Posted on 06/19/2002 2:45:01 PM PDT by rdavis84
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
"After the attacks, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III issued a plea for translators, and hundreds of people applied."
Margaret Gulotta, chief of language services at the FBI, said the bureau has hired 400 translators in two years, significantly reducing the backlog on high-priority cases while upholding strict background checks. "We have not compromised our standards in terms of language proficiency and security," Gulotta said.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I really don't see this as a whistleblower case, she is actually just doing CYA for herself.
In the second whistle-blower case, John M. Cole, 41, program manager for FBI foreign intelligence investigations covering India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, said counterintelligence and counterterrorism training has declined drastically in recent years as part of a continuing pattern of poor management.
Note: In recent years...read: Clinton and Freeh.
Cole also said he had observed what he believed was a security lapse regarding the screening and hiring of translators. "I thought we had all these new security procedures in place, in light of [FBI spy Robert P.] Hanssen," Cole said. "No one is going by the rules and regulations and whatever policy may be implemented."
Then Mueller should start firing some people for insubordination
Edmonds was fired in March after she reported her concerns. Government officials said the FBI fired her because her "disruptiveness" hurt her on-the-job "performance." Edmonds said she believes she was fired in retaliation for reporting on her co-worker. Edmonds had been found to have breached security, FBI officials told Senate investigators. Edmonds said that two of those alleged breaches were related to specific instruction by a supervisor to prepare a report on the other translator on her home computer.
Hmmmm...guess I should have gone to the link before I posted and found out exactly what she said. No time now, gotta head home. I'd say on this one though, fire the supervisor...NO ONE should be taking files home!
..and only one comment. What a discusting place FR has become.
Things can't change because it might be "uncomfortable" to be critical of long time icons. So therefore they feel it's more comfortable to hide from the truth.
Most supposed "intellectual" particpants on FR prove time after time that they've never had an original thought of their own in their life.
And then there's "A Day in the Life of ...." threads........................
His articles are not open to discussion here ;-)
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