Article below summarizes whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' story and explains how her claims of wrong doing by FBI translators and US government agents have been ignored or swept under the carpet to protect high level US officials. Her testimony has been ignored for the most part by the US mainstream corporately controlled media and US officialdom, even after Senators Charles Grassley and Patrick Leahy, and Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine stated she was a credible witness.
Sibel Edmonds vs. The Nuclear TeroristsSNIP
Since 2002, Sibel Edmonds has been very public with her allegations involving “unclassified” evidence of wrongdoing- these include:
Supervisor Mike Feghali was telling translators to slow down work so they could show Congress a backlog and justify a budget increase. This was right after 9/11 when agents in the field were urgently requesting translations. In addition to new leads about 9/11, one special agent requested retranslation of a document that had been translated before 9/11, thinking that important information may have been missed in the first translation. Retranslation revealed that information had been omitted that referred to building blueprints and pictures being sent overseas, as well as information regarding criminal actions in connection with obtaining VISAs through certain mideast embassies. Feghali decided not to send the new translation to the agent; instead he sent a note saying the original translation had been correct.
Sibel Edmonds discovered that her co-worker, Melek Can Dickerson, was connected with Turkish agents that were targets of FBI investigations, that had spies operating in the State Department and Pentagon who were passing on military and intelligence secrets. Dickerson mistranslated and stamped “not pertinent” hundreds, possibly thousands, of documents and wiretapped conversations related to these investigations, and with the help of Supervisor Mike Feghali, forged signatures on documents and stole hundreds of others from the FBI office.
A 10-year Iranian intelligence asset informed 2 FBI agents and a translator in April 2001 that Osama Bin Laden was planning attacks on 4-5 US cities, with planes, that some of the people were already in the country and the attacks would happen in a few months. The translator, Behrooz Sarshar, translated and documented the info, and the two agents reported it to Special Agent in Charge of Counterterrorism Thomas Frields by filing “302” forms. Frields did nothing with the information before 9/11, and after 9/11 told them to keep quiet about it. Sarshar reported this incident to the Deparment of Justice Inspector General.
These are some of the incidents of espionage, corruption and coverup Sibel Edmonds witnessed that are not classified. In addition, she has repeatedly said there are crimes documented by FBI investigations that were shut down in 2002 but are still classified, and that she’s gagged from speaking about, though she has talked about them in general terms. October 29, 2007 Sibel Edmonds, through BradBlog.com, made an open offer to all the US networks: “FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds Will Now Tell All - and Face Charges if Necessary - to Any Major Television Network That Will Let Her”. None took her up on her offer. However, in January 2008 the London Sunday Times published a 3 part series based on interviews with her and their own investigation.
According to the 1st article in the series, January 6, “For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets” , Edmonds says senior members of Congress and high-level Pentagon and State Department officials took bribes and arranged security clearances for Turkish and Israeli spies to be planted in academic and military institutions doing nuclear weapons research- and that secrets they stole were sold to Pakistan and resold thru AQ Khan’s nuclear black market network. The US officials were part of a network that was also involved in arms and drug trafficking, and money laundering. The Sunday Times said they knew, but weren’t publishing, the name of one particular ex-State Dept. official who featured prominently in Edmonds allegations, including arranging for the deportation of 9/11 suspects so they couldn’t be questioned. His response to their seeking comment for the article was that the allegations were outrageous. The name of this official is said to be former State Dept. official and current lobbyist Marc Grossman, by 2 bloggers who’ve been following the Edmonds case and investigating the circumstances- Luke Ryland and Larisa Alexandrovna.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/1/opedne_better_w_080522_sibel_edmonds_vs__th.htm(Note the 14 pages of links and follow up material posted after the article)