A newly released report from the Justice Department has revealed the FBI has yet to translate more than 120,000 hours of recordings that could contain valuable intelligence on Al Qaeda. The report confirms criticisms by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds who was fired from her post in part because she criticized the agency’s translation department. The Justice Department has not yet released its full investigation into the matter but yesterday released a declassified summary. For the past three years the Bush administration has claimed that improving the government’s translation capability was a top priority. On Sept. 10, 2001 the National Security Agency intercepted messages saying, “Tomorrow is zero hour” and “The match is about to begin.” But the messages were not translated until after the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.