Could the US media be protecting the Clintons in the Sibel Edmonds case?

From what little information we have we know that Dems like Lantos may be implicated... is it possible the Clintons are too?

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/1997_cr/971031-iran.htm





Why was this Jay Stewart guy let go?

Who remembers all this crap regarding the selling of nuke secrets to China?

http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/10/nuclear.secrets.02/

let's see, WHO started the war in iraq? I am pretty sure it wasn't president clinton.

and the nuclear secrets thing was debunked a long time ago.

This isn't about Iraq....though they did play a role...no?

Sibel Edmonds: A Patriot Silenced, Unjustly Fired but Fighting Back to Help Keep America Safe (1/26/2005)

Watch excerpts from Sibel Edmonds's speech at the press conference >>

Sibel Edmonds, a 32-year-old Turkish-American, was hired as a translator by the FBI shortly after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 because of her knowledge of Middle Eastern languages. She was fired less than a year later in March 2002 for reporting shoddy work and security breaches to her supervisors that could have prevented those attacks.

http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/18828res20050126.html

by the way, since she was hired AFTER 9/11, exactly how does former president clinton enter into it?

for evidence about alleged foreign influence and espionage issues.

As for the Chinese military, that was a two-way street since the Reagan-Bush Administration decided to give them some technology help as a counter-weight to the Soviets.

Questions about how the Chinese got the W-88 warhead and the "inadvertant" guidance technology transfers through Loral Aerospace and Hughes are a different matter, and was never satisfactory explained.

The Chinese definitely made very effective inroads in terms of theft of Information Technology, and in penetrating American IT industry durng that period. But, that was a function of the generalized opening to the PRC that's occurred since the 1980s. If there's blame to be assessed, it has to be very much bi-partisan. But, I digress.

Back to Weldon's ties to KGB money, according to TPM, that was all linked in with millions in Russian funding going through Abramoff to selected GOP politicians, omething the corporate media chose to virtually ignore outside the back pages of the WaPo, The Hill, and a few other hard to see places. See, http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/008249.php

The Sibel Edmonds case so far appears to be bi-partisan. And from I can tell happened under the noses of the Bush-Clinton administrations.

distinction that has to be made.

Ths is what I mean:

The Sibel Edmonds cases goes even higher than the neocons named, and it isn't just about Turkey.

A powerful faction of the foreign policy and intelligence establishment -- centered around former President G.H.W. Bush -- has, since the mid-1970s, been systematically selling off American nuclear technologies and intelligence capabilities to Saudi Arabia and other states.

That arrangement is called The Safari Club. In 1976, then CIA Director Bush sat down with the newly appointed head of Saudi intelligence, Prince al-Turki, and solicited Saudi money to run covert operations that the Democratic Congress had banned in light of the findings of the Church Committee hearings. In exchange for money, the Bush wing of the CIA has been helping the Saudis sponsor the "Islamic bomb" built by Pakistan, and then to build up a powerful global paramilitary capability that we know today as al-Qaeda. See, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/280

Keep in mind that this arrangement was originally conceived to evade and defeat Democratic Congressional oversight. Subequently it morphed into a multi-billion dollar Saudi slush fund known as Yamamah ("The Dove"), that's become a vehicle to buy off American and British politicans and manipulate government policy. See, http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/303

All this is about as illegal as you can get, and the Saudis and third-countries have been blackmailing and manipulating the Bush family and their confederates ever since. As a result, we've seen lots of drug dealing, looting of banks and corporations, manipulation of markets, and other massive organized criminal enrichment under intelligence cover along with it.

High Treason doesn't get too much more serious and dangerous than this.


The BAE scandal was the funding scheme for Yamamah. Since Thatcher, the Brits have marked up the cost of every plane and radar set sold to (er, warehoused by) the Saudi military, and then kicked back some of this to Prince Bandar and other key members of the Royal family as walking around money. The total slush fund now amounts to about $160 billion.

Every major British pol from Maggie Thatcher to Tony Blair down has had a hand in the Yamamah-BAE slush fund.

Some of this same slush fund money also showed up in the MZM-Cunningham-Dusty Foggo scandal. Cunningham flew to Saudi Arabia along with Tony Kontogionnis, who has ties to the Greek government that has been reportedly trying to broker a deal with Northrop-Grumman to purchase aditional F-16s. After meeting with Crown Prince Abdullah, Kontogionnis then accompanied Cunningham to the White House, where they met with Dubya, twice. See the M.O.? http://journals.democraticunderground.com/leveymg/303

Bottom-line: MZM-Cunningham appears to be part of the American side to the monster scandal involving multi-billion dollar kickbacks from defense contractors to the Saudi Royal family, which has been in turn buying western politicians and intelligence officials for decades. The Chinese and Russians have been doing the same thing, but on a smaller scale, and more recently.

Over the years, the Yamamah slush fund has bankrolled a series of Saudi black operations from Pakistan's nuclear program, to the BCCI rip-off, to the Iran-Contra operation, to the creation of al-Qaeda and political influence buying in the US and UK by various factions of the Royal family.

Every time the US and Britain puts together an arms deal with the Saudis, and now with third-countries such as Turkey and Greece, the overpricing and kickbacks funds a black program, often inside the US and Britain.

take control of Washington, DC banking via First American Bank and Chevy Chase S&L - they had to pay a few more folks off and do a few more joint deals with the CIA before they got around the problem - but the Reagan folk/neo-cons/CIA were cheap whores in the end.

It funded every illegal black operation from Iran-Contra to the AQ Khan nuclear network.

still friendly to the CIA. (meaning I know there were CIA deposits at American Bank - and was told that Chevy Chase was co-operating with the CIA - I do not personally know of CIA deposits at Chevy Chase - and my operation, the life insurance sub of International Bank, handled a payroll function for the CIA in terms of monthly payments to fallen dictators/people of influence - as in a Pakistan fellow whose check was mailed to an account in Europe - that check I saw)

The town was a rather close knit group of CEO's with large egos that were either co-operating with the CIA, or fearful of the CIA, or as in our case at Reagan's buddy Olmstead's "International Bank" - both.

operation that served the Saudi Embassy. The wife of then Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar transferred money out of an account there and it went to pay the rent in San Diego for the Flt. 77 hijackers right after they arrived in the US in early 2000. The really funny part of this was that the CIA Counter Terrorism Center (CTC) under Cofer Black was watching these guys as they planned the 9/11 and Cole attacks in Kuala Lumpur.

When the pair landed at Los Angeles International Airport on 01/15/2000, one of the CTC analysts started to draft a cable warning the FBI that they had arrived. That cable was never sent after CTC managers ordered that it be withheld. See,

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BTW: The first private sector job that former CIA Director G.H.W. Bush was given in 1977 after he left the Agency was on the board of several banks owned by Texas banker Joe Allbritton. After the Reagan-Bush Administration took power, Allbritton moved to Washington and bought Riggs Bank.

Kevin Phillips writes about the Bush family's career in banking: http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0111-01.htm

Taking the CIA helm in January 1976, Bush cemented strong relations with the intelligence services of both Saudi Arabia and the shah of Iran. He worked closely with Kamal Adham, the head of Saudi intelligence, brother-in-law of King Faisal and an early BCCI insider. After leaving the CIA in January 1977, Bush became chairman of the executive committee of First International Bancshares and its British subsidiary, where, according to journalists Peter Truell and Larry Gurwin in their 1992 book "False Profits," Bush "traveled on the bank's behalf and sometimes marketed to international banks in London, including several Middle Eastern institutions."

Once in the White House, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan and later as president, George H.W. Bush was linked to at least two Middle East-centered scandals. It's never been entirely clear what Bush's connection was to the Iran-Contra affair, in which clandestine arms shipments to Iran, some BCCI-financed, helped illegally fund the operations of the anti-Sandinista Contra rebels in Nicaragua. But in 1992, special prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh asserted that Bush, despite his protestations, had indeed been "in the loop" on multiple illegal acts.

Much clearer was Bush's pivotal role, both as vice president and president, in "Iraqgate," the hidden aid provided by the U.S. and its military to Saddam Hussein's Iraq in its high-stakes war with Iran during the 1980s. The U.S. is known to have provided both biological cultures that could have been used for weapons and nuclear know-how to the regime, as well as conventional weapons. As ABC-TV broadcaster Ted Koppel put it in a June 1992 "Nightline" program after the 1991 Persian Gulf War: "It is becoming increasingly clear that George Bush, operating largely behind the scenes through the 1980s, initiated and supported much of the financing, intelligence and military help that built Saddam's Iraq into the aggressive power that the United States ultimately had to destroy."

During these years, Bush's four sons — George W., Jeb, Neil and Marvin — were following in the family footsteps, lining up business deals with Saudi, Kuwaiti and Bahraini moneymen and cozying up to BCCI. The Middle East was becoming a convenient family money spigot.

did not know of the relationship (the only things I "knew" about were those items I overheard Olmstead or Schultz say (Schultz was the head of the Ins operation)

I had a front row seat for American/Chevy/CIA payroll/Liberia's merchant shipping "flagging operation" (we were the folks that actually ran that so we could flag any ship as needed or track where those ships were being used) and Bert Lance and his games - But I never heard about the Riggs connection until I read about it many years later.

The following is an excerpt of a 2006 interview with al-Turki, who was then Ambassador, posted at the Saudi Embassy website: http://www.saudiembassy.net/2006News/Statements/TransDetail.asp?cIndex=590



Get the drift? Illegal covert operations, bought and paid for with petrodollars, since the mid-1970s. That was the Nixon-Ford doctrine, a legacy that has been carried out under Republican Presidents right up through 9/11.

the software platform for the money laundering in all of this?

Notice this article, a couple of years old, by William Hamilton who developed PROMIS.

http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/2945207/

FBI’s Incapacitating Cover-up
William A. Hamilton / Washington DC

At the end of the article:

get down to the truth. Or rather, we'll get down to the truth, but the White House won't fess up to it for another four to eight years.

The MSM that published leaks from Starr's Grand Jury and indicted the Clintons on Whitewater, Travelgate, "Sleepovers-gate" when no one ever found evidence that anything had been done wrong? The corporate media that has been calling Hillary a Bitch and which claims that the Clintons "lay traps" and wait malevolently for Obama to make mistakes so that they can capitalize on them, when what they are really talking about is when Obama f**ks up, the Clintons respond like any politicians would--only when it is the Clintons, it has to be B-A-D.

Give me a break.

The people who actually buy this need to start studying the corporate media. All it cares about is keeping Republicans in control of the FCC so that telecommunications companies can continue their wild frenzy of unregulated mergers and expansions.

The people who do not believe this cock and bull story but who are spreading it on DU in order to sling more mud and Divide and Conquer the Democrats should be ashamed of themselves, but then you have no shame, do you.

The Clintons are not all powerful. Hillary does not have witch hoodoo powers. They do not run the Arkansas mafia. The nation's corporations are full of a bunch of sexist old men who hated Bill from day one for giving his wife equal power and those old men will be damned if they will let Hillary or any other woman (except maybe a Republican widow) become president.