Reply #7: Here's another article from Smirkingchimp.com

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Actually from the Village Voice. Interesting tidbits here are:

Sibel Edmonds was called by her supervisors "a whore" and the one who fired her said that he would see her again "in jail".

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/print.php?sid=20819

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James Ridgeway: 'The silencing of Sibel Edmonds'
Date: Friday, April 22 @ 09:53:20 EDT
Topic: War & Terrorism

Court won't let public hear what FBI whistleblower has to say

By James Ridgeway, Village Voice

WASHINGTON, D.C.--The unsettling story of whistleblower Sibel Edmonds took another twist on Thursday, as the government continued its seemingly endless machinations to shut her up. The U.S. Court of Appeals here denied pleas to open the former FBI translator's First Amendment case to the public, a day after taking the extraordinary step of ordering a secret hearing.

Edmonds was hired after 9-11 to help the woefully staffed FBI's translation department with documents and wiretaps in such languages as Farsi and Turkish. She soon cried foul, saying the agency's was far from acceptable and perhaps even dangerous to national security. She was fired in 2002.

Ever since, the government has been trying to silence her, even classifying an interview she did with 60 Minutes.

Oral arguments in her suit against the federal government were scheduled for this morning, but yesterday the clerk of the appeals court unexpectedly and suddenly announced the hearing would be closed. Only attorneys and Edmonds were allowed in.

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