Amy Goodman is the interviewer for Democracy Now.
Coleen Rowley is the FBI agent who was a whistleblower on FBI inactivity.
Sibel Edmonds is the former FBI translator.
The full article is at:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/09/1524223
AMY GOODMAN: Coleen Rowley, what was the reaction in your office on the morning of September 11 when the planes hit the World Trade Centers and then when the plane hit the Pentagon?
COLEEN ROWLEY: Unfortunately, within really probably just seconds or minutes of seeing the news, we realized that this connected with the matter in Minneapolis and began then to seek the criminal way of getting a search warrant.
AMY GOODMAN: Was there an understanding that these -- this was a terrorist attack?
COLEEN ROWLEY: Yes. Very quickly from the first footage, I think there was a quick understanding this was not only a terrorist attack, but probably -- al Qaeda was responsible for it. Can I add something, just about the nature of prevention of terrorism. I think there's a misunderstanding that you have to have a "silver bullet" to prevent things like this, and just as a series of mistakes can lead to a tragedy, and it's not just one thing, it can be a multitude of things, it's also a multitude of things that can lead to prevention, and in many cases a tragedy might be diminished simply because of luck, a little bit of luck along with other things. If we're to have this attitude that we have to have a "silver bullet" to prevent things, we will really be in sorry shape in the future.
AMY GOODMAN: I want to just add, Coleen Rowley was named "Time" Person of the Year in 2002 for speaking out as a whistleblower in the F.B.I.
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SIBEL EDMONDS: "...Two weeks ago, I said -- I made a statement saying that Ms. Rice has a statement that "we did not have any specific information" was an outrageous lie. Ms. Rice corrected herself yesterday by saying, "I should have said, I personally was not aware rather than we." I think that's a very important piece that not many people have picked up on and who else is left after she herself removes herself from this statement? Who is she referring to when she says we? "
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As Maureen Dowd so crisply said about Dr. Rice's testimony: "Even the terrorists were blamed for not giving specifics."
Question: So, how is the system accountable now and what idiocy in the CIA, FBI and Homeland Security(?) will President Kerry have to overcome immediately upon taking office?