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March 14, 2004
Blasts from the Past
Recently seen at milkandcookies:
The Electric Company MP3 Archive
Takes me back. Man.
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March 16, 2004
Laffs from the Military
Seen recently via memepool:
Avalanche Company: The 213 Things Skippy is No Longer Allowed to Do in the U.S. Army
Posted by Turfdigger at 2:43 PM
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March 17, 2004
Accomplish More by Doing Less
Interesting book find via the always interesting Cool Tools:
Slack -- in praise of inefficiency
Posted by Turfdigger at 3:53 PM
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March 26, 2004
Hitting the Mainstream
It's one thing when you see cover-up stories on conspiracy theory sites; quite another when these stories start to hit the mainstream. Recently seen via the always superlative BoingBoing:
FBI translator says she was bribed not to spill beans on 9-11 cover-up During the 9-11 Hearing, the spotlight was on Richard Clarke's testimony, because they've been so devastating to the Bush administration. But there's hardly any media mention of Sibel Edmonds' tesimony. She's a Farsi and Turkish translator who worked for the FBI from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002. Here's what Govenment Executive magazine had to say about her testimony.Edmonds said she was hired to retranslate material that was collected prior to Sept. 11 to determine if anything was missed in the translations that related to the plot. In her review, Edmonds said the documents clearly showed that the Sept. 11 hijackers were in the country and plotting to use airplanes as missiles. The documents also included information relating to their financial activities. Edmonds said she could not comment in detail because she has been under a Justice Department gag order since October 2002.And here's what tomflocco.com reported:
FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, was offered a substantial raise and a full time job in order to not go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the FBI and CIA.
read the full post and linkage here.
Posted by Turfdigger at 3:02 AM
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Edmonds Thread Continues
"We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"
A former FBI translator told the 9/11 commission that the bureau had detailed information well before Sept. 11, 2001, that terrorists were likely to attack the U.S. with airplanes.
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Full Story By Eric Boehlert via salon.com
March 26, 2004 | A former FBI wiretap translator with top-secret security clearance, who has been called "very credible" by Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has told Salon she recently testified to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States that the FBI had detailed information prior to Sept. 11, 2001, that a terrorist attack involving airplanes was being plotted.Referring to the Homeland Security Department's color-coded warnings instituted in the wake of 9/11, the former translator, Sibel Edmonds, told Salon, "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001. There was that much information available." Edmonds is offended by the Bush White House claim that it lacked foreknowledge of the kind of attacks made by al-Qaida on 9/11. "Especially after reading National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice [Washington Post Op-Ed on March 22] where she said, we had no specific information whatsoever of domestic threat or that they might use airplanes. That's an outrageous lie. And documents can prove it's a lie."
Posted by Turfdigger at 7:36 PM
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