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It's not that we couldn't use a good translator
Washington Monthly, March, 2005 by Charles Peters
You may recall Sibel Edmonds, the female linguist who complained on "60 Minutes" about the inept translations, bad management, and possible espionage in the FBI translation section. You may have greeted Ms. Edmonds' charges with some skepticism. After all, there's always the possibility that a whistleblower is a nut or has some ax to grind against the agency involved. The FBI was more than skeptical. It fired Edmonds.
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Was the FBI justified, or was this another example of the Bureau's distaste for dissent? We now have the answer in the form of a report from the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. It finds that many of her allegations, according to Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times, "were supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough, and that her allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision to terminate her services."
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