While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan and the Philippines defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” the Federal Bureau of Investigation, fires Sibel Edmonds, an Azerbaijani, Turkish and Farsi language translator, for having reported illegal activities and incompetence of her colleagues to her superiors.

       Postscript: Edmonds civil suit for wrongful termination was dismissed by the Federal court for the for the District of Columbia for national security reasons.

       [added 7/4/2023]

Subsequent Events:

8/1/2002                   2/3/2010                    1/3/2011                   2/3/2011

References:

Sibel Edmonds – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibel_Edmonds

www.GovExec.com – Quashed Testimony (4/30/04)
web.archive.org/web/20040803120226/http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/043004lb.htm

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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