sibel edmonds, brewster jennings, edelman and grossman

ive been promising my new post on eric edelman/plamegate for a few days now, but havent delivered it yet - ive been mostly side-tracked from publishing it because of regular blogging duties and other asides...

also, as you've noticed, ive been building up other parts of the 'edelman' story - with my posts on brewsterjennings and marc grossman.

in the interim, chris deliso from antiwar.com and balkananalysis has kinda beat me to the punch with his piece on plamegate and brewsterjennings called "Lesser Neocons of L'Affaire Plame". he borrowed quite a lot of my stuff - i had noticed in the server logs that someone had been 'snooping' around my story on sibel and plamegate (and ive previously used some of his work on sibel)... he actually linked to one of my posts

anyway read his post - it has lots of great stuff - pointing to grossman and edelman and fleitz and bolton (and perle and feith et al) - but he doesnt quite tie it back to sibel's central claim - despite his access to sibel.

anyways - here's a snippet re grossman:

Although Grossman "has not been as high profile in the press" FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds cryptically told me the other day, "don't overlook him – he is very important."

She was not speaking about the Plame affair, though Grossman did indeed have a key role there, as we will see. According to her, Grossman was one of three officials – the other two, she says, are Richard Perle and Douglas Feith – who had been watched by both Valerie Plame's Brewster Jennings & Associates CIA team, and by the major FBI investigation of organized crime and governmental corruption on which she herself was working until being terminated in April 2002.

Marc Grossman has served in a number of interesting countries and positions over the past 29 years. From 1976-1983, at a pivotal point in the Cold War, he was employed at the U.S. embassy in Pakistan – America's key regional ally, through which millions of dollars in weapons and other "aid" were delivered by Pakistan's ISI intelligence service to the mujahedin following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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Interestingly enough, at the same time Feith and Perle were greasing Turkish palms and Grossman was presiding over in Ankara, the CIA's Brewster-Jennings network and Valerie Plame were focusing on nuclear proliferation in Turkey. This scrutiny led them to trace private citizens in America as well as lobby groups like the American-Turkish Council – which is precisely where Plame met future husband Joseph Wilson, while "on duty" at a 1997 reception held by then-Turkish ambassador to the U.S. Nuzhet Kandemir."

i've previously pointed the finger at grossman (as has xymphora) - so its interesting to see validation coming from sibel herself! and ive discussed wilson's odd connection to the ATC - although i didnt know that he met val there! such a small world. scowcroft, of course, is the chariman at the atc - and sibel has tried to point the finger at him... and interestingly, it was scowcroft who pushed wilson to out himself, and ultimately his wife - by pushing wilson onto rice, who eventually told him to write his story in the newspaper! (so many exclamation points, so little time!!!)

if chris delosi is anywhere near the mark, then so have i been! woohoo. and hopefully this story is about to break out. if you havent read my other pieces on this, see here and here for starters (and where have u been?)

and yep - my edelman piece will come out tomorrow - nothing specifically explosive - but he is at the sibel nexus - a total neocon who happened to be a failed turkish ambassador who got (recess) promoted (back) into the cheney inner circle - funny how that works. see here for a snippet