Sibel Edmonds on govexec.com re: Rice testimony

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http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/040804c1.htm

Rice's testimony varies from that of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who testified before the commission, as well as the Senate Judiciary and Senate Select Intelligence committees.

Edmonds was hired to retranslate material that was collected prior to Sept. 11 and worked for the FBI from Sept. 20, 2001 to March 2002. In her review, Edmonds said documents clearly showed that the hijackers were in the country and plotting to use airplanes as missiles.

"If they want to back up what they're saying, they should just make these documents public and let the documents speak for themselves," Edmonds said Thursday. "There are many documents out there that would prove what they knew, when they knew and how they knew."

Previous commission hearings also highlighted failures of agencies such as the CIA and FBI to collect and share information with each other and with other federal agencies, such as the Federal Aviation Administration and the State Department. Officials have testified that if specific information on al Qaeda operatives was disseminated, the State Department could have put them on watch lists and denied them visas, which would have prevented them from entering the country, and the FAA could have prevented them from flying on planes.

[bryant69]

1. There's some speculation

That the Republicans want to release the documents; but want us to go out on a limb and claim that they are smoking guns first. Plus by resisting and then giving in they can sort of edit around the documents that paint them in a negative light ("Well in a show of good faith we are going to release this poem Ms. Rice wrote, praising President Bush.") Sort of political jiu jitsu. I don't know what to think of that, myself.

Bryant
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[xchrom]

2. this is like trying to bring

down the berlin wall -- we here at du and other places KNOW condi is lying and have evidence that refutes what she said but the rest of america is in the dark.
either because they willingly have participated in the presidents incompetent ways or because the evidence will not be made on major media.