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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:34 PM
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Call Congress! Demand hearings now! Re: Sibel Edmonds, Turkey, Israel, FBI cover-ups, etc.
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/07/sibel-911.html

Sunday, July 30, 2006
sibel 911
As we know, Sibel says that the best published summary of her case is Giraldi's article in AmCon which puts the spotlight on defense contractors, Israel and Turkey, and the profiteering neocon enablers.

As I've noted before, there's nothing in that article about 911 - yet many people still cling to the hope that Sibel has the Holy Grail to 911.

I spoke to her recently and she again said that she doesn't hold any specific insight into 911 - but noted, again, that she wonders why the USG appears so determined to hide everything. She says that the August 04 letter she wrote to Tom Kean and the 911 Commission contains just about everything that she knows in relation to the attacks.

As Sibel notes in that letter:

However, your commission's hearings, 567-page report and recommendations do not include these serious issues, major incidents and systemic problems. Your report's coverage of FBI translation problems consists of a brief microscopic footnote (Footnote #25). Yet your commission is geared to start aggressively pressuring our government to hastily implement your measures and recommendations based upon an incomplete and deficient report.
In this post, I'll look at the specific claims that Sibel makes in her letter, and expand on them based on what we know now (bolded emphases in original)

Melek Can Dickerson, a Turkish translator, was hired by the FBI after Sept. 11 and placed in charge of translating the most sensitive information related to terrorists and criminals under the Bureau's investigation. Dickerson was granted top secret clearance, which can be granted only after conducting a thorough background investigation. Dickerson used to work for semi-legit organizations that were FBI targets of investigation. She had ongoing relationships with two individuals who were FBI targets of investigation. For months, Dickerson blocked all-important information related to these semi-legit organizations and the individuals she and her husband associated with. She stamped hundreds, if not thousands, of documents related to these targets as "not pertinent." Dickerson attempted to prevent others from translating these documents important to the FBI's investigations and our fight against terrorism. With the assistance of her direct supervisor, Mike Feghali, she took hundreds of pages of top-secret intelligence documents outside the FBI to unknown recipients. With Feghali's assistance, she forged signatures on top-secret documents related to 9/11 detainees. After all these incidents were confirmed and reported to FBI management, Melek Can Dickerson was allowed to remain in her position, to continue the translation of sensitive intelligence received by the FBI, and to maintain her top-secret clearance. Apparently bureaucratic mid-level FBI management and administrators decided that it would not look good for the Bureau to have this security breach and espionage case investigated and publicized, especially after the Robert Hanssen scandal. The Melek Can Dickerson case was confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Committee. It received major coverage by the press. According to Director Robert Mueller, the inspector general criticized the FBI for failing to adequately pursue the espionage report on Melek Can Dickerson.
I discussed Melek Can Dickerson in a recent post, so I won't delve too deeply into it here again. I will note however, that I suspect the FBI translation unit was compromised prior to 911 to the extent that the FBI didn't have any Turkish translators whatsoever. Apparently this arrangement wasn't an accident, and the targets of these investigations apparently presumed that they could talk freely on their phones. Sibel speaks of having translated damaging intercepts going back to 1996 or 1997, and I think that we need to keep that in mind when we consider the frenetic activity going on when Dickerson, an apparent mole, was shuffled into position in October 2001 and was immediately stealing some documents, burying others, and re-routing translation duties. Similarly, we have to presume that she was compromised before she applied for the position, and that her application was fast-tracked because she was compromised.


More: http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/07/sibel-911.html

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/07/turkish-deepstate-gate.html

Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Turkish DeepState Gate
i got an email from sibel - she is going to be running this op-ed tomorrow at her site



The Secrets Behind ‘State Secrets’: How Turkey's Mafia-like 'Deep State' (and its Neocon Friends) Penetrated the American Government

By Mike Mejia

French filmmaker Mathieu Verboud is set to release a new documentary for European television this fall, which will reveal important new insights into the case of former FBI translator and president of the National Security Whistleblower’s Coalition Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds, a Turkish-American whose wrongful termination lawsuit was suppressed by the government’s invocation of the all-too-common “state secrets privilege”, reported to her superiors espionage and deliberate mistranslations on the part of fellow Turkish translator, Melek Can Dickerson. It seems Ms. Dickerson had relationships with targets of FBI investigation working at the Turkish Embassy and the American Turkish Council, a fact which meant that anything she translated was likely to be false. However, instead of receiving a promotion for bringing Ms. Dickerson’s’ espionage to the attention of her bosses, Edmonds was fired after she went in frustration to the U.S. Senate. The FBI refused to investigate Edmonds’ claims, at least in part, because the contract linguist had discovered quite a messy scandal: the content of the mistranslated documents revealed that some very powerful people in the U.S. government, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, were connected to foreign organized crime. Even worse, these foreign criminals connected to the high and mighty in the U.S. were also connected internationally, through the heroin trade and associated money laundering, to international terrorist organizations like al Qaeda.


Okay, take a deep breath and take a step back: it’s not a pretty picture. According to what we know so far from Sibel Edmonds’ many interviews and from the groundbreaking story on her case from Vanity Fair, “An Inconvenient Patriot” , Edmonds found that within the U.S. a nest of Turkish spies, some working at the Turkish embassy, others affiliated with namely the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), the American Turkish Associations (ATA) and the American Turkish Council (ATC), were involved in espionage, bribery, illegal lobbying, drug trafficking and the infiltration of U.S nuclear research labs. Separately, from a former CIA Counterterrorism official, Phillip Giraldi, who himself was once based in Turkey, we know that some arms sales meant for Turkey and Israel were actually meant for resale to countries like China and India- and perhaps even to international terrorists- using fake end-user certificates. So we have Turkish nationals at the Embassy and NGOs stealing U.S. secrets for sale to the highest bidder, re-selling arms meant for Turkey, bringing in drugs from Europe, and pouring money into bribes and lobbying activities.


To understand how these activities fit together- Americans must first understand what Europeans call the Turkish ‘deep state’. In 1996, a car crash in a town called Susurluk revealed “link between politics, organized crime and the bureaucracy” in Turkey. As it turns out, its crippled economy in the 1990s meant Turkey had become the European equivalent of Colombia- a state almost completely dependent on the Turkish mafia and by extension, the Southwest Asian Heroin trade. Which is where the Turkish ‘deep state’ comes in- it becomes very difficult to determine where the ‘government’ ends and the ‘mafia’ begins. What we do know from Sibel Edmonds and other sources is this: Turkey’s secular establishment, including the Turkish military and intelligence services (MIT), as well as political parties associated with former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, appear to have been more connected to the Turkish mafia than the Turkish Islamic Parties that Washington abhors. Furthermore, it appears from reading into some of Edmonds’ statements that the Turkish mafia was partnered with Osama Bin Laden’s al Qaeda network in the drug trade- meaning Turkey’s secular establishment was more connected to al Qaeda- pre/9-11- than were the Islamists in Turkey. Which is quite ironic, to say the least.


If you think this story sounds too convoluted to be true, and you feel the instinct to dismiss Edmonds’ claims, think again. Every investigation into the whistleblower’s charges- from the Senate Judiciary Committee to the Department of Justice’s Inspector General Report, has found that Edmonds’ story is corroborated within the FBI, which means her translations, not those of Melek Can Dickerson, were the correct ones. This also means that the aforementioned Turkish organizations, and certain Turkish diplomats, were indeed under FBI investigation. And all this put together means that people like Dennis Hastert probably were- and perhaps still are- on the payroll of Turkish ‘deep state’ interests.

A recent article published in the U.K. Guardian about the well-connected Kurdish Baybasin clan also gives important backing to the former translator’s story. The article details how Europe’s “Pablo Escobar”, Huseyin Baybasin, has “alleged that he had received the assistance of Turkish embassies and consulates while moving huge consignments of drugs around Europe, and that Turkish army officers serving with NATO in Belgium were also involved." This information, of course, dovetails most precisely with what Sibel Edmonds has been hinting at for over 3 years now; that targets of FBI investigations linked with the Turkish embassy and Turkish organizations were involved in narcotics trafficking. It is clear the Baybasin gang and the secular factions in Turkey had a seemingly symbiotic relationship, with the government providing the traffickers diplomatic passports and thus free reign to travel around the world without fear of prosecution. Also involved in the scandalous Turkish drug running are the very notorious, Pope-killing Grey Wolves, a fascist organization connected to human rights abuses in Turkey.

As for who else besides Hastert might have been on the payroll of Mr. Baybasin and friends- we turn next to the Executive Branch. In an interview with Chris Deliso of antiwar.com, Edmonds hinted at key roles played by some powerful unelected officials-important Neoconservatives like Marc Grossman of the State Department, and Richard Perle and Douglas Feith, formerly of the Defense Department. If we hit the rewind button and go back to a CBS 60 Minutes’ interview in October, 2002, we remember the ex-contract linguist stated that Turkish targets of FBI investigation had spies inside the U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon in order to “obtain the United States military and intelligence secrets.” It doesn’t take a genius to conclude that Grossman, Feith and Perle might have been the persons to whom she was referring in 2002. Furthermore, the language specialist has repeatedly stated in past interviews that investigations into pre-9/11 terrorist financing activities were blocked “per State Department request”, leaving open the question whether it was Mr. Grossman, then Undersecretary of State for European Affairs, who actively hindered investigations into the Turkey-Bin Laden link.


Perle and Feith are an interesting case in this hidden scandal. Their consultancy, International Advisors (IA), has done extensive work for the Republic of Turkey, though it is questionable who is paying the invoices. Ms. Edmonds rhetorically asked the question of Phoenix radio personality Charles Goyette in January 2006, “For what ? One could imagine, hypothetically, that passing state secrets might be one “service” provided to the Turkish mafia/government by IA. But would Perle and Feith have gone beyond that? Would they have introduced the Turkish mafia types to Denny Hastert, and counseled “deep state” interests in how to skirt U.S. campaign finance laws? After all, the Turks were reported to have made their initial payments from 1996-1998 through “unitemized (less than $200) contributions”, after which they allegedly delivered suitcases of cash to the Speaker’s front door. Someone had to teach them the intricacies of campaign finance law: was it IA? What we do know is that Perle was a key architect of the Israeli/Turkish alliance forged in the late 90s, and that Edmonds case also is connected to the AIPAC spy scandal- leaving lots of room for speculation on how the rest of the story pans out.

As messy and ugly as this, for lack of a better phrase, “Turkish DeepState Gate” scandal appears, the consequences of continuing to do nothing about it- of allowing the government’s outrageous use of ‘state secrets’ to insure Dennis Hastert, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Marc Grossman and others are never investigated, could be horrific. Ms. Edmonds plans to take petitions to the Senate Judiciary Committee in the coming months to finally force full and open hearings on her case. She will try to do the type of lobbying that does not involve foreign bribery or ill-gotten gains. This will be the simple type of petitioning guaranteed of every citizen in the Constitution under the First Amendment, a long forgotten portion of the Bill of Rights. Americans aware of the situation can only hope, and do everything in their power to insure, that Ms. Edmonds’ type of lobbying prevails.


More: http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/07/turkish-deepstate-gate.html

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/12/peter-dale-scott-sibel-edmonds.html

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Peter Dale Scott & Sibel Edmonds
I've been meaning to take a closer look at Peter Dale Scott's work (thanks to a couple of readers who sent me stuff on that. I promise I'll get to it - apologies for being a laggard) In any case, Miguel sent through this recent speech from PDS:

I want to close this part of my talk on the allegations of Sibel Edmonds. Unfortunately we don’t really know what they are because she is under a gag order. That for reasons of state she is not able to tell the public what she told the FBI. She was a whistleblower, who naively did what a whistleblower should do in the name of protecting the American public order, and got fired for it. And she is still fighting to appeal her case. She can’t talk, but she has talked here and there. And my friend Daniel Ellsberg is very interested in her case; and very recently he summed up what she is saying for KPFA, my local Pacifica radio station. This is Ellsberg’s summary of what Sibel Edmonds is saying:

Al Qaeda, she’s been saying to Congress, is financed 95% by drug money, drug traffic to which the U.S. government shows a blind eye, has been ignoring because it very heavily involves allies and assets of ours, such as Turkey, Kyrayzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, Afghanistan - all of the Stans, in a drug traffic where the opium originates in Afghanistan, is processed in Turkey and delivered to Europe where it furnishes 96% of Europe’s heroin by Albanians, either in Albania or Kosovo, Albanian muslims in Kosovo, basically the KLA Kosovo Liberation Army (which we backed heavily in that episode at the end of the century, that’s last century) ---–

A) That the KLA was deeply involved or its leaders were deeply involved in drug trafficking and have used the NATO intervention as a way to consolidate a drug route through Kosovo and

B) that they were very heavily involved with al Qaeda. Al-Zawahiri’s brother came to organize KLA things and al-Zawahiri himself may have come to Kosovo.

C) At the same time key KLA leaders were allied with PMCs – Private Military Corporations -- notably DynCorp. Those of you who were here last night heard Cynthia McKinney ask about DynCorp – and why the defense department worked with them. There are war crimes attributed to KLA leaders who in Croatia worked hand in glove with DynCorp.
I’m cutting out a lot here that is relevant. But Sibel Edmonds says "Suitcases of cash were delivered to the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert at his home near Chicago from Turkish sources, knowing that a lot of that is drug money." 38

These are very serious charges that were aired to some extent in some in Vanity Fair.39 And they are so important that the media, predictably, ignored them. And I’m drawing attention to what she is saying not because what she is saying can be proven, but these charges are very serious and not just pertinent to 9/11 alone, but to the whole fabric of how this country is run.

I consider this a top priority for testing the honesty and credibility of the new Democratic leadership in Congress. Will they pursue these matters? I hope that by hook or by crook you will try and put pressure on the new Democratic Congress to deal with these matters, so that we get a proper investigation of them for the first time.

And to close this section, whatever is the extent of what she is describing, it’s not just her. There was another witness, Indira Singh, who was talking at a 9/11 conference up in Canada; and she said, "I was told that if I mentioned the money to the drugs around 9/11 that would be the end of me." 40

This is a woman who has nothing to do with Sibel Edmonds, but alluded to the same thing in the background of 9/11.41 And we need to learn more about that. And I suspect that whatever the situation is, it’s something which goes back to at least as far as 1963, and would then explain the same background for the Kennedy assassination.

One thing we can say with confidence: the flow of Afghan heroin west through Turkey is a problem that can be traced back to the CIA’s involvement with Pakistan’s ISI intelligence service, with the drug-linked Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and with Islamist Afghan mujahedeen like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the 1980s.42

In fact the web of influence she describes corresponds closely to BCCI’s influence in the 1980s, when the head of BCCI used to boast to the head of Pakistan of BCCI’s role in getting aid for Pakistan approved by the US Congress.43


More: http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/12/peter-dale-scott-sibel-edmonds.html

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/12/sibel-nuclear-woman.html

Friday, December 08, 2006
sibel: nuclear woman
Prior to the election, there were scattered reports of another 'security lapse' regarding nuclear secrets at Los Alamos. Some of these reports posited scary 'what if?' scenarios regarding the War on Terror (TM).

Fair enough. But here's the thing: Sibel Edmonds has been trying to bring attention to the fact that terrorist/criminal groups have been 'stealing' nuclear secrets from the US for years - multiple branches of the US Government are aware of this - and yet they do nothing to prevent it. And the media don't report it either.

I'm not kidding. Sibel tried to raise the issue again last week in her blockbuster White Paper.

Details downstairs.

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In October, police raided a trailer home which doubled as a meth factory - and they stumbled across a treasure trove of nuclear secrets that had somehow escaped from Los Alamos. As CBS reported:
"The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons, officials tell CBS News.
<...>
Multiple sources now tell CBS News that the material includes sensitive weapons-design data.
<...>
But one federal official recently briefed on the issue says "It's devastating." If a nuclear weapon were stolen, the information "would tell the terrorists everything they need to do to get a weapon to fire.""
Is this an innocuous 'breach'? I have no idea. But I think we can all agree that drugs and nukes shouldn't be mixed.

Which brings me to Sibel Edmonds. Again.

For years, Sibel has been talking about the intersection of the nuclear black market and heroin trafficking for years - with barely a mention in the US media.

Sibel's case, however, isn't about 'breaches' or 'lapses' - Sibel's case is about the systematic, long-term, for-profit, looting of US nuclear secrets (and who knows what else) by criminal organizations who then sell the nuclear technology to the highest bidder(s) - including terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda.

To make matters worse, this has been taking place with the full knowledge of the US government. I'm not kidding.

In Sibel's blockbuster article last week, she wrote:

Nuclear black-market related activities depend on Turkey for manufacturing nuclear components, and on its strategic location as a transit point to move goods and technology to nations such as Iran, Pakistan, and others. Not only that, Turkey’s status and close relationship with the U.S. enables it to obtain (steal) technology and information from the U.S.
How does she know this? Because it's on the wiretaps - probably from the American Turkish Council (ATC) which was apparently "being used as a front for criminal activity."

David Rose has already reported on this theft of nuclear secrets in his 2005 Vanity Fair article:

According to (Sibel's) later secure testimony, in one conversation... a Turkish official spoke directly to a U.S. State Department staffer. They suggested that the State Department staffer would send a representative at an appointed time to the American-Turkish Council office, at 1111 14th St. NW, where he would be given $7,000 in cash. “She told us she’d heard mention of exchanges of information, dead drops—that kind of thing,” a congressional source says. “It was mostly money in exchange for secrets...

...Yet another (conversation) implied that Turkish groups had been installing doctoral students at U.S. research institutions in order to acquire information about black market nuclear weapons. In fact, much of what Edmonds reportedly heard seemed to concern not state espionage but criminal activity...”
The FBI and the CIA had apparently been monitoring the ATC - a criminal front-organisation operating under the guise of a Turkish lobby group ("a mini-AIPAC") - for years (probably at least going back to 1996) - and they sat passively by, and watched as the ATC bribed congressmen and State and Pentagon employees, and placed spies in the nuclear labs and stole nuclear secrets (among other things).

Again, this is not State espionage, this is a criminal gang - with criminal motives - with "direct and indirect role and ties to (9/11)" And the FBI et al did nothing, and apparently continues to do nothing, about the fact that these same people are stealing nuclear secrets!

And it's not as though this was some isolated espionage within the FBI that has somehow been blocking all this from the CIA, WhiteHouse, DoJ, Congress etc. At a minimum, Sibel has testified before the Sept. 11 commission, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Select Intelligence Committee - and of course, Ashcroft has gagged Sibel, and all of Congress. Everyone knows! For example, in her recent piece, Sibel mocked Porter Goss:

Here is what CIA Director Porter Goss said bluntly before the Senate Intelligence Committee in February 2004, “It may be only a matter of time before Al Qaeda or other groups attempt to use chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear weapons. We must focus on that.” And we know that he knows; has known for the longest time!
I checked with Sibel about this statement to clarify what she was saying, and she confirmed my interpretation - that:
a) Al Qaeda has attempted to procure some of these WMDs
b) Al Qaeda have succeeded in getting some WMDs, including from the US.
c) Porter Goss and other senior figures across the different departments of USG knows this.

Surely that's not possible? Why doesn't the FBI launch an investigation? Why don't they stop it?


More: http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/12/sibel-nuclear-woman.html

http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2007/01/sibel-edmonds-neocons-turkish-gravy.html

Monday, January 08, 2007
Sibel Edmonds & the Neocons' Turkish Gravy-Train
Sibel Edmonds recently wrote a fantastic White Paper recently called "The Highjacking of a Nation- Part 2: The Auctioning of Former Statesmen & Dime a Dozen Generals" which basically laid out the facts of her case for all to see. In a chapter titled "The Real Lords of the Poppy Fields" she noted that

most of Afghanistan's heroin & opium is processed and trafficked through Turkey
"Heroin trafficking is also the main source of funding for the al-Qaeda terrorists "
Turkey is a haven for (Al Qaeda’s) sources of funding.

Sibel then notes that
"It is puzzling to observe that in reporting this major artery (Turkey) of terrorists’ funding, the U.S. mainstream media and political machine do not dare to go beyond the poppy fields of Afghanistan and the fairly insignificant low level Afghan warlords overseeing the crops."

I was therefore curious to see how the World Bank's recent comprehensive 228 page report "Afghanistan's Drug Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy" would deal with Turkey's role - particularly given that World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz and most of the other neocons have substantial financial incentives for supporting Turkey.

You probably won't be surprised to learn that the dog didn't bark. Again.

Let's have a closer look at the title of the World Bank report: "Afghanistan's Drug Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy"

Note that this isn't a report 'about Afghanistan' - but about the INDUSTRY - and given that Afghanistan supplies 90% of the global heroin market, we might expect to read in the report at least something about the major purchasers of Afghani product.We might even expect to learn something about the major traffickers. We might even expect to learn something about the major trafficking routes. Right?

In fact, the title of the report promises to look at the "Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy" - and the report does pretend to cover many of these issues, using fancy terms like 'value chain analysis,' 'vertical price structure' and 'price margins at different stages' and so on - all the things that you'd expect to find in an industry analysis. However, the analysis is conducted primarily (with some notable, and telling, exceptions) on an 'in-country' basis - which is essentially meaningless for analysing a global industry. This World Bank report is akin to an attempt to understand the global soft-drink market by looking really, really closely at the logistics around Atlanta - and as Sibel suggests, the 'frame of reference' of this report is unlikely to be an accident, and is most likely an intentional attempt to whitewash Turkey's role in the heroin industry.

According to the State Deparment's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs' 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Turkey is a key player in this industry:

Turkey

I. Summary.

Turkey is a major transit route for Southwest Asian opiates to Europe, and serves as a base and refining center for major narcotics traffickers and brokers.... While most of the heroin trafficked via Turkey is marketed in Western Europe, an increasing amount of heroin and opium also is smuggled from Turkey to the U.S., but not in quantities sufficient to have a significant impact on the U.S.

II. Status of Country

Turkey is a major transshipment point. Turkey is also a base of operations for international narcotics traffickers and associates trafficking in opium, morphine base, heroin, precursor chemicals and other drugs. The majority of these opiates originate in Afghanistan, and are ultimately trafficked to Western Europe. A smaller but still not insignificant amount of heroin is trafficked to the U.S. via Turkey... Turkish authorities continue to seize large amounts of heroin and precursor chemicals, such as acetic anhydride. It is estimated that multi-ton amounts of heroin are smuggled through Turkey each month. Some heroin is still being refined in Turkey.



Drug Flow/Transit. Turkey remains a major route, refining center and storage, production and staging area, for the flow of heroin to Europe. Turkish-based traffickers and brokers operate in conjunction with narcotics smugglers, laboratory operators, and money launderers in and outside Turkey. They finance and control the smuggling of opiates to and from Turkey. Afghanistan is the source of most of the opiates reaching Turkey. Morphine and heroin base are smuggled overland from Afghanistan and Pakistan via Iran. Opiates and hashish also are smuggled to Turkey overland from Afghanistan via Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Traffickers in Turkey illegally acquire the heroin precursor chemical, acetic anhydride, from sources in Western Europe, the Balkans and Russia. For fiscal year 2004, 2,304 liters of acetic anhydride were seized in, or destined for, Turkey. Some criminal elements in Turkey reportedly have interests in heroin laboratories operating near the Iranian-Turkish border in Iran. Turkish-based traffickers control much of the heroin marketed to Western Europe.


More: http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2007/01/sibel-edmonds-neocons-turkish-gravy.html


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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:00 PM
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1. Let her speak freely!!! KR
This woman has risked her life and livelihood to tell us the truth. She's the best argument ever for an open and welcoming immigration policy.

Why is this judge, a Republican appointee, holding back the truth?

What's his agenda?

Not the agenda of free people.
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 05:16 PM
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3. Thanks Mike!
She needs our support.
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autorank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 10:21 PM
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10. I'd like to thank Sybel for her courage. This is very serious and a real
risk. I want to see that film she has out. It looked greatin the previews.

Keep up the great work!!! You are the Diederot of *shadow government*
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:07 PM
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14. with any luck
the film will be out in the US this year.

i still havent seen it yet - it will be shown in Australia shortly, hopefully.
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 04:02 PM
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2. K&R For getting the truth out nt
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porphyrian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 05:19 PM
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4. I'll kick that. - n/t
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reprehensor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 05:26 PM
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5. Yeah!
Why not. We're all grown-ups here, right?

How 'bout some truth for the masses...
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ftr23532 Donating Member (334 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:11 PM
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6. this post most definitely deserves a ....
:kick:
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:16 PM
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7. I would be thrilled if the gag-order was removed from Sibel Edmunds!!
Allow the truth to be known why she was fired, whom she posed serious threats of being revealed, especially what she revealed to the FBI before 9-11 happened!!!
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 10:30 PM
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11. we already know
lots of the stuff behind sibel's case.

read her latest article
http://nswbc.org/Op%20Ed/Part2-FNL-Nov29-06.htm

and we know who the people are - Perle, Feith, Hastert, Grossman, for example
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:53 PM
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8. thnx Independent_Liberal
hey - i recognize some of that stuff ;-)
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:59 PM
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9. Your welcome Luke!
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 12:14 AM
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15. sibel army
btw - i'll have an action-item for the sibel army in the next day or two.

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randyconspiracybuff Donating Member (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 08:40 AM
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We're On A Mission from God
No one can stop us!
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randyconspiracybuff Donating Member (192 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 08:40 AM
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16. We're On A Mission from God
No one can stop us!
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 01:08 PM
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20. you can help sibel
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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:00 PM
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12. .
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 11:03 PM
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13. A kick for truth
:kick:
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rman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 12:01 PM
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17. kick
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 04:27 PM
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18. I've sent this info...
...to Bob Fertik and David Swanson of afterdowningstreet.org. Just getting the word out.
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lukery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-10-07 06:18 PM
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19. good work
they are good folk
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 03:27 PM
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21. My letter to Waxman...
Dear Congressman Waxman,

I urge you to hold hearings on the whistleblower allegations of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. She was "gag ordered" by the Justice Department in the months after 9/11 and fired after pointing out security breaches. There's some things she's been wanting to tell the public for a long time about alleged wrongdoing in certain government agencies. A lot of this relates to behavior of the FBI in the months leading up to 9/11, money from foreign lobbying firms funneled to members of Congress, forgeries at the FBI, cover-ups of incompetence at the highest levels, corruption in the intelligence agencies, former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's alleged ties to Turkish officials and other bribery allegations, penetration of the FBI, State Department and Pentagon, drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal weapons sales, nuclear black market sales, espionage, the American Turkish Council, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith's connections to the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), etc. It is important that hearings are held on these matters and these allegations are investigated. Testimony from Ms. Edmonds and other Justice Department, State Department and Pentagon officials would be informative and helpful for Congress and the public. These are things we need to know about.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
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Independent_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-11-07 04:19 PM
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22. My letter to Conyers...
Dear Congressman Conyers,

I urge you to hold hearings on the whistleblower allegations of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds. She was "gag ordered" by the Justice Department in the months after 9/11. There's some things she's been wanting to tell the public for a long time about alleged wrongdoing in certain government agencies. A lot of this relates to:

Behavior of the FBI in the months leading up to 9/11
Pre-9/11 insider trading
Money from foreign lobbying firms funneled to members of Congress
Israeli spy espionage
Drug trafficking
Money laundering
Illegal weapons sales
Nuclear black market sales
Cover-ups of incompetence at the highest levels of the government
Corruption in the intelligence agencies
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert's alleged ties to Turkish officials and other bribery allegations
The CIA's Brewster Jennings network
Penetration of the FBI, State Department and Pentagon
FBI forgeries
Defense contractors
K Street lobbyists’ ties to foreign entities
Lockheed Martin
The Carlyle Group
American Turkish Council
International Advisers Inc.
Richard Perle and Douglas Feith's connections with the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)

As Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, it is important that you investigate and hold hearings on these matters with sworn testimony from Ms. Edmonds and several officials from the Justice Department, State Department, Pentagon and National Security Counsel. It is crucial to our democracy that the Congress and public hear about these allegations. White House aides, Congressional staffers and officials from the intelligence agencies must be subpoenaed and put under oath.

Please, do it for Sibel. Do it for the public. Do it for democracy.


Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,
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