Breaking- Dallas Morning News prints Phil Giraldi's Sibel Edmonds commentary

[waterdancer]

Crossposted from my DailyKos diary...

Just came across this eight minute old story via Google news, so it's literally hot off the press. The Dallas Morning news has broken the "gag orders" on the Sibel Edmonds story- a first for a major US publication (unless one counts the Yuma Arizona Sun and the Northeast Mississippi papers among the majors).

Things could really get interesting, now. See below for exerpts the article Dallas AM news chose to break this one to a major US audience

Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will.

The former FBI translator turned whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest levels – sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Ms. Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names. And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments.

Nice lead in, huh? Then skipping down a bit-

Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege

despite all our phone calls and letters...

five years of thwarted legal challenges and fruitless attempts to launch a congressional investigation, Sibel Edmonds is telling her story

in foreign newspapers, until now...

moving down a ways in this lengthy piece we come to a former CIA employee's assessment of the merits of her case-

Ms. Edmonds' critics maintain that she saw only a small part of the picture in a highly compartmentalized working environment, that she was privy to only a fragment of a large operation to penetrate and disrupt the groups that have been stealing U.S. weapons technology. She could not have known operational details of what the FBI was doing and why.

That criticism is serious and must be addressed. If Ms. Edmonds was indeed seeing only part of a counterintelligence sting operation to entrap a nuclear network like that of A.Q. Khan, the government could now reveal as much in general terms, since any operation that might have been running in 2002 has long since wound down.

Regarding her access to operational information, Ms. Edmonds' critics clearly do not understand the intimate relationship that develops between FBI and CIA officers and their translators.

and conclusion:

Her allegations are documentable; an existing FBI file should determine whether they are accurate.

It's true that she probably knows only part of the story, but if that part is correct, Congress and the Justice Department should have no higher priority. Nothing deserves more attention than the possibility of ongoing national-security failures and the proliferation of nuclear weapons with the connivance of corrupt senior government officials.

as adapted by the Dallas Morning News from a longer original piece published in the American Conservative magazine.

Time to break out the champagne, yet? Maybe not quite, but it is a breakthrough.

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[Blue State Bandit]

1. Just subbed you at DK

I am...

[mmonk]

2. I replied and tipped you there (as I do here).

[Pooka Fey]

3. K&R

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. This is outstanding! Recommend!

[Tuesday_Morning]

5. for more info

Sibel's website:

http://www.justacitizen.com/

Lukery's blog:

http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. The Dallas Morning News?

I never expected it would break from Texas let alone Dallas

Damn, Good news.....kick and nominated.

[Skittles]

16. The Dallas Whoring News

absolutely unexpected :o

[seemslikeadream]

7. SIBEL!

Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

[alfredo]

8. Be sure to pass this on to everyone on your e-mail list.

[RainDog]

9. it's not a news article.. just to mention..

just to put it into context. it's an opinion piece. however, it is an opinion piece by a conservative that is in an American newspaper on Sunday. The editorial arm and the reporting arm of a newspaper aren't always the same operation.

Also check out the other link on this via the home page.

I surely do hope something comes from this and now rather than later.

[Agony]

11. It is my opinion that this tin can should be kicked further up the street...nt

[mmonk]

20. Yes, it is an op ed edititorial, but it is news to a censored public.

[Not Sure]

10. If this appears in the printed edition tomorrow

I'll be calling attention to it at work. It looks like even the 'snooze gets it right once in awhile.

[sce56]

12. Here is my Letter to the LA Times asking why they have not covered this story

Why has the LA Times not covered this story?

It was first posted here at http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article1.html
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5685

Now here at The Dallas Morning News
Of course other non Mainstream media outlets have had this story for years Can we finally turn the spot light of knowledge on this story as it might explain why we have gotten nowhere in our fight against the terrorist that attacked us on 911.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/points/stories/DN-sibeledmonds_17edi.ART.State.Edition1.45b446a.htmlPhilip Giraldi: What FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds found in translation

Why is her story being covered up?

12:14 PM CST on Sunday, February 17, 2008

Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will.

The former FBI translator turned whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest levels – sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Ms. Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names.

And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments. Her charges could be easily confirmed or dismissed if classified government documents were made available to investigators.

But Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege, a rarely used measure so sweeping that it precludes even a closed hearing attended only by officials with top-secret security clearances. According to the Department of Justice, such an investigation "could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to the foreign policy and national security of the United States."

After five years of thwarted legal challenges and fruitless attempts to launch a congressional investigation, Sibel Edmonds is telling her story, though her defiance could land her in jail. After reading its November piece about Louai al-Sakka, an al-Qaeda terrorist who trained 9/11 hijackers in Turkey, Ms. Edmonds approached the Sunday Times of London. On Jan. 6, the Times, a Rupert Murdoch-owned paper that does not normally encourage exposés damaging to the Bush administration, featured a long article. The news quickly spread around the world – but not in the United States.



That is the Question why have you not covered this story Sibel would gladly give you the full story breaking her gag order she is a true patriot and would not mind being sent to jail to tell this story if it would mean the wrongs she has know about would finally be brought to light. I recommend that you do a full interview of her and air her story in it's entirety that is what we used to depend on the newspapers to do uncover wrong doing in our goverment!

Here are some more sources on this story
http://www.democracynow.org/2005/8/10/did_speaker_hastert_accept_turkish_bribes

Valerie Plame Wilson Describes Sibel Edmonds Disclosures as 'Stunning'
Says She Been Following Recent Blockbuster Series in British Paper Concerning U.S. Nuclear Secrets Espionage, Allegations That Her Cover Company, Brewster Jennings, Was Exposed by a Former High-Ranking State Department Official as Long Ago as 2001...

Former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson says the recent disclosures in the UK's Sunday Times concerning the sale of U.S. nuclear secrets to the foreign black market, as aided by high-ranking government officials, are "stunning."

The previously covert agent, who had worked in the agency's counter-proliferation division for years, monitoring traffic in the nuclear black market under the guise of a cover company named Brewster Jennings, until being outed by Administration officials, was asked about the recent series of explosive stories in the British paper during an interview this morning with Florida radio host Henry Raines of American AM.

Those disclosures include allegations that Brewster Jennings was outed to Turkish officials as a CIA front, by State Department official Marc Grossman, as early as 2001...

FULL STORY, AUDIO, TRANSCRIPT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5685


Ich bin eine Colbertler

[davidwparker]

13. forward the link to the story to Countdown.

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[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Go here if you are a member its on the front page

http://digg.com/politics/Dallas_Morning_News_breaks_US_MSM_silence_on_Sibel_Edmonds

[Liberty Belle]

15. We need John Edwards to be named Attorney General and look into this rat's nest.

[pnorman]

17. Here's that American Conservative magazine article:

http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article1.html

pnorman

[PADemD]

18. Just before the Texas primary. Why?

Diversion? Sorry, my tinfoil hat.

[mmonk]

19. Diversion by whom?

Isn't an informed populace better than one that perceives all is well and politics as usual?