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    Capitol Hill: sex & drugs & Turkish `soap'

    27 September, 2009, 01:38

    Lesbian Congresswomen, gay Senators and other `sinners' of the US
    establishment fall victims of an espionage scandal. Former FBI
    employee tells how Turkish intelligence gathers information on Capitol
    Hill.

    A 34-year-old, Turkish-born woman of Azerbaijani descent, Sibel
    Edmonds, joined the FBI as a Turkish and Farsi translator a few days
    after 9/11. Her duties included translation of recordings of
    conversations between suspected members of Turkish intelligence and
    their American contacts.

    However, in April 2002 Edmonds was fired after she raised concerns
    that one of the staff in her section was a member of a Turkish
    organization that was under investigation for bribing senior US
    government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking,
    illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation.

    Despite the fact that no one has ever disproved any of her
    revelations, no effort was made to address the corruption that she had
    been monitoring. That is according to The American Conservative
    magazine, which has had the opportunity to interview the former FBI
    translator.

    The cases disclosed by Sibel Edmonds may well be considered the most
    incredible story of corruption and influence peddling in modern US
    history.

    `If this were written up as a novel, no one would believe it,' The
    American Conservative quoted the woman as saying.
    Before and after 9/11

    According to documents that Sibel Edmonds had access to, intelligence
    agents repeatedly reported Al-Qaeda plans to arrange a series of
    large-scale terrorist attacks on American soil. Despite that, their
    chiefs dismissed the reports as dubious.

    Moreover, John Ashcroft's Justice Department twice invoked the State
    Secrets Privilege on the files so Edmonds could not tell what she
    knew, while the 9/11 Commission did not have a chance to see them
    either.

    Interestingly, between 1997 and 2001, not once did anybody use the
    word `Al-Qaeda,' the woman says. It was always always `bin Ladens' `
    plural.

    `There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to
    Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked
    with them¦ People and weapons went one way, drugs came back,'
    Edmonds continues.

    `A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium on NATO planes. After that,
    they went to the UK, and a lot came to the US via military planes to
    distribution centers in Chicago and Patterson, New Jersey. Turkish
    diplomats, who would never be searched, were coming with suitcases of
    heroin,' she explained.
    Generous Turks, helpful congressmen

    After having been sacked, Sibel Edmonds had revenge on her former
    employer by telling journalists that entire groups of American
    congressmen and diplomats were permanently `supported' by Turkish
    intelligence and lobbyists in Washington DC.

    For instance, they allegedly recruited Marc Grossman for regular
    payouts, who was a US Ambassador to Turkey between 1994 and 1997.

    On top of that, Edmonds lists several high-profile officials among his
    collaborators, including the 13th US Deputy Secretary of State,
    Richard Armitage, senior Pentagon officials, Richard Perle and Douglas
    Feith, and Air Force Major Douglas Dickerson.

    Simultaneously, she says, Grossman arranged for several US congressmen
    to lobby Ankara's interests on Capitol Hill, while compensation
    reached up to $400,000.

    `The number-one Congressman involved with the Turkish community, both
    in terms of providing information and doing favors, was [a former
    Republican Representative from Louisiana] Bob Livingston,' Edmonds
    said in an interview.

    Bob Livingston ` also the founder of the renowned lobbying group, The
    Livingston Group `was allegedly paid a monthly compensation of
    $105,000 by the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC. In total, the woman
    says, his family received $13 million between 2000 and 2005.

    `Number-two after him was [a member of the US House of Representatives]
    Dan Burton, and then he became number-one in Congress until [Dennis]
    Hastert bec l, Janet Reno, was briefed on the investigations, and
    since they were Republicans, she authorized that they be continued,'
    Sibel Edmonds has said.

    Employing the basic instinct

    Yet, what really surprises is the way the Turkish intelligence
    allegedly approached Janice, or "Jan" Schakowsky ` a Democratic member
    of the US House of Representatives.

    They arranged for the bisexual woman and her spouse, Robert, to be
    seduced by a pretty Turkish lesbian ` all it took to get everything
    the Turkish agents needed.

    Even these few examples of Edmond's disclosures of US officials
    provides a glimpse of the overall scale of corruption in US
    governmental institutions, as well as of the activity of Turkish
    intelligence there.

    Quite interestingly, all the US MPs who have been listed by Sibel
    Edmonds were the first to actively oppose the pro-Armenian resolutions
    concerning America's recognition of the Armenian genocide by the Turks
    in 1915.

    All in all, Turkish agents reportedly received numerous strategic
    secrets about the American military and, even more importantly, a
    number of compromising ties that certain politicians, diplomats and
    military officials established with various international criminal
    syndicates.

    http://www.russiatoday.com/T op_News/2009-09-27/capitol-sex-drugs-turkish.html
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