UK Times Breaks Update on State Dept. Traitors

It looks like the Democrats' refusal to enforce accountability by impeachment is digging them in as accomplices to treason.  First Cheney gets away with murder (in the case of Valerie Plame's informants, who may be getting knocked off one-by-one as we speak.)  Now this.  This involves members of Bush's State Department whom the Times calls "household names."  Total blackout in U.S. media, thank God for the Brits.  Looks like it's only a matter of time before Al Qaeda gets a suitcase bomb, thanks to an administration riddled with traitors like Cheney and a Congress which refused to do anything about it.  When blood runs in the streets and the air is filled with sounds of mourning, be sure to call your anti-impeachment, Democratic congressman and thank him for worrying more about "the next election."

"the government official warned a Turkish member of the network that they should not deal with a company called Brewster Jennings because it was a CIA front company investigating the nuclear black market. The official’s warning came two years before Brewster Jennings was publicly outed when one of its staff, Valerie Plame, was revealed to be a CIA agent in a case that became a cause célèbre in the US."

""If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials," Sibel Edmunds said.

Her story shows just how much the West was infiltrated by foreign states seeking nuclear secrets. It illustrates how western government officials turned a blind eye to, or were even helping, countries such as Pakistan acquire bomb technology."

"Edmonds is the subject of a number of state secret gags preventing her from talking further about the investigation she witnessed.

"I cannot discuss the details considering the gag orders," she said, "but I reported all these activities to the US Congress, the inspector general of the justice department and the 9/11 commission. I told them all about what was contained in this case file number, which the FBI is now denying exists.

"This gag was invoked not to protect sensitive diplomatic relations but criminal activities involving US officials who were endangering US national security.""

THE STORIES:

UK Sunday Times, Jan.20, 2008, "FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft"

UK Sunday Times, Jan. 6, 2008, "For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets."

•  What is missing is the

  extent to which powerful multinational corporations profit from weapons proliferation (as they did back in the days when Rumsfeld was helping insure that Saddam's chemical weapons found their mark)

  It isn't just government officials who should be in jail.

  by tiggers thotful spot on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:52:01 AM PDT

  •  the MIC has driven foreign policy ever since

    GHW Bush was head of the CIA.

    by shpilk on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:53:22 AM PDT

    •  And the 'friends' of GHWB are well embedded

      in energy companies, think tanks, media, 'committees', and government.
      Gates was fast rising star in the CIA.
      Rice the darling of Chevron.
      Negroponte, Armitage

      http://www.aztlan.net/...

      Energy info is always available here and you will see that Nuclear Power Plants are the currency, as the fight over limited resources including water, food and petro-chemicals grows with the growth of world population. It is pipeline poker and black markets that travel along the "Silk Road", shipping lanes exploiting countries with vital resources. Sarkozy and Russia are exporting technology. Kazakhstan has uranium. The Kurds don't trust the French.
      A gold mine of links and recent history, including energy:
      http://www.turkishweekly.net/...
      http://www.turkishweekly.net/

      by deMemedeMedia on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:35:39 PM PDT

    •  It goes back farther than that

      Look up the Dulles brothers.

      by oldjohnbrown on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 02:58:02 PM PDT

•  tip jar? suitcase nuke fearmongering

   This is important, but how likely are we ,really, to see a suitcase nuke here? Its an adventure movie stable, but they just didn't build all that many and they got secured post haste when the Soviet Union broke up.

   I am much more worried about North Korea's home grown stuff, their proximity to South Korea, and the stress they are under. This is nuclear problem number one, closely followed by Pakistan, which is about to implode due to peak oil related issues.

  by Stranded Wind on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:55:11 AM PDT

•  OK

  One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file.

  Yes I read this - this morning too. So they don't have the actual document yet "marked 203A-WF-210023" but they do have a document in hand that shows it exists and the FBI lied about it.

  It is a bombshell - but without the actual document released I'm not sure what can be done. Other than pursue the document of course. The FBI lying probably isn't a crime, but I don't the legalities.

  IF Sibel Edmunds could get amnesty in another country or immunity or her gag order lifted here, it would come out.

  Of course she has said she would spill everything for one of the big Networks if they put her on the air.
  Maybe she'll just do that in the European press.

  Something has to happen. And this is BIG, as big or bigger then the Downing Street Minutes.

  by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:55:27 AM PDT

  •  I wish she'd just let it all out

    Go into hiding, if necessary, but jeebus - get the story out, in full.

    by Stand Strong on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 11:59:54 AM PDT

    •  Sibel Edmunds

      She is one superfluously brave woman!  I've not known another in my lifetime quite as courageous.  [I'm 37, so Rosa Parks wasn't of my time]  She is standing alone, with the netroots cheering her on, facing the Entire. PNAC. Carlyle Group. Governmental Machine!  I agree with Zappo Dave & you, Stand Strong, that Sibel must get this stuff out.  And soon too.  I can't help but fear for her safety.  Thank Goodness the British press is taking her seriously -- and reporting it too!  What a Concept!!  

      There HAS to be a way for us to force our Congress to take action against bushCo.  Wexler has to get those impeachment hearings under way stat!  There are already so many reasons (read: crimes) to move swiftly toward impeaching these crooks; but at this stage, I just want to see the baby step of hearings take place!  We have been pressuring them for years now and so far they've not listened.  If the pressure has to come from foreign countries, furthering the strain on our already feeble foreign policy then so be it.  Seriously!  Congress has failed in this respect.  Their cowardliness has now been shown to have created real-worldwide ramifications.  {{{sigh}}}

      by Shaking the Tree on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:56:07 PM PDT

      •  Will never happen, the impeachment that is

        because far to many in both parties are so deep into the corruption and war profiteering that they would be caught up in any real investigation as well.

        by eaglecries on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 06:03:33 PM PDT

    •  Yes, let it all out

      And condemn the traitors to the Hague or federal pen.

      by Brad007 on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:56:13 PM PDT

    •  Problem is that you can pretty well bet that if

      she does, she is a dead person. She would not be the first one to die under questionable reasons because of spilling information regarding crooked and treasonous activities here and else where.

      That is all part of their game and these big boys play for keeps.

      by eaglecries on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 06:01:40 PM PDT

•  A sad state...

  of affairs when I have to read a UK newspaper to get real news about the U.S. I'm telling you, if GW's administration had been Democrats, many would be in jail now.

  by keepinon on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:02:42 PM PDT

  •  This

    if GW's administration had been Democrats, many would be in jail now.

    would make a terrific bumper sticker!  It certainly would be on my car!  

    by Shaking the Tree on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:57:39 PM PDT

    •  Or

      If GW's administration had been Democrats, he would have been in jail by now.

      by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:59:38 PM PDT

      •  They both work! ;-) n/t

        by Shaking the Tree on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:04:32 PM PDT

  •  Actually, this is a normal state of affairs.

    One reason I was so grateful for the dawn of mass-communication internet sites is the inexpensive ease with which we can now read foreign English-language news.

    My opinion is that you're less informed if you don't read British papers on a regular basis.

    by Miles in WesternWA on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:59:34 PM PDT

    •  Which UK press is you favorite?

      Guardian? BBC? Other?

      Telegraph UK?

      by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:07:10 PM PDT

      •  I like to read both the

        Telegraph and Times regularly.

        Don't have a "favorite," really.  The Guardian provides a good left/liberal counterbalance.

        by Miles in WesternWA on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 02:28:28 PM PDT

•  Let's rate this up

  This is fresh off the press.

  (breaking)

  by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:13:33 PM PDT

  •  Actually - better yet.

    Lets rate this up and bump a candidate diary!

    by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:05:58 PM PDT

•  James Risen's State of War

  The CIA's Network in Iran had encrypted Blackberry like devices some Idiot in Langley Send a Broadcast e-mail to the entire Network with the e-mail address list of all operatives in the network including an Iranian double Agent. You can guess the rest

  http://www.amazon.com/...

  by JML9999 on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:26:05 PM PDT

•  It makes me wonder

  what the document that they DO have indicates. Does it specify the document in someway? Or is it a document that validates that document category number? It doesn't really say -- just that one document they have supports that the other document they don't have indeed exists.

  by ZappoDave on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 12:41:36 PM PDT

  •  Curious, no?

    Once again, the good ole bushCo-led U. S. of A. gets caught in a bald-faced lie; this time, to Great Britain's media.  Our government is pathetic.  The leadership is nothing but a bunch of keystone cops, and the Dems are still too afraid to call them out!

    GOD!  I soooo want these crooks to get their comeuppance!  They really need to get busted.  I mean, they would NEVER pay the price that would normally be charged for such crimes (ala death); but, prison?  Surely they can do some of that, right?!

    by Shaking the Tree on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:02:16 PM PDT

•  marc grossman

  he unidentified person in both articles is former #3 at the State Dept: Marc Grossman.

  BIO

  by lukery on Sun Jan 20, 2008 at 01:37:48 PM PDT