Sibel Edmonds: Sorry, No Room on the MSM

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March 10, 2007 at 05:34:53

Sibel Edmonds: Sorry, No Room on the MSM

by W. David Jenkins III


"Justice will come when it is deserved by our being and feeling strong." – Mahatma Gandhi


I've been away from my computer for a time as I've quit smoking and the computer was one of my "triggers." But when I received a heads up last week from Sibel Edmonds and Blogger Supreme "Lukery" that something was coming down the pike regarding Sibel's case, I knew it was time to make a big pile of Dum Dums™ on the desk, suck it up and get back to work. It turns out that the news is some pretty big stuff – you can tell as the MSM has gone out of their way to ignore it. Well, at least as of this writing.

A week after Seymour Hersh let anyone who's willing to pay attention know that the Bush Gang is doing its own version of Iran/Contra with certain Sunni militant groups without Congressional approval or oversight, along comes this release from NSWBC (Edmonds' organization) that exposes a new twist to the NSA wire-tapping Olympics.

Back in April of '02, a month after Edmonds was fired from the FBI, Special Agent Gilbert Graham filed a classified protected disclosure to the Department of Justice and the Office of the Inspector General which detailed numerous FISA violations with regards to Bush's domestic spying activities. The NSWBC announcement also included statements of another
former veteran FBI Counterintelligence and Espionage Specialist who had filed a similar report. Both agents submitted detailed complaints which included, amongst other violations, examples and references to the electronic surveillance of high-profile U.S. public officials.

Graham's disclosure became available on the Internet, blogs were created to help the story gain momentum and a grassroots effort to call attention to this latest development affecting the Edmonds case to the new leadership in DeeCeeVille fired up.

Twenty four hours later, the next news cycle began and any hopes of getting even the slightest attention from the MSM seemed to be dashed.

The continuing Walter Reed debacle, the senate hearings with four fired U.S. Attorneys and the guilty verdict of "Scooter" Libby dominated the airwaves less than 24 hours after the largely ignored NSWBC announcement. Granted, these are all incredibly important developments and are instrumental in the ongoing exposure of the sordid underbelly of this administration but, why does there always seem to be a news blackout when it comes to the Edmonds case or anything related to her struggle? Is the MSM afraid to address this story or, even worse, do they just not get it?

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