Whistleblower Sibel Edmonds needs your help (esp. Iowa and Vermont)

[paulthompson]

Hi,

I'm in email communication with 9/11 whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. Right now she's working on trying to get publically released a Department of Justice investigation report looking into her case. Even though the investigation was done and completed in 2002, apparently they're trying to delay the release of the report until after the election.

Edmonds has two US senators who have been backing her up: Charles Grassley (R) and Patrick Leahy (D). She's trying to get more action from them in pressuring the Department of Justice to release this report now.

So. She's been on some national radio shows like Democracy Now and Pacifica. But she wants to get on Iowa stations for Charles Grassley and Vermont stations for Patrick Leahy. That way she can keep this story in the news. Does anyone here have any recommendations of good stations and/or shows she could go on in those two states, and even their contact information?

Secondly, it would be great if more prominent politicians knew about her case and tried to help her out. Does anyone have recommendations for a couple of politicians she should try to focus her energies on? Any contact info for them?

Let's break this secrecy barrier and get this information out.

[berner59]

1. What if we all email AA or MSNBC...

or other stations to get her on...or 60 Minutes??? Let us know what to say and we'll bombard them...grass roots works!!

[americanstranger]

8. 60 Minutes originally broke the story last year.

They may be up for a followup.

-as

[paulthompson]

2. another article

Here's a new article. It points out that Monica Gabrielle and other 9-11 Family members gave the 9-11 Commission questions that Ms. Edmonds requested be asked of FBI Director Mueller. Ben Veniste stated that he will follow up on the questions but didn't think it was appropriate to deal with them in public.

http://www.connpost.com/Stories/0,1413,96~3750~2085143,00.html

FBI chief grilled on terrorism failures
By PETER URBAN

[Bozita]

3. Thom Hartmann broadcasts from Vermont

M-F noon-3pm EDT

On Fridays during the 2nd hour, he has "Brunch with Bernie" (Sanders), the independent Congressman from Vermont.

[petersjo]

4. Iowa

You could check with IPTV, our public TV station, based on Johnston, IA, near Des Moines. They do a weekly political show. Commercial stations are located in every corner of the state. The ones I'm familiar with are WHO, WOI, and KCCI in the Des Moines area; also KGAN and KCAU in Cedar Rapids; KWWL in Waterloo. There are stations in the quad cities and Sioux City also, but I don't have their call letters. I believe if you do a google search on the call letters and/or cities, you can come up with contact info. Good luck.

jp

[happyiowan]

5. WSUI am 910

does a local call in show called Talk of Iowa or some such. They always need programming. Try emailing [e-mail].

[Oilwellian]

6. Why not approach the major networks?

Peter Jennings is supposedly interviewing a FBI whistleblower tonight on the Nightly News. I was hoping it was her.

[paulthompson]

7. thanks

I've passed this on so far. Any other suggestions?

[nostamj]

10. i have not heard her speak

but, if she can

AirAmerica's MORNING SEDITION is a logical opening.

easier to call in at that hour and set something up. maybe it would be passed to UNFILTERED in the 9-12 block (or repeated?)

AA is getting press and want to get more press. win-win as I see it.

I could start calling in at 6AM EST sharp. but, I'd need contact info to pass the connection to Sibel...

PM me if you want me to try this tomorrow morning...

i really can't imagine they wouldn't be interested if someone called (even off-air) and said, "would you like to talk with Sibel Edmonds ON-AIR" that they would JUMP

[paulthompson]

16. Actually...

She's one step ahead of you. Apparently she is going on Air America tomorrow, around 7:30 (eastern time, I think). Check it out.

[nostamj]

19. yes! listening now...

good for her.

[Blue Gardener]

11. Eastern Iowa

KCRG is the Cedar Rapids ABC affiliate. Iowa City has a local radio station that is independently owned and is politically active. The call letters are KCJJ.

[Wapsie B]

9. She should have

a sympathetic ear with Grassley. The Whistleblower Act is his baby.

[paulthompson]

12. yeah

but apparently he's not pushing hard enough for her tastes. Perhaps the fact that he's a Republican, he feels a certain loyalty to Bush?

[buycitgo]

13. JESUS!!!!! What sort of contumely can you dream up to describe DEMS?

they SO nauseate me

can you imagine what the PUGS would do with a witness like HER?

think of whom they came up during the inquisition:

the likes of Gennifer Fitzgerald, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, E. Jean Lewis, etc.

and they IMPEACHED him on the strength of these liars, delusionals, spotlight seekers

where is our democratic "leadership?"

is there a more cruelly ironic oxymoron extant?

what the FUCK is the MATTER with these spineless, achordate Liusers?

this doesn't even have to be played as partisan!

she can TELL the world how shamelessly they covered things up, and are STILL keeping us UNSAFE! this isn't a political story. it's about PROTECTING us as a nation.

why is there even a question of party politics here?

am I missing something?

and thanks for bringing this up

and MANY THANKS for your amazng 911 site....may take me the rest of my life to finish it, but it's well worth it

[FreakinDJ]

14. Very well said Buycitgo

I like the point you bring to the table

It's about REAL SECURITY

[buycitgo]

15. I mean, how much more obvious can it GET?

"war" on terra is a misnomer, to begin with

whatever you want to call the thing, there has to be a two pronged approach, of course

one: do the best we can to communicate within all the little intel fiefdoms that have metastasized over the years, so that what useful info they bother to develop finds its way to a place from which it can be employed in keeping anything like 911 from happening again....IOW, treating the disease at an acute level

two: more importantly, and treating disease at the chronic level, which will not happen.......work at eliminating the causes of "terrorism," that exist at the level of people who exist on nothing, who glean their "education" from madrasses, funded by insane fundamentalists; their version of our own Falwell/Robinson/Rushdoony sects.

not good at maintaining thrust of my rants, but you get the idea.....we fight a largely losing battle, as long as our current corrupt economic system maintains control over the planet.

not holding breath for things to change for the better

[TheWebHead]

17. Mike Webb on KIRO in Seattle

[e-mail]

he hosts 10pm-1am PST.

[formactv]

18. WGDR Plainfield VT 911 on your FM dial!

She could be on tomorrow. Ask for John Barkhausen or Joseph Gainza.

[Bushfire]

20. She was just on Unfiltered AAR

it was great, though my stream got interrupted for a brief minute. Laid into other countries being protected for diplomatic reasons, and NOT just Saudi Arabia. Draw your own conclusions there. She would be someone who knows. Ben-Veniste wanted her comments in private, and she believed so they would be later redacted from the official report. Where are the guts of our so called Dems to fight for open public testimony that won't reveal sources? The Warren Report will be a non-fiction novel compared to the upcoming 9 11 whitewash.

[Sliverofhope]

21. kick

Indeed.

[Bushfire]

22. whistleblower kick

:kick:

[NewJeffCT]

23. Not quite Vermont, but

But, WTIC AM 1080 out of Hartford has a 50,000 watt signal and their normal afternoon co-hosts, Colin McEnroe & Bruce Stevens, are fairly liberal. Colin is very witty and quite smart (Yale grad).

I've heard the station in South Jersey before...so, it does have reach.

[Minstrel Boy]

24. Let's kick this back to the front page

and put Sibel Edmonds on every front page in the US.