{"id":7440,"date":"2009-09-29T14:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T21:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2009-10-02T10:34:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T17:34:02","slug":"audio-phil-giraldi-on-sibel-edmonds-on-the-thom-hartmann-show-as-guest-hosted-by-pbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7440","title":{"rendered":"CIA Vet: FBI Whistleblower Edmonds ‘Very Credible’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, the author of American Conservative<\/i> magazine’s explosive cover story interview<\/a> with FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds finds her to be “very credible,” even though “as a former intelligence officer,” he says, he’s “normally suspicious of these kinds of stories.”<\/p>\n

Giraldi was a guest on the Thom Hartmann Program<\/i><\/a> today, as guest hosted by Peter B. Collins<\/a>. In the 13 minute segment, he discussed a number of aspects of Edmonds’ disturbing allegations with Collins, including yesterday’s confirmation by a long-time FBI veteran<\/a> of a key element in her claims, which include bribery, blackmail, and the theft of nuclear secrets as aided and abetted by high-ranking U.S. officials.<\/p>\n

Giraldi, a long-time counterterrorism specialist with the CIA, commented on the confirmation by 18-year FBI counterintelligence vet John Cole, who, in a published claim<\/a> yesterday, acknowledged the existence of a “decade-long investigation” targeting the former third-highest ranking official in the Bush State Department, Marc Grossman, as Edmonds has long maintained. Citing Cole’s first-hand experience with the espionage investigations in question, Giraldi told Collins during the interview:<\/p>\n

This is something that, presumably, if the mainstream media were interested in it, would be a line of inquiry that would lead to a major investigation. … I’m a former intelligence officer, I find her very credible. And of course, as a former intelligence officer, I’m normally suspicious of these kinds of stories. In this case, John Cole, who obviously had direct<\/em> access to the investigations going on, is confirming her story.<\/div>\n

Listen online below, or download the MP3<\/a>…<\/em>
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NOTE: I’ll be sitting in to guest host the nationally syndicated <\/i>Mike Malloy Show<\/a> again tomorrow night (Wednesday), and have also scheduled Giraldi as a guest. We’ll have him on for a full hour at the beginning of the show (live at 6p PT, 9p ET) and will invite your calls and questions for him at 877-520-1150.<\/i><\/p>\n

UPDATE 10\/1\/09:<\/strong><\/em> Here’s my interview with Giraldi on the Malloy Show<\/em> last Wednesday (9\/30\/09). With commercials removed, the “hour” is appx. 38 minutes.<\/p>\n

Download MP3<\/a> or listen online below…<\/em>
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Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi, the author of American Conservative magazine’s explosive cover story interview with FBI translator turned whistleblower Sibel Edmonds finds her to be “very credible,” even though “as a former intelligence officer,” he says, he’s “normally suspicious of these kinds of stories.” Giraldi was a guest on the Thom Hartmann Program today, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[405,55,227,107,58,349,431],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-legacy","category-cia","category-fbi","category-national-security","category-sibel-edmonds","category-state-department","category-turkey"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","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=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}