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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 09:01 PM
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60 Minutes and Sibel Edmonds: The Insider II?!?!?
Should we call Al Pacino?

Has ANOTHER important 60 Minutes story been yanked due to cowardice?



The Memory Hole > FBI Employee Blows Whistle on Suspicious ...
... That whistle-blower, Sibel Edmonds, 32, a former wiretap translator in the Washington
field office, raised suspicions about a co-worker's connections to a ...
http://www.thememoryhole.org/spy/edmonds.htm

Gagging Congress
by Sibel Edmonds

Attorney General John Ashcroft, the Department of Justice, and the FBI have been engaged in covering up my reports and investigations into my allegations for over two years now: They have blocked the release of all documents related to my case that were requested under FOIA for over two years. They have asserted the rarely invoked State Secret Privilege in my court proceedings. They have blocked the release of the DOJ-IG report of its investigations into my reports and allegations. They have quashed a subpoena for my deposition on information regarding 911. And now they are gagging the United States Congress.

They are not protecting the 'national security' of the United States. On the contrary, they are endangering our national security by covering up facts and information related to criminal activities against this country and it's citizens. To this date the American people have not heard the real facts of these criminal activities, nor of the involved semi-legit organizations, nor of the connected officials. The Department of Justice and this administration are fully aware that making this information public will bring about the question of accountability. And they do not want to be held accountable. It is for these reasons that I have been striving to get the Congress to hold its own public hearings regarding these issues. I no longer intend to go behind their secured-closed doors to testify. I intend to testify openly, publicly, and under oath.
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PROGRESSIVE1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 09:39 PM
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1. Weren't they supposed to run this right when Reagan died?
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-18-04 09:42 PM
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2. Absolutely that's what happened
Unless they're holding it for an opportune moment, which I highly doubt. I sent them an angry email about it last week.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 12:50 AM
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3. it was pre-empted by the canonazation (sic?) of Saint Ronnie
and they have yet to show it.

I started a thread a couple of weeks ago about writing to them insisting they show it.

It's sitting on a shelf at 60 minutes.

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Beam Me Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 01:26 AM
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4. Who are some of 60 Minutes' regular sponsors?
Perhaps they would like to receive some letters from people who would watch the show. I know I would watch it and I don't watch Television any more. Most of the time it is just social conditioning masquerading as 'news' and 'entertainment' -- so why bother. But I would watch this. Wouldn't you?
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jackstraw45 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 10:44 AM
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5. Address for 60 Minutes
60 Minutes
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

Jeffrey Fager, Executive Producer

EMAIL: 60m@cbsnews.com

PHONE: (212) 975-3247
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 11:43 AM
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7. Thanks for the contact information
Every DUer needs to take action on this. Ms. Edmonds needs our support; doing what she's doing is risky, the least we can do for her in return is to write 60 minutes and ask them to air her story.

It's fortunate that she's very attractive; the media is more likely to run with her story (if she can get it out there) because she's photogenic-they could care less about what she has to say.
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MallRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-19-04 10:49 AM
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6. I'm ashamed to admit this.
But I've never seen a photo of Sibel Edmonds before.

Yowza.

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