[Carlhole]

This is so far the best synopsis of the former FBI Translator Sibel Edmond's story to date. Her story offers but a mere murky glimpse into the deep underground of international geopolitics, drugs, arms sales, terrorism, and all those things we would all love to know so much more about but, realistically, can hardly hope to know anything at all about.

To read it is to wonder and speculate - and that's where the disagreements begin - in the the different assumptions and speculations different people make about how the real world actually works.

If we could see the complete picture, peak oil, no doubt, would figure into these deep geopolitics as would the real reasons for the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. To be sure, all of this COULD be investigated if there were the will to do so.


Who Is Sibel Edmonds? With Introduction By Lorie Van Auken

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cooperative Research', 'S')ibel Edmonds tried her best, to speak with the 9/11 Commissioners regarding the information that she had, which she felt was relevant to the 9/11 investigation. The Commissioners didn't respond to her, so having heard about us, the 9/11 widows from New Jersey, she contacted us.

Sibel asked to meet with us in order to discuss why she wanted to testify. She couldn't speak completely freely, having been gagged, but we were none the less appalled by what she told us, and were able to glean the importance of having her information put before the 9/11 Commission.

Sibel told us that she had worked for the FBI's translation department and had been given security clearance. Her job was to translate intercepted communications, finding threats to America's national security. She was to look for information which might relate to the threat of terrorism. She told us that in the course of her work, she found corruption and incompetence within the FBI's translation department and reported this to mid-level management of the FBI.

Then Sibel's computer was confiscated by the FBI. She told her story to the Inspector General of the Department of Justice and the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sibel said that the FBI fired her for being disruptive and for other reasons, which were unspecified. She was escorted from her workplace and was threatened by her superiors with jail time if she went to the press with her story.

Senators Grassley and Leahy looked into Sibel's allegations and wrote letters to the Justice Department regarding what Sibel had told them. The letters were made public and it was clear that the Senators considered Sibel's information to be credible.

Sibel told us that she had taken her story to 60 Minutes. They aired her story...

[jboogy]

I've tried to follow this girl's story since the beginning , she has some very damning information . How do I know? Because she was fired for exposing the incompitance of other ideologically compromised translators . And when she threatened to reveal what she knew she was harassed , threatened , and intimidated into silence . Unfortunately we don't know the specifics of what she uncovered because if there's one thing federal law-enforcement is good at ,it's intimidation( I think I just pissed myself writing this). It's probable there is a lot of fire creating this smoke , why else would they suffer this type of exposure to silence her , unless what she knows is even more damning?

[Carlhole]

Apparently, she knew quite a bit about drug smuggling, arms deals, bribing of Washington politicians and terrorist activities mostly quite apart from the events of 911. However, she DID also read and translated some things that dealt with the events of 911.

But, you're right, her story has a big "CLASSIFIED TOP SECRET" stamp all across it.

Even her prior public testimony and comments has been marked classified.

Wouldn't we love to know her full story? That, and the details of the Cheney Energy Task Force, which is shrouded in secrecy also.