A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC (Wayne Madsen)

[Tim Howells]

More confirmation for the info in the "Sibel Edmonds is Talking" thread:

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

August 31, 2005 -- A convergence of investigations: AIPAC and ATC. As
reported previously on WMR, federal investigators are poring over wiretap
transcripts and other intelligence that link the Larry
Franklin/Rosen/Weissman AIPAC investigation to the investigation of who in
the White House leaked the name of Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster
Jennings & Associates non-official cover company to journalists, including
Robert Novak. According to intelligence insiders, a new nexus of the
investigation is the intelligence relationship discovered between AIPAC
and the American Turkish Council (ATC). As with the AIPAC and Mossad
penetration of the Pentagon, a similar ATC and Turkish intelligence
penetration of the Defense Department was discovered and it reportedly
involved some of the same players involved in the AIPAC probe, including
former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Policy and Plans Douglas Feith.

In addition, two former U.S. ambassadors to Turkey -- Marc Grossman (who
has since joined the Cohen Group of former Defense Secretary William
Cohen) and Eric Edelman, who replaced Feith at the Pentagon, were
identified in FBI wiretaps as key players with the ATC. The AIPAC and ATC
link involves individuals who profit from the use of Turkey as a base for
nuclear materials proliferation, including fissile material from the
former Soviet Central Asian states, and heroin distribution from
Afghanistan and other countries to Europe and North America. The AIPAC-ATC
links also involved persons and businesses tied to the A. Q. Khan nuclear
proliferation network that was headquartered in Pakistan but had
operational offices in Turkey. Those links, involving Israeli citizen and
nuclear smuggler Asher Karni and Turkish Jewish businessman Zeki Bilmen
and his New Jersey-based Giza Technologies, were first reported by WMR on
August 1.

Another company that has reportedly been making entrees to the ATC-AIPAC
influence peddling consortium is the Ashcroft Group, a firm set up in May
2005 by former Attorney General John Ashcroft to help countries with law
enforcement and counter-terrorism. Ashcroft's partner in the Ashcroft
Group is Juleanna Glover Weiss, who worked for Ashcroft, Steve Forbes,
Rudolph Giuliani, and Vice President Dick Cheney. As one intelligence
insider put the AIPAC-ATC links, "these have nothing to do with religion
or politics, just pure greed."