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Army will Violate Due Process by Deploying Marc Hall to Iraq for Court Martial

Marc Hall, the rapper in the Army who wrote a derogatory song about stop-loss and sent it to the Pentagon, sits in military prison... more

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Damage Done by Supreme Court worse than Bin Laden Ever Could Do

Congressman Alan Grayson says, "i have never seem a more serious threat to democracy in my lifetime. The damage done to the... more

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U.S. Troops Shoot and Kill Handcuffed Children

Meanwhile the CIA seeks revenge for killing of it's eight assassins. One can only imagine how that will come down,... more

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Military Sexual Assualt Rate Higher than in the Population

Pascale Bourgaux talks about her film, Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within, recently screened in New York, as we see clips form... more

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SUPREME COURT ABOUT TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE!

THIS IS NO DRILL ! 100 years of congressional efforts to limit corporate spending in elections going down the drain ! This... more

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The CIA IG Report on Torture: What were they hiding?

What were they hiding? A side-by-side Comparison of the Bush and Obama Versions of the CIA Inspector General's Report on... more

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Music Stars Demand Records On Bush Admin's Use Of Music For Torture

A group of prominent musicians are joining a campaign to close Guantanamo Bay and demanding the release of records about what... more

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We already know that the United States tortures, the question is, will the United States prosecute?

There is something strange going on in The United States of America right now. I believe what we are witnessing is the... more

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Cheney 'ordered CIA to hide plan'

Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney gave direct orders to the CIA to conceal an intelligence programme from Congress, US media... more

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Spying on the Home Front

What did you do for AT&T? How long did you work there? I worked at AT&T for 22 and a half years. My job was basically... more

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CIA Agents Found Guilty of Italy Kidnapping

"An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans - all but one of them CIA agents - and two Italian secret agents of the 2003... more

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Feds: No True Count of Iraq Contractors

"KBR, the largest contractor in Iraq, is pulling out of that country so slowly that it could end up costing American... more

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CIGNA CEO Ed Hanway Sponges $12 Million Off Denial of Care

The company has two luxury corporate jets. They dine on fine gold plated silver, all at the expense of denying life saving care to... more

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THE LARGEST POLITICAL ESPIONAGE BLACKMAIL & BRIBERY SCANDAL IN AMERICAN HISTORY ~ BREAKING NEWS !!

Dennis Hastert, Stephen Solarz, Bob Livingston, Tom Lantos, Roy Blunt, Dan Burton and an Unnamed Congresswoman ~ All Named IN... more

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FBI Veteran Executive Calls For Special Counsel Investigation, Prosecutions in Sibel Edmonds Case

An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.

He also offered a detailed insider's look at the concerns among high-level officials inside the Bureau as Edmonds' disturbing allegations began coming to light back in 2002, before they would be quashed for seven long years by the Bush Administration's unprecedented use of the so-called "State Secrets Privilege" to gag her.

Earlier last week, following the publication of a remarkable American Conservative magazine cover story interview with Edmonds --- detailing a broad bribery, blackmail, and espionage conspiracy said to have been carried out between current and former members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking State and Defense Department officials and covert operatives from Turkey and Israel, resulting in the theft and sale of nuclear weapons technology on the foreign black market --- Cole had been quoted by the magazine confirming one of Edmonds' key allegations.

"I am fully aware of the FBI's decade-long investigation of" Marc Grossman, he said in response to the AmCon article/interview. Grossman had served as the third-highest ranking official in the Bush State Department and was alleged by Edmonds in the interview, and in a sworn, video-taped deposition a month earlier, to have been the U.S. ringleader for a massive Turkish espionage scandal reaching through the halls of power and into top-secret nuclear facilities around the country to the benefit of allies and enemies alike. Cole said that the FBI's counterintelligence probe "ultimately was buried and covered up," and that he believes it is "long past time" for an investigation of the case to "bring about accountability."

In his subsequent interview with Collins last week (audio and text excerpts posted below) Cole elaborated on those comments in much greater detail, noting that Edmonds has been "one hundred percent right on the money, on the mark" and confirming the existence of an "ongoing and detailed effort by Turkey to develop influence in the United States" through various illegal activities.

"Yes, I can confirm that," Cole told Collins, "That's true."

The FBI veteran executive also offered an insider's account of the panic that ensued inside the highest echelons of the bureau following Edmonds' first disclosure of information in 2002, recounting how an executive assistant director admitted to him at the time, just after the story first broke, "Well, all I know is that everything that Sibel is stating is true. I read her file. Everything she stated is, in fact, accurate."
Cole further describes how the concerns about Edmonds ultimately led to the Bush Administration's two-time use of the Draconian "State Secrets Privilege" in hopes of keeping her extraordinary information from becoming public. "Everybody at headquarters level at the bureau knew that what she was saying was extremely accurate."

"I know they didn't want her to go out and speak about it at all," Cole revealed, "and I know they were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet, because they didn't want Sibel to come out."

He also offered information which directly counters one of the criticisms of Edmonds' allegations as frequently offered by skeptics. Namely, that as a short time FBI contract translator --- even though she was tasked to review some seven years of counterintelligence wiretaps made from 1996 to 2002 --- she couldn't have had enough understanding of the full scope of the investigations to understand what was really going on.
More...An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to... more

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