S. Edmonds Case Rejected by USSC: Facade of Buildg Collapses. Coincidence?

Supreme Court rejects appeal by fired FBI linguist By James Vicini
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former FBI linguist who said she had been fired in 2002 for speaking out about possible security breaches, misconduct and incompetent translation work.

Without any comment, the justices rejected an appeal by Sibel Edmonds, who worked as a contract linguist at the FBI's Washington field office from shortly after the September 11, 2001 attacks until her dismissal the following March.

Sibel Edmonds Case Rejected by USSC: Facade of Building Collapses

Marble Moulding Falls From Supreme Court Building
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It's a sign from Gawd!

Supreme Court stabs another GOP knife into US democracy by upholding ex-felon vote ban
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by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

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With nary a peep from the mainstream media, the US Supreme Court has stabbed yet another partisan knife into the American electoral system.

This time the court has let stand Florida's infamous 137-year-old ban on voting rights for ex-felons. It was this same Jim Crow ban that the GOP used to disenfranchise thousands of Floridians in 2000, providing the margin by which George W. Bush took the presidency. The ruling continues to take the vote from millions of African-Americans and non-violent offenders----and, in practice, others who have broken no laws at all. It is highly likely to strengthen the lock of the Republican party and its future candidates on the US presidency.

In Florida 2000, Republican Governor Jeb Bush used the ban as a pretext for disenfranchising tens of thousands of mostly black voters who committed no crime at all, but whose names allegedly resembled those who did. In the lead-up to his brother's test at the polls, Bush hired a Republican computer firm to compile a dubious list which Bush then used to deprive perhaps 120,000 Floridians, perhaps more, of their right to vote.

It has since been shown that thousands of those who lost their vote had never been convicted of anything. According to the Sentencing Project, the number of alleged Florida ex-felons effectively deprived of their right to vote in 2000 may have been as high as 600,000, roughly a thousand times as many as allegedly gave George W. Bush his margin of victory.

Ohio's laws encompass no ban on ex-felon voting rights. But Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell also served as the state co-chair of the Bush-Cheney campaign. As chief administrator of Ohio's 2004 election, Blackwell allowed county Boards of Elections to send threatening letters to thousands ex-felons or alleged ex-felons. Letters also went to many registered voters who had been convicted of no crime at all, helping give George W. Bush a second term.

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Edmonds' case, and what she knows about 9/11, has potential to be bigger than Plame in political impact. It is dynamite stuff (see Sibel discussion in DU groups) not just about FBI mismanagement but also about 9/11, drugs, criminal complicity by US officials, foreign involvement, money laundering, etc..

While her gagging and the courts' complicity in keeping her silent is disturbing, there may be a silver lining in today's SCOTUS decision.

She has tried to do this the correct way -- through the courts -- playing a game in which the deck is stacked against her. It didn't work...but maybe it's for the better If SCOTUS actually had agreed to hear the case, it might have been a long time before there was resolution, and even then the courts and administration would be able to control flow of information, delay court hearings, and redact evidence. Now that the legal approach is dead in the water, perhaps Sibel -- or those who know what Sibel knows -- can feel that the information needs to be made public in any case.

Could someone believe that the information is important enough to release, despite legal exposure? Is there a way to anonymously leak the information?

Many people have seen Sibel's information...Senator Grassley and the 9/11 commissioners are among them. There must be many others. Sibel shouldn't be alone....they should all band together and make an announcement as a group regarding 9/11...make a stand for transparent government and for democracy.

Though I still think if there's a god, he'll find some way to have Sibel be heard, not just wreak havoc of fire and brimstone!

I fear that if she doesn't, they will eliminate her.