Monday, January 23, 2006

Judge Reggie Walton, Sibel, Libby & Plame

sibel sent through this article about Judge Reggie Walton, without comment. The money quotes seem to be:
Edmonds has confirmed that Walton’s involvement with her original case along with her FTC case has allowed him to be privy to information regarding many of the same players that also appear in the Plame case, most notably, certain Turkish-American organizations. These would be the same semi-legit organizations that were FBI targets of investigation which Edmonds had discovered were being ignored by fellow intelligence translators from within the FBI!

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As Edmonds has stated, the cast of players she stumbled upon during her time at the FBI and some of the very same people that Valerie Plame was investigating involved the actions of top officials in the government and a lot of illegal activities that include multi-billion-dollar drug-smuggling operations, black-market nuclear sales to terrorists and unsavory regimes. In an August 5th interview, Edmonds said, “You can start from the AIPAC angle. You can start from the Plame case. You can start from my case. They all end up going to the same place, and they revolve around the same nucleus of people.”

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Judge Walton demands much more attention than he’s been given. The mainstream media is obviously oblivious to the effect he will have on the outcome of both the Edmonds case and Libby’s trial. As we have seen, there is far too much at stake to allow any sense of true justice to prevail.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I would guess about 95% of American journalists who work for mainstream media organizations...would be completely lost reading through your blog.

American media is as corrupt as American politicians.

Miguel said...

This is an excellent article by Jenkins. Probably the best Sibel article I've read.

You can find a link to the Alex Jones interview at the bottom of this page:
http://www.911blogger.com/2006/01/new-article-on-sibel-edmonds-recent.html

A warning: This interview is extremely frustrating to listen to. Jones interrupts Edmonds everytime she is about to let out new information. Why does someone bother to invite someone to interview if they are not going to listen to what that person has to say?

This interview is the first time I heard Sibel mention the Livingston Group. She says the million and a half per year Livingston gets is not coming from the Republic of Turkey. Not sure what she meant by that.

Anonymous said...

anon - sometimes i get completely lost reading my blog!

Mike - the Livingston Group website specifically says that their client is the Republic of Turkey - so i'm not sure what she meant either. i've emailed for a clarification.

and yep, Jones in a complete nutter - and totally painful. as a good frined of mine used to say "he should turn down the transmitter, and turn up the receiver"

Anonymous said...

actually, according to sourcewatch "The Livingston Group's lobbying return to the Department of Justice as required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act listed its work for the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey as providing "advice to the Ambassador from the Republic of Turkey. Numerous meetings were arranged with members of Congress, staff assistants, and other U.S. Government officials to discuss issues to create a more positive environment for Turkey.""

is that a distinction without a difference? or is it significant?