Government: FBI Translator's Complaints Were Supported by Evidence, Witness

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"We found that many of Edmonds' core allegations relating to the co-worker were supported by either documentary evidence or witnesses other than Edmonds," the report said. "Moreover, we concluded that, had the FBI performed a more careful investigation of Edmonds' allegations, it would have discovered evidence of significant omissions and inaccuracies by the co-worker related to these allegations."

The report did not identify Edmonds' co-worker, although Edmonds has publicly revealed her name in comments to journalists. The report said that while there could be innocent explanations for this coworker's behavior, "other explanations were not innocuous."

Edmonds filed a federal lawsuit seeking to retain her job, but last summer - in an unusual move - the judge threw out her case at the request of Attorney General John Ashcroft and said her claims might expose government secrets that could damage national security. She is appealing that decision.

FBI Director Robert Mueller previously disclosed that the investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general did not conclude the FBI retaliated against Edmonds. But Mueller also acknowledged in a letter to lawmakers in July that he was concerned by the inspector general's determination that Edmonds' allegations "were at least a contributing factor in why the FBI terminated her services."

The department's report concluded the FBI failed to adequately pursue Edmonds' allegation that her colleague committed espionage. Mueller told senators previously that the FBI conducted a "relevant investigation," but promised to review the case and conduct a further investigation if necessary.

... MIHOP!

That's good.

or outrageous neglect than fulfilling its duty to inform the American people.

The Edmonds story is a stunning revelation which impacts our people's security.

I greatly admire her persistence *LOL*. She just will NOT go away!

However, it is stunning that MSM intentionally neglects to cover this very impactful story.

That the govt's agitprop machine won't take them to task?

Don't be.

I'm not even surprised.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1894035

from
Minstrel Boy

Sibel Edmonds: Turkey, drugs and 9/11


Interesting analysis by John Stanton of the link of international drug trafficking to the 9/11 conspiracy, which pays attention to the Turkish link alluded to by Sibel Edmonds. (Remember, while an FBI translator, she was courted by a Turkish spy ring which appears to have operated with the agency's sanction.)

Here's a memorable quote: "50 billion dollars worth of foreign debt is nothing, it is two lorry loads of heroin."

Turkey, Drugs, Faustian Alliances & Sibel Edmonds
by John Stanton
www.dissidentvoice.org
June 29, 2004


Taking Turkey as the focal point and with a start date of 1998, it is easy to speculate why Sibel Edmonds indicated that there was a convergence of US and foreign counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and US national security and economic interests all of which were too preoccupied to surface critical information warning Americans of the attacks of September 11, 2001. After all, who would have believed drug runners operating in Central Asia? And besides, President Clinton was promoting Turkey, one of the world’s top drug transit points, as a model for Muslim-Western cooperation and a country necessary to reshape the Middle East.

The FBI’s Office of International Operations, in conjunction with the CIA and the US State Department counter-narcotics section, the United Kingdom’s MI6, Israel’s Mossad, Pakistan’s ISI, the US DEA, Turkey’s MIT, and the governments and intelligence agencies of dozens of nations, were in one way or another involved in the illicit drug trade either trying to stop it or benefit from it. What can be surmised from the public record is that from 1998 to September 10, 2001, the War on Drugs kept bumping into the nascent War on Terror and new directions in US foreign policy.

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In 1998, the US Department of State (DOS) was finally forced to admit that Turkey was a major refining and transit point for the flow of heroin from Southwest Asia to Western Europe, with small quantities of the stuff finding its way to the streets of the USA. In that same year, Kendal Nezan, writing for Le Monde Diplomatique, reported that MIT, and the Turkish National Police force were actively supporting the trade in illicit drugs not only for fun and profit, but out of desperation.

"After the Gulf War in 1991, Turkey found itself deprived of the all-important Iraqi market and, since it lacked significant oil reserves of its own, it decided to make up for the loss by turning more massively to drugs. The trafficking increased in intensity with the arrival of the hawks in power, after the death in suspicious circumstances of President Turgut Özal in April 1993. According to the minister of interior, the war in Kurdistan had cost the Turkish exchequer upwards of $12.5 billion. According to the daily Hürriyet, Turkey’s heroin trafficking brought in $25 billion in 1995 and $37.5 billion in 1996...Only criminal networks working in close cooperation with the police and the army could possibly organize trafficking on such a scale. Drug barons have stated publicly, on Turkish television and in the West, that they have been working under the protection of the Turkish government and to its financial benefit. The traffickers themselves travel on diplomatic passports... the drugs are even transported by military helicopter from the Iranian border."
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June04/Stanton0629.htm

Israel, according to some speculation earlier.

Since she isn't able to state the country in question based on the gag order she has against her, the country in question is still open to speculation. Given her heritage, Turkey seems like an obvious answer, perhaps too obvious.

I don't want to sound anti-semitic here, but Turkey has had ties with Israel and folks with Jewish heritage in the past (Attaturk gave some Jews safe haven from Nazi Germany prior to World War II in exchange for them helping him build up education, science, etc. in Turkey then).

I also found it curious that for about a week or so after the Israeli spy was exposed earlier last year, there was suddenly a dearth of news on Sibel Edmonds available through Google, even in the alternative press, even though up until that point she'd been getting stories once every day or so.

If the country in question is Israel, perhaps the gag order is helping a lot more than we might know in deflecting suspicion away from the Moussad's involvement in this organization she's talking about. But that might explain the U.S.'s involvement more and why they want to keep it quiet more too.

Then again, it could also be Turkey too. There just really isn't enough information out there yet from where I stand to make a firm conclusion.

Indira Singh/PTech deep moles in FAA help accomplish 9/11! WTF
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2203166

State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=610235

DOJ Asked FBI Translator To Change Pre 9-11 Intercepts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=442067



Michael Chertoff and the sabotage of the Ptech investigation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2951935

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You American's can do whatever you want to Sibel Edmond's but to "The Rest of the World" she's the Type of "Whistleblower" that would cause an absolute "Sensation" here in OZ! I reckon our government would have collapsed if a Sibel Edmond's had "Stepped forward". OZ press would have given her a much "Bigger" hearing! and Murdoch controls half of it. Its "funny" how he runs his assets in America, compared to how he runs it here in OZ!

have to answer for.

Thank you-thank you MSM.
Another job well-done.

Rove smiles.

and discrediting her at the same time.

Online video (in four video format choices) of Indira Singh
as she tells her story and reads a Sibel Edomonds letter:
http://911busters.com/911-Commission.html
(there are about 20 other speakers also, from NYC event)


"9/11 Truth: The Key to Systemic Change"

www.911truth.org/