SIBEL EDMONDS TURNS OUT TO BE AN ETHNIC ARMENIAN ..
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From: Muzaffer Karasulu
Subject: Interesting Article from RBN
This is an old story but I knew something different than this about this story. For example, I did not know that she was an ethnic Armenian.
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by Joel Skousen, World Affairs Brief
Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator and whistleblower is a US citizen who was raised in Turkey. Fluent in Turkish, she got a job as a translator with the FBI where, over the next several years, she got wind of things she wasn’t supposed to see or hear. She became a whistleblower against the FBI hierarchy after she discovered collusion between other Turkish translators at the FBI and Middle Eastern terrorists, government officials and even Congressmen and women. Naturally, this is something the FBI should have been interested in investigating, but they weren’t. When she went to her superiors at the Bureau about the treachery she was witnessing within the translators office she was stonewalled at every step of the way and finally fired when she blew the whistle on them. Ever since, the FBI and the DOJ have been using every legal, illegal and unethical means to keep her from testifying openly about what she knows.
This week, Edmonds finally got her day on the witness stand before the Ohio Elections Commission (OEC), based on her allegations of Turkish influence buying in the electoral process. According to Edmund’s press release explaining why she is finally breaking her government imposed gag order, “The Government of Turkey had illegally infiltrated and influenced various U.S. government institutions and officials, including the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and individual members of the United States Congress.” Her no-holds-barred testimony is shaking the establishment precisely because our own government is involved in using Turkey as an intermediate in various nefarious affairs in the Middle East. That is one reason why Turkey has been able to get away with bribery and corruption without government interference.
Apparently, Edmonds got a glimpse of a much larger government conspiracy centered around Turkish interests and secret foreign policy initiatives involving Israel, energy pipelines, and state sponsored terrorism. Ever since the demise of the Ottoman empire, Turkey has had to make deals with the West in order to remain a player in world politics. Strategically located between all the major powers in Europe and the Middle East, Turkey acts as the smuggling facilitator of everything illicit going between the European powers and this nexus of conflict. In return, Turkey wants EU membership, which has been rejected, and is now turning to Russia for a deal with the other side. More on that later.
Because the government doesn’t want any of this to get to the public, Google’s blogger site has blocked Edmund’s blog page during this period and, along with every other establishment news outlet, has refused to publish anything about her dramatic revelations. Google, which got initial funding from the CIA, is more and more acting like a de facto government censor and propagandist. Kurt Nimmo of PrisonPlanet.com commented that, “Increasingly, Google and its properties — the vastly popular video site YouTube and equally popular Blogger — are tools for shutting down opposition to the government. On the weekend, Google removed an Alex Jones video critical of Obama’s policies.”
Brad Friedman of Brad’s Blog has had the best coverage on the net concerning Edmund’s testimony. He first summarizes a 2008 interview Sibel Edmonds had with the London Sunday Times: “’What I found was damning,’ Edmonds tells the Times about the information she learned while at the FBI concerning the nuclear blackmarket activities and proliferation of several government agencies, including her own unit at the FBI. ‘While the FBI was investigating, several arms of the government were shielding what was going on.’ Among the newly disclosed information from Edmonds, in the extraordinary front_page Times article tonight:
1) Foreign intelligence agents from Turkey, Israel and Pakistan enlisted the support of high_level US officials in order to acquire a network of moles deep inside of sensitive American military and nuclear agencies, including “PhD students – with security clearance [at] Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico, which is responsible for the security of the US nuclear deterrent.”
2) Members of the diplomatic community were given lists of potential “moles” at the sensitive installations. Edmonds tells the Times: “the lists contained all their ‘hooking points’, which could be financial or sexual pressure points, their exact job in the Pentagon and what stuff they had access to.”
3) Well_known US officials were then bribed by foreign agents to steal US nuclear secrets. One such incident from 2000 involves an agent overheard on a wiretap discussing “nuclear information that had been stolen from an air force base in Alabama,” in which the agent allegedly is heard saying: “We have a package and we’re going to sell it for $250,000.” Nuclear secrets were then subsequently sold by foreign agents to America’s enemies, including Iran, North Korea and Libya.
4) Pakistani officials involved in the nuclear black market network have significant cross_over with al_Qaeda and 9/11. Officials such as the chief of ISI, Pakistan’s spy agency, allegedly sent $100,000 to 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta, and aides of A.Q. Kahn ___ who had used the stolen secrets to develop nuclear weapons for Pakistan ___ met with Osama bin Laden “weeks before 9/11…to discuss an Al_Qaeda nuclear device.”
5) Elements of the US government have repeatedly shut down investigations into these crimes under the guise of protecting “certain diplomatic relations.”
6) The US government has been aware of all of the above information since at least 2001.
As for Edmonds testimony before the Ohio Election Commission, Friedman says “The deposition is being videotaped and Edmonds hopes that it can be released as soon as possible after the deposition, though there have been some objections about releasing the video tape… Wow… just had lengthy conversation with [Ohio State Senator] Krikorian about Edmonds’ testimony. Just wow… Hang on to your seats…From my opinion, if I’m some of the current members of Congress, I’d be very very worried about the information that’s going to come out of this. There are current members of Congress that she has implicated in bribery, espionage [Congressman Schmidt (R-OH) is accused directly and that is why the issue is before the Ohio Election Commission]. It’s not good. It’s crazy. For people in power situations in the United States, who know about this information, if they don’t take action against it, in my opinion, it’s negligence.’
“Current members implicated are Dan Burton (R-IN), described as basically accepting bribes and involved in espionage for the Turkish government…she could not discuss the extremely illegal activities that Mr. Burton committed against U.S. interests, as she put it. Also, a current female Democratic member of Congress who has been blackmailed by the Turkish Government…called a ‘hooking exercise’…she’s apparently bi-sexual and they bugged her apartment, she’s married with children, and they set up a relationship with another female who went in and had sexual relationships with her. And they had all the episodes bugged within this current Representative’s home and they blackmailed her. [Wayne Madsen reveals that the Congresswomen is none other than “Jan Schakowsky (D_IL), a close ally of President Barack Obama and his chief of staff, former Representative Rahm Emanuel, who, like Schakowsky, represented a Chicago district.“]
“The context of the discussion was that this particular Representative [Schakowsky] was amenable to passage of the Armenian Genocide Resolution [which Turkey doesn’t want passed. “The Armenian Genocide was carried out by the ‘Young Turk’ government of the Ottoman Empire in 1915_1916 (with subsidiaries to 1922_23). One and a half million Armenians were killed, out of a total of two and a half million Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.” –Armenian Research Center]. Then, based on this ‘hooking’ operation, she [would] change her position [In reality, no such change was necessary because the Turkish lobby was successful in getting Republicans and key Democrats to call off the vote].
“Other people implicated besides Dan Burton included: Congressmen Livingston (R-TX), Hastert (R-IL) [now a lobbyist for Turkey], Dick Gephardt (D-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY) other non-Congressional members, people like Brent Scowcroft [Kissinger Associate and former NSA for Pres. George H.W. Bush], other appointed members of the U.S. government.
“One of the reasons we sought her testimony is especially for these reasons. I can tell you that counsel for Schmidt [Bruce Fein of the Bush administration] has been objecting to much of the testimony. I stopped counting the number of objections that were raised [The DOJ didn’t show up because Fein is acting informally on their behalf. This way, the Obama administration avoids the appearance of again defending a Bush era problem] . But, she’s an extremely credible witness, she knows a lot about what happened. She’s implicated Turkish organizations operating in the U.S. with both overt and covert operations [American Turkish Council, ATC, ATAA, and TACA]…She talked about how she was recruited to join these operations, she talked about the fact that the Inspector General’s report exonerated her, she talked about the circumstances around her dismissal.
“She talked about the fact that these Turkish American operations were, she said in her words, ‘all receiving support from the Turkish government. ‘She talks about one of the main lobby issues is suppressing U.S. media coverage of the Armenian Genocide and preventing the Armenian Genocide resolution in Congress from passing… She talked about the Rand Corp. [a CIA front], Brewster-Jennings [also a government front], plus nuclear secrets [Turkey was a facilitator for the CIA/Pakistani Khan nuclear smuggling ring].”
TURKEY-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE THWARTS EU ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
Frustrated with the West’s failure to live up to its secret promises to reward Turkey with membership in the EU (public opinion is very much against allowing any more Turks and Muslims into the EU), Turkey has decided to reestablish links with Russia, the nemesis of the West. Hilmi Toros of IPS News writes from Istanbul.
“Once the worst of enemies, involved in 12 wars in three centuries, Turkey and Russia have suddenly become the best of friends, forging strong bonds that could be a counterpoint to the European Union if it freezes Turkey out of full membership. The countries call their ties ‘multi-dimensional co-operation,’ somewhat short of a ‘strategic partnership.’ but that too may be in the offing. On an eight-hour visit to Turkish capital Ankara last week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed 20 deals with his counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan. These are mostly commercial contracts in energy, collectively worth some 40 billion dollars.
“The two leaders also declared that rival gas pipelines Nabucco and South Stream to bring natural gas to European markets would be ‘complimentary’ rather than ‘conflicting.’ Nabucco, the 7.9 billion euro project backed by the EU and the United States, would bypass Russia in bringing gas from Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iraq and potentially also from Iran to Europe via Turkey. It is due to be operational by 2014.The Russian proposed South Stream, to become operational by 2016, would carry gas from Russia to Europe through Turkey’s territorial waters in the Black Sea and onward to Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia to Austria. Its objective is to bypass Ukraine, currently the conduit for 80 percent of Russian gas pumped to Europe.
“In the end, conflicting or complimentary, if both projects are realized, Russia and Turkey would play a major role in meeting Europe’s growing gas needs. For Europe, either an unfriendly Turkey or Russia would endanger energy security – and it would be much worse if both were ever to gang up on the EU together.” That’s precisely the threat this new partnership is intended to relay. Europe was hoping to moderate Russia’s stranglehold on Europe’s gas supplies by routing a new line through Turkey. This now gives Turkey more leverage to go back to the negotiating table over EU membership with new powers.
August 14, 2009