Just came across this eight minute old story via Google news, so it's literally hot off the press. The Dallas Morning news has broken the "gag orders" on the Sibel Edmonds story- a first for a major US publication (unless one counts the Yuma Arizona Sun and the Northeast Mississippi papers among the majors).
Things could really get interesting, now. See below for exerpts of the article the Dallas AM news chose to break this one to a major US audience...
Most Americans have never heard of Sibel Edmonds, and if the U.S. government has its way, they never will.
The former FBI translator turned whistle-blower tells a chilling story of corruption at Washington's highest levels – sale of nuclear secrets, shielding of terrorist suspects, illegal arms transfers, narcotics trafficking, money laundering, espionage. She may be a first-rate fabulist, but Ms. Edmonds' account is full of dates, places and names. And if she is to be believed, a treasonous plot to embed moles in American military and nuclear installations and pass sensitive intelligence to Israeli, Pakistani and Turkish sources was facilitated by figures in the upper echelons of the State and Defense Departments.
Nice lead in, huh? Then skipping down a bit-
Congress has refused to act, and the Justice Department has shrouded Ms. Edmonds' case in the state-secrets privilege
despite all our phone calls and letters...
five years of thwarted legal challenges and fruitless attempts to launch a congressional investigation, Sibel Edmonds is telling her story
in foreign newspapers, until now...
moving down a ways in this lengthy piece we come to a former CIA employee's assessment of the merits of her case-
Ms. Edmonds' critics maintain that she saw only a small part of the picture in a highly compartmentalized working environment, that she was privy to only a fragment of a large operation to penetrate and disrupt the groups that have been stealing U.S. weapons technology. She could not have known operational details of what the FBI was doing and why.
That criticism is serious and must be addressed. If Ms. Edmonds was indeed seeing only part of a counterintelligence sting operation to entrap a nuclear network like that of A.Q. Khan, the government could now reveal as much in general terms, since any operation that might have been running in 2002 has long since wound down.
Regarding her access to operational information, Ms. Edmonds' critics clearly do not understand the intimate relationship that develops between FBI and CIA officers and their translators.
and conclusion:
Her allegations are documentable; an existing FBI file should determine whether they are accurate.
It's true that she probably knows only part of the story, but if that part is correct, Congress and the Justice Department should have no higher priority. Nothing deserves more attention than the possibility of ongoing national-security failures and the proliferation of nuclear weapons with the connivance of corrupt senior government officials.
as adapted by the Dallas Morning News from a longer original piece published in the American Conservative magazine.
Time to break out the champagne, yet? Maybe not quite, but it is a breakthrough.
Show the story some digg, etc. love with this addthis link.
For those of you who need to familiarize (or refamiliarize) yourselves with the ongoing Sibel Edmonds story, a couple of good places to begin are Sibel Edmonds' official site Just A Citizen and DailyKos diaries by Luke Ryland, considered by Sibel Edmonds to be the world's best investigator on her case. Also, there is a 52 minute documentary about her story called Kill The Messenger.