Sibel Edmonds: The Traitors Among Us

[Demeter]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24886.htm



Sibel Edmonds Has Named Names. Why Isn't The Media Reporting The Story?

By Brad Friedman

March 01, 2010 - "Hustler" – March 2010 -- 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. Bush’s inner circle: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and Marc Grossman. But is Sibel Edmonds credible?

“Absolutely, she’s credible,” Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) told CBS’s 60 Minutes when he was asked about her in 2002. “The reason I feel she’s very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story.” Edmonds’s 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 knew—up until now.

John M. Cole, an 18-year veteran of the FBI’s 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 don’t want this to go out and become public.”

But they couldn’t “work something out with Sibel” because, it seems, she wasn’t 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 didn’t want Sibel to come out.”
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So why, exactly, isn’t the media covering Sibel Edmonds, whom the ACLU once described as “the most gagged person in the history of the U.S.,” now that she is finally able to tell her story? It’s a story, after all, that the legendary 1970s whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has deemed “far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers.”

“If we had an effective mainstream media that was going after this story, that would make it come out,” Giraldi noted. “But we don’t have an effective media.” He then pointed out one more reason for the media’s reluctance to dig into this story: “According to Sibel, Grossman actually bragged that he would get from the Turks the information that they wanted to appear in an article. He would write it up, and he would fax it over to the New York Times, and they would print it just as he had written it under somebody else’s byline.”

Guess we won’t expect any coverage of this scandal from the New York Times, “the paper of record,” any time soon. And if a story isn’t covered by the Times, and thereafter picked up by everybody else, did it really happen? Given the complicity of the media with regard to Sibel Edmonds, it would appear the government never even needed to invoke the “State Secrets Privilege” in the first place.

As of this writing, HUSTLER stands to be the largest, most “corporate” U.S. outlet in which these startling, now-public, on-the-record disclosures have been reported. The moral: Pull off a large enough crime, and it becomes too big to do anything about.

[Double T]

1. wall street, corporate america and our government are totally corrupt.

The msm is owned and operated by those very same criminals. This story of the century will never get headlines as we are now officially the most corrupt country on the face of the earth; no prosecution of traitors that sold out the US or those that brought down our economy and financial system into a DEPRESSION and ruin. There are solutions to this problem and they need to begin with a total house and senate cleaning this November. If YOU reelect your current representatives, then YOU are the biggest part of our problem.

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. Interesting that no one has sued her for slander, eh?

If she is not telling the truth, you would think there would libel/slander suits, wouldn't you?

[Raster]

3. They wouldn't dare sue her for slander. That would involve a courtroom, and courtrooms involve

Testimony!

[formercia]

5. Nothing like Discovery and putting in the court record.

There would be some soiled skivvies for sure.

[Raster]

6. One word: perjury!

[jberryhill]

4. How much money does she have?

...and what has been the economic loss attributable to her accusations?

[Vattel]

10. careful

don't inject intelligence into this sort of discussion.

[troubledamerican]

7. Traitor: Henry Waxman (D-CA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMy3xylXS9k

[Tutankhamun]

8. One way to identify a really big story in America is media coverage;

a truly huge story receives little or no coverage.

[winyanstaz]

9. I say arrest the traitors, bring them to trial now...

[Vattel]

11. A competent article on the topic would be nice.

In this piece of crap, we once again have Edmonds' sensational allegations followed by a quote from a DOJ report that was actually referring to her original, not-so-sensational allegations. Pure yellow journalism.

To quote the article: Former CIA counterterrorism officer Giraldi summed up Edmonds’s disclosures to me in blunt terms: “This was a massive coordinated espionage effort directed against United States nuclear secrets engineered by foreign agents who successfully corrupted senior government officials and legislators in our Congress. It’s that simple.”
According to a declassified version of a 2005 Department of Justice Inspector General’s report, Sibel Edmonds’s allegations are “credible,” “serious” and “warrant a thorough and careful review by the FBI.”

Notice how the remark about the 2005 report immediately follows descriptions of allegations that are not addressed by that report?

[sabrina 1]

12. I don't think we actually needed Sybel Edmonds'

testimony to know that much of what she has said is true. Airc, anyone paying attention knew about Hastert and especially about Cheney's little cabal of operatives that he set up to lie about the war in Iraq, including Feith, Ledeen et al. You only have to use Google to know that Wolfowitz, Feith and Ledeen have been accused before, and fired airc, for their questionable behavior regarding National Security.

We know they are liars and crooks and that they led this country into a disastrous war by lies and anything else they felt the need to do to get what they wanted. The result of that treasonous policy is over one million dead human beings.

So, Edmonds' testimony simply verifies what people who were watching already knew, minus details she was able to supply as a result of her being in the position she was in.

I give credit to those like Brad, who have not stopped reporting on the story as everyone else has decided to just 'move on', including our current Democrats.

I'm not really bothered that some details in the story might have been better presented. If the MSM were doing their job, this story should have been headlines long ago and if our government were doing their job, most of those mentioned in the story would have been prosecuted for the roles they played in the policies that brought this country to where it is today.