unGagged FBI whistleblower: Hastert, Burton, Blunt, Other Members of Congress Bribed

[think]

This information is being completely ignored by the main stream press. My hat is off to staunch conservative Pat Buchanan for having the balls to put Sibel Edmonds on the cover of his upcoming issue of Conservative American and telling her story and testimony as an FBI whistle blower. This will be hitting the news stands soon:

Brief overview of upcoming article in The Amercian Conservative:

http://www.amconmag.com/blog/2009/09...ds-speaks-out/



Sibel Edmonds recent testimony is a huge story in which she implicates many politicians and provides information that potentially exposes the depths of corruption within our government:

Breaking Down the Under-Oath Disclosures of the Formerly-Gagged Sibel Edmonds...

It has now been over a week since the video tape and transcript from the remarkable 8/8/09 deposition of former FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds was publicly released. Previously, the Bush Administration invoked the so-called "state secrets privilege" in order to gag Edmonds, in attempting to keep such information from becoming public.

The under-oath, detailed allegations include bribery, blackmail, espionage and infiltration of the U.S. government of, and by current and former members of the U.S. Congress, high-ranking State and Defense Department officials and agents of the government of Turkey. The broad criminal conspiracy is said to have resulted in, among other things, the sale of nuclear weapons technology to black market interests including Pakistan, Iran, North Korea, Libya and others.
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In this first break-down article, we'll look at the answers given by Edmonds during her deposition in regard to bribery and blackmail of current and former members of the U.S. Congress, including Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Bob Livingston (R-LA), Dan Burton (R-IN), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Stephen Solarz (D-NY), Tom Lantos (D-CA, deceased) and an unnamed, currently-serving, married Democratic Congresswoman said to have been video-taped in a Lesbian affair by Turkish agents for blackmail purposes.

In further breakdown articles, we'll look at her disclosures concerning top State and Defense Department officials including Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz and, perhaps most notably, the former Deputy Undersecretary of State, Marc Grossman, the third-highest ranking official in the State Department. Also, details on the theft of nuclear weapons technology; disclosures on Valerie Plame Wilson's CIA front company Brewster-Jennings; items related to U.S. knowledge of 9/11 and al-Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001; infiltration of the FBI translation department and more.

Though Edmonds was careful to not "discuss the intelligence gathering method by the FBI," she notes in her deposition that her claims are "Based on documented and provable, tracked files and based on...100 percent, documented facts."

Among the specific charges she levels against current and former U.S. Congress Members in the deposition:

Dennis Hastert: "[S]everal categories. The acceptance of large sums of bribery in forms of cash or laundered cash ... to make it look legal for his campaigns, and also for his personal use, in order to do certain favors ... make certain things happen for foreign entities and foreign governments' interests, Turkish government's interest and Turkish business entities' interests. ... other activities, too, including being blackmailed for various reasons. ... he used the townhouse that was not his residence for certain not very morally accepted activities. ... foreign entities knew about this, in fact, they sometimes participated in some of those not maybe morally well activities in that particular townhouse that was supposed to be an office, not a house, residence at certain hours, certain days, evenings of the week."

Stephen Solarz: "[A]s lobbyist ... acted as conduit to deliver or launder contribution and other briberies to certain members of Congress, but also in pressuring outside Congress, and including blackmail, in certain members of Congress."

Bob Livingston: "Until 1999 ... not very legal activities on behalf of foreign interests and entities, and after 1999 acting as a conduit to, again, further foreign interests, both overtly and covertly as a lobbyist, but also as an operative."

Tom Lantos: "[N]ot only ... bribe[ry], but also ... disclosing highest level protected U.S. intelligence and weapons technology information both to Israel and to Turkey. ... other very serious criminal conduct."

Unnamed Congresswoman: (Though not identified as such during the deposition, Edmonds has since confirmed her to be a Democrat) "[T]his Congresswoman's married with children, grown children, but she is bisexual. ... So they have sent Turkish female agents, and that Turkish female agents work for Turkish government, and have sexual relationship with this Congresswoman in her townhouse ... and the entire episodes of their sexual conduct was being filmed because the entire house, this Congressional woman's house was bugged. ... to be used for certain things that they wanted to request ... I don't know if she did anything illegal afterward. ... the Turkish entities, wanted both congressional related favoritism from her, but also her husband was in a high position in the area in the state she was elected from, and these Turkish entities ran certain illegal operations, and they wanted her husband's help. But I don't know if she provided them with those."

Roy Blunt: "[T]he recipient of both legally and illegally raised donations, campaign donations from ...Turkish entities."

Dan Burton: (And others) "[E]xtremely illegal activities against the United States citizens who were involved in [covert] operations that were ... against ... foreign government[s] and foreign entities against the United States' interests."

Hastert, Livingston and Solarz, as Edmonds notes in her deposition, would all go on to become highly-paid lobbyist for Turkey and/or Turkish public interest groups after they left the U.S. Congress.

The startling key exchanges relating specifically to criminal corruption by members of the U.S. Congress, from the 8/8/09 Sibel Edmonds deposition in the Schmidt v. Krikorian case, currently pending before the Ohio Election Commission, are now excerpted here.


http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publis...le_56961.shtml

Either Sibel Edmonds is lying under oath or she is exposing far reaching corruption involving top members of our government. This is not a right left issue but truly an American one. Members of both parties are implicated.

Regardless the main stream press is not breaking this story and only a handful of blogs and Pat's Conservative American Magazine have dared to bring these allegations to light for the American people. The information is extremely disturbing and opens up room for many discussions as to what the hell members of our government are doing behind our backs.

[zurc.net]

Thanks for the post, this is some interesting shit.... Are the videos worth watching? looks like several hours of testimony...

[HomerJ]

I've been following this one for years, literally. her official website is http://www.justacitizen.com/

[think]

Originally Posted by zurc.net

Thanks for the post, this is some interesting shit.... Are the videos worth watching? looks like several hours of testimony...

The videos of her testimony are long and it probably wouldn't be as interesting as the articles as they really boil down what is brought out in her testimony. I have watched some of them as I have been following the story for years. But there is so much to the story. It is better to get informed on the crux of what is in the testimony and how this is being handled by our government.

Sibel Edwards was put under a gag order by the Bush Administration on the grounds of state secrets. She has been called the most gagged woman in US history.

There are many good videos on YouTube before she was able to testify last week. This one gives some good background on her efforts to testify before congress:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIji...eature=related

Along with her website Sibel also has a blog with information that may help shed some light on this for you as well:

http://www.123realchange.blogspot.com/

I will try and post some more links to articles a bit later on but feel free to use Google to look up much more information as it is hard to cover it all.

[bd77]

This type of corruption happens in every society and on both sides of the political spectrum. This is why we need term limits for politicians.

[think]

Originally Posted by bd77

This type of corruption happens in every society and on both sides of the political spectrum. This is why we need term limits for politicians.

Corruption does happen but it need to be exposed especially when it runs this deep.

This is just the tip of the ice burg.

There is much more to this story as The Brad Blog just posted that The American Conservative Magazine is producing new allegations by Edmonds that can be backed up with FBI data:

Edmonds is more specific than even in her recent deposition, in explaining what she's been disallowed from talking about publicly for so long. She names very specific names, describes massive government infiltration and the theft of weapons technology and nuclear secrets beginning at the very top of government (the State Department and top White House officials and appointees) going through Congress (at least half a dozen current and former members) and defense contractors (RAND), through Ph.D. programs (MIT) and highly-classified nuclear facilities (Sandia, Los Alamos) and even, for good measure, through the media (New York Times) and beyond.

She discusses a well-organized foreign intelligence black market superstore, benefiting everyone from treasonous U.S. officials to operatives and governments in Turkey, Israel, Pakistan, Iran, Libya, al-Qaeda and beyond.

"No one has ever disproved any of Edmonds's revelations, which she says can be verified by FBI investigative files," Giraldi notes in the opening of his nearly-4,000 word article/interview. "As Sibel herself puts it," Giraldi writes, "'If this were written up as a novel, no one would believe it.'"

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7427

This is still just scraping the surface. Much much more is coming...........