Why Reward Failure?

KenH · Dec 22, 2005

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poncho · Dec 22, 2005

In July, Inspector General Glenn Fine reported that the FBI had failed to translate more than 8,000 hours of audio wiretap recording related to counterterrorism investigations. If there is evidence of an impending attack in those recordings, no one can act on it. But it gets worse. When one FBI translator, Sibol Edmonds, stepped forward to report incompetence and possible corruption in the bureau’s translation division, she was discharged. Edmonds told 60 Minutes that her supervisor encouraged her to take lots of breaks so that piles of work would remain undone. In that way, this bureaucrat explained, the FBI could persuade the Congress to allocate more funds to their division. Edmonds tried to take this outrageous directive up the chain of command, but was told to pack up and get out.
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LadyEagle · Dec 22, 2005

Jews Need Not Apply to Fight Terror
By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com | November 26, 2003

A few weeks after Islamic terrorists toppled the World Trade Center, two FBI agents from the New York field office paid a visit to a Sephardic Jewish community center in Brooklyn. Their mission: recruit Arabic linguists to help interpret interviews and intercepts of Osama bin Laden's network.

Sephardic Jews have lived in Arab countries and know the language, not to mention the culture and history of the region. And being close to Israel, the main target of Islamic terrorism, they were gung-ho to help the feds fight the war on terrorism here.

It was a good move, or so most involved thought at the time -- and long overdue.

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So in October 2001, while rescue workers were still pulling remains from Ground Zero, two agents from the FBI's offices located nearby reached out to local Arabic-speaking Jews to do just that. Agents Carol Motyka and Marsha Parrish met with an official at the Sephardic Bikur Holim, a Jewish social-services agency in Brooklyn.

At the meeting, Yola Haber, who heads the agency's employment division, says she agreed to help recruit Arabic-speaking Jews for the bureau. Most of them applied on-line for the translator jobs. All told, she says she referred some 90 applicants, possibly more, to the FBI. They included retired linguists who had experience working for Israeli radio in Arabic and for the Israeli army.

Remarkably, not one of them was hired.

"We sent them a lot of people, and nobody made it to the finish line," complained Sephardic Bikur Holim director Doug Balin. "Not one person was found eligible for these jobs, which is outrageous."

Instead, the FBI hired dozens of Arab-American Muslims as translators.

The double standard doesn't sit well with Jewish leaders, who note that Muslim translators hired by the Pentagon to assist in al-Qaida interrogations are under investigation for espionage. And there have been reports of loyalty issues involving Muslim translators at the FBI.
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http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=10974

poncho · Dec 23, 2005

Dual loyalties? Is that anything like a man serving two masters?

Daisy · Dec 24, 2005

I had read about Edmonds before. If her shocking allegations are true, the FBI has a lot to answer for (espionage, treason).

poncho · Dec 24, 2005

http://www.justacitizen.com/

StraightAndNarrow · Dec 24, 2005

There are probably a hundred other people like Edmunds who have been gagged by this administration. If all their information came to light Bush would not be long for the Presidency. Of course that means jumping from the frying pan into the fire with Darth Vader Cheney officially running the show rather than unofficially running it as he is today.

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