Sibel Edmonds: The retroactive cover-up

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/politics/20classify.html

Just when you thought it couldn't get any more sleazy, foul, and OBVIOUS of a cover-up:


What the F.B.I. is up to here is ludicrous," Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said in an interview. "To classify something that's already been out in the public domain, what do you accomplish? It does harm to transparency in government, and it looks like an attempt to cover up the F.B.I.'s problems in translating intelligence."

F.B.I. officials gave Senate staff members two briefings in June and July of 2002 concerning Ms. Edmonds, who said the F.B.I.'s system for translating intelligence was so flawed that the bureau missed chances to spot terrorist warnings.

But the F.B.I. now maintains that some of the information discussed was so potentially damaging if released publicly that it is now considered classified, according to a memorandum distributed last week within the Senate Judiciary Committee. The material could also play a part in pending lawsuits, including Ms. Edmonds's wrongful termination suit and a lawsuit brought by hundreds of families of Sept. 11 victims who have sought to take testimony from her.

[slaveplanet]

1. same old game

The Secrets of September 11
 Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
 Newsweek

 Wednesday 30 April 2003

 The White House is battling to keep a report on the terror attacks secret. Does the 2004 election have anything to do with it?

 Even as White House political aides plot a 2004 campaign plan designed to capitalize on the emotions and issues raised by the September 11 terror attacks, administration officials are waging a behind-the-scenes battle to restrict public disclosure of key events relating to the attacks.

 At the center of the dispute is a more-than-800-page secret report prepared by a joint congressional inquiry detailing the intelligence and law-enforcement failures that preceded the attacks-including provocative, if unheeded warnings, given President Bush and his top advisers during the summer of 2001.

 The report was completed last December; only a bare-bones list of ?findings? with virtually no details was made public. But nearly six months later, a ?working group? of Bush administration intelligence officials assigned to review the document has taken a hard line against further public disclosure. By refusing to declassify many of its most significant conclusions, the administration has essentially thwarted congressional plans to release the report by the end of this month, congressional and administration sources tell NEWSWEEK. In some cases, these sources say, the administration has even sought to ?RECLASSIFY? some material that was already discussed in public testimony-a move one Senate staffer described as ?ludicrous.? The administration?s stand has infuriated the two members of Congress who oversaw the report-Democratic Sen. Bob Graham and Republican Rep. Porter Goss. The two are now preparing a letter of complaint to Vice President Dick Cheney.

 Graham is ?increasingly frustrated? by the administration?s ?unwillingness to release what he regards as important information the public should have about 9-11,?


I wonder if the unnamed senate staffer here is Grassley's staffer???

Ludicrous?

[Disturbed]

2. Anon

Graham prolly has this report. He should send it to all of the News Orgs,print, radio and TV.

[corriger]

3. I used to know some of these sort incomptenent people in your govern

and you had better worry my friend. Cheers,