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12-12-2006
Translation Crisis
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Washington, USA (Scoop): According to the Heritage Foundation […] analysts at the CIA, the FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency are "awash in untranslated gleanings of intelligence" in Arabic. The Foundation also said there are not enough interpreters to handle detainees in Iraq. The FBI says that since 9/11, the agency has processed 30,000 applicants for jobs as linguists in Arabic, Farsi, and other tongues. But it points out that "out of 20 applicants, we'd be lucky to get one or two." […] But the key constraint appears to be that Arab and Muslim Americans are frequently rejected for security clearances on the preposterous basis that they have contacts in the Middle East - like friends and families.
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