Ms Edmonds told The Independent newspaper: “There was general information about the timeframe, about methods to be used – but not specifically about how they would be used – and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts or terror attacks.
“There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities – with skyscrapers.”
The 33-year-old Turkish-American translator accused President George W Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, of telling an “outrageous lie”, when she said intelligence officials had no forewarning.
Ms Rice wrote in the Washington Post last week: “We received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using aeroplanes as missiles...”
But Ms Edmonds said it would be “impossible” for that to be the case, based on documents she had seen during her time with the FBI, after the September 11 attacks.
The White House has sought to gag Ms Edmonds with a court order citing “state secrets privilege”.
...She has already made the allegations before a secret-session of a Congressional commission investigating the September 11 atrocities.
... “I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation.
“I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up.
“This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily.”
She said the Bush Administration was misleading the US public and the world with claims that there was no warning ahead of September 11.
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“There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities – with skyscrapers.”
The 33-year-old Turkish-American translator accused President George W Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, of telling an “outrageous lie”, when she said intelligence officials had no forewarning.
Ms Rice wrote in the Washington Post last week: “We received no intelligence that terrorists were preparing to attack the homeland using aeroplanes as missiles...”
But Ms Edmonds said it would be “impossible” for that to be the case, based on documents she had seen during her time with the FBI, after the September 11 attacks.
The White House has sought to gag Ms Edmonds with a court order citing “state secrets privilege”.
...She has already made the allegations before a secret-session of a Congressional commission investigating the September 11 atrocities.
... “I gave [the commission] details of specific investigation files, the specific dates, specific target information, specific managers in charge of the investigation.
“I gave them everything so that they could go back and follow up.
“This is not hearsay. These are things that are documented. These things can be established very easily.”
She said the Bush Administration was misleading the US public and the world with claims that there was no warning ahead of September 11.
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