Edmonds was hired as a translator at the FBI in 9/22/01. She was fired on 3/20/02. This is a period of almost six months or roughly 180 days. It seems odd that the FBI would allow a newly hired employee access to such explosive and highly sensitive documents as the ones Edmonds claims she read. It could be true, but it bears exploring.
There was a shortage of translators they could find that would be able to translate the backlog of documents they had. In short they were desperate. Sibel in fact I believe had already submitted an application earlier before September 11th and they hadn't responded to her earlier job inquiry. I'll double check that. But finding individuals that would pass security clearance checks with these skills were people they needed and were hard to come by. From the sounds of it, they hired far less trustworthy people like Melek Can Dickerson, who was married to and tied to some of the very entities they were watching. I would think that person would be a far bigger risk than Sibel was to put on the staff.
Also, in addition to the FBI allegedly giving a brand new employee access to these bombshell documents that implicate several members of Congress and the White House in the selling of state secrets and treason, Edmonds claims to have immediately been recruited to be a spy by operatives of one of the very networks she was reading about in these explosive documents. Remarkably, the operative that first approached her during her six months at the FBI happened to be working in the very same section as herself. What are the odds?
The odds? It is documented that Melek Can Dickerson and her husband LEFT the country. If that were made up, it would have been disputed by many a long time ago, but WASN'T! And part of the problem is that since the documents WEREN'T translated which is what she was paid to do, that arguably many of the documents management DIDN'T KNOW implicated congress people before they had her translate them.
Over the last eight years Edmonds claims have expanded to cover more and more issues and people. As far as I could determine, she first publicly claimed that the the FBI had been given SPECIFIC information about an attack by Osama Bin Laden in April of '01 by a long term informant for the FBI. Did she find this information in one the documents she read belonging to the FBI? Why would this information even be in a document needing translation when she claims that the FBI agents that interviewed the informant in April '01 had a tramslator with them at the time? Why did she wait so long to drop this bombshell?
She not only did raw translations, but she also "reviewed" others translations, like that of the other suspect translator Melek Can Dickerson, who she notes had mistranslated documents, and potentially for reasons to be concerned about concerning her ties to investigation targets. She was likely reading documents (and listening to wiretaps, etc.) from Turkey, many of the former Soviet "stan" republics and even the Uyghur part of China that spoke a variant of Turkish language or Azeri (Azerbaijan). She also translated Farsi as well (Persian documents from Iran). That would have quite a few of many suspect documents going through her desk.
All this in just SIX months as a translator at the FBI.
Keep in mind, that she wasn't just reviewing documents of what happened over those six months, but a huge backlog of documents that were from the late nineties as well. And in fact she worked pretty quickly, as her bosses wanted her to "slow down" which was one of her contentions of problems in how the group was managed.
While all of us want to know the truth of Edmonds claims, we should view her accusations with a high degree of skepticism until they are corroborated with hard evidence and witnesses. As of today, it seems Edmonds can say anything she pleases without a shred of proof beyond her word and then hide behind the convenient shield of a gag order. In other words, it COULD also be true that she is lying and that she is milking this situation to the fullest until there is a credible investigation into her claims and the results are made public.
Look, she had both a Democratic and Republican senator (Grassley and Leahy) vouch for her integrity, as well as the inspector general which did a report and the public version supported her claims, and she took lie detector classes which she passed. THAT is why the government way back in the beginning didn't take issue with her and publicly rip her apart to begin with if in fact she was fabricating this. There is TOO MUCH support out there in terms of agents in the field, lie detector tests, inspector general reports, etc. that support her being truthful for them to take issue with that. If the government were truly honorable in its operations and not corrupt, then they would have tried to investigate this far more earlier. But they have basically left it alone and issued gag orders, hopefully to keep her quiet, and get her to back down and hoping that noone would talk about it and it would just "go away". The fact that foreign media is far more covering of her story than our domestic media is a clear example of how our corrupt state is trying to silence her in addition to the "gag order". That gag order wasn't issued as a "convenient shield" for her. It was a means to keep her quiet without raising a rucus if they tried anything else more extreme.
You REALLY need to study her case more extensively before alleging that she is lying. If she were lying, it would have been A LOT easier for the government to throw her in prison a lot longer ago. She's sitting on top of some VERY hot information that way too many people in both parties don't want to have exposed in my book. She'd have to be a damn good actor to be making this all up and not be in prison now.
Now, some have conjectured that she might have stumbled on a massive disinformation scheme by some deeply secret intelligence operation that Marc Grossman was involved with that was USING Brewster Jennings as a means to provide false information for the targets of WMD proliferation that it wss supposed to be monitoring when Valerie Plame was supposed to be in charge of it.
But if that were the case, and part of this disinformation campaign was for Grossman to knowingly expose Brewster Jennings, which from the outside would look like an act of treason (which it does), doesn't it follow suit that an effective disinformation campaign should follow through on making the consequences of such "false flag" actions look real to the public (and presumably the enemy)? If that were the case, and they wanted Brewster Jennings to look real (and still look real), then why isn't Marc Grossman being tried for treason now? Why WOULD they implicate Marc Grossman in that way to force him to face charges of a capital offense? Something stinks, and stinks rotten. BTW, did you know that Marc Grossman both went to the same university as Joe Wilson (Valerie Plame's husband, not the rogue SC congress critter)? That by itself ought to have you wonder what's really going on.
If all of these other congress critters taking bribes or passing information was part of such a secret operation, why aren't they being prosecuted to have that scheme be believable as well? The fact that it is so silent, and the media AND the government like Henry Waxman are doing their damndest to ignore Sibel should tell you that something is VERY wrong!
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