One of the main concerns of the P.A., besides civil liberties, is it’s use by the govt. to cloak it’s actions in secrecy. As in everything it does has to remain hidden for purposes of national security. The Sibel Edmonds case being a perfect example.
FBI linguist won’t deny intelligence intercepts tied 911 drug money to U.S. election campaigns
Washington – April 25, 2005 – TomFlocco.com – Former FBI contract translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her attorneys were ordered removed from the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse so that a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel could discuss her case in private with Bush administration lawyers.
In an exclusive interview on Saturday, we asked Edmonds if she would deny that laundered drug money linked to the 911 attacks found its way into recent House, Senate and Presidential campaign war-chests, according to what she heard in intelligence intercepts she was asked to translate.
“I will not deny that statement; but I cannot comment further on it,” she told TomFlocco.com, in a non-denial denial.
Edmonds is appealing the Bush administration’s arcane use of “state secrets privilege,” invoked last year to throw out her U.S. District Court lawsuit alleging retaliation for telling FBI superiors about shoddy wiretap translations and allegations that wiretap information was passed to the target of an FBI investigation.
Criminal evidence in Edmonds’ explosive case is apparently getting too close to Washington officials, since the former contract linguist also told us she would not deny that “once this issue gets to be…investigated, you will be seeing certain [American] people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally,” revealing the content of the FBI intercepts she heard indicates that recognizable, very high-profile American citizens are linked to the 911 attacks.
When we asked how many Americans were named in the intercepts, Edmonds said “There is direct evidence involving no more than ten American names that I recognized,” further revealing that "some are heads of government agencies or politicians–but I don’t want to go any further than that," as we listened in stunned silence.
When asked in 2002 by CBS 60 Minutes co-host Ed Bradley, “did she seem credible to you? Did her story seem credible?” Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) said “Absolutely, she’s credible. And the reason I feel she’s very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story.”
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