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Attorney General John Ashcroft invoked the "state secrets
privilege" again last week to prevent former FBI translator Sibel
Edmonds from providing a deposition in a pending lawsuit related
to the September 11 attacks.
See this May
14 filing by the Attorney General formally invoking the privilege.
Ms. Edmonds has previously said that she saw intelligence reports
prior to September 11 indicating that Al Qaida planned to fly hijacked
aircraft into U.S. skyscrapers. The Justice Department has repeatedly
intervened to prevent her from elaborating on her statements in court.
"Edmonds's story has been almost uniformly ignored in the U.S.
daily press," wrote Jefferson Morley in the Washington Post, at
the same time that it has been widely reported in foreign news
media.
