Salon: "We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June/July of

[kskiska]

"We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001"

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 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."

Edmonds' charge comes when the Bush White House is trying to fend off former counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke's testimony that it did not take serious measures to combat the threat of Islamic terrorism, and al-Qaida specifically, in the months leading up to 9/11.

Edmonds, who is Turkish-American, is a 10-year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph examination conducted by FBI investigators. She speaks fluent Farsi, Arabic and Turkish and worked part-time for the FBI, making $32 an hour for six months, beginning Sept. 20, 2001. She was assigned to the FBI's investigation into Sept. 11 attacks and other counterterrorism and counterintelligence cases, where she translated reams of documents seized by agents who, for the previous year, had been rounding up suspected terrorists.

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http://salon.com/news/feature/2004/03/26/translator/index.html

[newscaster]

1. We didnt have a color chart back then

But we could have given Smirk a box of crayons!

[kskiska]

2. And the Chimp was headed to the "ranch" about then

for his annual vacation. Couldn't interrupt that.

[undergroundpanther]

3. Soon after 9/11

there were photos on the web of scenes taken from govt.publications before 9/11 that people had scanned in,showing meetings using model planes and buildings to simulate attack scenarios.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/911/managing-wmd.htm

Scroll down for images...
http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/09/149985_comment.php


IMPEACH this monster NOW!

[undergroundpanther]

4. NOther suspcious one

http://news.notonthebox.com/anmviewer.asp?a=498&z=1

[quispquake]

5. Moved by Moderator

Not an editorial...great piece of news though!!!

[StlMo]

6. It is an "Other Article"

Why did you move it?

[StlMo]

8. Is the forum not "Editorials and Other Articles" anymore?

?

[StlMo]

7. Very Damning Article

I was going to post the link too!