The most important thing for people to get is we're not even looking at one big investigation, all these agents working together. They were chopped up and divided, but because I worked in the central place... other agents were sending their material to me... I was in this position to see all the dots being connected... These agents, while I was there, because I was the central person, they started connecting the dots.

And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one or two ‘ex-congressmen turned lobbyists’ who know the ropes when it comes to pocketing a few dozen who still serve.

The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.

I see people detained for simple INS violations.

During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.