Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? [big US espionage story]

American Conservatve ^ | 9/22/9

[NativeNewYorker]

Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts.

She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.

A Department of Justice inspector general’s report called Edmonds’s allegations “credible,” “serious,” and “warrant[ing] a thorough and careful review by the FBI.” Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee members Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have backed her publicly. “60 Minutes” launched an investigation of her claims and found them believable. No one has ever disproved any of Edmonds’s revelations, which she says can be verified by FBI investigative files.

John Ashcroft’s Justice Department confirmed Edmonds’s veracity in a backhanded way by twice invoking the dubious State Secrets Privilege so she could not tell what she knows. The ACLU has called her “the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.”

What follows is her own account of what some consider the most incredible tale of corruption and influence peddling in recent times. As Sibel herself puts it, “If this were written up as a novel, no one would believe it.”

[NativeNewYorker]

Didn't see this posted....worth reading.

[GQuagmire]

If all true....wow

[ecomcon]

EDMONDS: Yes. Sometimes he would give money to the people who were working with him, identified in phone calls on a first-name basis, whether it’s a John or a Joe. He also took care of some other people, including his contact at the New York Times. Grossman would brag, “We just fax to our people at the New York Times. They print it under their names.”

[SumProVita]

“The central figure in this scandal was Abdullah Catli. In 1989, while “most wanted” by Interpol, he came to the U.S., was granted residency, and settled in Chicago, where he continued to conduct his operations until 1996.”

Interesting place...Chicago.

[LucyT]

Who’s Afraid of Sibel Edmonds? [big US espionage story]

Ping. .

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[Bearshouse]

“If this were written up as a novel, no one would believe it.”

Too true .. but if this woman is telling the truth, the corruption in DC is so much deeper than we can possibly realize. I'm ready to vote for Ted Nugent for president. At least what you see is what you get. No convoluted answers that leave you wondering what his real agenda is and what's going on in the back room.

[ecomcon]

If this is true, our republic is a sham. An organized crime front, populated by cynical, traitorous egomaniacs. Lantos, Hastert, Livingstone, Perle, etc.

SCUM.

[SumProVita]

Overall, I am not totally sure of the veracity of all of this. A great deal of more substantive evidence would have to be provided.

[BuffaloJack]

If this is true then it needs to go viral.
If this is the imagination of a disgruntal former employee with a grudge it also need investigating, but with a careful eye for avoiding agenda.

[Jeff Head]

I wonder if Catli ever had any dealing with this man:

Obama's friend, Tony Rezko

Would not be surprized to learn he had.

[SumProVita]

It wouldn’t surprise me either.

The majority of those involved in “journalism” in this country are missing many Pulitzer Prize opportunities.

[Stentor]

All the talk of ideology and socialism, I’m beginning to wonder if Zero isn’t just an old fashioned gangster.

[GQuagmire]

Is Rezko Turkish?

[Jeff Head]

All of the above. And the American people are starting to put it all together.

912: AMERICA AWAKENS IN 2009

[DrC]

“I’m beginning to wonder if Zero isn’t just an old fashioned gangster.”

I believe the very last lines of the American Conservative piece nicely address your concern:

“The other thing I noticed is how Chicago, with its culture of political corruption, is central to the new administration. When I saw that Obama’s choice of chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, knowing his relationship with Mayor Richard Daley and with the Hastert crowd, I knew we were not going to see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago.”

[SaraJohnson]

When the American elite name themselves non-racists as measured by the openness they exude to foreigners, we have opened our government and our elite producing machines - the Universities - to the world's lowest common denominator for contact and deal making.

Why is everyone in the Republican party so cooperative with the banksters (except some newer guys with Ron Paul) as they shake down the Treasury I wondered? A freeper told me corruption - they all have prison level dirt on each other.

[Stentor]

I believe the very last lines of the American Conservative piece nicely address your concern:

I guess you had to know he was at least floating on a lagoon of human waste but it looks like he's down in swimming with his fellow turds.