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January 7, 2008 at 10:57:56
Times of London Blows Open Sibel Edmonds Case by Mike Mejia (Posted by Mike Mejia) Page 1 of 1 page(s) |
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Deep within the bowels of the FBI translation program are contained many dark secrets. If the Bush Administration and the Democratic Congress have their way, many of these painful truths will never see the light of public scrutiny. Some come in the form of transcripts of wiretapped conversations that reveal U.S. officials are willing to sell nuclear secrets for cold, hard cash to untrustworthy allies. So says FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, in an explosive new interview with the The Times (U.K.). In the story, Edmonds claims “ she heard evidence that one well-known senior official in the US State Department was being paid by Turkish agents in Washington who were selling the information on to black market buyers, including Pakistan.” The article goes on to say: The Turks and Israelis had planted “moles” in military and academic institutions which handled nuclear technology. Edmonds says there were several transactions of nuclear material every month, with the Pakistanis being among the eventual buyers. “The network appeared to be obtaining information from every nuclear agency in the United States,” she said. The Times article does not name the high-level State Department official who is alleged to have sold out his country to Turkey and Pakistan. However, to those who have paid close attention to the Edmonds case, there is little doubt that she is referring to Mark Grossman, currently an associate of the Cohen Group. 
Grossman, former Ambassador to Turkey under President Clinton and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs under President Bush, has been named repeatedly by Edmonds in interviews as someone “very important” to her case. The fact that any indiscretions Grossman may be accused of occurred during both a Democratic and a Republican Administration may explain why neither political party has aggressively tried to pursue Edmonds claims.
If the charges are true, the unnamed State Department official, whoever he or she is, may be guilty of more than leaking secrets to a trusted ally; cash payments may have been involved as well. Edmonds apparently told the Times that “in one conversation Edmonds heard the official arranging to pick up a $15,000 cash bribe”. It is not clear whether there is proof any cash payments ever took place, yet the charge is damning.
Grossman, besides being a former policymaker at State, is known publicly as Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s first witness in the Scooter Libby trial. Libby was accused of perjury in the investigation of former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who was part of a CIA front company monitoring the global nuclear black market. At least one story claimed Grossman himself had leaked the identity of Plame’s front company, Brewster-Jennings, to Turkish agents in June, 2001. Though the story was never picked up by the mainstream media, if true, it would lead credence to the idea that the Brewster Jennings operation had already been compromised before the retaliation against Plame’s wife, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, by members of the Bush Administration.
Grossman is also being subpoenaed by the defense in the AIPAC espionage trial, along with several other officials who may have passed classified information to the powerful Israel-connected lobby group.
In addition, the Times article mentions Pentagon officials selling nuclear secrets to Turkey and Pakistan. AIPAC case figure Larry Franklin is discussed by Edmonds in the article. The whistleblower has suggested in separate interviews that Franklin’s supervisor at the Pentagon, Douglas Feith has been involved in the scandal, as well as prominent neoconservative and Feith associate Richard Perle.
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well done
part of one reader comment in response to the Sunday Times article reads: "...She is being allowed to leak her story, obviously, because the powerful people that are allowing her too do not have as much power as those she is reporting about." Being allowed to leak her story...hmm. Just a bythought. Keep it going. Spread the word. At this stage, we are the world press. Others (MSM) will soon decide they must follow. If you googled "Edmonds" yesterday and today, you'll have to have noticed Eddie Murphy has wed. Coincidence ? by Tony Forest (7 articles, 18 quicklinks, 166 diaries, 1429 comments [5 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 12:36:33 PM  (0+)
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This is why "EXPERIENCE" in government is a bad thing
According to this determined whistleblower, the US had dirty agents selling nuclear secrets during Bush's presidency. The secrets were then resold to North Korea, leading to the successful test of a nuclear bomb in 2006. by Gustav Wynn (77 articles, 65 quicklinks, 5 diaries, 421 comments [34 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 1:05:06 PM (0+)
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Highest Respect and Feel Credibility
I personally know the kind of pressure and scrutiny forced upon you when you become a whistleblower. There are no protections what-so-ever, so don't even think about it. When I admitted that I had allowed CBS to trick-screw itself after they lied to me, (something that took a four hour interview to edit into a one minute six second airtime clip), I had already been betrayed at all angles by everyone involved. But with all of the scuffle, no one could ever prove that the documents I submitted were false. Sibel Edmonds is facing tremendous pressure here. She is taking it on the chin because she believes what she is doing is right. Let me caution everyone, because I know firsthand, if she didn't believe what she was saying was absolutely true, she would not be saying it and certainly would not have survived this long. Now a word about why the London Times. The British news media are far more willing to tell the truth than the American MSM. The American MSM is really nothing more than Entertainment Tonight - National Enquirer (I actually have more credibility in the N.E. than most MSM) story tellers looking for fame, glory and a bigger audience themselves. The Brits do a bang up job of research. No one ever actually contacted the many witnesses that i listed, by the way - no one - in spite of all of the 21 days of heel and garbage that was supposedly researched and reported. Greg Palast did an in-dpeth job on my story. Some say he is "shrill". I saw him just as telling it as he found it to be after doing the leg work to confirm or deny what had happened. The facts aren't sexy. They usually have an edge to them. I would assist Sibel Edmonds in any way she deemed necessary. Those on this and all sites should provide her with something I did not feel - active support. Bill Burkett by Bill Burkett (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments) on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 7:05:31 PM (0+)
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The Times of London Blows Open ...
... and America scratches it's buns, burps and watches a football game. I have $1,000 that says we won't find 1 out of 100 people in this country that knows who Sibel Edmonds is - scratch that, 1 out of 500 by Mr M (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 66 diaries, 2845 comments [654 recommended, 27 rejected]) on Monday, Jan 7, 2008 at 9:22:48 PM (0+)
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Reply: America's mainstream media under control!
I just heard a statement on CNN’s Wolf Blitzer show that floored me. To quote “The tapes from Abu Ghraib prison hurt America” end quote in a comment referring to the CIA tapes being destroyed before the America public could see them. I did not catch who said it but I believe the caption said minority leader who would be John Boehner. If I am wrong I apologize. The reason that the Abu Ghraib prison tapes hurt America is because what was being done was WRONG and IMMORAL! Did your mother and father (oh that’s right, fathers have no place in a family in America except the financial aspect and to beat women) not tell you that stooping to your enemy’s level only makes you EXACTLY like them. Is the American Government though its actions making all American’s human rights abusers? Maybe the world can get the world family court to issue a protection from abuse order against America to protect POWS. Oh, did that not already happen at the Geneva Convention? While I understand the term and rules of Journalism, and the fear of reprisal from legal and government arenas, truth is not always what can hold up in court. For a true journalist to rely on the documents or statements handed to them by the same people who violated the law, makes you a Tokyo Rose propaganda machine. Any journalist that believes the CIA and ANYONE who says the tapes where destroyed to protect operative’s identities, also wrote columns that the Nixon 18 minutes was just a glitch in the recording. As journalists we have a duty not only to report the truth but to report logical, maybe without absolute proof, paths of why or what transpired. To not present all sides to a story is an irreprehensible deception to the America people. If the justice department covers up this latest criminal violation, and the mainstream media does not call for immediate impeachment and prosecution of all of the officials involved, take your American flag onto the front yard and burn it because that country, those moral and values, everything that that flag stands for no longer exists. by Michael Morris (20 articles, 0 quicklinks, 16 diaries, 316 comments [4 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 8, 2008 at 7:25:53 AM (0+)
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