Vanity Fair article on Speaker of the House Hastert's treason found here!

[paulthompson]

Last week, a remarkable article about FBI translator and whistleblower Sibel Edmonds appeared in Vanity Fair magazine. She's been put until a severe gag order so we don't know all of what she's not allowed to say. But now we know a lot more, thanks to this article. She talks about bribery and espionage involving Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, other Congresspeople, State Department officials, and Pentagon officials. This story should be HUGE, but most people still don't seem to know about it, even at DU.

Now, you can read the entire article on line, here:

http://www.wanttoknow.info/sibeledmondsvanityfair

Some snippets:

Sources familiar with (Sibel Edmonds') testimony say that, in addition to her allegations about the Dickersons, she reported hearing Turkish wiretap targets boast that they had a covert relationship with a very senior politican indeed - Dennis Hastert, Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House since 1999. The targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert tens of thousands of dollars in surrepititious payments in exchange for political favors and information. "The Dickersons," says one official familiar with the case, "are only the tip of the iceberg."

Edmonds had time to listen to numerous calls (to the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC) before the Friday meeting, and some of them sounded important. According to her later secure testimony, in one conversation, recorded shortly after Dickerson reserved the targets' calls for herself, a Turkish official spoke directly to a U.S. State Department staffer. They agreed that the State Department staffer would send a representative at an appointed time to the American-Turkish Council office, where he would be given $7,000 in cash. "She told us she'd heard mention of exchanges of information, dead drops - that kind of thing," a congressional source says. "It was mostly money in exchange for secrets."

Another call allegedly discussed a payment to a Pentagon official, who seemed to be involved in weapons-procurement negotiations. Yet another implied that Turkish groups had been installing doctoral students at U.S. reserch institutions in order to acquire information about black market nuclear weapons. In fact, much of what Edmonds reportedly heard seemed to concern not state espionage but criminal activity. There was talk, she told investigators, of laundering the profits of large-scale drug deals and selling classified military technologies to the highest bidder.

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Please read the whole thing now, if you haven't already, and spread the word! The mainstream media has completely ignored the story. Don't let it fall into oblivion, like so many other Bush Administration scandals!

[autorank]

1. This won't play well in Peoria!

Denny, we hardly knew ye! :rofl: cya

[madrchsod]

3. never fear

the rethugs in my district thinks he walks on water..hell he just gave chicago a bucket full of cash and he`s building roads in his hometown. nothing for the rest of his district but it`s ok cause he`s denny!

[paulthompson]

2. Also check out this Democracy Now! interview from yesterday

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1346254

In it, it is revealed that the FBI is reopening an investigation into some of the espionage she's talking about. Funny how having a big article in a prominent magazine will force the FBI to (briefly) look like they're doing something.

[AllyCat]

4. I've been watching for this issue to hit the streets...when?

I like to hold magazines to read. Long articles on-line are tedious and usually involve one or more cats parading in front of the monitor like kitty-screensavers.

Anybody know when it's due at the newsstand?

[BQueen]

5. I *think* it's out now

I saw a new VF at the grocery tonight, but didn't have extra cash - cover only had one political note at quick glance ("Rovegate") and had Jennifer Anniston on cover and as big feature -- I hope all the people who buy it for the skinny on "Brad and Jen and Angelina" read about Sibel and Valerie (and Scooter and Karl and Dennis, Oh My!)

[paulthompson]

7. It's on the newsstands now

I just bought at copy at a bookstore in San Diego today.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. It's really an amazing thing

Just goes to show Dean was right. You can't trust republicans (now days) with your money. Tsk.

[paulthompson]

8. Mainstream media coverage = zero

I'm amazed how this story is getting absolutely no follow up press coverage whatsoever. About the only article I can find in Google News is from WorldNetDaily of all places, with a fairly decent (esp. for them), if extremely short story about it.

Did Turks bribe Hastert?
FBI whistleblower says she translated wiretap accusations

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45734

[yowzayowzayowza]

9. Too hot to handle.

MSM's incestuous relationship to the powers-that-be all but precludes any real discussion of any inconvenient FACTS.

Thx for the linkz and, as always, your Timeline werk too.

[paulthompson]

10. I'm afraid...

...you may be right. The fact that Sibel names both Democrats and Republicans as taking bribes could make this too hot for just about anyone in power.

[kansasblue]

11. Vanity Fair ! Think about this...Vanity Fair is one of the nation's

leading investigative mags.

[paulthompson]

13. It's true

They've been doing a lot of great stories lately. But damn, do they have a ton of fashion ads or what!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

12. Nice one, thanks

[Independent_Liberal]

14. Hastert going down!

Turkeygate

:)

[DemReadingDU]

15. thanks for posting a link to this article

I went to buy the Vanity Fair magazine, and I just couldn't bring myself to pay for all those ads. That magazine must be over an inch thick!

[paulthompson]

16. Don't miss this article!

.

[paulthompson]

17. Bump again

[paulthompson]

18. Bump