Experts challenge the 9/11 report: dozens of whistleblowers from federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies--FBI, CIA, Customs and more--are uniting to expose and oppose the 9/11 Commission report.(On The Home Front)

For more than two years, Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator of Turkish and Turkic languages, has been warning the country of major security problems that remain unaddressed at the FBI headquarters in Washington. Mrs. Edmonds has been responsible for making public a number of alarming revelations of FBI malfeasance and cover-up in matters concerning our most sensitive areas of national security and counter terrorism.

Edmonds broke the story of the case of Melek Can Dickerson, the Turkish translator who was hired by the FBI after 9/11 despite her and her husband's records of associations with individuals and organizations that were targets of FBI investigations. Melek Can Dickerson was given a top-secret clearance and given access to numerous documents concerning terrorism investigations. Dickerson blocked investigations into suspect organizations she was involved with and, with her supervisor's approval, took hundreds of pages of top-secret documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients.

In 2002, Melek Can Dickerson and several FBI targets of investigation fled the United States. No criminal investigation has been opened into the Dickerson case, and Dickerson's supervisor, who facilitated her criminal conduct, has been promoted to supervising Arabic language units of the FBI's counterterrorism and counterintelligence investigations.

Sibel Edmonds testified before the 9/11 Commission, but the Commission's report does not include her explosive information, and only mentions her name in a single footnote. In an August 2, 2004 open letter to the 9/11 Commission, Mrs. Edmonds recounted the Dickerson case, as well as several other important incidents illustrating the depth and breadth of the crisis at the FBI. Her letter stated:

 
   Your report omits these significant 
   incidents, and your recommendations 
   do not address this serious security 
   breach and likely espionage issue. 
   This issue needs to be investigated 
   and prosecuted. The translation of 
   our intelligence is being entrusted 
   to individuals with loyalties to our 
   enemies. Important "chit-chats" and 
   "chatters" are being intentionally 
   blocked from translation. Why does 
   your report exclude this information 
   and these serious issues despite the 
   evidence and briefings you received? 
   How can budget increases address 
   and resolve this ...