There's a good article in Congressional Quarterly by Jeff Stein called "National Security Whistle Blowers: The ‘Undead’?'
The article looks at the treatment of Sibel Edmonds, Mike German, Daniel Ellsberg and Gary Bernsten and others who have reported amazing vulnerabilities in the US homeland security, and ended up on the trash heap.
The article quotes John Cole, "a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent whose 18-year career took a nosedive when he came to the rescue of Sibel Edmonds," validating Sibel's claims and getting trashed for helping her.
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From the Jeff Stein article:
Take John M. Cole, a veteran FBI counterintelligence agent whose 18-year career took a nosedive when he came to the rescue of Sibel Edmonds.
Edmonds is the former FBI language specialist who surfaced in June 2002 with a strange tale of how she had been fired by the Bureau after telling supervisors that a foreign intelligence ring had penetrated the translators’ unit where she worked, among other sensitive issues.
Now why would they do that?
You can’t find out much, because then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft invoked a "state secrets privilege" to stop her suit against the FBI for wrongful dismissal.
A gag order prevents her from adding details to another of her sensational charges, that government eavesdroppers had intercepted the Sept. 11 hijackers plans.
Edmonds, born in Iran of Turkish origins, also claims she discovered unsavory links between U.S. defense and intelligence officials, weapons makers, Israel, and Ankara.
[snip]
"I thought that I could be of some assistance to her," Cole says in "Kill the Messenger," a new documentary film about her case, "because I knew she was doing the right thing. I knew because she was right."
Cole tells how he had "talked to people who had read her file, who had read the investigative report, and they were telling me a totally different story" than FBI officials, who had only perfunctorily investigated her allegations.
"They were telling me that Sibel Edmonds was a 100 percent accurate, that management knew that she was correct."
But they buried it.
In 2004, after months of harassment by superiors for his defense of Edmonds, Cole resigned.
A year later, the Justice Department’s Inspector General concluded: "the evidence clearly corroborated Edmonds’ allegations."
John Cole comes across as a lovely guy in the movie. Another victim in L'affaire Sibel Edmonds.