4 months prior 9/11 Iranian asset provides FBI with specific info

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http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwotisitgood4.blogspot.com%2F2006%2F10%2Fsibel-edmonds-corrupt-boss-is-still.html


Four months prior to the terrorist attacks the Iranian asset provided the FBI with specific information regarding the ‘use of airplanes’, ‘major US cities as targets’, and ‘Osama Bin Laden issuing the order. ’



Mike Feghali is the bottleneck between all of the FBI and any Arabic speaking terrorists. Do you feel safer? Do you think that he's become more diligent since he got promoted for being negligent? Do you think that he's become more competent since he got promoted for being incompetent? Do you think that he's become less susceptible to being bribed? Do you feel comfortable knowing that the FBI knows all of this and still promoted him to be the key bottleneck?

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1. And this was the infamous Melek Can Dickerson

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=326367&mesg_id=326367

SH: And this was the infamous Melek Can Dickerson, right? Who was this lady?

LR: She was married to Major Doug Dickerson - actually he's had a promotion since then, whatever his title is today, he's an airforce Major who'd been involved in weapons procurement in Turkey going back a decade. So, the two of them turned up to Sibel's house and tried to recruit Sibel. Sibel's husband was there, and they were all having a friendly chat when Major Doug Dickerson said 'Why don't you come and join this organization - the American Turkish Council?' And he basically said, 'If you work for these guys, we'll be able to get you in there, and you'll never have to work again.' He was basically trying to recruit Sibel to either mistranslate documents that were incriminating, or steal other documents that were in the building and feed them out to targets of the investigation so that the targets would know where the investigation was going.

SH: Now this lady, Melek Can Dickerson was really giving Sibel problems in the translation unit - is that correct?

LR: I don't know that specifically - I'm not sure if that was true before the recruitment attempt, or only after the attempted recruiting had failed. Sibel rebuffed the espionage recruiting attempt and then reported it to her boss a day or two later.

SH: Who's her boss that she reported it to?

LR: Sibel's boss was a guy called Mike Feghali - he was in charge at that time of the Turkey desk. Dickerson was also Turkish - she actually joined the FBI after Sibel did. Sibel was actually the first and only Turkish translator in the FBI translation unit when she first joined. They didn't have anyone else there.

SH: They didn't have anyone??

LR: Nope. They recruited Sibel, and then Dickerson, and then another guy, Kevin Taskasen. It turns out that Dickerson was a spy, and Taskasen could speak neither Turkish nor English - so the FBI translation unit in Washington was just a disaster.

SH: And what is this American Turkish Council that they tried to recruit Sibel Edmonds to join?

LR: The ATC is basically a mini-AIPAC (ref) - in fact it was established using the AIPAC model, I believe. It had the same people on the board, common members etc. It is basically the Turkish version of AIPAC, the Israeli lobby group. The ATC is basically, as Sibel says (ref) "an association in name and in charter, the reality is that it and other affiliated associations are the U.S. government, lobbyists, foreign agents, and MIC." So the members include people like the CEO of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, Northrup Grumman, and Boeing, I presume (I'm not sure). So it's basically a lobbying group for the military industrial complex.

SH: I see - and there are a lot of common interests there - I guess you have the Iron Triangle, the Revolving Door, where the politicians get jobs working at the firms and the regulators and the lobbyists and they all go back and forth in these little circles, and also internationally, you keep bringing up Turkey here, and the American Turkish Council, it makes sense when you think of the fact that America has been a NATO ally with Turkey since World War Two and has armed them and supplied them all along, that the American contractors - I guess what you're saying is that this is their forum to make sure that Turkey buys American planes with American dollars, specifically from these corporations. It's that kind of networking, right?

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2. Latest re: Sibel Edmonds case...

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/2/25/172012/182

Bush administration's abuse of FISA warrants linked to Sibel Edmonds case
By Bill Conroy,
Posted on Sun Feb 25th, 2007 at 05:20:11 PM EST



FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is continuing her fight to expose what she claims is serious corruption within the Bush administration. To date, the Bush administration has used the state-secrets privilege claim to silence Edmonds and prevent her from presenting evidence in the courts or Congress.

However, it now appears Edmonds has found a way to beat the state-secrets gag order.


In the coming weeks, insiders tell Narco News, Edmonds and the group she founded, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, will be coming forward with hard evidence, obtained legally from third-party sources, demonstrating that the Bush administration has used FISA warrants to engage in unauthorized surveillance of members of Congress and their staffs, and allegedly the FISA court was not aware of this misuse of the warrants.

The federal FISA court (set up under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) issues surveillance warrants (usually to the FBI) that target foreign intelligence agents operating in the United States. However, the warrants are not supposed to be used to conduct surveillance on U.S. citizens who are not acting illegally in the interest of a foreign power, such as members of Congress.

The fact that over the past five years, no known criminal investigations or indictments have resulted from the FISA warrants in question, Narco News sources claim, leads to the possibility that the information gathered through the warrants was being used by the Bush administration for political control and not law enforcement purposes.

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/story/2007/2/25/172012/182

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3. Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

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4. Oh, boy.

This sounds big. Hope it holds up. Fingers crossed.