SIBEL EDMONDS JOINS VETERANS TODAY
FBI WHISTLEBLOWER JOINS VT LINEUP
By Gordon Duff Senior Editor/Chairman, Editorial Board Veterans Today
Veterans Today is pleased to announce that FBI whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds is joining the Veterans Today staff.
We at Veterans Today admire few Americans as much as we do Sibel. We have worked hard to be a home for people with courage and integrity.
As Senior Editor, I am proud of everyone involved in Veterans Today. No one could ever ask for better people to work with. There are so many people here I admire.
Please, take a moment to review our staff. The talent, the writers are on the right side. They represent several centuries of military and intelligence experience, more than a few centuries of quality journalism and even more of social activism.
The Bush administration spent 6 years silencing Sibel Edmonds. I will include the Philip Giraldi article on Sibel as published in the American Conservative. View Sibel Edmond’s Latest Posts on VeteransToday.com >>>
Found in Translation
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets.
By Philip Giraldi
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 whistleblower 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 Edmonds’s 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 Edmonds’s 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.”…
