[Hostage]

Neither do I. And I would bet that even if true the impact is small.

From what I know the DOD maintains the world's top language school in Monterey California, the Defense Language Institute. I understand they have the capability to immerse an individual in a language for six months and have them speaking without accent.

If that's the case, backup translations should easily be vlaidated via recordings.

[PJ-Comix]

I understand they have the capability to immerse an individual in a language for six months and have them speaking without accent.

BULL! You can't take an adult, immerse him in a language, and then have him speaking it without an accent in six months. In fact he/she will always have some accent.

[Publius6961]

If that's the case, backup translations should easily be vlaidated via recordings.

Are you mad? Do you have an inkling of the volume of data involved? What will they do? ignore the current hundreds of thousands bits of data to go back and verify perhaps millions of misinterpreted prior messages?

The first step towards solving a problem is having a firm grasp of its magnitude.

[DeathfromBelow]

My daughter was a Persian Linguist (Air Force), her best friend was an Arabic Linguist (both left service because of Clinton's military cutbacks resulting in back to back overseas deployments), when 911 happened and the FBI was advertising for linguists, both their applications were completely ignored (they were never even contacted). Maybe because they didn't fit the "mideast" minority descriptions. BTW, they both served over 6 years at NSA and in Saudi doing intercepts. Go figure.

[Endeavor]

Sorry, but I can't hang my hat on the DOD language institute. Don't you remember in the days immediately following September 11th, the scrolls at the bottom of the cable news channels that had a message from the FBI requesting people who spoke Farsi and other middle eastern languages to please call the FBI? That's when I realized we were in seriously deep trouble -- where apparently, we remain.

[Embedded Freeper]

From what I know the DOD maintains the world's top language school in Monterey California, the Defense Language Institute. I understand they have the capability to immerse an individual in a language for six months and have them speaking without accent.
That is very true.
I had some contact with people going through the training there some years ago.
It is time to root out the un-American activities we are allowing by using unscrupulous translators.