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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Vanity_Fair_floats_allegations_GOP_chief_Hastert_took_Turkish__0803.html

Vanity Fair floats allegations GOP chief Hastert took Turkish bribes
RAW STORY
Vanity Fair's September edition, now out in New York but yet to hit national newsstands, packs a punch with an article about Sibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who has been gagged by the Bush Administration from revealing information about conversations she translated surrounding a seemingly major corruption scandal involving Turkish nationals and U.S. lawmakers, RAW STORY can reveal.

RAW STORY acquired a copy of the article by David Rose Wednesday evening. The following are some brief excerpts surrounding the meatier allegations Edmonds has made-some of which the FBI has confirmed-about the specifics surrounding her case. According to those briefed on the case, Edmonds says she has heard classified wiretaps which indicate Turkish nationals tried to bribe both Democratic and Republican lawmakers in Chicago and Washington.

Edmonds was fired from the FBI after trying to persuade her bosses to investigate a Turkish family, the Dickersons, she said was trying to trade on her status as an FBI operative. She suspected that the American Turkish Council, which the family tried to persuade her to join, was a front group for criminal activity.


Quote: CBS)
There is little hard evidence to support the explosive allegations. The claim is that Hastert may have accepted tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions in exchange for blocking a Congressional resolution about a bloody Armenian-Turkish Conflict.

As CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports, that conflict 80 years ago claimed more than one million Armenian lives.

http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_216190603.html
ALso the Vanity Fair article


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