Please sign the Sibel Edmonds petition if you haven't already

[Mr_Spock]

Link is on the middle-left of page: http://www.justacitizen.com/

Exercise your Constitutional rights by signing the petiton to require the immediate release of the entire report completed by the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (DOJ-IG) of its investigation into confirmed reports by FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds on the cover-up of information and leads pre and post 9/11...

Who is Sibel Edmonds? http://antiwar.com/news/interview.html


"...we fear that the designation of information as classified in some cases serves to protect the executive branch against embarrassing revelations and full accountability... Releasing declassified versions of these reports, or at least portions or summaries, would serve the public’s interest, increase transparency, promote effectiveness and efficiency at the FBI, and facilitate Congressional oversight."

U.S. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Charles Grassley (R-IA) in a Letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft




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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Sheesh. If this can barely get a peep from DUers, It certainly won't

break the mainstream embargo.

[Mr_Spock]

3. This is such an important issue and it is still active!!!!!!

Take one second from the "vetwife hysteria" and sign the petition - it's a lot more important than what i happening today...

[Glenda]

2. I'll go check this out

Thanks for the links! So, Charles Grassley is actually doing something good?

:hi:

[chiffon]

4. done

Thanks for posting this Mr_Spock.

[troubleinwinter]

5. While yer all at it...

where the hell is the CIA Inspector General's 9-11 report? The one that "names names"?

From Truth Out:

The agency is withholding a damning report that points at senior officials.

It is shocking: The Bush administration is suppressing a CIA report on 9/11 until after the election, and this one names names. Although the report by the inspector general's office of the CIA was completed in June, it has not been made available to the congressional intelligence committees that mandated the study almost two years ago.

"It is infuriating that a report which shows that high-level people were not doing their jobs in a satisfactory manner before 9/11 is being suppressed," an intelligence official who has read the report told me, adding that "the report is potentially very embarrassing for the administration, because it makes it look like they weren't interested in terrorism before 9/11, or in holding people in the government responsible afterward."

When I asked about the report, Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice), ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she and committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) sent a letter 14 days ago asking for it to be delivered. "We believe that the CIA has been told not to distribute the report," she said. "We are very concerned."

According to the intelligence official, who spoke to me on condition of anonymity, release of the report, which represents an exhaustive 17-month investigation by an 11-member team within the agency, has been "stalled." First by acting CIA Director John McLaughlin and now by Porter J. Goss, the former Republican House member (and chairman of the Intelligence Committee) who recently was appointed CIA chief by President Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102004V.shtml

This report HAS NOT BEEN RELEASED. Why???

WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY HIDING??!! WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY HIDING??!! WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY HIDING??!! WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY HIDING??!!

[Tigress DEM]

6. Done

[Mr_Spock]

7. kick

[ConcernedCanuk]

8. You can contact her through her home page

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[Frederik]

9. Bigger than it looks

I don't think people realise how important this woman is. Her story is *not* about incompetence in the FBI. She's talking about 9/11 LIHOP here folks!

http://baltimorechronicle.com/050704SibelEdmonds.shtml

http://baltimorechronicle.com/121704Hogue.shtml

'There are so many questions that they don't want answered. And they remain unanswered. And I'm afraid they will not be answered unless we have a real investigation. And to this day there has been no real investigation.'

'So to just narrow it down and say al-Qaeda and the Saudis, or to say it's what they had at the camp in Afghanistan, is extremely misleading.'

'Then things start getting a lot of overlap-- money laundering, and drugs and terrorist activities and their support networks converging in several points. That's what I'm trying to convey without being too specific. And this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying.'

She's still under a gag order, so she has to has to talk rather cryptically. Couldn't this turn out to be much bigger than Gannongate?

[newyawker99]

10. Hi Frederik!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Frederik]

11. Thanks!

A haven of sanity in the midst of corporate infotainment!

[Mr_Spock]

18. Welcome to DU!

I heard her on Laura Flanders show yesterday and it SHOCKS me how criminal our government is!! This may be the biggest story out there, but I still have to kick this thread several times a day!

[Frederik]

20. She's going to talk

eventually. They can't keep her gagged forever. And the more people know who she is, the sooner it's bound to happen. But they seem desperate to stop her, which should speak volumes as to how explosive her information is. By the way, the 'semi-legit organisation' she was invited to join was apparently the Turkish-American Council, which is led by Bush family insider and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft. And which was investigated by the FBI for money-laundering, drug trafficking and possibly connected to 9/11 in some way (through the people they were dealing with, presumably). And which had a mole in the FBI to (not) translate the documents pertaining to it.

She's talking about other, 'similar' organisations too. It has been pointed out that since her other language was Azerbaijani, why not take a look at the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce? In the Honorary Council of Advisers we find Brent Scowcroft again, plus Henry Kissinger, James Baker, Zbigniew Brzezisnksi... Should we be surprised that Richard Armitage, Richard Perle and Dick Cheney are affiliated with it, too?

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SE: You might have an organization supposed to be promoting the cultural affairs of a certain country within another country. Hypothetically, say, an Uzbek folklore society based in Germany. The stated purpose would be to hold folklore-related activities – and they might even do that – but the real activities taking place behind the scenes are criminal.

CD: Such as?

SE: Everything – from drugs to money laundering to arms sales. And yes, there are certain convergences with all these activities and international terrorism.

CD: So with these organizations we're talking about a lot of money –

SE: Huge, just massive. They don't deal with 1 million or 5 million dollars, but with hundreds of millions.
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I just found out there was a great thread connecting those dots on DU last year: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2238307

And on Rigorous Intuition:
http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/where-drugs-arms-and-oil-intersect.html#comments

[Mr_Spock]

I'm looking forward to the day she is allowed to talk

The fact that they are delaying it until it's not so damaging is infuriating enough to me. We need to take our government back from these criminals...

[Al-CIAda]

12. THIS IS IMPORTANT- please sign and get informed about her case.

State Dept. Quashed 9/11 Links To Global Drug Trade
 -FBI Whistleblower

Sibel Edmonds- FBI Whistleblower, interview
SE: Everything – from drugs to money laundering to arms sales. And yes, there are certain convergences with all these activities and international terrorism.
CD: So with these organizations we're talking about a lot of money –
SE: Huge, just massive. They don't deal with 1 million or 5 million dollars, but with hundreds of millions.
CD: From your previous testimony and the examples I want to bring up next, it would seem that organized crime with terrorist links is really holding the reins inside powerful governments, even the American one. No?
SE: That may be, but I don't know. I didn't get high enough up on the ladder to find out. With all of this suspicious and unprecedented "state secrets" obstructionism from Ashcroft, it might seem that way, but I don't have any direct information.
CD: But what do think, within departments such as the Pentagon and the State Department. Do you suspect certain high officials may be profiting from terrorist-linked organized crime?
SE: I can't say anything specific with regards to these departments, because I didn't work for them. But as for the politicians, what I can say is that when you start talking about huge amounts of money, certain elected officials become automatically involved. And there are different kinds of campaign contributions – legal and illegal, declared and undeclared.
CD: Could this apparent toleration of dangerous criminal groups in the midst possibly be interpreted to mean that American policy is driven by the "ends justify the means" philosophy?
SE: But how are the ends possibly met by such activities? To this day, I just can't see how. What is happening does not benefit 99.9 percent of Americans – just a very small elite.
I'm no expert, but from what I have personally seen I can say that our national security is being compromised every day, because important investigations are being stopped, and potentially important clues are being overlooked. It's absolutely incredible that even after 9/11, certain individuals, foreign businessmen and others, among others, are still escaping scrutiny.
Okay, perhaps talking about the pre-9/11 world they could get away with saying "we didn't know," but to continue doing so – I mean, what if we are attacked by nuclear or chemical weapons, what will be their next excuse? That "we didn't know" it could happen? Come on! I can prove they are lying, because they know."

http://www.breakfornews.com/Sibel-Edmonds-Story.htm

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Sibel Edmonds Whistle-Blowing

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Scott talks with Sibel Edmonds about her attempts to have the information she knows de-classified, and what you can do about it.

http://weekendinterviewshow.com/

[Just Me]

13. I've already signed. I wish her story would see the light of day.

There are others whose stories are being suppressed. Many others.

The media is censoring them.

[G_j]

14. done!!! the Edmonds case may be the the most important one before us

:bounce:

[Mr_Spock]

15. I agree! This case is about something tangible and MUST be pursued

This lady has real evidence that is being suppressed...

[fooj]

16. done. thanks for the post.

[Mr_Spock]

17. kick

[Mr_Spock]

19. 65000 people on DU and she's only got 8660 signatures so far?

Something is wrong here...

[Al-CIAda]

21. I'll tell you whats wrong, our damned representitives need to get

behind her and offer support. Those worthless chickenshits are complicit. She has at least one Repub. who is supporting her as well.

[moggie12]

22. Done and kick n/t

[PowerToThePeople]

23. done

:kick:

[Mr_Spock]

24. kick

[Mr_Spock]

25. kick

[Mr_Spock]

26. I'm gonna kick this till that petition has at least 20,000 signatures

...or until it get locked - whichever comes first :D

[cascadiance]

27. Already signed it months ago, but I'll give this thread a kick!

It *IS* really important that she be heard!

Even sending a letter of support to Republican Charles Grassley for his courageous support of her would be in order too. Must keep those Republicans that aren't in lockstep with the Bush crime family a view of what the rest of America feels and that they support them when they do make the right choices against this president!

[Mr_Spock]

28. She should have 1,000,000 signatures - people are just not informed

Clearly you know what is going on with this case - many must not even want to spend two minutes to educate themselves - it could happen to them...

[Mr_Spock]

29. cake

[Mr_Spock]

30. snake

[Mr_Spock]

31. flake

[Mr_Spock]

32. kick

[Mr_Spock]

33. kick

[Roland99]

34. 8907 signatures now.

[Roland99]

35. kick

[Mr_Spock]

36. 8924

[Mr_Spock]

37. 8935

[Moms Baby Democrat]

38. #8937 And Counting...Kick n/t

[Mr_Spock]

39. 8972

[Gabi Hayes]

40. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3064626

[Mr_Spock]

41. Nice post :o) - I'm gonna try to keep this one kicked

... so it doesn't get archived like yours.

[Gabi Hayes]

42. thx....I forgot to keep my own going

bump

btw, have you seen the vid with her and Daniel Ellsberg?

she is so.....

HOT!!!!

her eyes flash with the fire of indignant--and real, true, patriotism--at one point. I melted

[Mr_Spock]

43. Yeah, I even enjoy listening to her on radio

she just has a special "something"

[Mr_Spock]

44. 8980

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47. 9104

[Gabi Hayes]

48. carnauba wagon kick

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[Mr_Spock]

49. 9165 - daily kick

[peekaloo]

50. done

[bobthedrummer]

51. I'm # 9167 on this petition.

O8)

[bobthedrummer]

52. Truth kick

:dem::kick::dem:

[Mr_Spock]

53. 9188 and counting...

10k is coming...

[dzika]

54. 9189

[Mr_Spock]

55. nice :) - up to 9204 now

[Glenda]

56. 9235 n/t

[Mr_Spock]

57. 9245

c'mon - there are 65000 DU'ers!!

[Mr_Spock]

58. 9261

daily boot number zillion...

[Mr_Spock]

59. 9271

yawn

[Mr_Spock]

60. nightly kickaroony

[Mr_Spock]

61. 9283

woot :(

[Mr_Spock]

62. 9302

[distressedsister]

63. Bush Is Covering Up for the Saudis

[KoKo]

64. I thought she won her case, FGS! I've signed petitions for Sibol...what's

this new one?

[Mr_Spock]

65. 9314

[justoneworld]

66. Thanks for the info

Just signed..

[Mr_Spock]

67. Allright = 9339 - we can get 10,000

!

[Mr_Spock]

68. 9353

[Mr_Spock]

69. 9380