{"id":1858,"date":"2005-02-24T22:55:26","date_gmt":"2005-02-25T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-24T22:55:26","modified_gmt":"2005-02-25T05:55:26","slug":"fbi-abandons-secrecy-claims-against-edmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/24\/fbi-abandons-secrecy-claims-against-edmonds\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI abandons secrecy claims against Edmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacewar.com\/news\/2005\/upinews-022405-1029-51.html\">Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the translation unit of the Bureau&#8217;s Washington Field Office.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The story goes on to say;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edmonds reported that many of those hired to work in the unit could barely speak English; that they left secure laptop computers lying around while they went to lunch; that they took classified material home with them; and &#8211; even more disturbing &#8211; that one co-worker had undeclared contacts with a foreign organization that was under FBI surveillance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Edmonds was fired from the FBI, but;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Edmonds is suing the FBI, claiming she was fired for bringing to light these problems &#8211; which have been identified by several inquiries as significant contributing factors to the success of the Sept. 11 plot.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibel Edmonds is about to make life very unpleasant for the FBI; The Department of Justice has abandoned its claim that allegations made by a fired FBI translator are secret, paving the way for a court case that will air embarrassing allegations about incompetence, poor security and possible espionage in the translation unit of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1858"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}