Classified Report Supports Fbi Whistleblower ; Translator Fired After Reporting Sloppy Work, Security Lapses

The Washington Times › July 30, 2004

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A classified Justice Department report says a former FBI translator who complained that bureau linguists produced sloppy and incomplete translations of critical post-September 11 terrorism intelligence was dismissed, in part, because of her accusations, which were never aggressively investigated by the agency.

FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, said that while the department's Office of the Inspector General did not conclude that the FBI had retaliated against the translator, Sibel Edmonds, it found that her accusations against the bureau "were at least a contributing factor" in her termination.

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Classified Report Supports Fbi Whistleblower ; Translator Fired After Reporting Sloppy Work, Security Lapses

Mr. Mueller told Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, Utah Republican and committee chairman, Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican and committee member, and Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, Vermont Democrat an...

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