Lawyers Try to Gag FBI Worker over 9/11: "Sibel Edmonds was subpoenaed by a law firm representing more than 500 family members and survivors of the attacks to testify that she had seen information proving there was considerable evidence before September 2001 that al-Qa'ida was planning to strike the US with aircraft. The lawyers made their demand after reading comments Mrs Edmonds had made to The Independent.
But the US Justice Department is seeking to stop her from testifying, citing the rarely used 'state secrets privilege'. Today in a federal court in Washington, senior government lawyers will try to gag Mrs Edmonds, claiming that disclosure of her evidence 'would cause serious damage to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States."

Doesn't the Bush administration want the truth to come out? That's the inference here, and is part of a pattern of intimidation, character assasination and denial by the administration when faced with evidence of its failings.
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