Democrats Question Blank Pages in 9/11 Report
Note: Bob Graham helped write the report.
Reuters.
Lost in Translation: Why the FBI didn't translate foreign documents
From CBS News
Excerpt: ... Sibel Edmonds, a translator who worked at the FBI's language division, says the documents weren't translated because the divison was riddled with incompetence and corruption. Edmonds was fired last year after reporting her concerns to FBI officials...
Edmonds says that to her amazement, from the day she started the job, she was told repeatedly by one of her supervisors that there was no urgency - that she should take longer to translate documents so that the department would appear overworked and understaffed. That way, it would receive a larger budget for the next year...
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Britain 'knew uranium claims were false'
From the Guardian (UK)
Excerpt: British officials knew there had been no secret trade in uranium from Africa to Iraq seven months before such claims were raised in the September dossier released by Downing Street, the retired US ambassador who investigated the supposed sales for the CIA said yesterday.
In his first public appearance, Joseph Wilson provided a detailed account of the investigations which debunked intelligence reports about sales of uranium from Niger to Iraq. He said it was almost certain British and US leaders knew they were recirculating false reports...