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03/24/2004 Archived Entry: "As if we needed it - another possible smoking gun."
As if we needed it - another possible smoking gun.
This is nearly unbelievable. Sibel Edmonds appeared on 60 Minutes last summer, alleging massive corruption and incompetence in the FBI's language division.
She turned up today outside the 9/11 Commission hearing, and what she's charging could be called explosive - and that would be quite an understatement.
FBI translator, Sibel Edmonds, was offered a substantial raise and a full time job in order to not go public that she had been asked by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to retranslate and adjust the translations of [terrorist] subject intercepts that had been received before September 11, 2001 by the FBI and CIA. Edmonds, a ten year U.S. citizen who has passed a polygraph examination, speaks fluent Farsi and Turkish and had been working part time with the FBI for six months-- commencing in December, 2001.
In a 50 reporter scrum in front of some 12 news cameras, Edmonds said "Attorney General John Ashcroft told me 'he was invoking State Secret Privilage and National Security' when I told the FBI I wanted to go public with what I had translated from the pre 9-11 intercepts".
"I appeared once on CBS 60 Minutes but I have been silenced by Mr. Ashcroft, the FBI follows me, and I was threatened with jail in 2002 if I went public." Edmonds told tomflocco.com.
When we asked her if it was really true that she had been bribed by the FBI and DOJ, Edmonds said "You can interpret it as that."
This writer personally asked Edmonds where the term "State Secret Privilage" was derived. "The term came from an October 18, 2002 DOJ memo to me from DOJ spokesman Barbara Comstock," said Edmonds.
Edmonds said "My translations of the pre 9-11 intercepts included [terrorist] money laundering, detailed and date specific information enough to alert the American people, and other issues dating back to 1999 which I won't go into right now."
Get this woman into protective custody, pronto.
Update: It gets even weirder. Further Googling reveals that the FBI tried to scuttle this woman's 60 Minutes appearance, according to Howie Kurtz, of all people.
Replies: 5 people speak up
Dude...this is very good, except...
I wish we had a better source than tomflocco.com. He might be completely credible, but until somebody I trust more picks this up, he just comes off as a tinfoil type.
But Edmonds DID testify, and she DID appear on 60 Minutes. That's the real story.
OTOH, I felt the same way about Bev Harris until I heard her live on the Diane Rehm show today. She is reasonable, doesn't spread myths and sticks to the facts, and presented herself today as THE expert on black box voting. Before I saw any of her writing, I thought of her the same way I think of tomflocco right now--tinfoil territory. I dunno.
It will all come out in the wash. Thanks for the post, editor.
Later.
Posted by Daddy-O @ 03/25/2004 12:06 AM NY
Daddy-O,
Good point.
Check the Google link. There's a lot there.
Posted by editor @ 03/25/2004 02:39 AM NY
Wont it be funny when there isnt enough tin foil to go around?
Posted by IXLNXS @ 03/25/2004 04:27 AM NY
i keep telling you people that tin foil hats dont help. the mind controll rays come right through your tv
Posted by justin @ 03/25/2004 08:49 PM NY
I see. Sho you right, editor, sho you right. Plenty of valid confirmation right there.
No wonder they wanted to quash the report. Wow. Again.
Later.
Posted by Daddy-O @ 03/26/2004 01:10 AM NY
