Exclusive Interview with FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds

Khatchig Mouradian—I asked you in 2007 what had changed during the five years since 2002, when you first contacted the Senate Judiciary Committee to reveal the story on Turkish bribery of high-level U.S. officials. You said, “There has been no hearing and nobody has been held accountable. We are basically where we started…” Two more years have passed, we have a new president, and I have to ask the same question again. Has there been any change?

Sibel Edmonds—Nothing has changed. As far as the Congress is concerned, the Democrats have been the majority since November 2006 and I have had zero interest from Congress on having hearings—any hearings—on this issue, whether it’s the states secrets privilege portion of it or the involved corruption cases. The current majority has been at least as bad as the previous one. At least the Republicans were gutsy enough to come and say, We’re not going to touch this. But the new majority is not saying anything!

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S.E.—I know field reporters who are so excited and want to chase the story. But when they went to their papers—and I’m talking about mainstream media and very good investigative journalists—their editors are refusing to touch it. When you watch the video or read the transcript, you will see how explosive the deposition was. And remember, I was speaking under oath. If by any standard, if I were to lie or be untruthful in any way, I would go to jail. I am answering these questions under oath, and yet, the mainstream media is refusing to touch it. And this is very similar to what we saw with the AIPAC/Larry Franklin case.

I have emphasized the fact that the American Turkish Council , the Turkish lobby, and these Turkish networks, they work together, in partnership with AIPAC and JINSA . So not only is there pressure on media outlets from the Turkish lobby and the corrupt U.S. persons involved, but they also have this pressure placed on the media via their partners from the Israel lobby—and the latter’s influence on the mainstream media in the U.S. is undeniable.

http://www.hairenik.com/weekly/2009/08/21/exclusive-interview-with-fbi-whistleblower-sibel-edmonds/

S.E.—On the micro level, I have given up. I have done everything anybody could possibly think of, whether it’s approaching the Congress, the court, the Inspector General’s office, the mainstream media, or providing testimony under oath. There’s nothing left to do. It is what it is. It’s being blocked.

On the macro level, I am a U.S. citizen and I am a mother. I have the obligation, the responsibility, to defend the Constitution when it’s my part, my role, to make a difference. And for that, I will never give up. In the U.S., we are witnessing many elements of what we consider a police state. I expect that in countries like Iran, Turkey, Egypt, or Saudi Arabia. But we’re looking at these elements in the U.S., a nation that prides itself at being at the forefront of freedom, democracy, and civil liberties. What happened to that nation?

new media, new mediums-the "established media" have been BOUGHT. Just like radio with FDR, I'm glad Obama is using the Internet, a new media, for the truth is important enough to GET HEARD.

what if the laundering of heroin profits through Wall Street is all that has kept our economy from collapsing? This might explain the silence.

by Catherine Austin Fitts, a former Assistant Secretary of Housing in the GHW Bush Administration.

http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/narcoDollars.html

What if the U.S. economy is now four-sevenths "underground narcotics economy" and two-sevenths "military industrial"?

What if the CIA is embroiled in a four-decade power-struggle between the LBJ/Clinton-"Golden Triangle" wing, and the Poppy Bush-Afghanistan/Turkey-Underground Reich faction?

What if Vietnam was really about control of Golden Triangle heroin trafficking, and Kosovo was too?

What if Bill Clinton was recruited to the CIA at Oxford, and his CIA-insider presidency was the only power-check against a total Bush Cartel takeover of U.S. government?

What if Obama's apparent inadequacy or reticence to confront Bush Cartel organized crime is a careful, intelligent but perilous detour away from a U.S. "Operation Gladio" scenario (alluded to by Seymour Hersh)?

What if Obama's plunge into Afghanistan is a no-choice matter? That has everything to do with Bush Cartel trafficking, and nothing to do with Afghanistan or terrorism?

What if Obama is neutralizing the Bush Cartel, despite all appearances to the contrary?

What if Neocons-under-threat & backed into a corner resort to further 9/11 false flag tactics to regain advantage?

What if Netanyahu stages a false flag in Israel on 9/9, destroying both temples on Temple Mount, to blame Iran & justify attacking Iran?

What if Obama cannot condemn Israel, if Israel appears to be acting in self-defense?

What if OPEC retaliates by repeating the 1970s Oil Embargo against the U.S. for its failure to stop Israel's out-of-control Likud fantasy?

What if OPEC's new oil embargo spikes U.S. gasoline prices to $18/gal by December?

watch for this happening in Afghanistan:

http://www.angelfire.com/id/ciadrugs/cia-golden-triangle.html

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Government corruption is not just a problem in Thailand, it is a way of life. Like every bureaucracy, the Thai government has elaborate organizational charts marking out neatly delineated areas of authority. To the uninformed observer it seems to function much like any other meritocracy, with university graduates occupying government posts, careers advancing step by step, and proposals moving up and down the hierarchy in a more or less orderly fashion. But all of these these charts and procedures were (and are) a facade, behind which operate powerful military cliques whose driving ambition is to expropriate enough money, power, and patronage to become a government within the government. These cliques are not ideological factions, coteries of plotters united by greed and ambition.

A clique usually has its beginning in some branch of the military service, where a hardcore of friends and relatives begin to recruit supporters from the ranks of their brother officers. Since official salaries have always been notoriously inadequate for the basic needs—not to mention the dreams—of many officers, each rising faction must find itself a source of supplementary income. While graft within the military itself provides a certain amount of money, all cliques are eventually forced to extend their tentacles into the civilian sector. A clique usually concentrates on taking over a single government ministry or monopolizing a certain realm of business, such as the rice trade or the lumber industry. By the time a clique matures it has a highly disciplined pyramid of corruption. At the bottom, minor functionaries engage in extortion or graft, passing the money up the ladder, where leaders skim off vast sums for themselves divide the remainder among their loyal followers. Clique members may steal from the official government, but they usually do not dare steal from the clique itself; and the amount of money they receive from the clique is rigidly controlled.