It's not that we couldn't use a good translator.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Sibel Edmonds firing - Brief Article

You may recall Sibel Edmonds, the female linguist who complained on "60 Minutes" about the inept translations, bad management, and possible espionage in the FBI translation section. You may have greeted Ms. Edmonds' charges with some skepticism. After all, there's always the possibility that a whistleblower is a nut or has some ax to grind against the agency involved. The FBI was more than skeptical. It fired Edmonds.

Was the FBI justified, or was this another example of the Bureau's distaste for dissent? We now have the answer in the...