Former FBI contract linguist-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and investigative reporter James Bamford discuss the Department of Justice’s abuse of the "State’s Secrets Privilege" to keep Edmonds from telling all she knows about high-level corruption in the Turkish Lobby, the State and Defense Departments and the Congress, a new petition by over 30 organizations demanding hearings into her case and a new FBI whistle-blower, who’s letter the the Department of Justice’s Inspector General [.pdf] reveals that all those wiretaps Edmonds was transcribing were illegal a€" begun on warrants under the much easier to satisfy-Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in cases of public corruption.
For background: My February 28, interview with Sibel Edmonds expert Luke Ryland here.
I was going to post this in No Sorrow for Libby but it’s closed so I’ll post it here for no good reason: My response is simply schadenfreude. I’m not going to complain about one of the monsters being caught by their own awful laws, but I don’t believe it will change anything either.
Another great interview! Keep up the good work.
Nothing much will change… I agree with Mr. C, we have just spent years trying M. Libby and all we have to look forward to is an appeal(s) and a probable pardon by W. This is a good example of the disinformation loop that the govt. uses to keep the masses mesmerized while they attend to business as usual. Who cares what the real crime was, we busted some lackey on a technicality!
The Edmonds story is another merry-go-round and it is improbable that any definitive truth will ever become of it but it will keep a lot of people busy in the meantime… It is kind of like believing that an ex-Army Sergeant (McVeigh) and his sidekick, Nichols, were the sole masterminds behind the OKC bombing; case closed. Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
No faith. But a little hope is okay.
great work again scott.