SIBEL EDMONDS: 'In Congress We Trust…Not' - Is blackmail at work in Harman and Hastert cases?

[BradBlog]

SIBEL EDMONDS: In Congress We Trust…Not
The former FBI translator and whistleblower suggests blackmail may be at the heart of Congressional refusal to bring accountability and oversight to its own members - such as both Hastert and Harman - in matters of espionage and national security
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-- Guest Editorial by Sibel Edmonds

I have been known to quote long-dead men in my past writings. Whether eloquently expressed thoughts by our founding fathers, or those artfully expressed by ancient Greek thinkers, these quotes have always done a better job starting or ending my thoughts - that tend to be expressed in long winding sentences. For this piece I am going to break with tradition and start with an appropriate quote from a living current senator, John Kerry: "It's a sad day when you have members of Congress who are literally criminals go undisciplined by their colleagues. No wonder people look at Washington and know this city is broken."...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7117

[fascisthunter]

1. yeeeyup - Sibel a true Hero with real Courage

[Wiley50]

22. I find her an incredibly beautiful woman also. n/t

[fascisthunter]

28. that too

very beautiful

[drm604]

2. K&R

:kick:

[Echo In Light]

3. K&R for Sibel & Brad Blog!

[PufPuf23]

4. I still regret the non-selection of Kerry

and lack of follow-up to his BCCI investigation.

The rot runs deep and is an ever present danger.

[OneGrassRoot]

5. Recommend and kick, kick, kick! n/t

[mopinko]

6. why else would they be wiretapping people?

and i still think the anthrax letters to daschle(?) and leahy were really designed to evacuate the building, and let the haliburton goons root around.
evil.

[defendandprotect]

21. Not that they wouldn't have wanted to kill either one of them . . . but agree . . .

Imagine all the stuff that had come flying into Congress after 9/11--!!!

[cascadiance]

7. K&R! Those writing about Harman need to understand that she is NOT the victim here...

Now it might be true that Porter Goss has a "spat" with her, and that it could be around the differences of opinion/actions that he and Harman had regarding torture issues. But this doesn't make Harman "innocent", any more than it makes one mafia boss "innocent" when another mafia boss has a "turf war" with another. I feel that's what we're observing here now. A bunch of criminals trying to fight each other for control of what they can still try to control, and to avoid scrutiny/accountability by trying to get the fingers of suspicion pointed to the other guy.

Both Harman's complicitness with Gonzo and other elements of Bushco as well as Israeli spies in covering up domestic spying, and her bill on "domestic terrorism" thought crime (bill 1955) have her already fully on the hook as a non-sympathetic element of corruption in our government.

[Gregorian]

8. Thank you Sibel and Brad.

We need a lot of help. Where there is little, any light helps. And Sibel knows. There is no doubt she has seen the truth.

[rhett o rick]

9. If the spying and blackmailing was being done by the last admin. does that mean it stopped

with the election of President Obama? Or are Congress critters still being blackmailed? If the latter, who is involved? And can the new President Obama stop it?

[StateSecrets]

10. K & R

Thank you Brad Blog!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

17. And,

thank you so much... :grouphug:

[ajeffersonian]

11. Great Job again Sibel

This should make us all stop and think. Why are we all so partisan when both sides are culpable? Its so very refreshing to read a post from someone who isn't driven by partisanship and who is willing to just tell it like it is. Keep it up Sibel - and lets all pay more attention to the facts, and try not to get sidetracked by blind ideology.

[Vidar]

12. K&R.

[cbears34]

13. some background?

I know of a former senior staff person at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, who had been the top staff person dedicated to money laundering issues. His name left the masthead of the Fed's monthly 'Federal Reserve Bulletin" in August 2001, having left the Fed for Citigroup in mid-2001. I had seen him give a talk on money laundering issues a few years earlier, and I remembered his talk for being curious a bit because his first slide listed a number of crimes and the number of times there were convictions or arrests for a group of people, and then he asked the audience, a group of bankers, who they thought the group was. It was Congress. I wondered why he did that at the outset of the talk, and over time wondered if he was trying to show how he had the goods on people.

[StateSecrets]

14. Interesting!

Maybe he is retired, and can freely talk about it now? Or, we can send him to CQ's Stein?

[cbears34]

15. how freely

I'm not sure he's trustworthy

[mmonk]

25. Do you remember the people in question in the slide?

[cbears34]

29. who they were

Hi mmonk -- sorry if I left the wrong impression. He didn't identify anyone specifically, he left it open. I recall that it seemed like a lot of people, based on the items identified. In turn, I recall it wasn't clear if it was just representatives, or representives and their staff. The moderator, who was a person at a large bank, was the first and only person to offer an answer to the question, as I recall. He said "The House of Representatives?" the answer from the speaker was "Close. Congress" They ddin't name anyone specifically.

[mmonk]

32. Thanks.

Wow, depressing. Really leaves the impression of being widespread.

[cascadiance]

16. The "internets" are once again hearing more from Sibel now...

Thanks Sibel for taking the time to still try had to get the good word out...

Here's another article that just came out a moment ago with references to Sibel's earlier efforts...

From:

http://www.swans.com/library/art15/glea01.html

Obama Does Europe

by Graham Lea

(Swans - April 20, 2009) Swans is one of the diminishing redoubts for the essay, usually regarded as a particularly English literary form, as was seen recently in Julian Barnes's essay on that quintessential essayist Eric Blair, aka George Orwell. (1) Interestingly, both redoubt and essay derive from the French redoute, and essai. In this petit coin of Swans we shall, through English spectacles, look at l'Hexagone (as France métropolitaine is often called, to exclude the DOM -- the départements outre-mer -- overseas departments that remain part of France). Before we explore in the future some delightful aspects of French rural life (where the word Paris is never uttered), it is perhaps useful to offer a few comments on the political scene in Europe and France, and how Obama was received when he did Europe recently.

He came as a celebrity, along with an entourage of some 900 persons -- not all wearing sunglasses. He did six countries, three summits (the G-20 meeting in London, a NATO summit in Strasbourg, and a European Union Leaders conclave in Prague), together with five press conferences and myriad meetings. Not surprisingly he always looked tired, but mercifully he was seen to be utterly different from his predecessor, a more consummate performer. It was, however, clear that until he can get his legislative programme through Congress, and most of his 300 million fellow citizens behind him, he could do little abroad other than wave his flag. There is an underlying realisation here that Americans are more concerned with their job security than national security, and with paying for food and excessively over-priced health care, than with contributing to more than a trillion dollars for international banks to waste on projects that might enrich a few dictators and the odd US contractor. As for how the United States is seen by the world, this is clearly far less important to most Americans than their debts and their declining assets.

Obama came to sell outmoded American projects, such as US/NATO, in order to enrich the US war industries -- about all that's left in the U.S., it would seem. The French rejoined NATO's two-tier command structure (the U.S., and the rest), but strange to relate, nobody had missed them. Turkey was persuaded with some concessions to agree to the former Danish prime minister Anders Rasmussen becoming NATO secretary-general. Obama explained how the US/NATO has great respect for Muslims (provided you don't cross the Turkish border to Iraq, of course, or talk about the Kurds). At least the war industry interests of those Turkish generals will remain safe, as former CIA agent Philip Giraldi pointed out. (2)

As for US backing for Turkey's wish to join the EU, the U.S. of course has some history in this. We know -- for example from whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (3) and the documentary Kill the messenger by Mathieu Verboud and Jean-Robert Viallet (4) -- that Turkey was fiscally most generous to Douglas Feith, Richard Perle, Dennis Hastert, Marc Grossman, and others. The saga involves bribes, drug trafficking, arms dealing, and nuclear secrets sales. Perle became a major advocate for Turkey's EU membership application, but managed to antagonise the EU into slow-tracking it. Obama's advocacy of Turkish EU membership during his visit to Turkey was not well received -- both Germany and France are uneasy about it. Former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing expressed his reservations in 2002 when he spoke of "a different culture, a different approach, a different way of life" -- and Turkey not being "a European country." (5) The US strategic interest in Turkey (since 1997) is a mistake: the Russia-avoiding BTC pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan, via the now unstable Georgia, to Ceyhan on the Turkish Mediterranean coast is probably doomed because Caspian oil production is disappointing, and the pipeline is vulnerable to attack.

...

And the Turkish press talked to her the last day or two on what might be some past U.S. involvement in the corruption of the current Susurluk/Ergenekon scandals going on in Turkey now with the Ergenekon trials.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5594839&mesg_id=5594839

[mmonk]

26. Yeah, I'm getting a lot of activity on my Google Alerts.

[bleever]

18. Thank you for persevering, Sibel.

This is what real patriotism looks like.

:applause:

[leveymg]

19. KNR for Sibel - Keep on Keep'n On.

She's one of the good ones who haven't cashed in, or given up, or gone over to the other side.

And, a really nice person.

[robertpaulsen]

20. K & R! Ungag Sibel Edmonds!

:kick:

[FourScore]

23. K&R for Sibel and Bradblog!!!

[mmonk]

24. Thanks Brad.

[snappyturtle]

27. K&R Thank you! Just printed out the article for Mr. Snappy to read tonight.

What on Earth can we do now to end the corruption? Waiting for opportunities at election time is way too slow. imho Gives the crooks too long to lay out their futures as Hastert did with Turkey.

[DemReadingDU]

30. evening kick

[sce56]

31. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours

See my post here and lets see if we can make this story go VIRAL!

[robertpaulsen]

33. Thanks for doing that!

Her story is important, especially since the Deep State is busy burying it.