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Objection overruled
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Washington, USA (New York Times): Lawyers for the US government have told a federal appeals court that a suit by an FBI translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of ineptitude should not be allowed to proceed because it would cause "significant damage to the national security and foreign policy of the United States."
The translator, Sibel Edmonds, was a contract linguist for the bureau for about six months, translating material in Azerbaijani, Farsi and Turkish. Ms. Edmonds was dismissed in 2002 after complaining repeatedly that bureau linguists had produced slipshod and incomplete translations of important terrorism intelligence before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks
For more information, please visit:
www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/politics/26whistle.html
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