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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/07/05/translator_in_eye_of_storm_on_retroactive_classification/?rss_id=Boston%20Globe%20--%20Front%20Page

The Boston Globe reports that an FBI translator named Sibel Edmonds, hired after 9/11, found mistranslated memos pertinent to the 9/11 attacks and perhaps even a mole inside the FBI's translator bureau. The result: the FBI fired her, her story has been declared a "state secret", and information that had been released has now been retro-actively classified.

But, make it clear, we are NOT a police state.

Current Mood: angry

This is a link to a cartoon by Ted Rall about the late Pat Tillman. http://www.ucomics.com/rallcom/2004/05/03/

Mr. Rall has apparently received a lot of criticism about it and MSN has decided that this might make them look unprofitably bad, so they have pulled it from their website (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20040504/en_bpiep/rallstillmancartoonpulledbymsnbccom).

I agree with Mr. Rall's overall criticism of the war on terror (or at least, Mr. Bush's handling of it). However, the obituary I read of Mr. Tillman, which interviewed friends and colleagues, made him sound like a very private person. I am uncomfortable with impugning Mr. Tillman's motives for enlisting in the army. I agree that, as a means of service to his country, it wasn't the best choice he could have made, but I don't think that he should be mocked because of it. He has paid for his misplaced loyalty to a corrupt presidency with his life.

Current Mood: discontent
Current Music: I'm Afraid of Americans by David Bowie and Trent Reznor