For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets – Times Online

Posted by zee on Jan 6th, 2008 in Security? | 0 comments   A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had...

Americans Need to Get Spitting Mad

Posted by zee on Dec 2nd, 2007 in Security? | 2 comments Everyday I am reminded of our government’s perverse ineptitude. I am so grateful that my role in life as a provincial, unsophisticated rube permits me the luxury of never having to fly. I have never responded well to being ordered about and I simply would not get through airport security without my making some untoward remark that would get me arrested. But if I witnessed our servicemen forced to strip for an inept, bungling TSA tool I’d feel compelled to go off on someone.   Americans need to get very tired of being treated as suspects in their own country. That our servicemen are...