Abdali
Senator (1k+ posts)
SIBEL EDMONDS, a former FBI translator, claims that the following government officials have committed what amount to acts of treason. They are lawmakers Dennis Hastert, Bob Livingston, Dan Burton, Roy Blunt, Stephen Solarz and Tom Lantos, as well as at least three members of George W. Bushs inner circle: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Marc Grossman. But is Sibel Edmonds credible?
Absolutely, shes credible, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told CBSs 60 Minutes when he was asked about her in 2002. The reason I feel shes very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story. Edmondss remarkable allegations of bribery, blackmail, infiltration of the U.S. government and the theft of nuclear secrets by foreign allies and enemies alike rocked the Bush Administration. In fact, Bush and company actually prevented Edmonds from telling the American people what she knewup until now.
John M. Cole, an 18-year veteran of the FBIs Counterintelligence and Counterespionage departments, revealed the panic of upper-echelon officials when Edmonds originally started talking back in 2002. Well, the Bureau is gonna have to try to work something out with Sibel, Cole said an FBI executive assistant told him at the time, because they dont want this to go out and become public.
But they couldnt work something out with Sibel because, it seems, she wasnt looking to make a deal. Edmonds says she was looking to expose what she believed to be the ugly truth about the infiltration of the U.S. government by foreign spies. They were enabled, Edmonds claimed, by high-ranking U.S. officials and insider moles planted at nuclear weapons facilities around the nation.
Everybody at headquarters level at the Bureau knew what she was saying was extremely accurate, Cole said recently. They were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet because they didnt want Sibel to come out.
Her under-oath testimony for the Ohio Election Commission, given in a recent videotaped deposition, is both shocking and horrifying. (Edmonds was the star witness for Congressional candidate David Krikorian in connection with a formal complaint initiated by Representative Jean Schmidt [R-Ohio]. Challenging her in 2008, a Krikorian flyer had accused Schmidt of accepting blood money from Turkish interests to help block a House bill recognizing Turkeys genocide of Armenians in 1915.) The deposition was allowed to proceed by the Obama Administration, which chose not to invoke the draconian and little-known State Secrets Privilege to gag her, as the previous administration had done, twice.
Edmonds testified that Congressman Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), a former Speaker of the House, was involved in several categories of corruption on behalf of Turkish agents, according to information she claims to have heard while translating and analyzing FBI counterintelligence wiretaps recorded from 1996 through 2002. She mentioned his acceptance of large sums of bribery in forms of cash or laundered cash coupled with the ability to do certain favorsmake certain things happen for [the] Turkish governments interest.
Edmonds also alleged, on the public record, Hasterts use of a townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities and said that foreign entities knew about this. In fact, they sometimes participated in some of thoseactivities in that particular townhouse.
The allegations against Hastert include accepting some half-million dollars in bribes. While several FBI sources have corroborated Edmondss account, the best Hasterts attorneys could do was offer a nondenial denial to the charges. But the proof, as they say, may be in the post-Congressional pudding. As Edmonds had predicted years earlier, Hastertwho left Congress in 2007now makes $35,000 a month lobbying his old colleagues as a registered foreign agent for the Turkish government.
Former Congressman Bob Livingston (RLouisiana), who was set to become Speaker prior to Hastert until evidence of a sexual affair was revealed by Larry Flynt, was described in Edmondss deposition as having participated in not very legal activities on behalf of foreign interests before leaving office in 1999. Afterward, she said, Livingston acted as a conduit tofurther foreign interests, both overtly and covertly, and also became both a lobbyist and an operative representing Turkish interests.
According to Edmonds, Representative Roy Blunt (R-Missouri)likely to run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010was the recipient of both legally and illegally raisedcampaign donations fromTurkish entities. Edmonds also claimed that hard-right Representative Dan Burton (R-Indiana), who was instrumental in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, carried out extremely illegal activities and covert operations that were against the United States citizens and against the United States interests.
Edmonds named allegedly traitorous Democrats too. She said that former New York Congressman Stephen Solarz, now also a lobbyist, acted as conduit to deliver or launder contributions and other bribe[s, including blackmail] to certain members of Congress. And, according to Edmonds, the late Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California) was said to have been involved in not onlybribe[ry], but alsodisclosing [the] highest level protected U.S. intelligence and weapons technology information both to Israel and to Turkey [and] other very serious criminal conduct.
The most overtly salacious of the allegations involved Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), who is married withgrown children, but she is bisexual, according to Edmonds. The FBI whistleblower described how Schakowsky was hooked by Turkish agents into having a lesbian sexual relationship with one of their spies, and the entire episodes of their sexual conduct was being filmed because the entire housewas buggedto be used for certain things that they wanted to request.
Edmonds noted, however, that she didnt know if she [Schakowsky] did anything illegal afterwards since Edmonds was fired by the FBI before learning what came of that particular setup. The Turks, she said, intended to get at Schakowskys husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, who in April 2006 began serving five months in prison (and 11 months of house arrest) for check-kiting and failing to collect withholding tax.
Schakowskys office has vehemently denied the allegations. As head of the U.S. House Intelligence Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Schakowsky might be expected to hold hearings on any of the former FBI employees revelations but she has not. She has also refused Edmondss challenge to take a polygraph test and has not yet sued her for libel, as the whistleblower has challenged her to do.
Edmondss most disturbing allegations, however, may be against high-ranking appointed officials in the Bush Administration. Elaborating on testimony she laid out in her sworn deposition, Edmonds told American Conservative magazines Phil Giraldia 17-year CIA counterterrorism officervery specific details of alleged traitorous schemes perpetrated by top State and Defense Department officials. As already noted, these included Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and, perhaps most notably, former Deputy Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, the third-highest-ranking official in the Bush State Department.
Edmonds said that Feith and Wolfowitz were involved in plans to break Iraq into U.S. and British protectorates months prior to 9/11.
Absolutely, shes credible, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told CBSs 60 Minutes when he was asked about her in 2002. The reason I feel shes very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story. Edmondss remarkable allegations of bribery, blackmail, infiltration of the U.S. government and the theft of nuclear secrets by foreign allies and enemies alike rocked the Bush Administration. In fact, Bush and company actually prevented Edmonds from telling the American people what she knewup until now.
John M. Cole, an 18-year veteran of the FBIs Counterintelligence and Counterespionage departments, revealed the panic of upper-echelon officials when Edmonds originally started talking back in 2002. Well, the Bureau is gonna have to try to work something out with Sibel, Cole said an FBI executive assistant told him at the time, because they dont want this to go out and become public.
But they couldnt work something out with Sibel because, it seems, she wasnt looking to make a deal. Edmonds says she was looking to expose what she believed to be the ugly truth about the infiltration of the U.S. government by foreign spies. They were enabled, Edmonds claimed, by high-ranking U.S. officials and insider moles planted at nuclear weapons facilities around the nation.
Everybody at headquarters level at the Bureau knew what she was saying was extremely accurate, Cole said recently. They were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet because they didnt want Sibel to come out.
Her under-oath testimony for the Ohio Election Commission, given in a recent videotaped deposition, is both shocking and horrifying. (Edmonds was the star witness for Congressional candidate David Krikorian in connection with a formal complaint initiated by Representative Jean Schmidt [R-Ohio]. Challenging her in 2008, a Krikorian flyer had accused Schmidt of accepting blood money from Turkish interests to help block a House bill recognizing Turkeys genocide of Armenians in 1915.) The deposition was allowed to proceed by the Obama Administration, which chose not to invoke the draconian and little-known State Secrets Privilege to gag her, as the previous administration had done, twice.
Edmonds testified that Congressman Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois), a former Speaker of the House, was involved in several categories of corruption on behalf of Turkish agents, according to information she claims to have heard while translating and analyzing FBI counterintelligence wiretaps recorded from 1996 through 2002. She mentioned his acceptance of large sums of bribery in forms of cash or laundered cash coupled with the ability to do certain favorsmake certain things happen for [the] Turkish governments interest.
Edmonds also alleged, on the public record, Hasterts use of a townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities and said that foreign entities knew about this. In fact, they sometimes participated in some of thoseactivities in that particular townhouse.
The allegations against Hastert include accepting some half-million dollars in bribes. While several FBI sources have corroborated Edmondss account, the best Hasterts attorneys could do was offer a nondenial denial to the charges. But the proof, as they say, may be in the post-Congressional pudding. As Edmonds had predicted years earlier, Hastertwho left Congress in 2007now makes $35,000 a month lobbying his old colleagues as a registered foreign agent for the Turkish government.
Former Congressman Bob Livingston (RLouisiana), who was set to become Speaker prior to Hastert until evidence of a sexual affair was revealed by Larry Flynt, was described in Edmondss deposition as having participated in not very legal activities on behalf of foreign interests before leaving office in 1999. Afterward, she said, Livingston acted as a conduit tofurther foreign interests, both overtly and covertly, and also became both a lobbyist and an operative representing Turkish interests.
According to Edmonds, Representative Roy Blunt (R-Missouri)likely to run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2010was the recipient of both legally and illegally raisedcampaign donations fromTurkish entities. Edmonds also claimed that hard-right Representative Dan Burton (R-Indiana), who was instrumental in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, carried out extremely illegal activities and covert operations that were against the United States citizens and against the United States interests.
Edmonds named allegedly traitorous Democrats too. She said that former New York Congressman Stephen Solarz, now also a lobbyist, acted as conduit to deliver or launder contributions and other bribe[s, including blackmail] to certain members of Congress. And, according to Edmonds, the late Congressman Tom Lantos (D-California) was said to have been involved in not onlybribe[ry], but alsodisclosing [the] highest level protected U.S. intelligence and weapons technology information both to Israel and to Turkey [and] other very serious criminal conduct.
The most overtly salacious of the allegations involved Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Illinois), who is married withgrown children, but she is bisexual, according to Edmonds. The FBI whistleblower described how Schakowsky was hooked by Turkish agents into having a lesbian sexual relationship with one of their spies, and the entire episodes of their sexual conduct was being filmed because the entire housewas buggedto be used for certain things that they wanted to request.
Edmonds noted, however, that she didnt know if she [Schakowsky] did anything illegal afterwards since Edmonds was fired by the FBI before learning what came of that particular setup. The Turks, she said, intended to get at Schakowskys husband, lobbyist Robert Creamer, who in April 2006 began serving five months in prison (and 11 months of house arrest) for check-kiting and failing to collect withholding tax.
Schakowskys office has vehemently denied the allegations. As head of the U.S. House Intelligence Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Schakowsky might be expected to hold hearings on any of the former FBI employees revelations but she has not. She has also refused Edmondss challenge to take a polygraph test and has not yet sued her for libel, as the whistleblower has challenged her to do.
Edmondss most disturbing allegations, however, may be against high-ranking appointed officials in the Bush Administration. Elaborating on testimony she laid out in her sworn deposition, Edmonds told American Conservative magazines Phil Giraldia 17-year CIA counterterrorism officervery specific details of alleged traitorous schemes perpetrated by top State and Defense Department officials. As already noted, these included Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and, perhaps most notably, former Deputy Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, the third-highest-ranking official in the Bush State Department.
Edmonds said that Feith and Wolfowitz were involved in plans to break Iraq into U.S. and British protectorates months prior to 9/11.
