Vanity Fair (David Rose-June 2005): Whistle-blower-- AN INCONVENIENT PATRIOTLove of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up alleged illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she’s now preparing a Supreme Court appeal—and threatening some very powerful people.In Washington, D.C., and its suburbs, December 2, 2001, was fine but cool, the start of the slide into winter after a spell of unseasonable warmth. At 10 o’clock that morning, Sibel and Matthew Edmonds were still in their pajamas, sipping coffee in the kitchen of their waterfront town house in Alexandria, Virginia, and looking forward to a well-deserved lazy Sunday.
Since mid-September, nine days after the 9/11 attacks, Sibel had been exploiting her fluency in Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani as a translator at the F.B.I. It was arduous, demanding work, and Edmonds—who had two bachelor’s degrees, was about to begin studying for a master’s, and had plans for a doctorate—could have been considered overqualified. But as a naturalized Turkish-American, she saw the job as her patriotic duty........
I saw Sybel Edmonds’ testimony and she came off dumb as a box of rocks. Then she joined up with Ray McGovern and his Lyndon LaRouche fan club called VIPS and only reinforced the impression. VIPS was the group that was working with the Progressive Caucus to try to take out Cheney for a leak made by Powell aide Richard Armitage. They had a parallel group in the UK.