Sibel Edmonds Speaks!

I hate wearing the tinfoil hat, but any sane person who has been paying attention knows that there have been strange doings afoot in these United States for quite some time. Starting around the time of the original 'October Surprise' (1980), next came Iran-Contra & the rise of the cocaine trade by our Contra 'allies', the demise of BCCI, the S&L debacle, strange doings in Panama around 1989, the 9/11 attacks, the anthrax attacks, the lead-up to the illegal war in Iraq, the authorized use of torture by the United States government - all these things have received lengthy 'investigations' but never do we the people get the honest truth behind these shady dealings, these 'investigations' always somehow peter out before the entire truth and precise range of complicity is publicly revealed. We do not even have the precise membership nor plan of action from Cheney's energy task force meetings in the spring of 2001. You may quibble with the details but no sane honest person can truthfully deny that serious details from all these 'investigations' are seriously lacking, and I'm not about to discuss the massive spying on United States' citizens by the Bushies.

Sibel Edmonds was hired by the FBI to translate secret intercepts 20 September 2001. She is fluent in Turkish, Persian and Azeri. She was fired by the FBI 22 March 2002 for (official) reasons unknown but she had complained repeatedly to her superiors that the intercepts she was translating involved massive bribes to US government officials, evidence of moles & spies throughout the state, defense & justice departments, evidence of government (US, Turkey & others) involvement, and transfer of US nuclear secrets to the A.Q.Khan network in Pakistan, the nice guys who supplied North Korea, Pakistan, Iran & Libyan nuclear weapons programs. Her reward as a whistleblower was to be slapped with a State Secrets Privilege gag order that prohibits her from speaking this information. She has tried many times to get a public hearing on this information but she has met with a strangely reticent Democratic congress, despite promises to the contrary, even Congressman Waxman has been unwilling to hear her testimony. (Remember Valerie Plame Wilson? She and her front company Brewster-Jennings were working on nuclear weapons proliferation in that very same region when she was outed by Armitage & Rove on the presumed instructions of Cheney - oops! Yet another incomplete investigation)

Ms. Edmonds finally published part of her story in the UK Timesonline 06 January 2008 which you can read here. There is also useful commentary & names named at Let Sibel Edmonds Speak, The Brad Blog & Antiwar.com among others and the list is certain to grow. I f you are interested in this topic may I recommend you view & possibly print these links as I am not certain exactly how long these links will be live. I will not attempt to quote or paraphrase, there's just too much information there.

Welcome to the future - flying cars my ass...

Update 10 January 2008
Tin foil hat mein arse - it's down the rabbit hole we go! Let's start with Chris Floyd's take on this in which he shows strong links between Sibel's stuff and our old friends at BCCI including links to both the Carter presidency (Bert Lance) and our old buddy Henry Kissinger. (Here (thanks to the FAS) is the entire unexpurgated Senator John Kerry's CFR report on BCCI circa December 1992)

Oh look, it's the White Rabbit and he's late! Time to go! I bring you AMERICAN JUDAS 2nd Edition, a well researched & linked post that ties in way too many elements, from AIPAC to Dick Cheney with a special bonus of the 9/11 conspiracy and its plotters, funders & links to the actual terrorists themselves...

Wouldn't you love to read the history books a hundred years from now? Let me leave you with a quote from the Let Sibel Edmonds Speak article -

"Let me repeat that for emphasis: The #3 guy at the State Dept (Mark Grossman) facilitated the immediate release of 9/11 suspects at the request of targets of the FBI's investigation." - "Sibel heard the targets tell Marc Grossman: 'We need to get them out of the US because we can't afford for them to spill the beans.' Grossman duly facilitated their release from jail and the suspects immediately left the country without further investigation or interrogation."

Oh, wait a minute - isn't it the liberal progressives like me who are supposed to hate America?

Update 18 January 2008
Some more info regarding the transfer of nuclear technology through Turkish & Pakistani companies. Still nothing in the United States press however...

Update 18 August 2008
Sibel Edmonds Case: FBI files "formal complaint" with Sunday Times at Daily Kos. Why do you suppose the FBI has a problem w/Ms. Edmunds talking to the London Times, eh? Might that be yet another indication that she might be telling the (inconvenient) truth?

Update 25 August 2008
bmaz at Marcie Wheeler's Emptywheel has a superb post up in which we learn, thanks to The New York Times & others, that

The president of Switzerland stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping smuggle nuclear technology to Libya and Iran.

The files were of particular interest not only to Swiss prosecutors but to international atomic inspectors working to unwind the activities of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani bomb pioneer-turned-nuclear black marketeer. The Swiss engineers, Friedrich Tinner and his two sons, were accused of having deep associations with Dr. Khan, acting as middlemen in his dealings with rogue nations seeking nuclear equipment and expertise.
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The United States had urged that the files be destroyed, according to interviews with five current and former Bush administration officials. The purpose, the officials said, was less to thwart terrorists than to hide evidence of a clandestine relationship between the Tinners and the C.I.A.

I'm getting tired of updating this nightmare, when will it all end? In a giant smokin' crater?? The powers-that-be missed the powers & profits that came with the cold war so much they squandered their fellow citizens’ blood & treasure in order to create a new ‘cold war’.