{"id":7348,"date":"2009-08-09T13:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T20:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2009-08-11T14:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T21:43:37","slug":"video-scenes-from-outside-the-stunning-deposition-of-fbi-whistleblower-sibel-edmonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7348","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Scenes From Outside the Stunning Deposition of FBI Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/VelvetRevolution.us\">VelvetRevolution.us<\/a> [<i>Disclosure: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.BradBlog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> is a co-founder<\/i>], here are some of the greatly condensed highlights from outside the National Whistleblowers Center on Saturday in D.C., as FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds gave her long-awaited under-oath deposition.<\/p>\n<p>Long gagged under the &#8220;state secrets&#8221; privilege by the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration&#8217;s DoJ chose not to re-invoke privilege, paving the way for this information to finally make its way on to the <i>unclassified<\/i> public record.<\/p>\n<p>Selected public commentary from the attorneys, candidate David Krikorian, and Edmonds, taken before, during breaks, and after the testimony follows. For <i>many<\/i> many more details, quotes and information about the information disclosed at the deposition, see <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7347\">our Live-Blog coverage from Saturday here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"340\" height=\"275\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iSvlwg3F6q0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/iSvlwg3F6q0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"275\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(The video of the deposition itself is still forthcoming. Monday earliest, so we&#8217;re told, but no way of knowing anything for sure until it&#8217;s <i>actually<\/i> made available. There&#8217;s some 5 or 6 hours of tape, as we understand it. We hope the text transcript of the entire deposition will also be made available to the public soon as well. Edmonds has stated that she too shares both of those hopes. Until then, however, please do review <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7347\">our coverage from yesterday<\/a>, for the complete, <i>stunning<\/i> details of what went on yesterday.)<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 8\/10\/09, 3:45am PT:<\/strong><\/em> Erik Larson, who was also among the independent media outside the NWC on Saturday, has additional coverage and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nowpublic.com\/world\/sibel-edmonds-deposition-deep-corruption-beneath-surface\">lengthier video clips here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE 8\/10\/09, 2:11pm PT:<\/strong><\/em> Quick update on current release status of deposition video\/transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7349\">now here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to VelvetRevolution.us [Disclosure: The BRAD BLOG is a co-founder], here are some of the greatly condensed highlights from outside the National Whistleblowers Center on Saturday in D.C., as FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds gave her long-awaited under-oath deposition. Long gagged under the &#8220;state secrets&#8221; privilege by the Bush Administration, the Obama Administration&#8217;s DoJ chose not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,223,429,188,107,15,126,58,349,198,110],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-hastert","category-dept-of-justice","category-jean-schmidt","category-mainstream-media-failure","category-national-security","category-ohio","category-rights-and-freedoms","category-sibel-edmonds","category-state-department","category-us-house","category-whistleblowers","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}