september 2004

THE FBI AGENTS WHO TRIED TO PREVENT 9-11
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WHISTLEBLOWERS. WHISTLEBLOWERS. WHISTLEBLOWERS.

THE FBI AGENTS WHO TRIED TO PREVENT 9-11

The FBI's field agents are "the good guys". It's the careerists at the top who have corrupted the agency. In the critical weeks and months leading up to that fateful day, numerous clues were picked up by loyal FBI field agents. Some of these agents were so alarmed at what they thought was an unfolding terror plot, that they tried to convince their superiors to investigate deeper. These agents were either ignored, threatened, or fired.

Each of these FBI agents thought that they were on the trail of an Arab terror plot and unless they've read this paper, they probably still believe so. We can forgive them their ignorance if they haven't realized yet that the trail they were on was not that of Arab terrorists. The essential point is that these agents were on to something big that someone didn't want them to digging into.

There is FBI Special Agent Robert Wright. The public interest law firm Judicial Watch is representing agent Wright. Wright claims that he was met with retaliation and threats from his bosses and from the Justice Department who told him they wanted his probes to go no further. 124 Wright maintains that if his investigation had been allowed to continue, the attacks could have been prevented.

There is FBI agent Coleen Rowley. Rowley wrote a 13 page letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller in which she actually accuses the director of her own agency of "a subtle skewing of the facts". 125 Rowley's letter also charged that the agency refused to react to evidence of a pending terror plot. According to Rowley the FBI's obstruction was so blatant that her and some of her fellow agents jokingly speculated that key FBI personnel must have been moles working for Osama Bin laden! 126 Rowley’s main point of contention was the agency’s failure to go after Zacharias Moussoui, the "20th hijacker", even after his flight school instructor reported his suspicious behavior to the FBI. Moussoui you will recall was the French Algerian who couldn’t speak French to his flight school instructor.

There is FBI agent Sibel Edmonds. Edmunds was an FBI wiretap translator. She claims that another FBI translator was working for the Mossad and that the Mossad also tried to recruit Edmonds to make phony translations for the purpose of misdirecting investigations. When agent Edmonds refused, the Mossad threatened her safety! 127 When she brought these allegations to the attention of her superiors, she was fired for being "disruptive". The Washington Post briefly reported this story without mentioning the name of nation that tried to recruit Edmonds. But The Post did reveal that Edmonds and the other translator "trace their ethnicity" to this certain "Middle Eastern" country. 128 Agent Sibel Edmunds is not an Arab. Edmonds is jewish. Therefore we know that the "Middle Eastern" nation which the Post chose not to name is Israel. Sibel Edmonds deserves a lot of credit for defying the Mossad and blowing the whistle to her superiors. Instead, she was fired for her patriotic efforts, proving once again that Zionists are willing to hurt innocent jews.

There is FBI agent John M. Cole, program manager for FBI intelligence investigations covering India, Pakistan, and Afgahinstan. In the same Washington Post story about Edmunds, it was reported that Cole also wrote a letter to FBI chief Mueller warning him about lax security procedures in the hiring of translators. 129

Dedicated agents such as Wright, Rowley, Cole, Edmonds, and others who have spoken anonymously, had to be stopped from going after "Muslim terrorists". If not so obstructed, they would in time come to discover that they weren’t really Al Qaeda terrorists!! Not only were investigations blocked before 9-11, but they continue to be blocked after 9-11. The cover up is so blatant that members of both the House and Senate Intelligence committees complains directly to CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General John Ashcroft. The Los Angeles Times reported:

"Lawmakers leading the investigation of intelligence failures surrounding the 9-11 attacks are increasingly concerned that the CIA and Justice department are actively impeding their efforts....The flare up centers on obstacles congressional investigators say the agencies have strewn in their path." 130

That's exactly what FBI agents Wright, Rowley, Edmunds, and Cole said happened to them when they tried to investigate before the attacks! By the way, the FBI is under the jurisdiction of yet another Zionist named Michael Chertoff? Chertoff is the Director of the Criminal Division of the US Justice Department. FBI chief Robert Mueller has to answer to Chertoff. Perhaps that explains Mueller’s highly pathetic, and highly revealing, speech before the Anti Defamation League’s(ADL) 24th Annual National Leadership Conference held in May of 2002:

"I have long admired and respected the work of ADL, and I appreciate your longstanding support of the FBI. I know that under my predecessor, Louis Freeh, this partnership reached new heights. . . . I am absolutely committed to building on that relationship. We in the FBI tremendously value your perspectives and your partnership. Your insights and research into extremism are particularly helpful to us, shedding light on the changing nature of the terrorist threats facing America. Your support of hate crime and terrorist investigations, which are now front and center in the work of the FBI, is essential to us. And the training and education you provide for the FBI and for law enforcement have never been more relevant. That includes the conference on extremist and terrorist threats you are sponsoring later this month at the FBI Academy." 131

Just shoot me now! The FBI is in "partnership" with the Zionist ADL and relies upon this criminal smear group for "insights and research", and "education and training!" Didn’t anyone ever tell FBI chief Mueller that when the FBI raided the California offices of the ADL in 1993, they found that the ADL had computerized files on nearly 10,000 people across the country, and that more than 75 percent of the information had been illegally obtained from police, FBI files and state drivers license data banks? 132 Isn’t Mueller aware that the San Francisco Superior Court awarded $150,000 in court judgments against the Anti-Defamation League in connection with this FBI bust? 133

What other group in America could get away with not only stealing FBI files (a Federal offense!!!), but then becoming "partners" with the FBI? So why would FBI Director Mueller disregard the fact that the ADL is a criminal group that was caught spying on US citizens by his own FBI? Why does Mueller ignore the "insights" of his own agents while thanking the criminal ADL for it’s "advice"?
fromT.R.Ascher


Letter to investigators
from SiBel D Edmonds.

Dear Chairman Kean:

    It has been almost three years since the terrorist attacks on September 11; during which time we, the people, have been placed under a constant threat of terror and asked to exercise vigilance in our daily lives. Your commission, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, was created by law to investigate "facts and circumstances related to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001" and to "provide recommendations to safeguard against future acts of terrorism", and has now issued its "9/11 Commission Report". You are now asking us to pledge our support for this report, its recommendations, and implementation of these recommendations, with our trust and backing, our tax money, our security, and our lives. Unfortunately, I find your report seriously flawed in its failure to address serious intelligence issues that I am aware of, which have been confirmed, and which as a witness to the commission, I made you aware of. Thus, I must assume that other serious issues that I am not aware of were in the same manner omitted from your report. These omissions cast doubt on the validity of your report and therefore on its conclusions and recommendations. Considering what is at stake, our national security, we are entitled to demand answers to unanswered questions, and to ask for clarification of issues that were ignored and/or omitted from the report. I, Sibel Edmonds, a concerned American Citizen, a former FBI translator, a whistleblower, a witness for a United States Congressional investigation, a witness and a plaintiff for the Department of Justice Inspector General investigation, and a witness for your own 9/11 Commission investigation, request your answers to, and your public acknowledgement of, the following questions and issues:

    After the terrorist attacks of September 11 we, the translators at the FBI's largest and most important translation unit, were told to slow down, even stop, translation of critical information related to terrorist activities so that the FBI could present the United States Congress with a record of 'extensive backlog of untranslated documents', and justify its request for budget and staff increases. While FBI agents from various field offices were desperately seeking leads and suspects, and completely depending on FBI HQ and its language units to provide them with needed translated information, hundreds of translators were being told by their administrative supervisors not to translate and to let the work pile up (please refer to the CBS-60 Minutes transcript dated October 2002, and provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). This issue has been confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Please refer to Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy's letters during the summer of 2002, provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). This confirmed report has been reported to be substantiated by the Department of Justice Inspector General Report (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004).

    Today, almost three years after 9/11, and more than two years since this information has been confirmed and made available to our government, the administrators in charge of language departments of the FBI remain in their positions and in charge of the information front lines of the FBI's Counter terrorism and Counterintelligence efforts. Your report has omitted any reference to this most serious issue, has foregone any accountability what so ever, and your recommendations have refrained from addressing this issue, which when left un-addressed will have even more serious consequences. This issue is systemic and departmental. Why did your report choose to exclude this information and this serious issue despite the evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address and resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem?

    Melek Can Dickerson, a Turkish Translator, was hired by the FBI after September 11, and was placed in charge of translating the most sensitive information related to terrorists and criminals under the Bureau's investigation. Melek Can Dickerson was granted Top Secret Clearance, which can be granted only after conducting a thorough background investigation. Melek Can Dickerson used to work for a semi-legit organizations that were the FBI's targets of investigation. Melek Can Dickerson had on going relationships with two individuals who were FBI's targets of investigation. For months Melek Can Dickerson blocked all-important information related to these semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with. She stamped hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to these targets as ' Not Pertinent.' Melek Can Dickerson attempted to prevent others from translating these documents important to the FBI's investigations and our fight against terrorism. Melek Can Dickerson, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, Mike Feghali, took hundreds of pages of top-secret sensitive intelligence documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients. Melek Can Dickerson, with the assistance of her direct supervisor, forged signatures on top-secret documents related to certain 9/11 detainees. After all these incidents were confirmed and reported to FBI management, Melek Can Dickerson was allowed to remain in her position, to continue the translation of sensitive intelligence received by the FBI, and to maintain her Top Secret clearance. Apparently bureaucratic mid-level FBI management and administrators decided that it would not look good for the Bureau if this security breach and espionage case was investigated and made public, especially after going through Robert Hanssen's case (FBI spy scandal). This case (Melek Can Dickerson) was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Please refer to Senator Leahy and Grassley's letters dated June 19 and August 13, 2002, and Senator Grassley's statement on CBS-60 Minutes in October 2002, provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). This Dickerson incident received major coverage by the press (Please refer to media background provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). According to Director Mueller, the Inspector General criticized the FBI for failing to adequately pursue this espionage report regarding Melek Can Dickerson ( Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this, and additional documents. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004).

    Today, more than two years since the Dickerson incident was reported to the FBI, and more than two years since this information was confirmed by the United States Congress and reported by the press, these administrators in charge of FBI personnel security and language departments in the FBI remain in their positions and in charge of translation quality and translation departments' security. Melek Can Dickerson and several FBI targets of investigation hastily left the United States in 2002, and the case still remains uninvestigated criminally. Not only does the supervisor facilitating these criminal conducts remain in a supervisory position, he has been promoted to supervising Arabic language units of the FBI's Counterterrorism and Counterintelligence investigations. Your report has omitted these significant incidents, has foregone any accountability what so ever, and your recommendations have refrained from addressing this serious information security breach and highly likely espionage issue. This issue needs to be investigated and criminally prosecuted. The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies. Important 'chit-chats' and 'chatters' are being intentionally blocked. Why did your report choose to exclude this information and these serious issues despite the evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address and resolve this misconduct by mid-level bureaucratic management? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem?

    Over three years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama Bin Laden. This asset/informant was previously a high-level intelligence officer in Iran in charge of intelligence from Afghanistan. Through his contacts in Afghanistan he received information that: 1) Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting 4-5 major cities, 2) the attack was going to involve airplanes, 3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States, 4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months. The agents who received this information reported it to their superior, Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism, Thomas Frields, at the FBI Washington Field Office, by filing "302" forms, and the translator translated and documented this information. No action was taken by the Special Agent in Charge, and after 9/11 the agents and the translators were told to 'keep quiet' regarding this issue. The translator who was present during the session with the FBI informant, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, reported this incident to Director Mueller in writing, and later to the Department of Justice Inspector General. The press reported this incident, and in fact the report in the Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2004 stated that FBI officials had confirmed that this information was received in April 2001, and further, the Chicago Tribune quoted an aide to Director Mueller that he (Mueller) was surprised that the Commission never raised this particular issue with him during the hearing (Please refer to Chicago Tribune article, dated July 21, 2004). Mr. Sarshar reported this issue to your investigators on February 12, 2004, and provided them with specific dates, location, witness names, and the contact information for that particular Iranian asset and the two special agents who received the information (Please refer to the tape-recorded testimony provided to your investigators during a 2.5 hours testimony by Mr. Sarshar on February 12, 2004). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses, and documents I had seen. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004). Mr. Sarshar also provided the Department of Justice Inspector General with specific information regarding this issue ( Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report).

    After almost three years since September 11, many officials still refuse to admit to having specific information regarding the terrorists' plans to attack the United States. The Phoenix Memo, received months prior to the 9/11 attacks, specifically warned FBI HQ of pilot training and their possible link to terrorist activities against the United States. Four months prior to the terrorist attacks the Iranian asset provided the FBI with specific information regarding the 'use of airplanes', 'major US cities as targets', and 'Osama Bin Laden issuing the order.' Coleen Rowley likewise reported that specific information had been provided to FBI HQ. All this information went to the same place: FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the FBI Washington Field Office, in Washington DC. Yet, your report claims that not having a central place where all intelligence could be gathered as one of the main factors in our intelligence failure. Why did your report choose to exclude the information regarding the Iranian asset and Behrooz Sarshar from its timeline of missed opportunities? Why was this significant incident not mentioned; despite the public confirmation by the FBI, witnesses provided to your investigators, and briefings you received directly? Why did you surprise even Director Mueller by refraining from asking him questions regarding this significant incident and lapse during your hearing (Please remember that you ran out of questions during your hearings with Director Mueller and AG John Ashcroft, so please do not cite a 'time limit' excuse)? How can budget increases address and resolve these problems and failure to follow up by mid-level bureaucratic management at FBI Headquarters? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, " Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem?

    Over two years ago, and after two 'unclassified' sessions with FBI officials, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent letters to Director Mueller, Attorney General Ashcroft, and Inspector General Glenn Fine regarding the existence of unqualified translators in charge of translating high level sensitive intelligence. The FBI confirmed at least one case: Kevin Taskesen, a Turkish translator, had been given a job as an FBI translator, despite the fact that he had failed all FBI language proficiency tests. In fact, Kevin could not understand or speak even elementary level English. He had failed English proficiency tests and did not even score sufficiently in the target language. Still, Kevin Taskesen was hired, not due to lack of other qualified translator candidates, but because his wife worked in FBI Headquarters as a language proficiency exam administrator. Almost everybody in FBI Headquarters and the FBI Washington Field Office knew about Kevin. Yet, Kevin was given the task of translating the most sensitive terrorist related information, and he was sent to Guantánamo Bay to translate the interrogation of and information for all Turkic language detainees (Turkish, Uzbeks, Turkmen, etc.). The FBI was supposed to be trying to obtain information regarding possible future attack plans from these detainees, and yet, the FBI knowingly sent unqualified translators to gather and translate this information. Further, these detainees were either released or detained or prosecuted based on information received and translated by unqualified translators knowingly sent there by the FBI. Senator Grassley and Senator Leahy publicly confirmed Kevin Taskesen's case ( Please refer to Senate letters and documents provided to your investigators in January-February 2004). CBS-60 Minutes showed Kevin's picture and stated his name as one of the unqualified translators sent to Guantánamo Bay, and as a case confirmed by the FBI ( Please refer to CBS-60 Minutes transcript provided to your investigators). Department of Justice Inspector General had a detailed account of these problems ( Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. ( Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004).

    After more than two years since Kevin Taskesen's case was publicly confirmed, and after almost two years since CBS-60 Minutes broadcasted Taskesen's case, Kevin Taskesen remains in his position, as a sole Turkish and Turkic language translator for the FBI Washington Field Office. After admitting that Kevin Taskesen was not qualified to perform the task of translating sensitive intelligence and investigation of terrorist activities, the FBI still keeps him in charge of translating highly sensitive documents and leads. Those individuals in the FBI's hiring department and those who facilitated the hiring of unqualified translators due to nepotism/cronyism are still in those departments and remain in their positions. Yet, your report does not mention this case, or these chronic problems within the FBI translation departments, and within the FBI's hiring and screening departments. The issue of accountability for those responsible for these practices that endangers our national security is not brought up even once in your report. This issue, as with others, is systemic and departmental. Why did your report choose to exclude this information and these serious issues despite the evidence and briefings you received? How can budget increases address and resolve the intentional continuation of ineptitude and incompetence by mid-level bureaucratic management? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem?

    In October 2001, approximately one month after the September 11 attack, an agent from a (city name omitted) field office, re-sent a certain document to the FBI Washington Field Office, so that it could be re-translated. This Special Agent, in light of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, rightfully believed that, considering his target of investigation (the suspect under surveillance), and the issues involved, the original translation might have missed certain information that could prove to be valuable in the investigation of terrorist activities. After this document was received by the FBI Washington Field Office and retranslated verbatim, the field agent's hunch appeared to be correct. The new translation revealed certain information regarding blueprints, pictures, and building material for skyscrapers being sent overseas. It also revealed certain illegal activities in obtaining visas from certain embassies in the Middle East, through network contacts and bribery. However, after the re-translation was completed and the new significant information was revealed, the unit supervisor in charge of certain Middle Eastern languages, Mike Feghali, decided NOT to send the re-translated information to the Special Agent who had requested it. Instead, this supervisor decided to send this agent a note stating that the translation was reviewed and that the original translation was accurate. This supervisor stated that sending the accurate translation would hurt the original translator and would cause problems for the FBI language department. The FBI agent requesting the retranslation never received the accurate translation of that document. I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the name and date of this particular investigation, and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004). This information was also provided to the Department of Justice Inspector General (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report).

    Only one month after the catastrophic events of September 11; while many agents were working around the clock to obtain leads and information, and to investigate those responsible for the attacks, those with possible connections to the attack, and those who might be planning possible future attacks; the bureaucratic administrators in the FBI's largest and most important translation unit were covering up their past failures, blocking important leads and information, and jeopardizing on going terrorist investigations. The supervisor involved in this incident, Mike Feghali, was in charge of certain important Middle Eastern languages within the FBI Washington Field Office, and had a record of previous misconducts. After this supervisor's several severe misconducts were reported to the FBI's higher-level management, after his conducts were reported to the Inspector General's Office, to the United States Congress, and to the 9/11 Commission, he was promoted to include the FBI's Arabic language unit under his supervision. Today this supervisor, Mike Feghali, remains in the FBI Washington Field Office and is in charge of a language unit receiving those chitchats that our color-coded threat system is based upon. Yet your report contains zero information regarding these systemic problems that led us to our failure in preventing the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In your report, there are no references to individuals responsible for hindering past and current investigations, or those who are willing to compromise our security and our lives for their career advancement and security. This issue, as with others, is systemic and departmental. Why does your report choose to exclude this information and these serious issues despite all the evidence and briefings you received? Why does your report adamantly refrain from assigning any accountability to any individuals responsible for our past and current failures? How can budget increases address and resolve these intentional acts committed by self-serving career civil servants? How can the addition of a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, address and resolve this problem?

    The latest buzz topic regarding intelligence is the problem of sharing information/intelligence within intelligence agencies and between intelligence agencies. To this date the public has not been told of intentional blocking of intelligence, and has not been told that certain information, despite its direct links, impacts and ties to terrorist related activities, is not given to or shared with Counterterrorism units, their investigations, and countering terrorism related activities. This was the case prior to 9/11, and remains in effect after 9/11. If Counterintelligence receives information that contains money laundering, illegal arms sale, and illegal drug activities, directly linked to terrorist activities; and if that information involves certain nations, certain semi-legit organizations, and ties to certain lucrative or political relations in this country, then, that information is not shared with Counterterrorism, regardless of the possible severe consequences. In certain cases, frustrated FBI agents cited 'direct pressure by the State Department,' and in other cases 'sensitive diplomatic relations' is cited. The Department of Justice Inspector General received detailed and specific information and evidence regarding this issue ( Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this, and the names of certain U.S. officials involved in these transactions and activities. ( Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004).

    After almost three years the American people still do not know that thousands of lives can be jeopardized under the unspoken policy of 'protecting certain foreign business relations.' The victims family members still do not realize that information and answers they have sought relentlessly for over two years has been blocked due to the unspoken decisions made and disguised under 'safeguarding certain diplomatic relations.' Your report did not even attempt to address these unspoken practices, although, unlike me, you were not placed under any gag. Your hearings did not include questions regarding these unspoken and unwritten policies and practices. Despite your full awareness and understanding of certain criminal conduct that connects to certain terrorist related activities, committed by certain U.S. officials and high-level government employees, you have not proposed criminal investigations into this conduct, although under the laws of this country you are required to do so. How can budget increases address and resolve these problems, when some of them are caused by unspoken practices and unwritten policies? How can a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, override these unwritten policies and unspoken practices incompatible with our national security?

    I know for a fact that problems regarding intelligence translation cannot be brushed off as minor problems among many significant problems. Translation units are the frontline in gathering, translating, and disseminating intelligence. A warning in advance of the next terrorist attack may, and probably will, come in the form of a message or document in foreign language that will have to be translated. That message may be given to the translation unit headed and supervised by someone like Mike Feghali, who slows down, even stops, translations for the purpose of receiving budget increases for his department, who has participated in certain criminal activities and security breaches, and who has been engaged in covering up failures and criminal conducts within the department, so it may never be translated in time if ever. That message may go to Kevin Taskesen, or another unqualified translator; so it may never be translated correctly and be acted upon. That message may go to a sympathizer within the language department; so it may never be translated fully, if at all. That message may come to the attention of an agent of a foreign organization who works as a translator in the FBI translation department, who may choose to block it; so it may never get translated. If then an attack occurs, which could have been prevented by acting on information in that message, who will tell family members of the new terrorist attack victims that nothing more could have been done? There will be no excuse that we did not know, because we do know.

    I am writing this letter in light of my direct experience within the FBI's translation unit during the most crucial times after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, in light of my first hand knowledge of certain problems and cases within the Bureau's language units, and in light of what has already been established as facts. As you are fully aware, the facts, incidents, and problems cited in this letter are by NO means based upon personal opinion or un-verified allegations. As you are fully aware, these issues and incidents were found confirmed by a Senior Republican Senator, Charles Grassley, and a Senior Democrat Senator, Patrick Leahy. As you know, according to officials with direct knowledge of the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on my allegations, 'none of my allegations were disproved.' As you are fully aware, even FBI officials 'confirmed all my allegations and denied none' during their unclassified meetings with the Senate Judiciary staff over two years ago. However, neither your commission's hearings, nor your commission's five hundred sixty seven-page report, nor your recommendations include these serious issues, major incidents, and systemic problems. Your report's coverage of FBI translation problems consists of a brief microscopic footnote (Footnote #25). Yet, your commission is geared to start aggressively pressuring our government to hastily implement your measures and recommendations based upon your incomplete and deficient report.

    In order to cure a problem, one must have an accurate diagnosis. In order to correctly diagnose a problem, one must consider and take into account all visible symptoms. Your Commission's investigations, hearings, and report have chosen not to consider many visible symptoms. I am emphasizing 'visible', because these symptoms have been long recognized by experts from the intelligence community and have been written about in the press. I am emphasizing 'visible' because the few specific symptoms I provided you with in this letter have been confirmed and publicly acknowledged. During its many hearings your commission chose not to ask the questions necessary to unveil the true symptoms of our failed intelligence system. Your Commission intentionally bypassed these severe symptoms, and chose not to include them in its five hundred and sixty seven-page report. Now, without a complete list of our failures pre 9/11, without a comprehensive examination of true symptoms that exist in our intelligence system, without assigning any accountability what so ever, and therefore, without a sound and reliable diagnosis, your commission is attempting to divert attention from the real problems, and to prescribe a cure through hasty and costly measures. It is like attempting to put a gold-lined expensive porcelain cap over a deeply decayed tooth with a rotten root, without first treating the root, and without first cleaning/shaving the infected tooth.

    Respectfully,

    Sibel D. Edmonds

    CC: Senate Judiciary Committee
    CC: Senate Intelligence Committee
    CC: House Government Reform Committee
    CC: Family Steering Committee
    CC: Press

Social Security Death Index, Flight 11
*American Airlines #11*
*Boeing 767*
*7:45 am departed Boston for Los Angeles*
*8:45 am crashed into North Tower of the World Trade Center*

Satam Al Suqami
Waleed M. Alshehri *ALIVE
Wail Alshehri *ALIVE
Mohamed Atta
Abdulaziz Alomari *ALIVE

*FLIGHT 11
**
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/victims/AA11.victims.html *

(Nothing found = no record of death listed)

*CREW
John Ogonowski,* 52, *Nothing found*
*First Officer Thomas McGuinness*, 42 *Nothing found*
*Barbara Arestegui*, 38 *Nothing found*
*Jeffrey Collman *Nothing found*
**Sara Low*, 28, 27 Oct 1972 -- 11 Sep 2001 
*Karen Martin*  6 people with that name died in 2001. None in September.
*Kathleen Nicosia* *Nothing found*
*Betty Ong*, 45  ELIZABETH ONG 11 Feb 1909 -- 05 May 2001
*Jean Roger*, 24  JOAN P ROGER 23 Aug 1940 -- 20 Apr 2001
*Dianne Snyder*, 42 DIANNE B SNYDER 06 Jul 1945 -- 25 Oct 2001
*Madeline Sweeney, *35  MADELINE A SWEENEY17 Dec 1916 -- 09 Dec 2001
(MARY F SWEENEY 01 Jan 1929-11 Sep 2001)
*
PASSENGERS*  (78)
*Anna Williams Allison*, 48 *Nothing found*
*David Angell*, 54 23 Mar 1960 -- 25 May 2001
*Lynn Angell*, 45 *Nothing found*
*Seima Aoyama* *Nothing found*
*Myra Aronson*, 52 *Nothing found*
*Christine Barbuto*, 32 *Nothing found*
Berry Berenson*, 53 (BIRDIE BERENSON 15 Mar 1904 -- 22 Aug 2001)
*Carolyn Beug*, 48 *Nothing found*
*Carol Bouchard*, 43, (CAROLE J BOUCHARD 11 Jun 1940 -- 10 Jun 2001)
*Robin Caplin * *Nothing Found*
*Neilie Casey*, 32, *Nothing found*
*Jeffrey Coombs*, 42 18 Sep 1958 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Tara Creamer*, 30 30 Nov 1970 -- 11 Sep ??
*Thelma Cuccinello*, 71 THELMA R CUCCINELLO 01 Feb 1930 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Patrick Currivan*  *Nothing Found*
*Andrew Curry Green* *Nothing Found*
*Brian Dale*, 43  BRIAN P DALE 23 Oct 1957 -- 11 Sep 2001
*David DiMeglio* (DAVID M DIMEGLIO 08 Feb 1967 -- 01 Mar 2002)
*Donald Ditullio*, 49 (DONALD D DITULLIO 03 Jun 1949-22 Jul 1996  DONALD
DITULLIO 17 Mar 1909-09 Feb 2001 )
*Albert Dominguez*, 66 (ALBERT J DOMINGUEZ 12 Jul 1929-01 Jan 2001)
*Alex Filipov*, 70 ALEXANDER M FILIPOV 11 Apr 1931 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Carol Flyzik*, 40 CAROL A FLYZIK 13 Mar 1961 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Paul Friedman*, 45 PAUL J FRIEDMAN 13 Aug 1956 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Karleton D.B. Fyfe*, 31 KARLETON D FYFE 10 Feb 1970 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Peter Gay*, 54 *Nothing Found*
*Linda George*, 27 LINDA M GEORGE 11 Jun 1974 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Edmund Glazer*, 41 *Nothing Found*
*Lisa Fenn Gordenstein*, 41 *Nothing Found*
*Paige Farley Hackel,* 46 *Nothing Found*
*Peter Hashem*, 40, PETER P HASHEM 20 Mar 1961 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Robert Hayes*, 37 ROBERT E HAYES 09 Sep 1930 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Ted Hennessy*, 35 EDWARD R HENNESSY 01 Mar 1966 -- 11 Sep 2001
*John Hofer (*JOHN HOFER 10 Sep 1939 -- 24 Jul 2001)
*Cora Holland*, 52 *Nothing Found*
*Nicholas Humber*, 60 (NICHOLAS HUMBER 09 May 1882 -- Oct 1968)
*John Jenkins (*JOHN H JENKINS 16 Oct 1945 -- 04 Sep 2001)
*Charles Jones*, 48 (CHARLES L JONES 14 Jan 1960 -- 18 Sep 2001)
*Robin Kaplan*, 33, *Nothing Found*
*Barbara Keating*, 72 BARBARA A KEATING 23 Dec 1928 -- 11 Sep 2001
(PAUL H KEATING 04 Sep 1963 -- 11 Sep 2001)
*David Kovalcin*, 42 *Nothing found*
*Judy Larocque*, 50, *Nothing Found*
*Jude Larson*, 31 *Nothing Found*
*Natalie Larson (*NATALIE E LARSON 06 Jan 1950 -- 09 Sep 2000)
*N. Janis Lasden*, 46 *Nothing Found*
*Daniel John Lee*, 34 *Nothing found*
*Daniel C. Lewin*, 31 *Nothing Found*
*Susan MacKay*, 44  SUSAN K MACKAY 06 Jun 1937 -- 12 Sep 2001)
*Chris Mello*, 25 *Nothing Found*
*Jeff Mladenik*, 43 *Nothing Found*
*Antonio Montoya* *Nothing Found*
*Carlos Montoya *CARLOS M MONTOYA 01 Mar 1965 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Laura Lee Morabito*, 34 LAURA L MORABITO 04 Oct 1966 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Mildred Naiman *MILDRED NAIMAN 24 Mar 1920 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Laurie Neira *LAURIE NEIRA 08 Dec 1952 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Renee Newell*, 37 *Nothing Found*
*Jacqueline Norton*, 60 (JACQUELINE M NORTON 26 Mar 1923 -- 02 Jan 1996)
*Robert Norton*, 82 ROBERT G NORTON 11 May 1916 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Jane Orth,* 49 *Nothing Found*
*Thomas Pecorelli*, 31 THOMAS PECORELLI 08 Oct 1970 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Sonia Morales Puopolo*, 58 *Nothing Found*
*David Retik*  *Nothing Found*
*Philip Rosenzweig*  *Nothing Found*
*Richard Ross*, 58 RICHARD ROSS 29 Apr 1943 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Jessica Sachs*, 22 *Nothing Found*
*Rahma Salie*, 28 *Nothing Found*
*Heather Smith*, 30 (HEATHER L SMITH 09 Aug 1971 -- 06 Jun 2001 )
*Douglas Stone*, 54  *Nothing Found*
*Xavier Suarez * *Nothing found*
*Michael Theodoridis*, 32 *Nothing found*
*James Trentini*, 65 JAMES A TRENTINI 24 May 1936 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Mary Trentini*, 67 MARY B TRENTINI 11 Feb 1934 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Mary Wahlstrom*, 75, MARY A WAHLSTROM 19 Apr 1923 -- 11 Sep 2001
*Kenneth Waldie*, 46 KENNETH E WALDIE 13 May 1955 -- 11 Sep 2001
*John Wenckus*, 46 (JOHN WENCKUS 11 Sep 1888 -- Mar 1964)
*Candace Lee Williams*, 20 (CANDACE L WILLIAMS 10 Jan 1986 -- 23 Sep
2000)
*Christopher Zarba*, 47 *Nothing Found*

*not found* = 36

*died*  Sept. 11, 2001 = 24
 
*died other times?* = 18
 

MEASURING UP MICHAEL MORE

Rahm Emmanuel, former Clinton adviser, current congressman from Illinois, staunch supporter of Israel, and suspected by many of being "Mega", the Mossad mole in the Clinton White House, has a brother, Ari Emmanuel, who just happens to be Michael Moore's agent.

"Fahrenheit 9/11" is a powerful antiwar statement and needs to be supported for that reason. This coming election, we need to vote out the warhawks, both Republican and Democrat.

I would like to ask Michael Moore a few questions

Question : Is Michael Moore aware that the video tape of Osama "confessing" to 9-11 has been proven a fake?

Question : Is Michael Moore aware that just ten days after 9-11, the FBI stated (and CNN reported) that the 9-11 perpetrators were using skillfully made fake IDs with identities stolen from Arab men?

Question Is Michael Moore aware that FBI Director Robert Mueller has admitted in public that there is actually no evidence that proves the named 9-11 hijackers were actually on the aircraft?


Michael Moore rightly condemns the US Government for the USAPATRIOT act's draconian assault opon our rights. However, one of those rights is that nobody shall be declared guilty of a crime without proof beyond a reasonable doubt. As Michael Moore professes a deep respect for American values, he should not glibly declare that someone is guilty of a crime without being able to make his case beyond that reasonable doubt.

http://www.rense.com/general56/mich.htm 7/31/2004
nkhaaliq@yahoo.com

"State of the 9/11 Truth Movement"

I have been asked to write a "State of the 9/11 Truth Movement" piece because I've put out a website criticizing huge chunks of it.  The website is www.Angieon911.com and I hope you'll check it out, and if you like what you see there, link to it on your own sites or pass it on to others.  I've created the website because I've noticed that the most prominent arms of the 911 Truth movement, those most visible, those getting coverage on C-SPAN for example,
are both promoting, in a myriad of ways, the government's limited hangout about 9/11, that the attacks were due to intelligence failures or gross incompetence, as well as urging clearly useless 911 activist strategies, like their
frequent 'email the powers that be',
 
I'm speaking now of the 911 Citizens Watch, 911Truth.org, and 911-Visibility/September Eleventh.org sister organizations as well as of the 911 Truth Alliance list-serve.  I and others have respectfully criticized their various strategies and 9/11 lines and logically laid out how their actions are harmful to the 9/11 Truth Movement, but to deaf ears. Not only have they not listened to or adjusted their messages when it is pointed out to them how their actions are serving the opposite ends of their stated intentions, they shut out and try to hide any criticism or valid debates on movement strategies.  I and other critics have been banned from posting to their forums where their followers congregate for just such reasons, and that's why I put up the website, so that hopefully those in
the movement won't be persuaded to their completely contrary movement messages and strategies by the slickness & professional organization of their websites.   These self-proclaimed movement leaders, and that is what they call themselves, must be exposed.  The 9/11 Truth Movement has been hijacked, hijacked by those who are seeking to become THE portal of 911 truth, while singing the government's tunes.  They deserve neither our respect nor our support. Help me get the word out.

Thanks.  
Angie
911 Truth Movement Musings (Watching the Watchers)
www.Angieon911.com

FREE VOICE OF AMERICA REPLY:

Thanks for emailing this. I was re- installed on 911truth and sf911truth, but it took time and effort, and i resent that i was 'trashed' the way i was.

Meanwhile, Mark Rabinowitz is also trashing Dave vonKliest and Joyce Riley, as they have produce a credible disc by the name of '911 in Plane site', and frankly although i was misinformed that 767s have 'pods' on the bottom and D&J were a little on the limb, what I know about commercial passenger jets is that as they are not only huge, but they have to be aerodynamically sleek with nothing other than the wings to act in any way as something that would stick out of or off of the plane, with the tail to stabablize.

As it turns out,when I shared with them and their listeners that the engine on that aircraft, which I heard, failed the passenger jet noise test, I was confirmed by Jim Marrs who either they or Alex Jones or Jack Blood hosted.

 In addition , a Fox news reporter said the aircraft had no windows and it was smaller than a 767, nor was it a commercial jet from AA, UA, or Continental. I noticed on the photos, it was too small against the building and that the wings failed the test for the sort of jet the government alleges. So Mark Rabinowitz, who seems to want to either protect turf or erode credible research as well as living witnesses, himself accusing people of 'cointelpro' seems to wittingly or unwittingly doing it himself.

Meanwhile, Dave had Kyle Hence of 911Citizenswatch on the program last week. Very  few living witnesses are involved with any of these lists and the "911truth movement" . Many want their lives back before 9/11/01 or are attempting to get their lives back, are too afraid, tired, harassed by perps, eroded, manipulated from coming forward and being involved.

And when we are involved, we are attacked, trashed, cut off from the lists, perped, talked about behind our backs, labeled 'too intense' and meanwhile we are eroded, and professionally sidetracked, hindered.

The lists have some credible research and researchers, who themselves have some ability to understand when they hear the truth. They understand just because the information didn't get confirmed to their satisfaction in a FEMA report - that is less than credible, that you don't then automatically reject it out of hand. I went to Mike Ruppert with this early on, and met him when he was in New York last 9/03.  the CIA dont give him a long leash. He got his 15minutes in the sun that he earned on calling them out on their drug running ; but he and a number of the others are late, later than me, since 9/11/01, when while listening to the live accounts broadcast from downtown that morning, I knew when they were talking about trashing 7WTC, that there were explosives in the building and had to have been there if not that morning, then for a while before. 6WTC was blown up, which  I heard, the towers came down, the videos of which I saw and noted the professional demolition in the way the towers symmetrically deteriorated downward into their foundations. I figured there to be mercury in the air, which the EPA withheld from the public. The withholding of that means
they lied about the mercury, so understand the push back on the part of the
secret state and its infrastructure that we see in the form of the EPA, FEMA ...and we take material from them as credible. Wake up!!! 

Some of us have gone to Eliot Spitzer about why the steel was sent to scrap
and evidence destroyed, and that an arms length investigation has yet to be
conducted. We have confronted the commissioner of the FDNY as to why the fire marshals have yet to do their job on the building failure and there needed
be effective push back about this against interference.... such as against
Spitzer's chief investigator who was FBI for 20 years.... nothing arms
length there.

Living witnesses needed to be deposed. And what is even more interesting,
that people like Danny Schecter, who I told in the beginning around 10/01
or 11/01 about what I heard that morning, that the FBI had confirmed there
were explosives in the WTC and in the NBC building...however it was very easy for him to be side tracked ; he either is perped and doesnt realize it. But
who knows how neocon he may be and so targeted for perping


Forwarded with Compliments of Free Voice of America (FVOA):  Accurate News and Interesting Commentary for Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free.   NOTE:  Many thanks to Angela D'Urso for this help in understanding recent lamentable developments within the 9/11 Truth Movement; her concept of "Watching the Watchers" is much needed now .