A prosecution in New York unraveled after the government admitted that key evidence — a document that supposedly described one of the defendants as a senior terrorist leader — had been incorrectly translated by an Army language specialist.
A prosecutor in Detroit, unable to find a linguist through the FBI, found someone else to prepare a summary of more than 100 audiotapes used in a terrorism trial. The translator turned out to be a federal informant with a history of drug dealing — and to have terrorist ties.
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