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Sibel Deniz Edmonds (born 1970)[1] is a Turkish-American [2] former FBI and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) [3]. worked as a language specialist for the FBI’s Washington Field Office. During her work with the bureau, she discovered and reported serious acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of intelligence that had national security implications. After she reported these acts to FBI management, she was retaliated against by the FBI and ultimately fired in March 2002. Her later claims have gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower.[4]
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Professional qualifications
Sibel Edmonds is fluent in Turkish, Farsi and Azerbaijani; and has a MA in Public Policy and International Commerce from George Mason University, and a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology from George Washington University. [3]
Deposition on treasonous and corrupt activities
On 8 August 2009, Edmonds gave a sworn deposition in which she testified to her knowledge of treasonous crimes and corruption involving current and former members of Congress and State and Defense Dept. officials. Given the nature of the deposition, the lines of questioning focused on Turkish espionage and services obtained through bribery and blackmail by Turkish officials and proxies. However, Edmonds has previously disclosed that the corruption involving U.S. officials also includes money laundering, trafficking in drugs, arms and nuclear secrets, U.S. support for Bin Laden/Al Qaeda, and obstruction of FBI investigations related to 9/11, before and after the attacks; she said these things came up “briefly” during the deposition. Edmonds learned of these things from wiretaps she listened to while working as a translator for the FBI in 2001-2002 [5]
Court proceedings on her issues have been blocked by the assertion of “State Secret Privilege” by Attorney General Ashcroft; the Congress of the United States has been gagged and prevented from any discussion of her case through retroactive re-classification by the Department of Justice.
Publications
- Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds story ISBN 0615602223 March 2012
- Boiling Frogs Post - Sibel Edmonds' web site
Documents by Sibel Edmonds
| Title | Document type | Publication date | Subject(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Checkbook Journalism & Leaking to the Highest Bidders | article | 8 December 2013 | Edward Snowden Affair Edward Snowden Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald | A hard-hitting article on the Edward Snowden affair. Its author speaks with considerable authority on matters concerning intel/security whistle-blowing matters in the USA |
| Document:Green-Light for Greenwald: Government Duplicity or Government Duality? | article | 14 December 2013 | Edward Snowden Affair Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald | Sibel Edmonds illustrates the importance of behaviour patterns in divining the underlying relationships between State approved institutions and those claiming Whistleblower status or speaking on behalf of Whistleblowers. She poses some serious questions that require answers from both Edwar Snowden and Glenn Greenwald |
| Document:Greenwald-Omidyar Joint Venture: The Blurring Lines Between Being A Source & Being A Journalist | article | 13 December 2013 | Edward Snowden Affair Edward Snowden Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald | |
| Document:Mr Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a Stand Publicly as to Your Intentions | article | 15 December 2013 | Edward Snowden Affair Edward Snowden Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald | |
| Document:Omidyar’s PayPal Corporation Said To Be Implicated in Withheld NSA Documents | article | 11 December 2013 | Edward Snowden Affair Edward Snowden Pierre Omidyar Glenn Greenwald PayPal | |
| Document:The Doomsday Insurance Cache That Was, and Then Never Was | article | 3 January 2014 | Edward Snowden Affair Edward Snowden Glenn Greenwald | Part 1 of a promised series of articles dissecting the published statements of the principal characters in what has become known as the Edward Snowden Affair. It highlights some glaring inconsistencies between those of Greenwald and Snowden and puts a shrewd question-mark over corporate media coverage of them. |
External sites
References
- ↑ justacitizen.com, "Gagged, But Not Dead", 2005.
- ↑ An Inconvenient Patriot - David Rose - Vanity Fair 15-8-2005 “But as a naturalized Turkish-American, she saw the job as her patriotic duty.”
- ↑ a b National Security Whistleblowers Coalition
- ↑ Newman’s Own First Amendment Award (press release)
- ↑ Sibel Edmonds Deposition: Deep Corruption Beneath the Surface
