bribery ring that, according to some accounts, was connected to then-Speaker of the House Denny Hastert (R-Illinois)

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