Sibel Edmonds and Ray McGovern talk intell -- Sunday 6 pm Central

[SophieZ]

Today's Sunday Monitor features Sibel Edmonds and Ray McGovern live. They were on last week, but there were many more questions to be answered.

After headlines (about ten after the hour), discussion with Edmonds and McGovern.

Date: Sunday, August 8
Time: 7 pm Eastern
6 pm Central
5 pm Rocky Mtn.
4 pm Pacific

KPFT -- Pacifica Radio -- 90.1 FM in Houston
or listen online at www.kpft.org





Sibel Edmonds, former contract FBI translator, has made serious allegations regarding the translation unit -- incompetence and much, much worse. She was fired, and Ashcroft has basically gagged her and sealed documents that had previously been public. She has made a letter public detailing her charges against the FBI. Here's the letter:

Public Letter to 9/11 Commission Chairman from FBI Whistleblower
by Sibel Edmonds http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0802-06.htm



Ray McGovern. He is a 27-year veteran of the CIA (he even has done PDBs, Presidential Daily Briefings), and a member of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity.


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[reprehensor]

1. Thank you!

I would've missed it.

[nostamj]

2. it's Sibel's night!

she on against herself... 60 Minutes @ 7pm too!

[Randypiper]

3. kick

.

[Zan_of_Texas]

4. Article about Edmonds by Gail Sheehy

Whistleblower Coming in Cold from the FBI

New York Observer January 21, 2004
http://www.gailsheehy.com/9_11/9_11_art1_21.html

9/11 Witness Says She Exposed Infiltration, Tells Kean Committee She Lost Bureau Position; Sen. Grassley Sees 'Potential Espionage Breach'

by Gail Sheehy

Sibel Edmonds says she was shocked at the lack of security in the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence squad when she went to work there shortly after Sept. 11. But when she spoke up, she was canned. Gail Sheehy tells her story.
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Last Friday, the four women from New Jersey who have faced down the F.B.I. on its failures in preventing the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that claimed their husbands' lives were personally invited to the bureau's Hoover Building offices in Washington, D.C., for a second visit. Their host was none other than F.B.I. director Robert Mueller.
<snip>
But the scathing 800-page report on intelligence failures produced by a joint congressional investigation had already revealed that the F.B.I. had open investigations on four of the 14 individuals who allegedly had some kind of contact with the hijackers while they were in the U.S.

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While fighting a mostly losing battle for a transparent investigation, the Moms are winning on another score: Whistleblowers from agencies culpable in the failures of 9/11--long silent--are being attracted to their mission.

Sibel Edmonds read an article published in these pages last August about the 9/11 widows' bold confrontation with Director Mr. Mueller in a private meeting last summer, and recognized kindred spirits. "This was the first time I'd heard anybody ask such direct questions to Mr. Mueller," said Ms. Edmonds, a Turkish-American woman who answered the desperate call of the F.B.I. in September, 2001 for translators of Middle Eastern languages. Hired as contract employee a week after 9/11, without a personal interview, Ms. Edmonds was given top-secret security clearance to translate wiretaps ordered by field offices in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities by agents who were working around the clock to pick up the trail of Al Qaeda terrorists and their supporters in the U.S. and abroad. Working in the F.B.I.'s Washington field office, she listened to hundreds of hours of intercepts and translated reams of e-mails and documents that flooded into the bureau. In a series of intimate interviews, she told her story to this writer.

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[buycitgo]

5. thanks!

I thought at first you were talking RERUN

this is fantastic

I spent hours last monday calling congress and media outlets, trying to get a reaction about her letter to Kean

NOT ONE person with whom I spoke knew about it, and only ONE knew who she WAS, including the woman in Leahy's office, before whom she testified

same with Grassley's office

they were her two sponsors, or whatever

[buycitgo]

6. listen here for last week's show

http://www.kpftx.org/archives/kpftsignal/pls.php?mp3fil=607

start at the half hour mark; McGovern for a few minutes, then Sibel

[Robbien]

7. Not going to let this drop into the dead pages.

Didn't know about last week's show so it was a pleasant surprise to hear about it.

Just finished listening to last Sunday's archived show but I want more. Sibel is smart and so brave.

I am so glad they are bringing her back. This show tonight is going to be good.

[never cry wolf]

8. I heard part of last weeks show

Don't want to miss this one, folks!

Hi, Robbein!

:hi:

[Robbien]

9. Hey Steve

Been a too long a while since the last meet up.

:hi:

[buycitgo]

10. more 911 articles by Sheehy

http://www.featurewell.com/?WID=4001

she used to be FAMOUS, til she got her teeth into this story

now you don't hear so much about her

Hidden 9/11 Tapes Reveal Airlines Failed to Alert Pilots
by Gail Sheehy , 4260 words
Not available in New York City and Australia. All other rights available.
Politics-U.S.: The final hearings of the 9-11 Commission were filled with explosive facts. But selected families had already learned, at a secret FBI briefing, facts that were even more heartbreaking -- and are still being hushed up. Full story...


Ex-Spook Sirrs: Early Osama Call Got Her Ejected
by Gail Sheehy , 2599 words
Not available in New York City. All other rights available.
International: A former military analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency, Julie Sirrs was the first intelligence officer to report on the significance of Osama bin Laden moving his terrorist operation from the Sudan into Afghanistan. She wasn't listened to five years ago, and it is unlikely that she will be listened to now. Full story...


Is 9-11 Commission Flying Blind?
by Gail Sheehy , 4322 words
Not available in New York City and Ireland. All other rights available.
Politics-U.S.: Widows of the pilots who died on 9-11 want to know if investigators have looked into how their husbands were actually disabled. To think that eight pilots--four of whom were formerly in the military, and all of whom were in superb physical shape--could have been subdued without a fight or so much as a sound stretches the imagination. Full story...


Whistleblower Coming In Cold From the F.B.I
by Gail Sheehy , 4258 words
Not available in New York City. All other rights available.
Politics-U.S.: Sibel Edmonds says she was shocked at the lack of security in the F.B.I.'s counterintelligence squad when she went to work there shortly after Sept. 11. But when she spoke up, she was canned. Full story...


The Past as Pre-History
by Gail Sheehy , 3543 words
Not available in New York City. All other rights available.
Books: Following the families of 9-11 victims proved a tumultuous passage--through disbelief, sheer survival, rising anger, deep grieving and realignment of faith, to the shock of resilience, the secret romances, the discovery of independence, the return of a capacity to love and be loved, and, finally, the commitment to construct a new life. Full story...


Four 9/11 Moms Battle Bush
by Gail Sheehy , 3699 words
Not available in New York City, Australia, Sacramento, Atlanta, Santa Cruz and Tampa. All other rights available.
Politics-U.S.: So afraid is the Bush administration of what could be revealed by inquiries into its failures to protect Americans from terrorists, it is unabashedly using Kremlin tactics to thwart investigations of the failures of Sept. 11. But there's one force that the administration cannot scare off. They call themselves "Just Four Moms from New Jersey." Full story...

[Robbien]

11. A two minute warning

Can't say you were not told!!!!

[proud patriot]

12. just tuned in

:hi:

[Robbien]

13. Sibel says the answer is that we have representatives

in Congress and they had better start representing us.

I say, Amen.

[DeepModem Mom]

14. kick