Salon (ad-based registration required) has an article Salon.com News | “We should have had orange or red-type of alert in June or July of 2001″ about an FBI translator who claims that the FBI did have warning about 9/11. She claims that she has been hushed by Ashcroft for speaking out. She is scheduled to testify more before Congress.
She is also the translator who claimed that the head of the translation department was telling his workers to slow down the pace of work in order to frustrate efforts of the FBI to obtain relevant information regarding terrorist plans.
I’m not so much concerned that we had prior 9/11 warnings. We might well have had warnings regarding the plans, but the amount of information available could have precluded action. In other words, with a sea of data in which to work, the data regarding 9/11 only stands out after the fact.
The FBI simply cannot follow up on every lead that they come across.
More interesting is Ashcroft’s response attempting to squelch her testimony. I’m more interested in this than any witch hunt attempting to place blame on 9/11.
Here’s a thought….
The ones to blame for 9/11 is al-Qaida. Let’s keep that in mind.