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To: FairOpinion
Why hasn't this sacked person been on any of the mainstream media outlets with her story?

You'd think that the leftist press would jump on this one just to make the Bush Administration look bad.

Are the media types worried about being criticized by those terrorist-supporting, race-card-sporting CAIR and AMI groups? This is really shocking and scary if true...
6 posted on 02/16/2004 6:47:15 PM PST by demnomo
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To: demnomo
I don't think this makes the Bush Administration look bad in the liberal media's eyes--they fully sympathize with the terrorist supporters who did all these things and they probably think the FBI did the right thing!

Of course this is completely ridiculous, but sadly believable.
10 posted on 02/16/2004 6:50:22 PM PST by GatorGirl
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To: demnomo
It's been here.
11 posted on 02/16/2004 6:52:41 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: demnomo
And notice the Senate is not investigating this one. Apparently the whistle blower sent a report to the Senate Judiciary Committee:

"Edmonds, a Turkish-American who is not a practicing Muslim, made the allegations last month in a 9-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee."

The FBI not only didn't discipline, but PROMOTED the offender, who should be called a saboteur -- he actually deleted people's work to slow them down. From the Sperry article (see link in my post 1):

"Despite the backlog, Feghali told Edmonds and other translators to just let the work pile higher, according to Edmonds. Why? Money. She says Feghali, who has recruited family and friends to work with him at the high-paying language unit, argued that Congress would approve an even bigger budget for it if they could continue to show big backlogs.

"We were told to take long breaks, to slow down translations, and to simply say 'no' to those field agents calling us to beg for speedy translations so that they could go on with their investigations and interrogations of those they had detained," said Edmonds, who was fired without specified cause by the FBI after she reported breaches in security, mistranslations and potential espionage by Middle Eastern colleagues.

She claims Feghali actually tampered with her work to slow her down.

"My supervisor went as far as getting into my work computer and deleting almost completed work so that I had to go back and start all over again," she said.

Edmonds, a Turkish-American who is not a practicing Muslim, made the allegations last month in a 9-page letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

She also claims that Feghali threatened to sue the bureau for racial discrimination, but dropped the suit once the bureau promoted him, says Edmonds and other sources. The FBI, which like the army suffers from a severe shortage of Arabic translators, instated a bureau-wide Muslim-sensitivity training program after 9-11."

16 posted on 02/16/2004 6:54:25 PM PST by FairOpinion (If you are not voting for Bush, you are voting for the terrorists.)
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To: demnomo
Why hasn't this sacked person been on any of the mainstream media outlets with her story?

She has already been on 60 Minutes. Is that not mainstream enough?

18 posted on 02/16/2004 6:55:04 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: demnomo
Why hasn't this sacked person been on any of the mainstream media outlets with her story?

It was in the Washington Post. Is that not mainstream enough?

43 posted on 02/16/2004 7:16:31 PM PST by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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