Holy nuclear secrets, Batman!

[mmonk]

Something is happening here; what it is ain’t exactly clear.
– The Buffalo Springfield

Now and for the foreseeable future, virtually everything involving Britney is a big deal.
– Memo from Associated Press Los Angeles assistant bureau chief

On the heels of a Jan. 2, 2008, op-ed in the New York Times by 911 Commission Chairmen, Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton, in which they aver that the 911 Commission was stonewalled by the CIA (say what?), comes a huge story the “Old Gray Lady” (the Times) has refused to touch with a 10-foot pole.

And that is the story of Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator.

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In the story, Edmonds has spun a wondrous tale of espionage and intrigue which, if even fractionally true, ought to make the average card-carrying American turn off Dr. Phil’s analysis of Britney’s current psycho-sexual complexes, and wonder exactly what is going on in this country.

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The facts are serenely simple, but the implications are profoundly troubling. Here’s the skinny: Some years ago, Edmonds, fluent in a couple of Middle Eastern languages, was hired by the FBI to do a little translating. Her job included translating tapes made of wiretaps of suspected foreign agents. Apparently Edmonds heard tapes of high-level U.S. officials engaging in a conspiracy with foreign agents to install a series of moles in sensitive nuclear and military installations. According to Edmonds, at least one U.S. senior official was being paid by Turkish agents. These agents were then selling the information onto the black market, which included Pakistan. Some ally we have there.

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Edmonds told her story to closed sessions of Congress and the 911 Commission a couple of years back, but has since become disenchanted with the failure of authorities to act. And apparently the “Main Stream Media” in this free country won’t touch the story with a 10-foot pole, so Whistleblower Edmonds took her story overseas.

http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=264628&pub=1&div=Opinion

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

1. K & R. Wouldn't it something if

one of the Democratic candidates mentioned this?

MKJ

[mmonk]

2. A BIG something.

[annabanana]

3. The 'nets gots to keep PUSHING this story up up up

until it CAN'T BE IGNORED!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Great.Est.Page.

Awaits you

K&R!!!

[Echo In Light]

5. K&R

[stillcool]

6. another story from across the pond

From The Sunday Times
January 27, 2008
Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe
Insight: Chris Gourlay, Jonathan Calvert, Joe Lauria in Washington

AN investigation into the illicit sale of American nuclear secrets was compromised by a senior official in the State Department, a former FBI employee has claimed.

The official is said to have tipped off a foreign contact about a bogus CIA company used to investigate the sale of nuclear secrets.

The firm, Brewster Jennings & Associates, was a front for Valerie Plame, the former CIA agent. Her public outing two years later in 2003 by White House officials became a cause célèbre.

The claims that a State Department official blew the investigation into a nuclear smuggling ring have been made by Sibel Edmonds, 38, a former Turkish language translator in the FBI’s Washington field office.

Edmonds had been employed to translate hundreds of hours of intercepted recordings made during a six-year FBI inquiry into the nuclear smuggling ring.

read more...much more
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3257725.ece

[mmonk]

7. Yep.

Third in the series by the Times.

[KoKo]

8. K&R!

[Elspeth]

9. Why is this getting more coverage in Britain?

Just a rhetorical question there.

[mmonk]

10. I can't imagine.

(also rhetorical).