Last night Sibel Edmonds accepted the $20,000 PEN Newman First Ammendment Award that I'd noted earlier in this post that she'd been honored with:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=791037She deserves this every bit, and she notes that hopefully it will help whistleblowers be known as "freedom fighters" as opposed to "disgruntled employees"... Touche! Sibel, I'll always think of you as our freedom fighter!
From:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--penawards0419apr19,0,4994802.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyorkAP New York
Novelist honored by group for defending freedom of expression
By ELIZABETH LeSURE
Associated Press Writer
April 19, 2006, 4:40 AM EDT
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Also honored Tuesday was Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who was fired from her job in March 2002.
Edmonds has said the FBI terminated her contract after she complained about the quality of translations of terrorism-related wiretaps and reported that another translator was leaking information to targets of investigations.
The Justice Department's inspector general found that the FBI did not take her complaints seriously enough and fired her for lodging complaints about the translation unit. A lawsuit she filed against the FBI was dismissed after the government said it would not release materials supporting her case for security reasons.
Edmonds won the $20,000 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. She said before the dinner that she thought her receipt of the award would help others see whistle-blowers as "freedom fighters" rather than "disgruntled employees."
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