Former CIA analyst and international security and counter-terrorism expert Philip Giraldi has filed some of the American media’s best reports (even though we realize that’s not necessarily saying much) on the Sibel Edmonds case.
If you missed it a week or two ago, Giraldi filed a detailed report on the latest of Edmonds’ allegations on the sale of U.S. nuclear secrets, on the foreign black market, to friend and foe alike, as aided and abetted by very high-ranking U.S. officials. His article, published at American Conservative Magazine and titled “Found in Translation,” is a must read for both folks new to the issue and those who may have missed a beat or two along the way. The case also, if you haven’t noticed, ties in to the Valerie Plame Wilson/Brewster Jennings CIA Leak Case, and includes allegations that her cover company was outed to foreign agents by the #3 in the State Department, Marc Grossman, years before Robert Novak wrote his infamous column blowing the cover of the previously covert Plame Wilson.
Giraldi has now posted a slightly more general read this morning at Huffington Post, in an article titled “Sibel Edmonds Must Be Heard.” The piece offers both an easily readable summary of the case so far and another scathing (and well-deserved) condemnation of the American corporate mainstream media for all but ignoring the story.
He even notes, correctly, the failure of “so-called gadflies like Olbermann and Moyers” to cover this story, as we detailed ourselves several moons ago…
Of course Huffington Post, whose current top headline on the “Politics” page is: “Goodfellas: DeNiro Backs Obama In Jersey,” has been less than stellar in its own coverage of these issues as well. While they did feature a front page cross-posting of “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg’s recent op-ed on the American MSM’s failure to cover and report on the Edmonds case (originally published at The BRAD BLOG here), so far Giraldi’s post has been buried to all but those who seek it out.
(FULL DISCLOSURE: We also write for Huff Po ourselves from time to time.)
We hope you’ll read Giraldi’s latest Huff Po story in full, so we’re loath to quote too much of it here. The final graf, however, must be noted far and wide:
To quote from the musical 1776: Is anybody there? Does anybody care?
The BRAD BLOG’s extensive, years-long coverage of the Sibel Edmonds case can be read here…
Thanks for keeping this at least ‘on the horizon’ Brad. Does get tiring walking into the wind doesn’t it? May the road rise up to meet you and the wind be at your back.
Or to quote from the authors of “Another Brick in the Wall” which you’ve aptly used to describe the media in another thread further down…
“Is anybody out there?……………..”
Amen to that – seems like everywhere I look I find the walls closing in… agriculture, water, land use, aerosol spraying, nutrition, media, free speech, peacable assembly… Good Lord!
Godspeed comrades, live free or die trying.
I think a good question to ask these can-dates is if they intend to do anything about holding the corporate media accountable for their failure to present information critical to the public welfare? Scared rabbit syndrome, our own government is screwing with pheromone-like weapons to create it.
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2...on-resear.html
Add that shit to their fear inducing terrur alert system.
HELLO AMERICA!
The hour for exposing the treason Sibel is privy to is getting very late to deliver. I understand why she is being very cautious and imposing conditions to whom she divulges this. However, what will be the point 6 months from now?
One of the reasons this story will never see the light of day in the MSM is obvious, once you see some of the names involved.
Take a look at the ATC (American-Turkish Council) Website.
Golden Members:
http://the-atc.org/data/membershiplist/ghorn.htm
ATC Board of Directors 2007:
http://the-atc.org/data/aboutus...fdirectors.pdf
ATC Executive Committee 2007:
http://the-atc.org/data/aboutus...ecommittee.pdf
And these guys are only one piece of the puzzle. Smells like Corporate-Terrorism to me.
There’s probably a reason that Carol Lam very QUICKLY got a nice job offer from Qualcomm here in San Diego after she got let go as U.S. Attorney. I don’t believe it was coincidence that Brent Scowcroft is on their Board of directors.
And money launderer Thomas Kontogiannis got the kid gloves treatment later after she left. My guess is that he’s tied right into this mess and they don’t want to piss him off too much so they let him take a vacation in Italy with his government buddies even though he was about ready to be sentenced and didn’t have a passport then. Funny how things work like that and the rest of us are treated with such equal “slackness” at the airports in our “democracy”.
#1 Is that a nice Irish blessing there for Brad? well done. Thanks for the websites upthread for people and companies in on treason. I just cannot get used to fascism. ….it is nice to see that it doesn’t work with the economy tanking. I’m sure a lot of corporations are seeing profit loss. MSM ..I don’t think movies have been good under our present fascist leadership. ..Things are looking up in that dept. to me.
Sibel is about the infusion of fascism thru the neoCons, and the wars they had planned to enrich the military industrial oil complex.
There is a movie that makes it painfully clear that eggregious war crimes should not be “off the table” in super screwsday’s economic leaning rhetoric.
#9, not to be off topic, but a vote for McCain is a vote to continue gw’s war plan. Iran is on McCain’s radar. Are people so naive???
Mugzi #10
Yep, that is why I will vote with the majority to reject the ideology of the past 8 years. I will vote democratic this year, in the primary in my state in March, and in November.
The distrust of this regime goes deep all the way to the soccer moms.
This essay puts Mrs. Edmonds’ information in context (she is the last one listed in the essay):
http://georgewashington.blogspo...edible-or.html
I think the MSM is avoiding the story because it is a single-source item. Nobody wants to be the next Dan Rather.
Other single-source stories that have died:
Bhutto tells Frost that OBL died in December 2001.
Woman in Nevada identifies GWB and Polish ambassador as gay lovers.
Hey what happened ….this had 401 reddits and now none?
Sibel Edmonds guru Luke Ryland (Daily Kos Diary) is currently on the road and since he needs help to spread the word ALL THE TIME the rest of has to jump in even more now.
There was a small opening in the US wall of silence surrounding the Sibel Edmonds case when YumaSun published “FBI whistleblower ignored by the media” on February 5. It’s a letter to the editor, but despite this fact it’s the first time Sibel Edmonds is at all mentioned in US mainstream media for a LONG time. This article has to be commented and recommended. Please, spend a few minutes and register on YumaSun.com and give it a push! Every drop …..
I take the liberty to recycle what I recycled at Dandelion Salad half an hour ago:
I’ve set up a Google Alert for Google News articles with references to Sibel Edmonds. Every day I’m astounded to see that no one beyond a few blogs and local outlets have picked up this story.
How does the censorship order get communicated to all these news outlets? In other words, if I work at, say, the Chicago Tribune, how do I find out that this story is not to be touched? Maybe if the communications mechanism could be uncovered, we could learn more about precisely who is calling the shots and conceivably how to get around the news gag.