we might be have a real scandal

The other day I mentioned Dan at Hong Pong. For a bunch of reasons, I haven't put together a major summary sibel post for a while - Dan took a shot at it.

Check out Wot is it Good 4 by Lukery, which has especially followed the case of former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds - with its bizarre stories of drug money laundering, 9/11 links, FBI corruption, the whole bit. Sibel herself (official site), under many federal gag orders, has said that Lukery has been able to digest the known facts of the case better than anyone else. There's fresh stuff on a daily basis. For example, if you want to get waist-deep in some weird defense contractor shit, connected laterally with Manucher Ghorbanifar, Rep. Curt Weldon (of Able Danger fame), plus Edmonds' belief that Weldon has been kind of duped about some of the fake Iraq intelligence, well this story is what you need, and this one about some kind of corrupt link between neoconservatives, Turkey and military-industrial defense contractors, which Edmonds is also tied up in, another good one. Read this and trip out: Bing Bang Boom Shazam. The Edmonds case is way under the radar, extremely weird, but it seems to connect to the AIPAC scandal, Chalabi and the fake Iraq intelligence, some kind of secret 9/11 financing arrangements, drug money laundering, Turkish spies, and perhaps illegal money in the campaign coffers of people like Rep. Dennis Hastert. Or maybe not (Hastert is getting sucked into the Abramoff scandal, either way). I think at some point, Sibel Edmonds will finally break out into a major scandal and I'd like to say that we got a bit of the early word out here. SourceWatch on Sibel Edmonds too. (tiny side note: Lukery suggests this woman's skillful negotiation sites)

But who are Sibel Edmonds, Curt Weldon, Able Danger and what do these have to do with 9/11?? Fortunately in the expanding field of 9/11 conspiracy videos, a new one introduces these issues in an accessible way. Check out Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime. I thought it was better than Loose Change, in terms of consisting of actual information and loose ends. However it doesn't have as many fun video clips. It has a pretty good introduction to the Able Danger, the pre-9/11 military intelligence project that apparently pinpointed some of the hijackers, and then was abruptly shut down with its terabytes of records vaporized. But ironically the problem perhaps might have been that it was based on illegal data mining?

dan is a great blogger (and, no, i'm not just saying that...) - unfortunately i rarely get over to his place. he even had lunch with ledeen! somone (john?) recently pointed me to hongpong.com.

Sibel is kinda under-the-radar- as weird as that might seem to us. Sibel does make an appearance in Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - and I'm told there might be some more media to come in the next few months.

It's kinda weird that she doesnt get more attention - if you remember richard clarke on bill maher recently talking about fornigate he said that it has everything: hookers, watergate hotel, the CIA, the KGB, congressmen on the take, and it's all true. The same thing is true for sibel's story basically (if you forget watergate, add the fbi, add 911, add some defense contractors, add espionage, add plame-gate, add brewster jennings, add gazillions of dollars of heroin, add the DoD, substitute the KGB for the israelis and turks, add aipac and larry franklin, substitute hookers for speaker of the house, two undersecretaries of defense, the chairman of the defense policy board, the attorney general and a national security advisor or two, and throw in a states secrets gag) all of a sudden we might be have a real scandal.

and that's just the stuff that's available on the surface!