Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds

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http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/08/21/exclusive-interview-with-fbi-whistleblower-sibel-edmonds/

Born in Iran in 1970, Edmonds received her BA in criminal justice and psychology from George Washington University, and her MA in public policy and international commerce from George Mason University. She is the founder and director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) and in 2006 received the PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. She speaks Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbaijani.

Below is the full transcript of the follow-up interview.

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Khatchig Mouradian—I asked you in 2007 what had changed during the five years since 2002, when you first contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee to reveal the story on Turkish bribery of high-level U.S. officials. You said, “There has been no hearing and nobody has been held accountable. We are basically where we started…” Two more years have passed, we have a new president, and I have to ask the same question again. Has there been any change?

Sibel Edmonds—Nothing has changed. As far as the Congress is concerned, the Democrats have been the majority since November 2006 and I have had zero interest from Congress on having hearings—any hearings—on this issue, whether it’s the states secrets privilege portion of it or the involved corruption cases. The current majority has been at least as bad as the previous one. At least the Republicans were gutsy enough to come and say, We’re not going to touch this. But the new majority is not saying anything!

The Obama Administration is pretty new. For what I see, they are continuing the previous administration’s state secrets privilege policies.

[bertman]

1. Of course, the Obama administration is continuing the previous administration's state

secrets privilege policies. Every administration since JFK has been owned by the FBI, CIA, Secret Service cabal that murdered JFK and enabled the murders of MLK and RFK. JFK's assassination was what most folks would think of as an object lesson. It served as a reminder to all future Presidents that they were serving at the pleasure of the Praetorian Guard. The Praetorian Guard, of course, functions at the behest of the ruling Military-Industrial-Corporate Complex.

Any person well-connected enough to become President knows on which side his bread is buttered. And it ain't the People's Side or the Side of the Free and the Brave.

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