it all started the previous year one morning in september two thousand and one after september eleventh i got this phone call and they said they really needed my services and they had to complete at the background check and when i could put up with could i start there were all these documents there all this audiotapes that needed to be translated there were all those people when i got bad i had no idea what exactly i was going to do for that c b s department this language division and the f b i is considered at the highest security occurrence and one sunday morning we received a call one of the other translators in the department where she worked and the f b i called up and said that she would like to come over and introduce her husband to us we had never met her husband a wife of course had met the other translator her name was john dickerson her husband's name he had worked for the air force both in turkey and in some of the central asian republics he described how they had met in turkey to fact that he had been in turkey the fact that he was in the arms fairly rapidly he started describe the fact that he had friends in the turkish community he wanted to know whether or not we knew about some of the turkish organizations and i said that thought you need to have some sort of business relationship with turkey for a reason to be a member of that organization he at that point said you said bell all you have to do is tell him who you are and what you do and you can be a member of that organization and you can retire with a very good life didn't know at the time i had no idea what had just taken place was going to have such a dramatic effect on our lives and such a devastating effect on how many infiltrated the language services section and what was this mysterious organization the dickinsons were involved with initially i reported all this stuff to my supervisor in december two thousand and one and nothing happened that actually i was told to just it and not talk about it reported to somebody in the middle management and then this retaliation started they were taking away my job assignments and i would go on my computer and i had real urgent documents that were requested by certain agents from certain field offices and i couldn't bring them up on my computer my computer was confiscated and attitudes toward me in that department by my supervisor that i was working for so i asked well this is time for me to take it to the highest level to the headquarter building in chinatown for a lie detector test he asked me like things about security whether or not i was approached by you know spies and to be recruited which i said ye what reason are you firing me and this guy failed said you know why you're being fired you're being fired because you reported his issues that you reported him to the headquarter and they don't have to give you a darn reason why you're being fired and at this point he got up and he's like now you going to be escorted outside the building at this point three of them they are escorting me downstairs and on the way down thomas  me he said we will be watching you will be listening to you you cannot talk about these issues that you reported outside you cannot even you don't even have a right to go to any attorney but now everyone in the language division was talking about the deacon since the time had come for them to disappear douglas emetic dickason flew to europe never to return start an internal inquiry months went by seeing that the inquiry was leading nowhere and that congress had failed to act sybil turned to the media would translate or do you think it's real and that's what the american people need to learn about i'm talking about those people who make decisions not to act on certain translations certain intelligence pieces before nine eleven and they haven't mentioned any had gone too far for who former bosses the f b i director handed the case over to the then attorney general john ashcroft ashcroft's reaction was extreme october eighteenth two thousand and two my tent wedding anniversary i was informed that the attorney general john ashcroft had evoked this rarely invoked privilege called the state secret privilege not i was right or not state secrets privilege is an old powerful political and legal weapon dating from the one nine hundred fifty in the wake of nine eleven it was a favorite of the bush administration and ashcroft managed to blog's the bells lawsuits the message was clear keep quiet or go to jail september the eleventh came to unite the country into a time of conflict the bush administration agreed to a congressional commission of inquiry into september eleventh its mandate included investigating shortcomings in u s intelligence agencies that have made the attacks possible this is the only hope we have this nine eleven commission report they got to say what's wrong for example with the f b i translation units which a lot of things are wrong the hind closed doors the commission her testimony once again revealing all she knew and the white house had just made its first mistake congolese a rice had just come out and made the statement saying i don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the world trade center to say that we had no specific information that was an outrageous lie and she's a national security ties are there and all those people they report to her say we didn't have it so when we came out of one of the nine eleven commission hearings of nine eleven family members they just pointed at me and they said you know she's one of those people who was outraged at the recent statement rice and suddenly all those cameras sort of flashing on my face is like well what do you think of this statement i said well that was an outrageous lie and then for the first time that made all the headlines outwardly doing it more publicly addling on the twenty fourth of july two thousand and four the nine eleven commission released its report american look for the truth but not one of the report's five hundred and sixty seven pages made any reference to sybil's claims good morning my name is laura then off and on the morning of september eleventh my husband kenneth was killed while at his office on the hundred fifth floor of the north tower at the world trade center the nine eleven commission's report is supposed to provide the definitive account of what had transpired on september eleventh two thousand and one we hope that our thousands of unanswered questions would be addressed and answer yet incredibly we have found that the commission's definitive final report has actually yielded more questions than answers deathless like oh is this what they've been waiting for he was going to put all this stuff as they what's wrong with this system and h they complimented everybody politicians are very happy about it testimony from people like sibel edmonds the preferred innocence of our nation and the crime scene that was nine eleven was certainly not addressed as a crime scene very disturbing very disturbing i mean you know that when they are supposed to be doing  report on these agencies and they put it out and the first reaction of the agency is complementing it you know something is really wrong the smells name was now sung in new york clubs she had become the most famous of all the nine eleven whistle blowers thousands of people signed petitions  the former translator became the toast of anti establishment blo supported by the vietnam era whistleblower daniel ellsberg sabella called upon disaffected intelligence agents to join her around one hundred soon did so many of them had been trekking islamist terrorists before september eleventh it was time to strike back she set up the first national security whistleblower network adapter noon my name is about edmonds and today we're having this press conference here as national that the public decide this is this is about from both points of view if sibel edmonds was making it up was a fund to suggest the state secrets privilege means that people she's wrong me accused have no way of proving that they're entirely innocent of the allegations that she has made and continues to ma know on the fifteenth floor of a towel over looking the east river is the headquarters of the american civil liberties union it agreed to represent  the bill had lost her case against the f b i because of states secrets privilege for her appeal she would be represented by and basin and been wise enough it's really phenomenal to me that any court could look at her case and say no it can't go forward no she can't proceed or when her claim what you have here is the attorney general of the united states a point of can't even set foot inside a court because the entire case is a state secret the defendant is the c s offices are on fourteenth street in washington d c it holds its annual conference across town in the mandarin oriental hotel the fact that some weapon systems are denied them the f b i aware of this began wiretapping the a t c nine hundred ninety seven the f b i employed medic dickason without knowing that she had worked for the these tapes extremely nervous the twenty third of april two thousand and five the day of sybil's appeal she and her noise cited the first amendment to the constitution which guarantees freedom of speech they sought to have state secrets privilege overturned once and for all but the lawyers didn't even get the chance to case against the department of justice the court did is you all now because you've been out here outflows the courtroom for the argument we went in there you had about three four minutes and then we were kicked out and they spent another town twelve minutes with the government attorneys we don't know what they talked about but we will be waiting for their decision it's clear that it should go forward because the justice department's own inspector general concluded that her allegations were fully supported and that the f b i terminate her of it because they don't want to mention it so is not only for whistleblowers it's your  i'm not the only one who knows about this too many people know about this the fraudulent nine eleven commissioners every single one of them knows about my case and the details and the names and all the specifics several people within the united states congress do know everybody in the f b i they know everyone in department of justice they know my goal has been exposing the criminal activities criminal activities where money laundering narcotic activities and nuclear black market converse with terrorist activities put out the tapes put out the wiretaps put out those documents