Monday, January 21, 2008
Government at work - Sales going on?
Just another day in the translation cubicle...
Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria report this in their U.K. TimesOnline article:
"Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.
The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims.
However, Edmonds said: 'He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.'"
