A former translator for the FBI with top-secret security clearance says she has provided information to the panel investigating the 11 September attacks which proves senior officials knew of al-Qa'ida's plans to attack the US with aircraft months before the strikes happened. She said the claim by the National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, that there was no such information was "an outrageous lie". Sibel Edmonds said she spent more than three hours in a closed session with the commission's investigators providing information that was circulating within the FBI in the spring and summer of 2001 suggesting that an attack using aircraft was just months away and the terrorists were in place. The Bush administration, meanwhile, has sought to silence her and has obtained a gagging order from a court by citing the rarely used "state secrets privilege". ... A write up in the Independent about a whistleblower coming forth. Here's a transcript of an interview with her too: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/03/31/1616221#transcript Here's to hoping that this gets investigated further, drawn out into the public eye, and shown to be true. 'I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes' | 
