Sibel Edmonds Busts Gag Order, Names names, HERE:

[elehhhhna]

Sibel Edmonds Bust Gag Order, Names names, etc., HERE:

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Her new letter to the 911 Ommission:
"After almost three years the American people still do not know that thousands of lives can be jeopardized under the unspoken policy of ‘ protecting certain foreign business relations.’ The victims family members still do not realize that information and answers they have sought relentlessly for over two years has been blocked due to the unspoken decisions made and disguised under ‘ safeguarding certain diplomatic relations.’ Your report did not even attempt to address these unspoken practices, although, unlike me, you were not placed under any gag. Your hearings did not include questions regarding these unspoken and unwritten policies and practices. Despite your full awareness and understanding of certain criminal conduct that connects to certain terrorist related activities, committed by certain U.S. officials and high-level government employees, you have not proposed criminal investigations into this conduct, although under the laws of this country you are required to do so."


Much much more, here: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0408/S00012.htm

[Caution]

1. MUST READ

this is brutal.

[The Zanti Regent]

107. You know the Whore Press will cover this up!

And this is in a NEW ZEALAND paper, for Koresh sake!

[Nickster]

2. Wow

Seems to fit in with the info I've heard from Sibel previously. Do we have any word about the veracity of this website?

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Welcome to DU :^D

[Nickster]

11. Thanks:-) n/t

[cthrumatrix]

3. IF awol truly wanted to out terra he would have Sibel "sing like a canary"

but that is NOT what they want.... this is their nightmare...a person with inside knowledge on cover-ups and govt. complicity.

WTF is the media ...dammit.

[cthrumatrix]

4. Sibel...sing from the highest mountaintop.... sing loud and clear!

you are a "true patriot".

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Edmonds will be woman of the year.

She's my hero.

[shraby]

7. If she went public with all she

knows, there would be nothing they could do to her..she'd already have the names and misdeeds out there. It would be like Ellsberg. Congress would have to listen.

[cthrumatrix]

9. the fact they are not ..makes them all just as gulity WTF is going on!

[rman]

89. This *is* her going public... it's just that the mainstream media

doesn't pick it up. So it doesn't enter the public mind, so in effect it doesn't exsist.

Of course it is rather 'strange' that the big media don't pick it up. For our peace of mind we could think it's just a matter of incompetence, as we do with politics.

[ewagner]

8. The obvious question isn't asked

Concerning the FBI Supervisor and his complicity.

WHY?

I can't believe it's only to get a bigger budget or cover mistakes.

At a certain point almost anybody would "fess up" when hundreds, if not thousands of lives are at stake.

[Straight Shooter]

10. How can we possibly trust the interpretation of intelligence chatter?

"The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies."

Watch your back, Sibel. You are making powerful enemies in high places.

[cthrumatrix]

12. that's just it...it' sbigger. We cannot see the terrorists...this is the

"real thing"...an inside look at the terror game. TPTB do not want an eductaed America to shed the light on what this world is all about....power, greed and crime...at the govt level.

[coeur_de_lion]

13. Good going, Sibel!

It is out there now. The * administration can't deny it because Sibel has gone public with names.

This is a very brave woman. Bless her!

[Booster]

22. Sibel is probably the only person who is in true

grave danger. Look for this adminstration to shut her up very soon. I fear for her very life.

[ellie]

14. You know, I read this

and all I can this is Defund the FBI and CIA. Period. What good are they?

[cthrumatrix]

15. they are "enablers" for TPTB.... not all of the agency..but itseems

clear that there is a darkside

[Beam Me Up]

16. WOW WOW WOW

This is one of the most INCRIMINATING statements I have ever read. This woman is an very brave patriot!

WE NEED TO STAND UP FOR HER.

I highly recommend EVERYONE print out two copies of this letter and MAIL IT TO YOUR SENATORS. Let them know that WE know.

[kohodog]

63. CALL TO ACTION!!!!

beam_me_up is right...print out two copies and send them to your senators, and then another for your rep. This one is easy... just send Sibel's article via USPS with a note letting them know you are a constituent.

[Q]

17. She's talking about government officials committing TREASON...

...which is why this will go nowhere.

[cthrumatrix]

18. louder - "govt officials committing TREASON".... we want heads.

[milkyway]

19. What is going on here? Is this really from Sibel Edmonds, and if she

decided to go public, why would she use this outlet? I want to believe this is true, but the skeptic in me wants to know why she would leak it to a fringe "conspiracy" web site that runs off a news site in New Zealand. I can't find any reference to this as a news story on Google or Yahoo news.

[reprehensor]

20. You're kidding, right?

Yes, it is her, and the mainstream media has been avoiding her like the plague.

I heard an interview with her yesterday saying she was going to release this open letter, and here it is.

I'm sure it's legit. Print it off and fax it to your local paper.

[milkyway]

26. I'm sure you're right, since she said she would release this letter.

What had me wondering was that it showed up on a New Zealand site I was unaware of, and with little fanfare or mention that it's an exclusive. It was just put out there on an obscure corner of the web.

I know the mainstream media hasn't given her much coverage, but she has gotten some. She was on the front page of the NYT recently. It's odd to me that if she wanted this to be an open letter, she released it publicly in a way that would not get as much media coverage as she could have gotten.

[reprehensor]

28. Scoop...

Has been very involved with the Black Box Voting issue as well. They were one of the first to widely publish the work of Bev Harris.

[HootieMcBoob]

33. The piece on the front page of the NYTimes

was only confirming that she was fired for being a whistleblower. It didn't even mention any of the other stuff she's been talking about. They're all afraid to touch it because of the gag order and the state secrets order. Cowardly bastards.

[BeHereNow]

34. Perhaps more accurately stated:

COMPLICIT BASTARDS.
BHN

[goforit]

64. How can these schumcks continue to pretend nothing's happenning?

There is so much F*cking information out there
and they all cover their eyes!!!

They have to realize that * will blow up the world no
matter if the * administration are charged for what they have done or
they get off scott-free.

So let us at least go down in the virtue of Truth and justice!!!

[scottxyz]

60. NZ "Scoop" is a VERY important newspaper

They have had the courage to cover important stories which NYT and WaPo are ignoring - such as the hanky-panky with our voting machines.

You should check out Scoop - they're a very important newspaper. These days, US corporate media are afraid to publish things that might annoy the powers that be. For that reason, offshore English-language papers such as Scoop (New Zealand) or The Guardian (London) are coming to play a very important role in keeping Americans informed about what's really going on in our country.

[Junkdrawer]

23. Good 'ole Scoop works out of New Zealand where Ashcroft can't reach...

He posts here from time-to-time and has seen several of his stories make their way to the mainstream after they spread through the Internet.

Let's see where this one goes. Give it a week or two.

[Junkdrawer]

27. Self censor

[RainDog]

45. this is the one new thing I read in the article

Edmonds states:

"Over three years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama Bin Laden. This asset/informant was previously a high-level intelligence officer in Iran in charge of intelligence from Afghanistan. Through his contacts in Afghanistan he received information that: 1) Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting 4-5 major cities, 2) the attack was going to involve airplanes, 3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States, 4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months. The agents who received this information reported it to their superior, Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism, Thomas Frields, at the FBI Washington Field Office, by filing “302” forms, and the translator translated and documented this information. No action was taken by the Special Agent in Charge, and after 9/11 the agents and the translators were told to ‘keep quiet’ regarding this issue. The translator who was present during the session with the FBI informant, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, reported this incident to Director Mueller in writing, and later to the Department of Justice Inspector General. The press reported this incident, and in fact the report in the Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2004 stated that FBI officials had confirmed that this information was received in April 2001, and further, the Chicago Tribune quoted an aide to Director Mueller that he (Mueller) was surprised that the Commission never raised this particular issue with him during the hearing ( Please refer to Chicago Tribune article, dated July 21, 2004). Mr. Sarshar reported this issue to your investigators on February 12, 2004, and provided them with specific dates, location, witness names, and the contact information for that particular Iranian asset and the two special agents who received the information ( Please refer to the tape-recorded testimony provided to your investigators during a 2.5 hours testimony by Mr. Sarshar on February 12, 2004). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses, and documents I had seen. ( Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004). Mr. Sarshar also provided the Department of Justice Inspector General with specific information regarding this issue ( Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report)."

"After almost three years since September 11, many officials still refuse to admit to having specific information regarding the terrorists’ plans to attack the United States. The Phoenix Memo, received months prior to the 9/11 attacks, specifically warned FBI HQ of pilot training and their possible link to terrorist activities against the United States. Four months prior to the terrorist attacks the Iranian asset provided the FBI with specific information regarding the ‘ use of airplanes’, ‘major US cities as targets’, and ‘Osama Bin Laden issuing the order.’ Coleen Rowley likewise reported that specific information had been provided to FBI HQ. All this information went to the same place: FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, and the FBI Washington Field Office, in Washington DC..."

All the other information in this letter has been available online via interviews she's done with 60 Minutes, Gail Sheehy in the New York Observer, via an article on Salon, via a transcript of a program on Democracy Now, and probably others I don't know.

Anyway, you can google Sibel Edmonds and any of the other sources listed above and read all this information from these American sources.

The amazing thing is that the cable media has so little real concern for the welfare of the people of this nation that they are complicit in John Ashcroft's (and others) cover up of this infomation by supressing this scandal.

If only Sibel raped by a celebrity...THEN it would matter to the scum who are failing to do their duty.

Cable news is as worthless as Pravda was, back in the day of their totalitarian rule.

[althecat]

69. Even if this is the only new bit... what a new bit it is...!!!!

In point of fact I have seen lots of the other stuff hinted at.. but not names, dates and places. All the detail is now in the open...

[althecat]

68. ahem....

"fringe "conspiracy" web site that runs off a news site in New Zealand"

Ahem!!!!

This website is in fact the very same website that broke the Black Box Voting story for Bev Harris. It also happens to have a close association with UnansweredQuestions.Org which was set up in June 2002 and therefore a long and illustrious association with the 911 truth movement. So why shouldn't the news appear on Scoop first...

Afterall that is what our name is all about.

:)

[StandUpGuy]

114. Do you represent the site ?

If so let me take this opportunity to thank you for the real journalism you continue to do in these tough and dangerous times.

You and the other contributors are true heroes and very brave indeed.

:yourock:

[buycitgo]

116. duhhhhhhh...... that's the POINT

NOBODY will COVER this

did you click her interview, linked here?

I HEARD her the day before

it's interesting that you said about the SAME THING the guy at CBS told me.

he wanted to know if it was true, as there were NO other sources for this, other than ones that linked back to it

interesting, isn't it, that NOBODY will TOUCH this

[A_Possum]

21. Oh. My. God.

Has anyone forwarded this to the Kerry campaign? Is this for real? It sure sounds for real.

I wish Kerry would look into this; I trust him to be able to judge the credibility and depth of this. I have heard she is credible, and she certainly sounds like it.

This latest terror threat is obviously based on translated documents. SO who translated them? The Pakistanis? The FBI? Who?

[cthrumatrix]

25. forward to every single reporter in America ...we have govt treason

and a bonafide witness

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. I know who President Kerry should appoint "Intelligence Czar"

Sibel Edmonds, meet John Kerry. John Kerry, this is Sibel Edmonds. :-)

[BeHereNow]

29. Guess this explains the sudden specifics of Targets?

They undoubtedly knew Sibel was preparing to
blow the whistle- therefore their sudden details
about targets...which they've probably known for months.
BASTARDS!
BHN

[BeHereNow]

30. Kick! TOO important to sink into archives!

Read it!
BHN

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. Sibel, stay off of small airplanes!

Please! She had better get SOMEONE to listen to her before they kill her. She will be killed by these people. Sibel, you are a wonderful, strong woman! Thank You!

[BeHereNow]

32. My fear for her too....

Her only salvation may be in the fact that since the
criminals own the networks, they are not really afraid of
her voice being heard. I truly believe that they are so
powerful that she may just represent a minor flea to them.
A temporary annoyance. After all, they clearly have
all branches of legislation complicit and apparently do
not worry that anyone will speak out to collaborate
her reports.
BHN

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. Kick

:kick: Don't miss this!

[BeHereNow]

36. I second that...

KICK!
Keep it on top my fellow DUers!
WAY BIG, this news!
BHN

[BeHereNow]

37. Kickin' the TRUTH thread

BHN

[laylah]

38. Kickin' it! n/t

[ParanoidPat]

39. althecat strikes again!

WOW! :wow:

[midwayer]

40. I'I'm going to have a "Sibel Saved America" Bumper sticker made

"The translation of our intelligence is being entrusted to individuals with loyalties to our enemies"

This implicates the Commish for complicity as well!

This is unbelievable,

Ashcroft, you obstructive dirty dog.

[wiggs]

41. Beautifully done

Sibel is walking a fine, dangerous line here, and I am amazed at her courage and committment.

It is my understanding that she is gagged with respect to this information. But she must feel that the information is so important as to risk the wrath of the Justice Department. And she is doing it alone. The Commissioners and Congressmen who know her story and who have some political clout/defense didn't come forth with information. The information wasn't leaked confidentially.

Sibel signed her name to the letter, crawling out of the foxhole and into the line of fire. No one with power is providing cover that I can see. People from both sides of the aisle and at all levels of government should be helping her, coming forward with their opinions of how this should go down, backing up her story, or trying to determine exactly why she is gagged.

Regarding the letter, she seems to have found a way to include sensitive information insde her main point -- to critique the 9/11 Commission. Hopefully, she's provided enough gray area to avoid prosecution.

If the media is still capable of actually reporting and following up on a real story, ramifications of this letter COULD be far reaching:

9/11 Commission looks bad here. The report will be seen by more people to lack credibility. More people will be awakened to the political nature of the report.

If Commissioners include her information, a more effective set of recommendations to stengthen intelligence may result

Another hole in the dike. The number of BA disasters and questions increases every day.

Others will be inspired by Sibel's courage and will come forward with corroborative information and maybe new information. I hope Tenet is paying attention.

Those resposible for FUBAR'd translation program will go down in flames. A better program may result.

There appears to be very interesting evidence about who was involved in 9/11. This is not the point of the letter, but promises to be the main point of future testimony.

John Ashcroft has another serious problem here.

CBS may finally air its interview from weeks ago with Sibel.

This is important information that has been lurking around for a while. Seems like Sible has decided to take a leap of faith that the Constitution, congressmen who find some intestinal fortitude, and maybe even the press will take a stand with her before the election, so that we may have the information we need to protect our country and so that we can make an informed choice in November. I don't see much upside for her except for that.

She clearly will need some help.

Thank you Sibel.

[napi21]

42. Is this the sh*t that is going to be in the "second" report AFTER Nov. 2nd

Remember, when the Commission released the 9/11 Report, they said they were working on a second report that would be more detailed on who needed to take blame for a lot of the wrongs that were done, but it would probably NOT be complete before the election?

I bet this is part of that info!

[CHIMO]

43. Pentagon Papers

All over again.
In an interview on Democracy Now with Sibel and Daniel Ellsberg this year Daniel called her my hero.
Sibel laid out what she expected to happen and was waiting for the 9/11 commission report. In hindsight, and watching the program again, it looks like she is doing what Daniel said was the only way left.

The segment is about 22 minutes from April 2004.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/29/1513230&mode=thread&tid=25

[Swamp Rat]

44. Sibel Edmonds - American Hero

O8)

[elehhhhna]

46. She was quoted recently "Elected officials would beJailed,,,"

If the info she's seen comes out.

She also gave a press conference during a break in the 911 hearings (i think during Condi's testimony) and out of dozens of media reps surrounding her, only one picked up the story (Tom Flocco has soem info on this).

[A_Possum]

47. Letter now posted on Truthout.org

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/080304W.shtml

[BeHereNow]

48. Kickin' the TRUTH thread...

Once again.
BHN

[Karenina]

49. Me too!!!

She ain't asceered o' NOBODY!!! G-O-O-O-O Sibel!!!

[RainDog]

50. why do the people Edmonds mentions still work for the FBI?

How is having an incompetent interpreter, and a boss who impeded translations good for the security of this country?

[Pallas180]

51. WAHOO - for Sibil Edmonds

:bounce:

gutsy lady

[buycitgo]

54. hey! at least one of em got a twenty thousand dollar BONUS!

right?

[rocktivity]

52. It may be too late for her to get a book deal

But maybe she can be part of the extra footage on the F9/11 DVD!

:headbang:
rocknation

[buycitgo]

56. really! there was a thread on her interview yesterday

WHERE is MICHAEL MOORE on this?

why doesn't he have her on his TOUR?

he should have brought her out on the Leno show the other night, ha

could you imagine how LOUD the sound of Leno's humongous jaw hitting his desk would have been?

maybe he'd have DIED, like Lori K

[SheepyMcSheepster]

53. kick!

[scottxyz]

55. I love Sibel Edmonds

I have read an interview with her once (can't find link now) and she strikes me as a very brilliant and principled woman.

[buycitgo]

57. here's an interview

http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

she's also been on this is hell twice

also something on counterpunch

there's also a great website, with MANY links, but it's on my old computer.

will try to find

meanwhile, might as well start here. she needs to have her story told. this is an EASY one for the public to latch onto. if it spreads, the junta is DOOMED

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=sibel+edmonds

for those who haven't done this already

[scottxyz]

58. Wow - read this paragraph:

Translation units are the frontline in gathering, translating, and disseminating intelligence. A warning in advance of the next terrorist attack may, and probably will, come in the form of a message or document in foreign language that will have to be translated. That message may be given to the translation unit headed and supervised by someone like Mike Feghali, who slows down, even stops, translations for the purpose of receiving budget increases for his department, who has participated in certain criminal activities and security breaches, and who has been engaged in covering up failures and criminal conducts within the department, so it may never be translated in time if ever. That message may go to Kevin Taskesen, or another unqualified translator; so it may never be translated correctly and be acted upon. That message may go to a sympathizer within the language department; so it may never be translated fully, if at all. That message may come to the attention of an agent of a foreign organization who works as a translator in the FBI translation department, who may choose to block it; so it may never get translated. If then an attack occurs, which could have been prevented by acting on information in that message, who will tell family members of the new terrorist attack victims that nothing more could have been done? There will be no excuse that we did not know, because we do know.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0408/S00012.htm

[buycitgo]

59. that about sums it up, doesn't it

they're working AGAINST us!

how else can one interpret what they're doing?

they work AGAINST finding out how badly our intel is being mishandled

here's another excellent interview

http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=2917

then how bout THIS one, with the nice title:

'I Saw Papers That Show US Knew al-Qa'ida Would Attack Cities With Airplanes'

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0402-01.htm

[scottxyz]

61. Has ANYONE gotten fired for 9/11?

Has ANYONE been held accountable? Apparently Sibel Edmonds named names as to who was/is making mistakes at the FBI - and the 9/11 Commission decided to whitewash the whole thing.

We have so many reports of incompetence and/or treason on the part of government officials - and yet I have not heard of ONE SINGLE PERSON who lost their job or was publicly reprimanded or criminally investigated for all the screwups that happened.

And the screwups are still ongoing. That's why I DON'T feel safe anymore in this country. The people who are supposed to be "minding the store" are doing anything but.

[RetroLounge]

62. Holy Shit!

And nothing but silence from the news media...

RL

[goforit]

65. And our Congress and all facets of Gov't.......It's up to the PEOPLE!!!!!

[Pallas180]

120. Because what she is saying is, Our entire intel is infiltrated.

no one fired that we know of, but two of them disappeared after
she made this public.

[hedda_foil]

66. OMG!

Bravo Sibel!

[bobthedrummer]

67. A LIHOP kick.

:dem::kick:

[buycitgo]

70. I talked to Mike Malloy tonight about her

said she'd written a letter to Kean, and that, AFAIK, NOBODY was covering it so far

suggested he have her on

he sorta demurred, then said that maybe Randi Rhodes would

sounded very angry about the whole deal, as well EVERYBODY should be

[Oilwellian]

71. Sibel Edmonds, New American Heroine

:kick: for a great late-night thread.

[JSJ]

72. kick for sibel

[buycitgo]

73. honk if you love Sibel,

HONKY

[JSJ]

74. beep beep n/t

[joanne]

75. Awesome lady!

[nolabels]

76. I feel better now

I don't know what fancy french word they use for it, but sounded like closing the barn door after the stables are empty. Man that is bad, they have to put the orange and red on to cover their asses, their stuff is really getting weak

Sibel Edmonds :yourock:

[buycitgo]

77. honky honk

[truthspeaker]

78. kick because intel committees in both houses meet TODAY

[cthrumatrix]

79. expect NOTHING to come from Sibel.... I suspect even if Kerry wins

they would never let the goods out on how corrupt things are.

[buycitgo]

80. meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

ayyyyupppp

[buycitgo]

81. honk

[nolabels]

88. She really doesn't have to say anymore (but she probably will)

The google in her name is expanding rapidly, links jumped like 10,000 or so in the last couple weeks
http://www.google.com/search?q=sibel+edmonds&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&start=270&sa=N


Legal Eagles Eye Ashcroft Over 9/11 Whistleblower
(snip)

The POGO lawsuit is not filed on behalf of Edmonds, but to defend POGO's own right to conduct oversight reviews of the DOJ. The suit asks the court to require the agency to declassify the Edmonds material.
(snip)
POGO's suit contends that the information is not reasonably recoverable because it was posted publicly on the Web and is still available on numerous Web sites.

Edmonds has placed detailed, specific information before three Congressional inquiries --including the 9/11 Commission. Public discussion of those specifics would likely seriously undermine the commission's imminent final report.

The true focus of the commission is now clear, following recent comments by commissioner John Lehman, the former secretary of the Navy on NBC's "Meet the Press." He predicted the panel will support centralization of the nation's intelligence agencies as the only way to prevent future terrorist attacks.

"You're going to see unanimous recommendations on the intelligence community...," said Lehman. "Centralization will enable information to get to people "in a position to make a difference," he said.

Under cover of their shallow investigation of 9/11, with the stick of their criticism as a lever, the commission is empowering a singular, Orwellian security apparatus, which is but another step in the increasing integration of the G8 countries' intelligence services.
(snip)
http://www.pogo.org/
http://empirewatch.org/pages/_archives/911/3_post_911_data/2004.06.05-Legal_Eyes/

[arwalden]

82. Frightening!

Why isn't this a bigger story in the US?

-- Allen

[buycitgo]

83. BIGGER? try NO story

no story AT ALL!

where have you seen it covered?

[buycitgo]

84. google news has THIS

Letter From Sibel Edmonds to the 9/11 Commission
OpEdNews - 10 hours ago
... Street, SW Room 5125 Washington , DC 20407 Dear Chairman Kean: It has ... I, Sibel Edmonds, a concerned American Citizen, a former FBI translator, a whistleblower ...


Federal Bureau of Incompetence
Slate - Jul 29, 2004
... is moving in the right direction—"doing exactly the right thing," as Kean put it ... keeping a tight seal of secrecy around the case of Sibel Edmonds, despite the ...


Former FBI Translator Sibel Edmonds Calls Current 9/11 ...
Axis of Logic - Jul 15, 2004
... Ladies and Gentlemen, your guest is Sibel Edmonds, formerly of the FBI ... answered during ...



Sydney Indymedia Mission Accomplished: The Failings of the 9/11 Commission
Sydney Indymedia, Australia - Jul 25, 2004
... also sweeps under the rug the assertions of Sibel Edmonds. ... Edmonds rates only a footnote in the report ... Commission Chairman Thomas Kean is partners with two of ...

two of those consist of the letter itself, and an OLD interview from a radio station in Baltimore

Slate, which I haven't checked, is the only 'news' outlet I find

and how many people have even HEARD of Slate, home of professional bush apologists Tim Noah, Mickey Kaus (who claims he's voting for Kerry, but spends 90 percent of his time ridiculing him, while touting PEGGY NOONAN)

[buycitgo]

85. K.........slate links the NYT story

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/29/politics/29fbi.final.html

Slate story is pretty good, too

does some analysis of how ffffed up things are

http://slate.msn.com/id/2104514/

"Fedreal Bureau of Incompetence" is the title

ha

[Pallas180]

87. KICK IT TO THE TOP

.

[rman]

90. Not on FOX, not on CNN : not big enough, so nothing happens.

when it's only the most left fringe of the 'liberal media' paying attention, it can't be that important.

/sarcasm

www.orwellrollsinhisgrave.com

[Zorra]

91. Major media is selling out a brave woman that is an unselfish American

heroine. Sibel Edmonds could have dropped this issue long ago for her own gain. She is putting her life at risk. The media is selling out Sibel Edmonds, and the People of the US at the same time.

Why?

Ms. Edmonds makes this statement 5 times in her letter:

"How can a new bureaucratic layer, "Intelligence Czar", in its cocoon removed from the action lines, override these unwritten policies and unspoken practices incompatible with our national security?"

The 9-11 Commission report is a whitewash, and has, among others, these two primary goals:

1) To absolve national and intelligence leaders who are guilty of deliberate and criminal inattention to critical intelligence information that in all probability would have saved the lives of 3,000 Americans if this information was not deliberately ignored.

2) To establish a powerful centralized police/intelligence agency with broad powers and the imminent potential for domestic repression.

The 9/11 Commission deliberately did not include critically important relevant information in its investigation and its findings. It deliberately avoided asking FBI Director Mueller questions whose answers would have been an indictment of the competency and integrity of his actions as FBI Director, and may have cast suspicion on the true intentions of certain elected officials.

Why? And why are major media sources remaining completely silent about this important public letter written by Sibel Edmonds?

"Over three years ago, more than four months prior to the September 11 terrorist attacks, in April 2001, a long-term FBI informant/asset who had been providing the bureau with information since 1990, provided two FBI agents and a translator with specific information regarding a terrorist attack being planned by Osama Bin Laden. This asset/informant was previously a high-level intelligence officer in Iran in charge of intelligence from Afghanistan. Through his contacts in Afghanistan he received information that: 1) Osama Bin Laden was planning a major terrorist attack in the United States targeting 4-5 major cities, 2) the attack was going to involve airplanes, 3) some of the individuals in charge of carrying out this attack were already in place in the United States, 4) the attack was going to be carried out soon, in a few months. The agents who received this information reported it to their superior, Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism, Thomas Frields, at the FBI Washington Field Office, by filing "302" forms, and the translator translated and documented this information. No action was taken by the Special Agent in Charge, and after 9/11 the agents and the translators were told to 'keep quiet' regarding this issue. The translator who was present during the session with the FBI informant, Mr. Behrooz Sarshar, reported this incident to Director Mueller in writing, and later to the Department of Justice Inspector General. The press reported this incident, and in fact the report in the Chicago Tribune on July 21, 2004 stated that FBI officials had confirmed that this information was received in April 2001, and further, the Chicago Tribune quoted an aide to Director Mueller that he (Mueller) was surprised that the Commission never raised this particular issue with him during the hearing (Please refer to Chicago Tribune article, dated July 21, 2004). Mr. Sarshar reported this issue to your investigators on February 12, 2004, and provided them with specific dates, location, witness names, and the contact information for that particular Iranian asset and the two special agents who received the information (Please refer to the tape-recorded testimony provided to your investigators during a 2.5 hours testimony by Mr. Sarshar on February 12, 2004). I provided your investigators with a detailed and specific account of this issue, the names of other witnesses, and documents I had seen. (Please refer to tape-recorded 3.5 hours testimony by Sibel Edmonds, provided to your investigators on February 11, 2004). Mr. Sarshar also provided the Department of Justice Inspector General with specific information regarding this issue (Please refer to DOJ-IG report Re: Sibel Edmonds and FBI Translation, provided to you prior to the completion of your report)."

So why did the commission not directly address critical issues with Mueller?:

During the two years since the Bush administration gained office, the old guard at the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been sytematically and extensively cleared out. The pretexts have been the inadequate performance of the "old regime" and the new "anti-terrorism". But the real reason is certainly to produce a Bureau more amenable to the imperial and police-state aims of the oil cabal (of which the administration is a front); and amenable too to the underhand methods used to achieve these aims.

The first target was the FBI's Director himself, Louis Freeh. President Clinton had appointed Freeh in 1993 to a ten-year term as Director. By 2001 Freeh was already facing accusations of incompetence over Waco, the Oklahoma bombing and the Olympic bombing. The final straw for Freeh was the arrest of FBI agent Robert Hanssen (18 Feb. 2001), on charges of spying for the Russians since 1985. Freeh "retired early" in May.

Freeh's "retirement" was followed by that of John O'Neill, head of counter-terrorism at the FBI. O'Neill had had differences with the new Bush administration over the handling of al-Qaeda cases, and in August he "resigned in protest over the administration's obstruction of the ongoing al-Qaeda investigations". He took the job of head of security at the World Trade Center in New York, a poisoned chalice as it quickly turned out. O'Neill was presumed to have died in the Sept. 11 attacks.
('Trade Center security chief thought dead', CNN.com, 12 Sept. 2001; www.ringnebula.com/Oil/Timeline.htm )

In July 2001 President Bush appointed Robert Mueller, a conservative Republican, as Director. (Mueller had been Attorney-General Ashcroft's assistant from Jan. - May 2001.) Mueller took up his post (after congressional approval) on 4 Sept. 2001.
('Bush names new FBI chief', BBC news, 5 July 2001; 'Profile: FBI chief Robert Mueller', BBC news, 28 Sept. 2001.)

http://www.911review.org/Wget/www.geocities.com/liberty...

Bu$h and our PNAC led government is selling us out and the major media is helping them.

All honest members of Congress must assess the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission carefully and deliberately, and with Sibel Edmonds allegations in mind. Congress must not act in haste in approving any legislation that will restrict or abolish civil liberties, and must root out the corrupt individuals in our Intelligence Agencies, particularly those that have been planted there by the Bu$h administration.

Congress passed the Patriot Act in haste, and many members of Congress allegedly did not read the Patriot Act before they voted to approve it. If Congress does not act responsibly and in the genuine best interests of the American people when considering and voting on legislation spawned by the 9/11 Commissions' recommendations, we may end up with legislation that irrevocably limits our civil liberties and sanctions an agency with the potential for the imminent domestic repression and control of US citizens.

[arwalden]

86. Only Here. --- When It Comes To Mainstream Sources...

you're absolutely correct.

-- Allen

[Zorra]

92. Media kick.

[buycitgo]

93. well, I just called Leahy and Durbin

NEITHER person had the slightest clue what I was talking about

I told them to google "sibel edmonds kean" and make SURE the senators KNOW about this, as the letter is the first thing that comes up

[Zorra]

94. It's up to us to spread this info. Our leaders are afraid to speak out

because this letter leads directly to the filthy blackened heart and soul of the power structure that is manipulating our government.

[liveoaktx]

95. Grassley and Leahy know about this (video clip)

Grassley-Ashcroft

[buycitgo]

96. I know that. I told his office that he sponsored her testimony

they didn't seem to have any idea what I was talking about

[buycitgo]

97. ugh....just talked to Walter Pincus

he seems to have done a nice kissup to the admin

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32993-2004Aug1.html

this story is about the NEW material discovered on HDs in Pakistan

not one word about all the OLD stuff


and guess who helped write this?

none other than steno sue schmidt!

he didn't seem interested at all in the Sibel Edmonds story, and had to be prodded to even RECOGNIZE her name

and this is their TOP intel reporter, isn't he?

WTF
WTF
WTF???????????????????????????????????????????????????????

oh yeah, I said that this story is VERY important, but that NOBODY in the media has covered it at all, EXCEPT the New York Times

hahaha

[Zorra]

98. Here is a link to the classified letter that Leahy wrote to Ashcroft 2002

Hon. John Ashcroft
Attorney General
United States Department of Justice
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20530

Dear General Ashcroft:
snip----

Sincerely,

Sen. Patrick J. Leahy

Sen. Chuck Grassley
Chairman, Ranking Member
Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=55826

[Zorra]

99. Kick

[Ithuilwen]

100. A wholehearted KICK!!!

:kick:

[buycitgo]

101. check this

I just talked to 60 Minutes about this, and they don't TALK to people about stories

they take mail/email

[e-mail]

Snail Mail
60 Minutes
524 West 57th St.
New York, New York 10019

Telephone
[phone]

I told the 60 minutes person that there were a LOT of very angry people out there about their pulling the second Edmonds story

operator switched me over to news tip desk, where I kinda argued about Edmonds. he didn't know about her till we talked a bit

I told him about the letter, and he wasn't buying the scoop website as being bona fide. finally talked him into checking it out, as it's the only place I could find

told him that Dan Rather is the only anchor with balls enough to go with a story like this, AND CBS would be getting a leg up by going with it. emphasized how the NYT is the only outlet covering her story now, and that NOBODY NOBODY is covering her letter

he was less than friendly, but he took the time to let me spell her name, and give him the google site to pull up the letter

why don't some of YOU make a few calls

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Dem/NY is giving them a hard time right now on CSPAN

anybody have her as a rep?

she might be good to call:

800-839-5276

ask for whichever congressperson/senator you want

it's FREE!!!

[Pallas180]

102. kick it for Sibel

:hi:

Ashcroft could be charged with obstruction for "classifying"
her testimony.

Here's hoping it comes out and he goes to jail.

[mike1963]

103. Kick for the Tue eve. crowd

:kick:

[EndElectoral]

104. This must be kicked to American Media- get with it!!!!!

[wiggs]

105. Get on up there for another morning n/t

[sonias]

106. Keeping this kicked - a must read

Thank you Sibel!

Sonia

[rman]

108. a kick for Sibel and the truth

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[JohnyCanuck]

109. kick n/t

[Zorra]

110. kick

[Tight_rope]

111. BUSTED....Big Fat Kick!

[Zorra]

112. Prosecute the traitors kick.

[buycitgo]

113. memory hole kick

I started a Media analysis thread, based on a CSPAN thing they're running now, and mentioned in the header that I was SURE her name would not come up

[Zorra]

115. kick

[Zorra]

117. to the top again

[Beam Me Up]

118. Kick for an OPEN LETTER EVERYONE SHOULD READ

:kick:

[LeftHander]

119. It is on CommonDreams.org NewCenter too....

Was posted on AUg 2.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0802-06.htm

[Zorra]

121. Opednews.com and the Asia Times are carrying it also.

No major US or European media have carried it as far as I know.

[Pallas180]

122. Here's Sibel's statement once again:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0408/S00012.htm

[Zorra]

123. kick