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2. You don't have to go back to LBJ. After 911 they fired 6 Arabic translators for being gay

Wed May 21, 2014, 11:37 AM

May 2014

At the peak of the panic over terrorism, when we needed access to native speakers, they decided that being gay trumped any potential help these people could have been.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1115-03.htm

Another version says 37 translators were fired:
http://www.democracynow.org/2003/12/5/despite_increased_post_9_11_need

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