Another former employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has come forward to blow the whistle on perceived failings and misconduct within the agency. Mike German, a 16 year veteran of the FBI, recently went public with accusations that the agency mismanagement a terrorism investigation. The case is being investigated but it is unclear how far the investigation will go given last month's dismissal of another FBI whistleblower case. New FBI Whistleblower German claims that after many years of successfully infiltrating dangerous and criminal organizations, his efforts to investigate an American group reportedly planning to support foreign terrorists was botched by the FBI. The ex-FBI agent also accused the agency of falsifying documents to discredit sources. Finally German says the FBI punished him for raising his concerns to FBI officials by freezing him out and making him an outcast in the agency which led to his leaving the FBI after 16 years of service. The Justice Department's Inspector General has begun investigating German's case, both his accusations of mismanagement and claims of retaliatory treatment. A F.B.I. spokesperson, claimed that the FBI "thoroughly investigates all allegations of wrongdoing." However, German may have cause for concern considering how the last FBI whistleblower case was handled. Last FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator, accused the FBI of firing her for complaining major security lapses in the agency's translation service. Specifically, Edmonds claimed that supervisors intentionally slowed her work in an effort to receive budget increases and that inaccurate and shoddy translations were being done. The former translator also reported that an employee with ties to a foreign embassy attempted to shield a foreign official by leaving information out of translations. The FBI has acknowledged that the translator in question, who has since quit and now lives in Belgium, belonged to a Turkish organization being investigated by counter intelligence and that several of her translations missed significant pieces of information. Edmunds raised these concerns reputedly with FBI officials and was fired. The FBI reported that her contract was terminated completely for the government's convenience, while it took extreme steps to gag her at the same time. In May, the FBI retroactively classified three letters to Congress concerning Edmunds that had been publicly posted on Congressional websites for sometime. One letter remains on Sen. Charles Grassley's (R-IA) website; Grassley is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee which oversees the FBI. The Memory Hole, a website that attempts to preserve public access to material, has reposted the other two letters. The FBI also invoked its rarely used state-secrets privilege to block Edmunds from testifying in a civil case brought by the relatives of 9/11 victims. Last month a federal judge dismissed Edmunds' whistleblower lawsuit without much explanation. The Judge only stated that he was satisfied with claims by Attorney General John Ashcroft and a senior FBI official that the suit could expose state secrets, damage national security, and disrupt diplomatic relations with foreign governments. However, after a classified investigation, the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Edmunds's accusations "were at least a contributing factor in why the FBI terminated her services." The investigation also revealed that the FBI did not aggressively pursue the accusations. The New York Times obtained and reported on a July 22 letter from Robert S. Mueller III, Director of the FBI, to Congress that explained these conclusions and informed lawmakers the agency was considering disciplinary actions against some employees.