Aside from the allegations she's already made concerning Hastert, as we reported in some detail in early 2006, following up on a Vanity Fair exposé in 2005, Edmonds says there are at least "two other well-known" members of Congress that she's prepared to name as well.
"There are other Congressional people, whose names have not come out," she explained. "As [Waxman's office knows] I'll be able to give them file numbers and investigations, including investigations by the IRS. I will be giving details one by one, not just allegations."
"But," she added, "unfortunately nobody wants to have an investigation like that."
For the record, she told The BRAD BLOG, the other two "well-known members" are from the House, both Republican, and "one of them is recently no longer there."
So far, she says, "those names have not been public."
"Kafka-esque"
Since leaving the FBI, and in the wake of her years-long ordeal, which she frequently describes as "Kafka-esque", Edmonds has founded the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.
In addition to the support she has received, at various times, from members of Congress, she's received a great deal of support from members of the national security whistleblower community and government watchdog organizations.
As we reported last Spring, Veteran FBI counterintelligence agent, John Cole has said he's "talked to people who had read her file, who had read the investigative report, and they were telling me a totally different story" than that given publicly by FBI officials. "They were telling me that Sibel Edmonds was 100 percent accurate," he said, "management knew that she was correct."
Famed "Pentagon Papers" whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has described Edmonds as "extremely credible." In a 2005 interview on KPFA, Ellsberg said, "FBI agents we've talked to have, in every respect that was raised, have confirmed her story - that she's a very credible witness."
That petition was sent almost precisely one year after The BRAD BLOG originally reported on a public petition to Congress, demanding they hold public hearings. More than 30,000 people, Edmonds says, have now signed that petition since it was first announced.
"Exhausted Every Channel"
In a speech given over the Summer in D.C. at the American Library Association (ALA, video here), Edmonds detailed the "Kafka-esque" nature of her unprecedented gag-order. Among the information still-regarded as "classified" under the States Secret Privelege: the fact that she was a translator for the FBI, where she was born, what languages she speaks, the date of her birth, the universities she attended and the degrees she earned.
In fact, the interview that CBS' 60 Minutes aired with her in 2004, was later retroactively classified by the Department of Justice under the same "privilege"!
But enough is enough. She's now ready to tell all. To the public. But not (yet) to us. She will speak, however, to any broadcast network who would like to have her.
Why doesn't she tell all to the Canadian networks. They are all available in the U.S. to U.S. viewers. If the U.S. networks are potentially part of the problem go elsewhere.
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Archie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1270 comments)
on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 11:38:31 AM
Probably because that would open her to charges of treason and also because she did not become a citizen of Canada for its Constitutional protections.
Sibel is more aware than we native-borns about America's protections and (my guess) is that she is probably more determined to hold various feet to various fires.
What an irony, to have our Constitution protected by an immigrant-American, while the rest of us squirm, unwilling to march in the streets.
We have seen the face of courage and it is not native-born.
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Jim Freeman (108 articles, 53 quicklinks, 224 diaries, 386 comments)
on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 12:55:04 PM
stifles any hope that I have of ever seeing the unedited interview...
I'm sure the media outlets have been contacted by the FBI/Homeland Security concerning this and reminded them(any that may have forgotten or dared to return to days when they had the integrity to cover real issues) who their masters are and what the current role of the media is... You can't put the matchstick in control of the dynamite!
Waxman, Leahy, Pelosi, Conyers et al -no way they're going to do any worthwhile investigating! And if they were to, it wouldn't be done publicly. They'll go through the charade just to control what gets out to us...
I'd love it if I were wrong... but does anybody believe we'll get the chance to see this come to fruition? If you do -please, please offer some encouragement!
Right now, the only thing I'm looking forward to is good ole Larry Flynt outing another hypocrite... and even that just further reinforces my ultimate disappointment with everything political these days!
I'd better up the Prozac.
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C.Bid (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 732 comments)
on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 11:53:22 AM
I ask in humble enquiry if she has written anything down and posted it elsewhere than her own computer?
I would put your 'interview' material somewhere that is not available to seizure. What about publishing in the U.K. like those two Professors did in the Times review of Books, about The Israel Lobby?
Their patience may be getting thin and I fear for your health.
Good luck.
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ibrahim turner (25 articles, 31 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 177 comments)
on Monday, October 29, 2007 at 2:42:27 PM
I'm worried about he health too. To put it bluntly, I'm afraid she'll be assassinated before she has a chance to reveal what she knows. So I hope she has told other people about this and transferred her computer files to SEVERAL other people.
If she's afraid that she'll not be safe in Canada or any European country, I believe Nicaragua does not have an extradition treaty with the United States. I've read of other people wanted in the U.S. formajor financial crimes moving there.
I have absolutely loved this women since first learning of her plight.
Courage, intelligence, style, spirited and simply beautiful inside and out. What's not to like?
Her story is explosive. I'm really surprised she hasn't been found as a "possible" suicide before now.
Now I'm really worried about her. But if she needs a body to stand between those that would wish her any harm - count me in. If we are to rally around anyone at this time it defiantly should be Sibel.
Ms. Edmonds experience the stuff of spy novels only brought to life in the real world far worse than most could ever imagine.
You go girl!
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Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 15 diaries, 1682 comments)
on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 1:37:57 AM
First off, Sibel, I hope you have real good security, as I fear for your health and safety.
Second, the World MSM has demonstrated clearly to all, their complicity in these events all round the World, so why all of a sudden are people clamouring to have these very same people, print the truth ? You gotta be kiddin me ?
Third and last, I would suggest a press release be complied by Sibel and released on the INTERNET, ensuring postings of this release at various sites such as this one without any fanfare, just publish and release, ensuring archives all over the World have copies deposited with them for all time.
Even a video clip would suffice.
It would be a physical impossabillity, for the NWO to stop them all, bloggers themselves will ensure the spread of such information anyway. So c'mon Sible, get it on the NET.
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Eddy Schmid (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 207 comments)
on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 3:32:40 AM
Being open to charges isn't the same as being found guilty
Probably because that would open her to charges of treason and also because she did not become a citizen of Canada for its Constitutional protections.
I'm not American either but if she is going to look to the Constitution and to other people to protect her and support her for doing the right thing then she has to give it and them a chance. If she isn't just grandstanding and if it really is the right thing to make what she knows known she should do it.
Where politics is involved being open to the charge of treason (political threats are pretty much an inevitable given) and being actually successfully convicted of treason (once the information is in the public domain and its merits and veracity can be checked) would be another thing entirely.
When people are in the right they have to be willing to take some calculated risks. I don't see how any one (including mainstream media networks) could guarantee to report or pass on what might be misinformation when they won't know what it is until they hear it.
If she wants a guarantee of not being editted she can only get that by sending the same thing to multiple sources.
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Brett Paatsch (0 articles, 2 quicklinks, 22 diaries, 1040 comments)
on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 5:44:20 AM
You speak wisely, but remember we're dealing with an administration who sees the law as only a minor nuisance when it comes to breaking it... yet will hide behind the very laws it ignored when it comes to protecting itself! They will mount multiple smear campaigns against any opposition that seeks redress through the media. The whole Wilson/Plame case is a good example of it. How easily could they manufacture a case against Edmonds? I wouldn't be surprised to see her detained for a lengthy duration just because she has threatened/offered to make her allegations public!
And never underestimate the lack of interest by a dumbed down American public whose daily 'news' mainly consists of which pop diva is on the way to rehab or jail! Comparatively, the coverage of voting irregularities, poll scandals, voter purges, and election rigging allegations has been relatively nothing...
MSM outlets have lost their integrity. The majority are owned (at least in this country) by right-wing interests that see it as their duty to promote and cheerlead the current administration's policies and water down criticism of them... even canvassing with the same material to all media would probably have little effect (though I'm sure any bloggers breaking the 'inside' scoop would soon find themselves becoming co-defendants in relatively no time)!
The 'free press' has been systematically dismantled here. Sibel will find no protection anywhere. As of right now, it also looks like the media aren't taking the bait...
Cheers,
Bid
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C.Bid (0 articles, 7 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 732 comments)
on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 9:34:09 AM
I cannot imagine Ms. Edmonds not already having taken extreme measures of caching her information in multiple locations with multiple unknown sources. She is an intelligent woman. The fact she is still alive speaks to the fact of a "quality insurance policy" already in place, does it not?
The "threat" of public release of her damaging information would be why nothing has happened to her don't you think?
Now that there is an invitation to the major networks to "air" her reporting; I would think any and all (including Waxman, et. al) who have stood in the way of this expose and "continue" to drag their feet are Complicit to crimes against the American people and Constitution, etc. NOW, NOT ACTING IS TAKING A POSITION!
Words and Actions are sure to make a U-Turn
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boomerang (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 301 comments)
on Tuesday, October 30, 2007 at 10:17:13 AM
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