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Gag order expires: Ex-FBI blows whistle on wiretapped Congressmen for 'acts of treason'

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Formerly-gagged FBI translator/whistleblower invites Congresswoman to 'pursue facts' of the case, use her position as member of House Intel Committee to find the truth about allegations of bribery, blackmail, nuclear espionage


As she had promised on Tuesday night, former FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds has responded to a parting shot taken at her by Rep. Jan Schakowsky's office, concerning Edmonds' allegations that she overheard details of a blackmail scheme directly involving the 9th-district Illinois' 9th-District U.S. Congresswoman, while working on the FBI counterintelligence division's investigation into the Turkish lobby following the 9/11 attacks.

She has now issued a formal letter to the Congresswoman, asking her to join in her "Pursuit of the Facts," in her role as a member of the U.S. Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The letter is posted in full below.

Edmonds, twice-gagged by the Bush Administration's unprecedented use of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege," was recently able to begin disclosing information about a massive bribery, blackmail, and espionage scandal involving current and former government officials and the sale of nuclear weapons technology to the black market, when she was deposed in an Ohio Elections Commission case on August 8, 2009. The Obama Adminstration's Dept. of Justice chose not to reinvoke the "State Secrets Privilege," finally paving the way for Edmonds' sworn deposition. The transcript and video of the complete, remarkable deposition can be seen here.

As part of that deposition, Edmonds detailed treasonous crimes she says were carried out by a number of current and former members of Congress, as discovered via the wiretaps of the Turkish targets. Those named by Edmonds included Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased).

Another married, but allegedly bisexual, Democratic member of Congress was unnamed at the time, but described as having participated in a lesbian sexual affair with a woman who was, unbeknownst to the Congresswoman, a Turkish agent. The tryst, according to Edmonds, was video-taped by the Turks for possible use in a blackmail scheme, though Edmonds left the FBI before learning whether or not the Congresswoman was ever blackmailed.

As part of a bombshell cover story interview by former CIA officer Phil Giraldi, as published on Tuesday in The American Conservative magazine, Edmonds finally named the Congresswoman involved in the affair as Schakowsky, along with offering a great deal of startling insight on many of the bombshell allegations she's been unable to speak about publicly for so many years.

Following the publication of the story, The BRAD BLOG received a formal response to the allegations from Schakowsky's office. The Congresswoman's spokesperson vehemently denied them all on her behalf, pointed to seemingly contradictory facts in Edmonds' claims in order to undermine them, and disparaged her as a fantasist and conspiracy theorist. The charges, her spokeswoman Trevor Kincaid wrote, were "cut from the same cloth as the stories by 'birthers' that President Obama is not an American citizen."

Edmonds quickly rebutted the response in kind, presenting additional details, noting that she has been "reporting intercepted communication of targeted operatives; more or less verbatim," asking a number of pointed direct questions to the Congresswoman, and challenging her to a joint polygraph exam.

Rather than responding to those questions, Schakowsky's office issued another short formal statement, describing Edmonds' allegations as "fairytales," "the stuff of science-fiction and absurd conspiracy theory; absent of any factual basis. Period."

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  • RFIDemocracy
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    • Bill Moyers Journal:

      ...But for muckrakers and whistleblowers, it's getting harder and harder to expose corruption and wrongdoing.

      Take the case of former FBI agent Sibel Edmonds: She blew the whistle on massive incompetence at the Bureau — sloppy translations, missed messages from terror suspects. She even alleged that insiders were leaking secrets to foreign agents. She lost her job for it.

      Just after Congress got interested in her story — and a bipartisan group of Senators said they found her claims credible enough to warrant an investigation — the administration retroactively classified everything that she knew, pretty much shutting down any chance of an investigation. U.S. journalists have found it nearly impossible to look into her claims. Over the past year, there's been only one article on her in a major newspaper, and it simply announced that she'd won a freedom-of-speech award. Meanwhile, the TIMES OF LONDON has published three stories — just this year — digging into her claim that Administration officials sold secrets to foreign governments.

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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    • TIMES Online-A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets.
      Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office.
      She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.
      Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.
      Among the hours of covert tape recordings, she says she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.
      The name of the official – who has held a series of top government posts – is known to The Sunday Times. He strongly denies the claims.
      However, Edmonds said: “He was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives.”
      She claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials – including household names – who were aiding foreign agents.
      “If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials,” she said.
      Her story shows just how much the West was infiltrated by foreign states seeking nuclear secrets. It illustrates how western government officials turned a blind eye to, or were even helping, countries such as Pakistan acquire bomb technology.
      The wider nuclear network has been monitored for many years by a joint Anglo-American intelligence effort. But rather than shut it down, investigations by law enforcement bodies such as the FBI and Britain’s Revenue & Customs have been aborted to preserve diplomatic relations.
      Edmonds, a fluent speaker of Turkish and Farsi, was recruited by the FBI in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. Her previous claims about incompetence inside the FBI have been well documented in America.
      She has given evidence to closed sessions of Congress and the 9/11 commission, but many of the key points of her testimony have remained secret. She has now decided to divulge some of that information after becoming disillusioned with the US authorities’ failure to act.
      One of Edmonds’s main roles in the FBI was to translate thousands of hours of conversations by Turkish diplomatic and political targets that had been covertly recorded by the agency.
      A backlog of tapes had built up, dating back to 1997, which were needed for an FBI investigation into links between the Turks and Pakistani, Israeli and US targets. Before she left the FBI in 2002 she heard evidence that pointed to money laundering, drug imports and attempts to acquire nuclear and conventional weapons technology.
      The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said.
      They were helped, she says, by the high-ranking State Department official who provided some of their moles – mainly PhD students – with security clearance to work in sensitive nuclear research facilities. These included the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent.
      In one conversation Edmonds heard the official arranging to pick up a $15,000 cash bribe.
      More...

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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    • Vanity Fair 2005-

      **According to the Department of Justice, to allow Edmonds her day in court, even at a closed hearing attended only by personnel with full security clearance, “could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the foreign policy and national security of the United States.”

      Using the state-secrets privilege in this fashion is unusual, says Edmonds’s attorney Ann Beeson, of the American Civil Liberties Union. “It also begs a question: Just what in the world is the government trying to hide?”

      It may be more than another embarrassing security scandal. One counter-intelligence official familiar with Edmonds’s case has told Vanity Fair that the F.B.I. opened an investigation into covert activity by Turkish nationals in the late 1990s. That inquiry found evidence, mainly via wiretaps, of attempts to corrupt senior American politicians in at least two major cities—Washington and Chicago. Toward the end of 2001, Edmonds was asked to translate some of the thousands of calls that had been recorded by this operation, some dating back to 1997.**

    • 2 years ago
  • panichead
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    • I live here in Indianapolis and the distinguished gentelman Dan Burton is my congressmen, and I would like nothing better than to see this hypocrite run out of office. The apathy here in central Indiana never ends. This guy is so crooked he has to screw his pants on. He is up for re-election this coming cycle, so if this info gets out to the masses here and people believe it ( which they probably won't, because right-wingers do everything on faith and not facts) he will get voted out of office for being a thug and a charlatan. He can always find employment with the Turkish lobby, hell he already has his foot in the door.

    • 2 years ago
  • S3th
  • nobamayomama
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    • S3th:

      Yeah, like Jimmy Carter called Obama a "boy".....LOL, that one got past scrutiny! Carter was the biggest racist and called obama a BOY! I'm sure Obama and his bride had to bite their tongues on that one.

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  
    • S3th:

      Myth busted.

      JIMMY CARTER: Around the world. Around the world. And I think it already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy who grew up with just a loving mother and grandparents -- and that was about all he had to start with -- does now have a chance to become the nominee of the Democratic Party for president.

      Nice try, though.

    • 2 years ago
  • S3th
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      S3th  

    • Dan Burton (R-IN)

      Member, House Committee on Foreign Affairs
      Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

      Dan Burtons comments/actions on important issues:

      Israel's military action in Gaza has been appropriate.

      Co-Sponsored Israel Resolution

      And yet the President of the United States yesterday said that he was leaving it up to Attorney General Holder to see whether or not some of the people from the previous administration could be prosecuted for those activities.... To go to the CIA and say we might prosecute some of you or some of your leaders at the Justice Department that recommended these techniques is just, in my opinion, crazy.... I hope that the President of the United States and you madam secretary will re-evaluate the situation, and not be prosecuting people at the CIA or the Justice Department who were just doing their job to try to protect this country.

      The Constitution should be amended to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

      Burton co-sponsored the Marriage Protection Amendment

      "There is no doubt in my mind that the mercury in vaccines is a major contributing factor to a growing number of neurological disorders among children, but in particular autism."

      Burton explains that "thimerosal is a toxic substance – mercury – and should not be put in close proximity of people, should not be injected into people, especially children who have a newly formed immune system that may not be able to handle it. To my knowledge there never have been long-term tests on thimerosal and we never should have used mercury in vaccines, period. Now what we've got is an epidemic that is absolutely out of control."

      "Life begins at conception."

      Co-sponser of the H.R.618 Right to Life Act

    • 2 years ago
  • montesooma
  • S3th
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    • S3th:

      I didn't state a judgement about his positions...Although most intelligent people would argue about how many of them and the legislation he sponsored, co-sponsored, are definitely attacks on civil liberties!

    • 2 years ago
  • S3th
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      S3th  

    • And....Bob Livingston (R-LA):

      Remember this ditty from the Clinton days? Nothing like hypocrisy to point out how ludicrous the left/right paradigm is...

      Source:

      Washington Post Staff Writer
      Monday, December 21, 1998; Page A19

      Rep. Bob Livingston (R-La.) acknowledged yesterday that there had been considerable concern among House Republicans about his past extramarital affairs and that he may have had trouble commanding their loyalty as House speaker.

      "With a slim majority, it would have been hard enough to lead the Republicans," Livingston said in an extensive interview. "But under a cloud it would have been very difficult indeed. I think I could have survived it, but it was going to be difficult even under the best of circumstances."

      In fact, shortly before the House Speaker-designate's stunning announcement Saturday that he would step aside because of the controversy over his sexual past, he was told by Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) that at least 18 Republicans were having second thoughts and some might not support him for speaker in the 106th Congress, which convenes next month.

      Rep. Greg Ganske (R-Iowa), one of his critics, approached Livingston on Friday and asked him to reconsider accepting the speakership in January.

      Others, including social conservative Reps. Steve Largent (R-Okla.) and Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.) had also openly voiced concern that Livingston hadn't made the disclosure before seeking the speakership last month.

      "I concluded I would not have been effectively leading 100 percent of the Republicans," Livingston said yesterday. "So it was a matter of cutting your losses."

      Livingston's concern about his deteriorating base of support was precipitated by reports that Hustler magazine, published by Larry Flynt, was preparing a detailed expose» about the past extramarital affairs of Livingston and other members of Congress. "There are some pretty seedy aspects to public life," he said.

      His wife, Bonnie, had urged that he disclose his past indiscretions to his GOP colleagues on Thursday to get ahead of any adverse publicity. Some GOP leaders and advisers had argued against that, saying the timing was bad coming on the eve of the House deliberations on the articles of impeachment concerning President Clinton's alleged lies about a sexual affair.

      The Capitol was awash in rumor and intrigue as Livingston left his office late Friday, after completing a draft of the speech he would deliver the next morning advocating that the House vote to impeach President Clinton.

      Livingston said he had complained to his staff that his speech "really needs a punch line." But by 2 a.m. Saturday, as he pondered his fate in his suburban Virginia home, he finally settled on a stunner: He would give up the speakership and urge Clinton to resign as well to spare the nation any more trauma.

    • 2 years ago
  • S3th
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    • As for Dennis Hastert (R-IL),

      Mid-January, 2001: Hastert Gives Cheney Office Space on Capitol Hill; Move Designed to Make Congress More Subservient to White House Days before President-elect Bush is inaugurated, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL) offers Vice President-Elect Cheney a second office in the US Congress. (To make room for Cheney in the exceedingly cramped work area, Hastert ejects Representative Bill Thomas (R-CA), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, from part of his suite of committee offices near the House chambers.) Hastert’s move is much more than mere symbolism or even political kowtowing. Now, when legislators negotiate with Cheney, they must come to his office on Capitol Hill instead of Cheney coming to the Hill. According to former House Appropriations Committee clerk Scott Lilly: “Offering office space to the vice president represented more than a breach in the symbolism concerning the powers and autonomy of the House of Representatives. Hastert’s plan was to convert the House into a compliant and subservient role player inside the White House political organization.” [Dubose and Bernstein, 2006, pp. 191

      Between January 14, 2002 and February 1, 2002: FBI Translator Re-Translates Wiretaps Assigned to Colleague; Discovers Colleague Buried Critical Information FBI contract linguist Sibel Edmonds re-translates 17 of the “hundreds” of wiretapped conversations that had been originally translated or reviewed by co-worker Melek Can Dickerson. [Anti-War (.com), 8/15/2005] She discovers that Dickerson marked as “not pertinent” every single file that included a reference to surveillance targets connected to the Turkish organizations with whom she had ties (see (November 2001)). One of those targets is a Turkish intelligence officer, who is a personal friend of Dickerson. Edmonds learns from the wiretaps that the officer had spies inside the US State Department and Pentagon seeking access to US military and intelligence secrets. [CBS, 10/27/2002] The wiretaps also reveal that the group is involved in arms and drug smuggling and is tied into a complex network of governmental and private figures in several countries. [United Press International, 11/15/2005] Additionally, Edmonds identifies hundreds of other instances where Dickerson’s work obstructed investigations. For example, she learns from one conversation that a US State Department staffer agreed to accept $7,000 in cash from certain individuals in the American-Turkish Council (ATC) in exchange for information. One wiretapped call discussed a payment to a Pentagon official, who seemed to be involved in weapons-procurement negotiations, while another suggested that Turkish doctoral students had been placed at US research institutions in order to obtain information about black market nuclear weapons. Edmonds also hears discussions about the laundering of drug smuggling profits, the selling of classified military technologies, and a scheme to secretly give Republican Congressman Dennis Hastert tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for political favors and information. She becomes convinced that the American-Turkish Council (ATC) is being used as a front for criminal activity.

    • 2 years ago
  • S3th
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    • "As part of that deposition, Edmonds detailed treasonous crimes she says were carried out by a number of current and former members of Congress, as discovered via the wiretaps of the Turkish targets. Those named by Edmonds included Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased)."

      And now some interesting info about the other Democrat named:

      http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=stephen_solarz

      February 19, 1998: Neoconservative Group Calls on US to Help Overthrow Hussein The Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf (CPSG), a bipartisan group made up largely of foreign policy specialists, sends an “Open Letter to the President” calling for President Clinton to use the US military to help Iraqi opposition groups overthrow Saddam Hussein and replace him with a US-friendly government. US law forbids such an operation. The group is led by, among others, former Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY) and prominent Bush adviser Richard Perle, a former assistant secretary of defense.
      Largely Neoconservative in Makeup - Many of its co-signers will become the core of the Bush administration’s neoconservative-driven national security apparatus. These co-signers include Elliot Abrams, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Stephen Bryen, Douglas Feith, Frank Gaffney, Fred Ikle, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen, Bernard Lewis, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, Gary Schmitt, Max Singer, Casper Weinberger, Paul Wolfowitz, David Wurmser, and Dov Zakheim. [CNN, 2/20/1998; Middle East Policy Council, 6/2004] The CPSG is closely affiliated with both the neoconservative Project for the New American Century (PNAC—see June 3, 1997 and January 26, 1998) and the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI), both of which boast Perle as a powerful and influential member. Jim Lobe of the Project Against the Present Danger later learns that the CPSG is funded in large part by a sizable grant from the right-wing Bradley Foundation, a key funding source for both the PNAC and the AEI. According to Counterpunch’s Kurt Nimmo, the plan for overthrowing Iraq later adopted by the Bush administration, and currently advocated by the CPSG, will be echoed in the PNAC’s September 2000 document, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” (see September 2000). [CounterPunch, 11/19/2002]

      Don't ya just love how PSYCHIC, PNAC was about an event such as 9/11....And how that event helped gain support for the occupation of Iraq, and the removal of Saddam Hussein.

      They got what they wanted.

      Still buy the official story?

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
  • S3th
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      S3th  

    • "As part of that deposition, Edmonds detailed treasonous crimes she says were carried out by a number of current and former members of Congress, as discovered via the wiretaps of the Turkish targets. Those named by Edmonds included Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased)."

      Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased).

      Interesting info about the only deceased of those named:

      (02-11) 10:45 PST WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress and for 27 years a champion of human rights as representative for a district stretching from San Francisco's west side to San Carlos, died today of complications from esophageal cancer, his office said. He was 80.

      Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/12/MNIDV09VH.DTL#ixzz0SDK4LJAB

      He was criticized in some quarters, however, for an unwavering support of Israel, and he wasn't afraid to be unpopular on a number of issues. As recently as October, he angered the Bush administration and some colleagues when he moved a bill through his committee that defined the killings of Armenians in Turkey in the early 20th century as genocide.

      He also made headlines last year when he berated Yahoo Inc. executives during a congressional hearing over their involvement in the jailing of a Chinese journalist. Lantos told the executives, "Morally, you are pygmies."

      Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/12/MNIDV09VH.DTL

    • 2 years ago
  • Ragan
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      Ragan  

    • I believe her and support her, but the powers to be in our Dept of Justuce doesn't seem to have the desire or ambition to open up this pandora's box. It does make sense because no matter what level their crime is they are all in bed with the same rules seperate from the Laws we citizens live under. I do hope however that Sibel will get to hear her words echo throughout the chambers of justice in Washington DC. and broadcast so the world know's we the people are fed up. We want Justice. NOW.

    • 2 years ago
  • kennymotown
  • nobamayomama
  • masterzip
  • biggranny
  • hunzedog
  • KillerQueen6628
  • bombastinator
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    • I'd like to see coverage of this in something a bit more authoritative. The primary reporting organs seem to be 'the american conservative', who's views tend to take a certain stance. This story is too huge to not b covered by major media if it is in fact true.

      That said, if this is true, DAMN!

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
  • bombastinator
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    • bombastinator:

      It remains a partisan blog sourced from a partisan magazine. Doesn't necessarily mean it's not true, but these days the curve is measured in minutes, and I'm still not seeing anything, especially considering that this was have supposed to come out in a hearing of all things.

      The last time everyone rushed to judgment it turned out later that the ACORN guy actually did in fact turn the reporters in to the cops, it's just that the cops wanted him to call back and the farce didn't last long enough. This time i think everyone is waiting to see what comes up.

      None the less time will tell. I still reserve judgment.

    • 2 years ago
  • WakeUpPeople
  • RFIDemocracy
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    • (....)
      Several senior members of Congress---from both sides of the aisle--have also investigated and publicly confirmed my credibility and the grave nature of my disclosures. This is what Senator Leahy had to say: Leahy Statement. This is what Congresswoman Maloney said: Rep. Maloney Statement. Here are the assessments of Senator Lautenberg--Sen. Lautenberg Statement---and Senator Grassley--Sen. Grassley Statement. By attacking my credibility, you are also attacking your colleagues, including many on your side of the aisle. Are you accusing these senators and representatives of being fantasists too?

      You have been described as a "true blue" civil libertarian, so it will surely interest you to know that the ACLU has declared me "the most gagged" person in the history of this great nation. Are you also attacking the ACLU and calling their characterization of this case a fantasy?

      I have testified under oath, and my public biography will provide you with information about my educational background, financial background, and family life. I am fully aware of the consequences of perjury, and as you can see, I would have a lot to lose were that the case. I am sure you are familiar with my sworn testimony, but you can review it here. I've done more than my share through the courts, IG offices, Congress, and media. I don't have your power. You sit on the House Intelligence Committee, and you are one of the members of the majority party in Congress.

      Here is what you can do: Call for an investigation and a hearing before your committee on this long covered-up case. Subpoena the files and call the witnesses. Bring in retired Special Agent Gilbert Graham and have him testify on the official report and complaint he filed with the DOJ inspector general in 2002 regarding the FBI counterespionage investigations involving Turkey and Israel in which targeted US representatives were illegally wiretapped. This is not fiction. Here is the official and signed public version: SA Gilbert Graham Report.

      Also bring in former FBI Counterintelligence Operations Manager & Espionage Investigator John M. Cole and have him testify under oath regarding espionage cases involving State Department officials, Pentagon officials, and Congressional members. Here is a preview of some of the information disclosed and confirmed by Agent Cole: Interview and Radio Interview.

      Also bring in the sworn testimonies of current FBI special agents in the Chicago and DC field offices who dutifully and patriotically led the counterintelligence operations on Turkey and corrupt US officials, only to see their investigations blocked and covered-up. Their names are public.

      Order the Justice Department to release the two main Counterintelligence Operations Files on Turkey and "US persons of interest"---one from FBI Chicago Field Office-1996-2002, the other from FBI DC Field Office-1996-2001. These will help bring out the facts regarding your story too. I have documentation supporting the existence of these files.

      Recall that I did not accuse you of any criminal or espionage-related activity.

      The last time I saw a similar attack on my credibility was when Dennis Hastert issued a non-denial denial to information contained in a previous magazine article. He later gave up his seat, registered himself (under FARA) as an agent for the government of Turkey, and went on to collect $35,000 per month as a foreign agent. I certainly hope you are not planning to follow his footsteps by giving up your seat and officially registering with a foreign government. It would be far better if you used your position to bring out the facts. I will be delighted to assist you.

      Sibel Edmonds

    • 2 years ago
  • RFIDemocracy
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      RFIDemocracy  

    • Dear Congresswoman Schakowsky:

      It is an age-old tactic, when one cannot refute statements with facts, to attempt to discredit the witness. Rather than exchanging accusations, let me just go on record with facts and detailed citations.

      When I became aware of incriminating evidence against high-level U.S. officials---elected and appointed---I filed under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and fought for five years in court. I bore tremendous cost, financially and emotionally, to make this data public. Here is the court case identification: C.A. No. 1:02CV01294 (ESH).

      Few citizens have gone this far in a FOIA case to make covered-up information available to the public. No one gains financially from fighting this kind of thing in court, and I am no exception. You have called me a fantasist, but would a fabricator pay as dearly as I did to have her claims investigated?

      I fought another court case to expose government criminality through key witnesses and documents. As in the FOIA case, I bore tremendous costs and was again blocked by the invocation of the State Secrets Privilege and National Security. The court case identification is Civ.No.1:02CV01448(JR)).

      No other citizen has twice had the State Secrets Privilege invoked. But why would the government, with the support of congressional representatives, go to such lengths to quash, gag, and classify the files and operations in question if they were "fantasy, lies, and nonexistent" as you say?

      I complied with the whistleblowing rule and took my case to the Office of the Inspector General and provided all of the information they allowed me to. They interviewed dozens of witnesses and reviewed hundreds of pages of documents in their investigation of my credibility and the validity of my case. Here is the link to their confirmation that I and my case have merit: DOJ-IG Report. Here is the redacted report that shows how our government censored more than 90% of this report to the public: Redacted DOJ-IG Report. Very few national security whistleblowers have been granted this level of validation and vindication. The Justice Department's own Office of the Inspector General disagrees with your characterization of me and my case.

      (continued)

    • 2 years ago
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