Response from Schakowsky's office re Sibel Edmond's allegations

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7429

Response from Schakowsky's office

"The American Conservative's most recent hit piece against Congresswoman Schakowsky is complete fantasy; cut from the same cloth as the stories by "birthers" that President Obama is not an American citizen. The source of this story subscribes to the bizarre conspiracy theory that elements of the United States government were involved in the 9/11 attacks.

A simple review of the facts would lead any responsible person to conclude that there is not a shred of truth to any aspect of this story.

It would be just as accurate to say the Congresswoman was kidnapped by little green men and carried in a space ship to the planet Xenon.

From the start, the fantasy is riddled with factual errors. It claims that an "intimate" relationship between a fictional female Turkish spy and the congresswoman began at the funeral of the congresswoman's mother after 2000, however, Rep. Schakowsky's mother died thirteen years earlier in 1987.

Furthermore, it is alleged that the "relationship" occurred in the congresswoman's bugged town house even though she has never owned or lived in a town house in her life. Congresswoman Schakowsky shares a small apartment with her husband in a busy Washington, DC apartment building and owns a single-family home in Illinois.

In fact not one of the events in this fantastic tale ever took place.

Had The American Conservative, (which was founded by Pat Buchanan) adhered to normal journalistic standards it would have fact checked the story and contacted our office. Its goal was not apparently good journalism, but to fabricate one more story line for the right wing smear machine and conspiracy theorists everywhere."

[Botany]

1. If this is true Brad owes Rep. Schakowsky a very public apology

"From the start, the fantasy is riddled with factual errors. It claims that an "intimate" relationship between a fictional female Turkish spy and
the congresswoman began at the funeral of the congresswoman's mother after 2000, however, Rep. Schakowsky's mother died thirteen years
earlier in 1987."

[cali]

2. k&r

sliming Schakowsky reeks.

[SidDithers]

3. Kick & Rec...nt

Sid

[OregonBlue]

4. Wow, sounds like maybe Edmunds is not so believable after all!!

Have we all been "had" by this woman and is that why no one in the DOJ has taken her seriously?

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

7. I think Sibel was Had and Used. This info has nothing to do with what she gleamed

as an FBI translator. She has been gagged for years on what she learned.

I think she was befriended by dis-information agents and being vulnerable and perhaps a bit naive, taken advantage of.
This "info" about the Congresswoman was given to Sibel and it seems she bought it, hook, line and sinker.

[mopinko]

5. if this thing grows legs

while stories about fat denny turn to vapor, i will be one pissed of constituent.
i just can't believe it. i guess stranger things have happened. but i don't see anyone getting away with this. i just don't see jan doing anything but saying- yeah, so what if i did? she is NOT a homophobe, so i don't think her "lesbian lover" would have been something to scare her with.

[surrealAmerican]

11. Plus, mopinko, you and I both know ...

... that in this district, being openly bisexual is not going to cost her enough votes to matter.

[mopinko]

12. right? it would probably

bring her a big new crop of volunteers and contributors.

[WeDidIt]

6. Sibel Edmonds is the new Orly Taitz, with even more batshit insane. n/t

[cali]

8. I don't think that's remotely an apt comparison

It's clear that her initial accusation about her co-worker was credible. Senators Leahy and Grassley found it so as did the investigative report by DOJ.

[WeDidIt]

9. I think it's being nice to Edmonds

She's completely insane.

Orly Taitz is reasonable compared to this batshit insanity out of Edmonds.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. cali, I agree with you. Here is my response to WeDidIt on Brad's thread. I also

responded on this thread about her.

My reply on Brad's thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6611126&mesg_id=6611465