Evidence that Bush isn't even trying to stop Al-Qaida

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/192756_fbi28.html

FBI drops ball on terror-related tapes
Untranslated recordings piling up, others have been erased, report says

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
THE NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON -- Three years after the Sept. 11 attacks, more than 120,000 hours of potentially valuable terrorism-related recordings have not yet been translated by linguists at the FBI, and computer problems may have led the bureau to systematically erase some al-Qaida recordings, according to a declassified summary of a Justice Department investigation that was released yesterday.

The report, released in edited form by Glenn Fine, the Justice Department's inspector general, found that the FBI still did not have the capacity to translate all the terrorism-related material from wiretaps and other intelligence sources and that the influx of new material had outpaced the bureau's resources.

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So.... they have 120,000 hours of tape from over the last 3 years, and haven't even translated it. Just the listening to the tapes could take 60-full-time-employee-years. But that's nothing. We should be able to hire 6000 translators and get through all of these tapes in a year at most. It's been 3 years. What is going on?

Is the President so distracted by Saddam that he just isn't paying attention to the war on Al Qaida?

[sui generis]

1. well you know they fired all the gay translators

because we were security risks. Also can fire anyone anywhere with a "top secret" security clearance specifically for being gay.

That's our rocket scientist president for you! Now that we're not working for the U.S. government . . .

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

2. You were a fired gay translator?

Are you one of the people fired for being gay?

[sui generis]

4. not a translator

but have been declined govt security clearance (and job offer requiring it)'because you aren't married, don't have a girlfriend, and live with another man'.

I guess that was shrub's backhanded way of creating jobs?

[Heath.Hunnicutt]

5. Yes, when my friend who rooms with a man got his Background Investigation

They interviewed many of his friends. Now, this guy was unmarried, didn't have a girlfriend, and lived with another man.

As it happens, both of these guys were straight.

So, I'm sitting there before the convesation with the investigator, trying to imagine how I can steer the conversation away from my friend's actual weaknesses. Well, what do you know -- the only thing they asked me about was his sexual preference.

I finally had to tell them stories about him in college, and what the ladies had to say about him. They never asked me anything else; and this was in 1992.

What a country!

[demnan]

6. Actually

that was the Army intelligence translators who were fired, not the FBI.

[sui generis]

7. yes but they were civilian employees just the same

and the reasons are identical. Gays are "a security risk", according to all branches of our government that require any form of security clearance. Nevermind that of the politicians caught with their pants down as a result of a foreign information gathering operation, 100% of them were men blackmailed for fucking a (female) prostitute.

It's all bullshit of course - the perception that gays are somehow physically or mentally "weaker" or less stable or more open to acts immorality and treason than anyone else. It's just a ploy to give some right wing closet case a hate-gasm.

[Poiuyt]

3. They fired Sibel Edwards because she criticized the FBI

[Cocoa]

8. ask Jim Lehrer to ask Bush about this

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[BlueEyedSon]

9. Didn't SIbel Edmunds' boss have her ERASE her work at the end of each

workday?

[el_gato]

10. al CIAda