Those of us who have followed the story of FBI whistleblower for the last seven years have had to exhibit enormous patience. Operating under numerous gag orders imposed by John Ashcroft's Justice Department, Edmonds has relied on various news media outlets to leak out bits and pieces of her story. The major breakthoughs on her case included the "Lost In Translation" segment of CBS 60 Minutes in 2002, the Vanity Fair article "An Inconvenient Patriot in 2005, and a series of articles by the Times of London in 2006. Each story held a piece of the puzzle, but each one left as many questions as it answered.
Now, Sibel Edmonds has blown the story open in an interview with Phil Giraldi of the American Conservative.
http://amconmag.com/...
Edmonds details the involvement of Marc Grossman, Douglas Feith, Richard Perle in a scheme to pass classified information to both Turkey and Israel. The details are simply too...well, detailed... to have been made up. Among the more stunning revelations:
-Grossman, a high level State Department official in both the Clinton and Bush Administrations, apparently took cash from Turkish intelligence agents and Turkish criminal figures, some of whom where linked to the Susurluk scandal in 1996. At one point Grossman apparently accepted a bribe of $14,000.
-Feith and Perle appear not to have been motivated by money as much as ideological concerns. That notwithstanding, they apparently provided Grossman with weaknesses and vulnerabilities of key figures in the Defense Department, so these figures could be bribed and blackmailed by Turkish agents out of sensitive classified information.
-The Turkish criminality apparently came to be centered in Chicago because:
The central figure in this scandal was Abdullah Catli. In 1989, while "most wanted" by Interpol, he came to the U.S., was granted residency, and settled in Chicago, where he continued to conduct his operations until 1996.
Edmonds strongly implies Mayor Richard Daley is involved in the espionage ring, as well as several state senators. Hastert is certainly involved and Jan Schakowsky was at least a target. Edmonds is coy about any possible involvement by Obama during his term as state senator, but she definitely thinks he does not represent reall change.
-Some of the sensitive information given to Turkey was passed on to the Pakistanis
The Turks would go through the leftovers, take what they wanted, and then try to sell the rest. If there were something relevant to Pakistan, they would contact the ISI officer at the embassy and say, "We’ve got this and this, let’s sit down and talk." And then they would sell it to the Pakistanis.
The FBI whistleblower also talks about Turkish agents passing on information to Saudi businessmen.
But for me the biggest piece of new information was a pre-9/11 plan to divide Iraq by the Neocons:
The monitoring of the Turks picked up contacts with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Perle in the summer of 2001, four months before 9/11. They were discussing with the Turkish ambassador in Washington an arrangement whereby the U.S. would invade Iraq and divide the country.
and revelations about U.S. relations with 'al Qaeda' in Central Asia in the months and years before the attack on the WTC and Pentagon. In order to prevent violating Fair Use, I'll let y'all read that part yourself.
Sibel Edmonds makes no claim of 9/11 being an 'inside job'. So anyone who wants to troll this diary and misrepresents what Edmonds says should read the interview carefully.