Sibel Edmonds Proof "War On Terror" Is A Lie

[G_j]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0601/S00177.htm

Sibel Edmonds Proof "War On Terror" Is A Lie
Monday, 23 January 2006, 10:41 am
Column: W. David Jenkins III

Sibel Edmonds is proof that the “War on Terror” is a Lie
By W. David Jenkins III

There are simply too many dots! I’m not kidding around here. I’ve been through a carton of marking pens and a case and a half of extra strength Excedrin following the trail from the Sibel Edmonds case to Plame to Libby to the NSA to the Whistleblowers Coalition to Turkey to Hastert to Abramoff to the White House and back again. This is not an exercise equivalent to playing “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” but a monstrous series of lines and dots that would produce a flow chart bigger than Rush Limbaugh’s mouth.

Speaking of Limbaugh, his recent slam of Ms. Edmonds and fellow whistleblower, Russell Tice, prompted me to congratulate Sibel the last time we talked. “They must be worried if they’re calling out the right wing radio mouths,” I told her. However, Rove and Co. may want folks like Rush to shut up about Edmonds because the more people hear about her case, the more trouble it invites for this most corrupt administration. Besides, they’ve spent the last few years imposing gag orders on Edmonds out of fear of what she knows.

And now, true to their sleazy ways of doing “business as usual” as Edmonds calls it, the Bush Cabal is going to add insult to Edmonds ’ injury. They’re going to poke her in the eye with “Scooter” Libby’s get of jail free card. Allow me to introduce, as well as concentrate on, Judge Reggie Walton.

Walton is the judge who will not only be presiding over the Libby case, but he has also been “randomly assigned” to Edmonds’ Federal Tort Claim after having upheld her ridiculous gag order imposed by former attorney general, John Ashcroft. I call the gag order ridiculous because technically Edmonds ’ driver’s license, birth certificate and any potential job applications she might file can be considered a “state secret” under the provisions set. As I’ve said many times before, somebody is very worried about what Edmonds wants to talk about.

..more..

[leftchick]

1. wooo boy....

<snip>

So to quickly sum up, we have a judge with little background available, with long ties to the Bush’s, who someone doesn’t want the public to know his financial dealings, who has denied requests for domestic intelligence records (at least once), who has now been mysteriously “randomly assigned” to not only hear Edmonds’ FTC case, but is also assigned to a case regarding a senior White House official with whom this judge and the defendant worked with the White House at the same time, albeit in different capacities. Have we flunked the infamous Dan Burton “smell test” yet?


:grr:

[G_j]

4. can you believe it?

somebody needs to look into this "random" BS.

..nothing like a corrupt judge in your pocket.

[leftchick]

9. Can Fitzgerald do anything about this?

I certainly hope so.

[cascadiance]

28. Check this earlier article by Chris Deliso on Walton's "random" selection

Chris really pinpoints how this "random" selection is working and how it is really anything but "random" and more like a "queue", which gets stacked and popped at convenient times to those in power's preference.

Also note that in this article Kathleen Kollar-Kotelly is mentioned as one of the judges like Walton who gets "conveniently" appointed to cases that the administration wants influence over. What's not mentioned is that she is in fact the same judge that heard the appeal of Microsoft's appeal to the earlier anti-trust ruling against them which she overturned, very conveniently and suspiciously timed before the Friday before the general election the following week in 2002, to allow Microsoft and it's "deal" with Aschcroft and the government to escape scrutiny in that election.

http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=8340

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Stacking the Deck to Save the Administration
How a "random" judicial appointment may decide the Libby trial in advance
by Christopher Deliso
balkanalysis.com

The Bush administration – and the nation – has a lot at stake in the upcoming trial of former Cheney aide I. Lewis Libby over the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to the media. And if prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald decides to indict others (especially top Bush aide Karl Rove, as some expect), the stakes will get even higher.

If the trial gets messy for the administration, the president will be forced at least to reconfigure his government and suffer the fickle wrath of a duplicitous mass media. But things could get much worse, if convictions are handed down. At best (for the neocon-led government, anyway), the whole thing could just get smothered under a heavy blanket of "state secret" luxuries granted to the defense. Given the track record of the case's presiding judge, this is a distinct possibility.

The key issue arising out of not only Plamegate but so much else involving the current administration has been secrecy. Secret wiretapping and other secret requests put to the judiciary since 9/11 have doubled and have been handled in widely differing ways, even by the same judges, as have other cases in which secrecy has been cited. Examining some of these cases indicates how difficult and tortuous the issues are that the judiciary is being presented with by the most vigorously secretive American administration in history.

At the same time, we will also see how these precedents may inform the upcoming Libby trial, with special attention given to the trial's appointed judge – Reggie Walton, allegedly selected "randomly," but repeatedly and specifically chosen for cases presented by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds since 2002. In his 2004 decision, Walton ruled "with much consternation" to uphold the government's line that Edmonds could not present her case because it would threaten national security.

...

[G_j]

37. excellent article

The decks are stacked. One wonders how this type of absolute corruption will ever get cleaned up.
:shrug:

[Uncle Joe]

35. I wonder if he has attended junkets paid for

by the Federalist Society such as injustice Scalia?

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. And if he does well with these little chores

he makes the short list for the Supremes.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. Do you think Fitzgerald knows this?

Is he using the same judge for his case all together?

[rodeodance]

2. Judge Walton---Edmonds case and Libby’s trial.

[G_j]

25. Libby Seeks Secret Evidence Use Which Could Delay Case

..and more secrecy..


http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/7035

Ex-VP Aide Seeks Secret Evidence Use
By Associated Press

Lawyers for a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday made their first request to use classified evidence at his trial, launching a highly secretive court process that could bog down the case.

In the filings made under seal in federal court, lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby put the judge and prosecutors on notice that they want a jury to hear evidence the government now says is classified.

Their action puts the Libby case on a dual track — one public, the other secret — that often can delay criminal cases from going to trial.

<snip>
Although the specifics of Monday's filing remain secret, Libby's defense team hinted in a court document last Friday that they will want to disclose to a jury the nature of Plame's work as a CIA operative.

Libby's lawyers said Plame's now-classified duties are among the "significant disagreements" they have with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, an issue they believe is "material" to the defense's case.
..more..

[cascadiance]

29. I think it still may be difficult for Walton to "dimiss" this case...

Unlike all of Sibel's cases and other cases that have been "dismissed" due to State Secrets privilege technicalities, this is a criminal case and not a civil case. As Ann Beeson, Sibel's ACLU lawyer, pointed out in the CSPAN "Supreme Court Preview" back in September, there is other more recent laws that are in place that are supposed to be used arguably instead of State Secrets privilege for protecting national security evidence. The key is those laws were only set up for criminal cases, and not civil cases, which allowed the likes of Walton to rationalize that State Secrets privilege should be used instead of these laws in those civil cases. It might be harder to dismiss the whole case with these other laws, and it might force the court to be more selective in how they are protecting "secret" evidence. Looks like they are working this now. with what you are saying.

[acmejack]

3. When this gets out, as someday it will, it will be explosive!

We must see to it, that it is sooner, rather than later!

[Just Me]

5. The powers that be are completely out of control.

However, the absence of outrage from the media and the people over a POTUS ADMITTING the commission of a federal crime, in violation of the Constitution, in breach of his oath of office,...has pushed me on the verge of throwing my hands in the air and moving to the sidelines to witness a fall that could have been prevented,...had the people sufficiently cared.

I am disgusted. I am.

[G_j]

8. me too

dublicity and corruption from the administration, to the media, to the SCOTUS, to the justice dept., the defense dept., the EPA, etc....


They did it, they have completely corrupted the entire system.

[cascadiance]

36. Just look at this example of how General Hayden is a Nazi...

To see how close we are to a fascist government, look at the comments of General Hayden and his "understanding" of the Fourth Ammendment. If this guy gets to define "unreasonable" and that's all that stands between us and a police state, we should be afraid! VERY afraid!

This is why we need Sibel and her NSWBC friends to help us fight off this coming dictatorship!

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001883620

Defending Spy Program, General Reveals Shaky Grip on 4th Amendment

By E&P Staff

Published: January 23, 2006 10:05 PM ET

NEW YORK The former national director of the National Security Agency, in an appearance today before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., today, appeared to be unfamiliar with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution when pressed by a reporter with Knight Ridder's Washington office -- despite his claims that he was actually something of an expert on it.

General Michael Hayden, principal deputy director of National Intelligence with the Office of National Intelligence, talked with reporters about the current controversy surrounding the National Security Agency's warrantless monitoring of communications of suspected al Qaeda terrorists. Hayden has been in this position since last April, but was NSA director when the NSA monitoring program began in 2001.

As the last journalist to get in a question, Jonathan Landay, a well-regarded investigative reporter for Knight Ridder, noted that Gen. Hayden repeatedly referred to the Fourth Amendment's search standard of "reasonableness" without mentioning that it also demands "probable cause." Hayden seemed to deny that the amendment included any such thing, or was simply ignoring it.

...


GEN. HAYDEN: No, actually -- the Fourth Amendment actually protects all of us against unreasonable search and seizure.

QUESTION: But the --

GEN. HAYDEN: That's what it says.

QUESTION: But the measure is probable cause, I believe.

GEN. HAYDEN: The amendment says unreasonable search and seizure.

...

[JohnyCanuck]

7. K&R for Sibel. n/t

[Greyhound]

10. K&R

Number 5 welcome to the greatest page. :kick:

[samhsarah]

11. This Sibel Edmonds stuff drives me NUTS!!!!

I can't even imagine what it must be like to have to be her. Well Goddess bless her. She is a brave soul.

[wiggs]

12. A day that begins with a Sibel thread has promise....

Good article with good questions that a normal, healthy democracy would be pursuing. However, Walton is not the only factor keeping Sibel info from coming out. Why did SCOTUS not hear her case? Why don't 9/11 commissioners and Sen Grassley support her cause and work on their own to get the info out? Why aren't media digging like crazy on this most important story? Why aren't others in congress (both sides of aisle) asking questions or at least mentioning her name once in a while? Do all these players meet somewhere and collude on their approach, or do they all get a phone call in the middle of the night, or do they just intuitivey understand that this is too hot to handle, or are we wrong and there's no story here? Has to be one of the four alternatives....

Sibel is amazing and deserving of more support than she's getting. Her story (and that of Indira Singh, Brewster Jennings, Plame, 9/11, etc) might be the story of the century, yet it languishes.

[JohnyCanuck]

15. My take.

Do all these players (1) meet somewhere and collude on their approach, or do they all (2) get a phone call in the middle of the night, or do they (3) just intuitivey understand that this is too hot to handle, or (4) are we wrong and there's no story here?

Pretty safe to assume it's not #4, so I'd go with #3 for the most part, with the proviso that should a politician's or any influential MSM newsperson's intuition appear to be failing them and they start taking too much of an interest in Sibel's whistle blowing, then #2 most likely comes into play at that point.

[FreedomAngel82]

33. I think why is because

everything ties together. It all goes back to 9/11 and what she has on them is obviously very very damning. It's what we all know to be true but nobody in the government is saying it. It will do a lot of damage to people with power. Not just the Bushies I'm sure.

[sattahipdeep]

34. Sen Grassley

Sibel knows, as do I, that 'no good deed goes unpunished' and anyone who blows a whistle to
stop CRIMINALITY in GOVERNMENT most assuredly gets it all the way to the kidneys in
payback. There have been attempts by many legislators to try to skim around the periphery of
this issue, like Senator Grassley, but to tell the truth, nobody in government has any true interest
in protecting whistleblowers who come forward with genuine 'wrong-doing', 'criminality' or in this
case about the president and his illegal wiretapping, TREASON.

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/6136

[leftchick]

13. I think it is time for Sibel to spill

I know it is easy for me to say because it is not my behind but damn. These shits are getting away with murder. Literally.

[wiggs]

14. Agree

It would be hard, I think, for the administration to look good while jailing a whistleblower...especially if several 9/11 commissioners were standing by her when she comes forward.

[Beam Me Up]

16. I think there is a reason she hasn't "spilled" and I'm hoping

it is because there is still the possibility of criminal charges being brought and her information being used as evidence. If she goes public she herself could be arrested and it might invalidate her testimony.

[Just Me]

19. That's possible. Also, what receptive CM does she have?

:shrug:

[G_j]

26. I guess that may be the case n/t

[cascadiance]

27. She's too valuable to be put in jail...

Unlike Cindy Sheehan, who's story is all out in the open, who may benefit from the publicity of spending a night or two in jail, if Sibel does ANYTHING to get arrested, they will try and "bury" her in jail. My gut feeling is that she would have the courage to do the jail stint ala Cindy Sheehan, but her situation is totally different here! She needs to stay out of jail so that she can still chip away at things until hopefully something breaks! Just her managing of the NSWC alone protecting those like Russ Tice, who know is increasingly becoming at least the second most important whistleblower now, is something to be thankful for by itself!

[Caretha]

45. I think so to

If it's that damning she should. What would Patrick Henry done? That should be the standard.

[phoebe]

17. Judge Reggie B. Walton

http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/walton-bio.html


snip

Judge Reggie B. Walton assumed his position as a United States District Judge for the District of Columbia on October 29, 2001, after being nominated to the position by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate. Judge Walton was also appointed by President Bush in June of 2004 to serve as the Chairperson of the National Prison Rape Reduction Commission, a two-year commission created by the United States Congress that is tasked with the mission of identifying methods to curb the incidents of prison rape. Former Chief Justice Rehnquist appointed Judge Walton to the federal judiciary's Criminal Law Committee, effective October 1, 2005. Judge Walton previously served as an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia from 1981 to 1989 and 1991 to 2001, having been appointed to that position by Presidents Ronald Reagan in 1981 and George H. W. Bush in 1991. While serving on the Superior Court, Judge Walton was the court's Presiding Judge of the Family Division, Presiding Judge of the Domestic Violence Unit and Deputy Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division. Between 1989 and 1991, Judge Walton served as President George H. W. Bush's Associate Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the Executive Office of the President and as President Bush's Senior White House Advisor for Crime.

Before his appointment to the Superior Court bench in 1981, Judge Walton served as the Executive Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the United States Attorney in Washington, D.C., from June, 1980 to July, 1981, and he was an Assistant United States Attorney in that Office from March, 1976 to June, 1980. From June, 1979 to June, 1980, Judge Walton was also the Chief of the Career Criminal Unit in the United States Attorney's Office. Before joining the United States Attorney's Office, Judge Walton was a staff attorney in the Defender Association of Philadelphia from August, 1974 to February, 1976.

[phoebe]

18. Remember Stephen J. Hatfill (anthrax) ? and the judge was? Walton

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/Docket.html

U.S. District Court
District of Columbia (Washington, DC)
CIVIL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 1:03-cv-01793-RBW

HATFILL v. ASHCROFT et al
Assigned to: Judge Reggie B. Walton
Cause: 28:1343 Violation of Civil Rights
Date Filed: 08/26/2003
Jury Demand: Plaintiff
Nature of Suit: 440 Civil Rights: Other
Jurisdiction: Federal Question

[G_j]

20. wow, the guy sure gets around

so what happened in that case? I don't remember.

[phoebe]

22. here you go..

http://www.dailypress.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.hatfill30mar30,0,3380543.story

Judge postpones Hatfill's lawsuit -March 30, 2004

snip


WASHINGTON - Based in part on secret information provided by the FBI, a federal judge yesterday postponed for six months Dr. Steven J. Hatfill's lawsuit against the government for targeting him in its investigation of the anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in 2001.

snip

Walton said he sympathized with the predicament of Hatfill, a former Army biowarfare expert who has been fired from two jobs since coming under scrutiny in the anthrax case.

"The man's a pariah. Nobody's going to hire him," Walton said. (Talk about influencing the case)

snip

Hatfill has adamantly denied having anything to do with the anthrax letters. In August, he filed suit against Attorney General John Ashcroft, who had publicly referred to him as a "person of interest" in the case, other top Justice Department and FBI officials, and their agencies.


then...

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/washpost.html

U.S. Yields In Anthrax Lawsuit Standoff
Some Questioning Allowed on Leaks
By Henri E. Cauvin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 23, 2005; Page A11

snip

The government, in its written submission to the court and in its statement yesterday, sought to preclude Ashcroft and other individual defendants from being deposed because the judge is still considering their claims of immunity.

But Hatfill's attorney, Thomas G. Connolly, objected, saying the exclusion of such key witnesses would further delay the case. Walton agreed and ordered the process to go forward, with some limitations.

It was unclear from the court filings and statements what led to the government's turnabout. Last year, Walton expressed doubts that authorities were on the verge of solving the case. The government said in a filing this week that the investigation into the anthrax attacks is "active and ongoing." But law enforcement sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said there have been no significant new developments.

Hatfill's ability to question government officials could have broader implications. Thwarted until now in his effort to obtain the testimony of federal law enforcement officials, Hatfill had subpoenaed reporters from several news organizations, including The Washington Post, seeking information about their sources for stories concerning Hatfill and the investigation.

and lastly..

looks like Hatfill was suing the New York Times for defamation and the FBI case against him is still ongoing with a new judge having been assigned - a court case resolving Hatfill v. Ashcroft not expected until November 2006.."all discovery must be completed on or before 09/30/06"

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/Docket2.html shows latest Docket info.

[G_j]

23. Thanks! "The man's a pariah..."

and these are the words of the judge!
amazing..

[phoebe]

24. rhetorical ? Will Bush et al use this case in election year or not?

we shall see..

[jus_the_facts]

21. wish in one hand and shit in the other...see which one fills up fastest...

:freak:

[FreedomAngel82]

30. She's just a ticking time bomb to them

I wish there was something we could do for her.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. Thanks for posting this!

[robertpaulsen]

38. Wish I could give multiple recommendations for Sibel!

:kick:

[G_j]

39. ~kICk~

[cascadiance]

40. Kick!

:kick:

[cascadiance]

41. Kick again...

:kick:

[G_j]

42. ``-

[ClayZ]

43. K and R

:kick:

[rman]

44. More specifically, proof that "terrorists" are a manufactured enemy

created by those who claim to be protecting us.

Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers Group
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=344

[MakeItSo]

46. Walton also ruled in Gov's favor on Anthrax case

This guy is a judicial Forrest Gump for the fascists:


On March 30, 2004, the Washington Post reported that U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton granted the FBI's request to postpone Steven Hatfill's defamation suit, claiming that the investigation is in a sensitive phase. Hatfill sued Attorney General John Ashcroft, the FBI and the Justice Department in August of 2003, asserting that they had trampled his constitutional rights and ruined his life. The FBI told Judge Walton that they wanted to conduct a sophisticated series of tests that could identify the laboratory in which the anthrax used in the terror letters was produced.

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/anthrax/15.html

[G_j]

47. thanks, the "Sibel Edmonds and other Whistleblowers (DU) Group"

has all the best background info.

& Sibel's website address is
www.justacitizen.org