The Secrets Behind 'State Secrets': How Turkey's(S. EDMONDS)

by **BannedfromDU** » Sat Jul 29, 2006 5:09 pm

July 25, 2006 at 12:52:41 The Secrets Behind 'State Secrets': How Turkey's Mafia-like 'Deep State' (and its Neocon Friends) Penetrated the America by Mike Mejia French filmmaker Mathieu Verboud is set to release a new documentary for European television this fall which will reveal important new insights into the case of former FBI translator and president of theNational Security Whistleblower's CoalitionSibel Edmonds. Edmonds, a Turkish-American whose wrongful termination lawsuit was suppressed by the government's invocation of theall-too-common "state secrets privilege", reported to her superiors espionage and deliberate mistranslations on the part of fellow Turkish translator, Melek Can Dickerson. It seems Ms. Dickerson had relationships with targets of FBI investigation working at the Turkish Embassy and theAmerican Turkish Council, a fact which meant that anything she translated was likely to be false. However, instead of receiving a promotion for bringing Ms. Dickerson's' espionage to the attention of her bosses, Edmonds was fired after she went in frustration to the U.S. Senate. The FBI refused to investigate Edmonds' claims, at least in part, because the contract linguist had discovered quite a messy scandal: the content of the mistranslated documents revealed that some very powerful people in the U.S. government, including House Speaker Dennis Hastert, were connected to foreign organized crime. Even worse, these foreign criminals connected to the high and mighty in the U.S. were also connected internationally, through the heroin trade and associated money laundering, to international terrorist organizations like al Qaeda. Okay, take a deep breath and take a step back: it's not a pretty picture. According to what we know so far from Sibel Edmonds' many interviews and from the groundbreaking story on her case from Vanity Fair,"An Inconvenient Patriot" , Edmonds found that within the U.S. a nest of Turkish spies, some working at the Turkish embassy, others affiliated with namely the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), the American Turkish Associations (ATA) and the American Turkish Council (ATC), were involved in espionage, bribery, illegal lobbying, drug trafficking and the infiltration of U.S nuclear research labs. Separately, from a former CIA Counterterrorism official, Phillip Giraldi, who himself was once based in Turkey, we know that some arms sales meant for Turkey and Israel were actually meant for resale to countries like China and India- and perhaps even to international terrorists- using fake end-user certificates. So we have Turkish nationals at the Embassy and NGOs stealing U.S. secrets for sale to the highest bidder, re-selling arms meant for Turkey, bringing in drugs from Europe, and pouring money into bribes and lobbying activities. To understand how these activities fit together- Americans must first understand what Europeans call the Turkish 'deep state'. In 1996,a car crash in a town called Susurluk revealed "link between politics, organized crime and the bureaucracy" in Turkey. As it turns out, its crippled economy in the 1990s meant Turkey had become the European equivalent of Colombia- a state almost completely dependent on the Turkish mafia and by extension, the Southwest Asian Heroin trade. Which is where the Turkish 'deep state' comes in- it becomes very difficult to determine where the 'government' ends and the 'mafia' begins. What we do know from Sibel Edmonds and other sources is this: Turkey's secular establishment, including the Turkish military and intelligence services (MIT), as well as political parties associated withformer Prime Minister Tansu Ciller, appear to have been more connected to the Turkish mafia then the Turkish Islamic Parties thatWashington abhors. Furthermore, it appears from reading into some of Edmonds' statements that the Turkish mafia was partnered with Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda network in the drug trade- meaning Turkey's secular establishment was more connected to al Qaeda- pre/9-11- then were the Islamists in Turkey. Which is quite ironic, to say the least. If you think this story sounds too convoluted to be true, and you feel the instinct to dismiss Edmonds' claims, think again. Every investigation into the whistleblower's charges- from the Senate Judiciary Committee to theDepartment of Justice's Inspector General Report, has found that Edmonds' story is corroborated within the FBI- which means her translations, not those of Melek Can Dickerson, were the correct ones. This also means that the aforementioned Turkish organizations, and certain Turkish diplomats, were indeed under FBI investigation. And all this put together means that peoplelike Dennis Hastert probably were- and perhaps still are- on the payroll of Turkish 'deep state' interests. FULL- <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_mike_mej_060725_the_secrets_behind__.htm">www.opednews.com/articles...hind__.htm</a>

by **xsic bastardx** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 12:19 pm

the first time I read about Sibel I thought she was the real deal. She's finally is talking names and specific's. It baffles me that more people aren't talking about her.

by **greencrow0** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:02 pm

Thanks for posting this. These are the kinds of reports that connect the dots between al queda and the cabal....a necessary step towards completing the puzzle of 9/11. Regards, GC

by **BannedfromDU** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:18 pm

<img src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6272/487/400/hastert.0.png"/> Disclose Denny.com <a href="http://disclosedenny.blogspot.com/">disclosedenny.blogspot.com/</a> ================== "Here is the quote from the Maria Heller show about Hastert: “…what happened was, FBI had this information since 1997. In 1999, the Clinton Administration actually asked the Department of Justice to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate Hastert, and certain other elected officials that were not named in this (VF) article, to be investigated formally. And the Department of Justice actually went about appointing this prosecutor, but after the Administration changed they quashed that investigation and they closed it despite the fact they had all sorts of evidence, again I’m talking about wiretaps, documents- paper documents- that was highly explosive and could have been easily used to indict the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. That investigation was closed in 2001, and this was around the time I started reporting my cases to the Congress.” <a href="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/02/meria-heller.html">wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/02/meria-heller.html</a> =================== Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Sibel, Giraldi, American Conservative Mag Philip Giraldi from Cannistraro Associates has a column in the April 24 (print) edition of The American Conservative magazine about the story surrounding Sibel Edmonds. According to Sibel, this is "a fantastic short piece by Phil Giraldi; it sums up the case very well, considering the length... as far as published articles go, this one nails it 100%" I've liberated the article from print: --------------------- Sibel Edmonds, the Turkish FBI translator turned whistleblower who has been subjected to a gag order could provide a major insight into how neoconservatives distort US foreign policy and enrich themselves at the same time. On one level, her story appears straightforward: several Turkish lobbying groups allegedly bribed congressmen to support policies favourable to Ankara. But beyond that, the Edmonds revelations become more serpentine and appear to involve AIPAC, Israel and a number of leading neoconservatives who have profited from the Turkish connection. Israel has long cultivated a close relationship with Turkey since Ankara's neighbours and historic enemies - Iran, Syria and Iraq - are also hostile to Tel Aviv. Islamic Turkey has also had considerable symbolic value for Israel, demonstrating that hostility to Muslim neighbours is not a sine qua non for the Jewish state. FULL- <a href="http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/05/sibel-giraldi-american-conservative.html">wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2006/05/s...nservative.html</a> ============= Interview (Sat) w/ Scott Horton- 2005-08-13 Sibel Edmonds Whistle-Blowing <img src="http://weekendinterviewshow.com/pics/edmonds1.jpg"/> Scott and Sibel Edmonds discuss (as much as allowed by law) the new Vanity Fair article about the crimes she uncovered while translating intercepts at the FBI. Download MP3 <a href="http://weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/edmonds2.mp3">weekendinterviewshow.com/audio/edmonds2.mp3</a> Listen Stream Audio <a href="http://weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=124">weekendinterviewshow.com/InterviewDisplay.aspx?i=124</a> -------------- <a href="http://weekendinterviewshow.com/">weekendinterviewshow.com/</a> =============== State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade -FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds- FBI Whistleblower, interview SE: Everything – from drugs to money laundering to arms sales. And yes, there are certain convergences with all these activities and international terrorism. CD: So with these organizations we're talking about a lot of money – SE: Huge, just massive. They don't deal with 1 million or 5 million dollars, but with hundreds of millions. CD: From your previous testimony and the examples I want to bring up next, it would seem that organized crime with terrorist links is really holding the reins inside powerful governments, even the American one. No? SE: That may be, but I don't know. I didn't get high enough up on the ladder to find out. With all of this suspicious and unprecedented "state secrets" obstructionism from Ashcroft, it might seem that way, but I don't have any direct information. CD: But what do think, within departments such as the Pentagon and the State Department. Do you suspect certain high officials may be profiting from terrorist-linked organized crime? SE: I can't say anything specific with regards to these departments, because I didn't work for them. But as for the politicians, what I can say is that when you start talking about huge amounts of money, certain elected officials become automatically involved. And there are different kinds of campaign contributions – legal and illegal, declared and undeclared. CD: Could this apparent toleration of dangerous criminal groups in the midst possibly be interpreted to mean that American policy is driven by the "ends justify the means" philosophy? SE: But how are the ends possibly met by such activities? To this day, I just can't see how. What is happening does not benefit 99.9 percent of Americans – just a very small elite. I'm no expert, but from what I have personally seen I can say that our national security is being compromised every day, because important investigations are being stopped, and potentially important clues are being overlooked. It's absolutely incredible that even after 9/11, certain individuals, foreign businessmen and others, among others, are still escaping scrutiny. Okay, perhaps talking about the pre-9/11 world they could get away with saying "we didn't know," but to continue doing so – I mean, what if we are attacked by nuclear or chemical weapons, what will be their next excuse? That "we didn't know" it could happen? Come on! I can prove they are lying, because they know." <a href="http://www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds-Story.htm">www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds-Story.htm</a> =========== Sibel Edmonds explains: : What is al-Qaeda, connections to US politics  JH: Here's a question that you might be able to answer: What is al-Qaeda? SE: "This is a very interesting and complex question. When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization. You are looking at this massive movement that stretches to tens and tens of countries. And it involves a lot of sub-organizations and sub-sub-organizations and branches and it's extremely complicated. So to just narrow it down and say al-Qaeda and the Saudis, or to say it's what they had at the camp in Afghanistan, is extremely misleading. And we don't hear the extent of the penetration that this organization and the sub-organizations have throughout the world, throughout their networks and throughout their various activities. It's extremely sophisticated. And then you involve a significant amount of money into this equation. Then things start getting a lot of overlap-- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money." -- Sibel Edmonds <a href="http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml">baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml</a> ---- "once this issue gets to be investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally," revealing the content of the FBI intercepts she heard indicates that recognizable, very high-profile American citizens are linked to the 911 attacks. When asked how many Americans were named in the intercepts, Edmonds said "There is direct evidence involving no more than ten American names that I recognized," further revealing that "some are heads of government agencies or politicians--but I don’t want to go any further than that," -- Sibel Edmonds

by **BannedfromDU** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 1:30 pm

Sibel Edmonds: Whistleblowers Dirty Dozen FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- June 29, 2006 Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, sedmonds@nswbc.org Whistleblowers Hold House & Senate Members Responsible Whistleblowers’ Dirty Dozen The following members of Congress, by their action or inaction, have stood against real investigations, hearings, and legislation dealing with government whistleblowers who have exposed waste, fraud, abuse, and or criminal activities within government agencies. These representatives of the People are not only standing against whistleblowers, but against the public’s right to know, effective oversight, accountability, and ultimately against the democratic processes that underpin our society. (To see the pdf list click here). We, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, together with whistleblower members of our partner coalitions, consider it our duty to advise Americans of these representatives’ collusion with government and private interests to the detriment of the People. Our position is based on our concern for our nation’s security, for accountable government, and the People’s Right to Know what their representatives and government are doing in their name, all of which depend on vigorous congressional oversight. Our stand is not based on any political ideology or party – our coalition members include Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians and Independents. We do not ask you to vote for or against these individuals; nor do we ask you to choose a particular candidate over another. All we ask is that before you decide to vote, you consider the true positions of these representatives with regard to their lack of candor or courage on core issues that matter to our country’s well-being. Over the years, time and again we have informed these representatives about illegal government actions, agency fraud, and lying to Congress by administrators and bureaucrats. Yet these representatives have consistently refused to take any action and have instead betrayed the People they have taken an oath to serve. We hope that by appealing directly to the American people, we can help bring about needed reforms, since we have proven unsuccessful in our appeals to the following representatives: the Whistleblowers’ Dirty Dozen. ((pdf) click here). 1. Senator Hillary Clinton 2. Senator Mike DeWine 3. Rep. David Dreier 4. Rep. Dennis Hastert 5. Senator Orrin Hatch 6. Rep. Peter Hoekstra 7. Senator Jon Kyl 8. Senator Joseph Lieberman 9. Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger 10. Senator Rick Santorum 11. Rep. James Sensenbrenner 12. Rep. Mark Souder About National Security Whistleblowers Coalition National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC), founded in August 2004, is an independent and nonpartisan alliance of whistleblowers who have come forward to address our nation’s security weaknesses; to inform authorities of security vulnerabilities in our intelligence agencies, at nuclear power plants and weapon facilities, in airports, and at our nation’s borders and ports; to uncover government waste, fraud, abuse, and in some cases criminal conduct. The NSWBC is dedicated to aiding national security whistleblowers through a variety of methods, including advocacy of governmental and legal reform, educating the public concerning whistleblowing activity, provision of comfort and fellowship to national security whistleblowers suffering retaliation and other harms, and working with other public interest organizations to affect goals defined in the NSWBC mission statement. For more on NSWBC visit www.nswbc.org ------------------ <a href="http://www.nswbc.org/Reports%20-%20Documents/Whistleblowers'%20Dirty%20Dozen.pdf">www.nswbc.org/Reports%20-%20Documen...rty%20Dozen.pdf</a> ============== FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE- July 28, 2006 Contact: Sibel Edmonds, National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, sedmonds@nswbc.org NSA WHISTLEBLOWER IS SUBPOENAED TO TESTIFY BEFORE FEDERAL GRAND JURY Government Begins its Witch Hunt Targeting Whistleblowers ---- In response to the subpoena, Mr. Tice issued the following statement: “This latest action by the government is designed only for one purpose: to ensure that people who witness criminal action being committed by the government are intimidated into remaining silent.” He continued: “To this date I have pursued all the appropriate channels to report unlawful and unconstitutional acts conducted [by the government] while I served as an intelligence officer with the NSA and DIA. It was with my oath as a US intelligence officer to protect and preserve the U.S. Constitution weighing heavy on my mind that I reported acts that I know to be unlawful and unconstitutional. The freedom of the American people cannot be protected when our constitutional liberties are ignored and our nation has decayed into a police state.” On December 22, 2005, the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition made public a request by Tice to report to Congress probable unlawful and unconstitutional acts by the government while he was an intelligence officer with NSA and DIA. In a press release, NSWBC urged the congress to hold hearings and let Mr. Tice testify. Mr. Tice, a responsible veteran intelligence officer, tried to use the so-called appropriate channels, including the United States Congress, to responsibly and lawfully disclose government wrongdoing. [To read the release click here]. “What we are seeing here is a government desperate to cover up its criminal and unconstitutional conduct. They now are going beyond the usual retaliation against whistleblowers who courageously come forward to report cases of government fraud, waste, abuse, and in some cases such as this one, criminal actions. Their old tactics of intimidation, gag orders, and firing, have not stopped an unprecedented number of whistleblowers from coming forward and doing the right thing. Desperate to prevent the public’s right to know, they now are getting engaged in a witch hunt targeting these patriotic truth tellers.” stated Sibel Edmonds, the Director of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. In addition, the timing of the subpoena appears to be more than a little suspect. On July 25, 2006, Judge Matthew Kennelly upheld the government’s assertion of the state secrets privilege in Terkel v. AT&T. The crucial issue in the case was whether or not the government’s program of surveillance had been publicly acknowledged, and Kennelly wrote "the focus should be on information that bears persuasive indication of reliability." If there were reliable public reports of the program then the fact of the program’s existence could not be a state secret. Kennelly found that there were no reliable sources of public information about the contested program’s existence sufficient to thwart the government’s need for secrecy. In other words, the existence of the program had not been conclusively established, and the government therefore had a right to prevent probing into the matter. This stops a case that represented a serious threat to the Bush administration. ---- <a href="http://nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/PR-TiceSubpoena-July28-06.htm">nswbc.org/Press%20Releases/PR-TiceS...a-July28-06.htm</a>

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