The 9/11 Commission ignores evidence about the FBI ignoring evidence about 9/11

Remember the FBI translator who got fired after becoming a whistleblower, uncovering the FBI's incompetence? Well, Sibel Edmonds is back, and she pointed out further, widespread incompetence in the FBI's translation division to the 9/11 Commission, but none of her testimony entered their report. Here's some of what the commission missed.

"While FBI agents from various field offices were desperately seeking leads and suspects, and completely depending on FBI HQ and its language units to provide them with needed translated information, hundreds of translators were being told by their administrative supervisors not to translate and to let the work pile up," Edmonds wrote in her letter. "I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue and the names of other witnesses willing to corroborate this. ...

Specific charges made by Edmonds included the case of a Turkish translator, whom she named, and who "for months ... blocked all-important information related to ... semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with ... [The translator] and several FBI targets of investigation hastily left the United States in 2002, and the case still remains uninvestigated criminally. Not only does the supervisor facilitating these criminal conducts remain in a supervisory position, he has been promoted to supervising Arabic-language units of the FBI's counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence investigations."

Hm. One would figure that this would be important information to document. One wonders if the government will ever acknowledge these problems, nevermind fixing them.