Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds has had a rough time making her whistleblower allegations known–when Ashcroft was Attorney General, he shut her down using the state secrets privilege. Her fairly complicated story, unfortunately, also doesn't have a ton of sticking power in the age of omnipresent reductivism.
Clearly, she knows something that would bring down a lot of important people. What that is, well, who knows exactly? Some of it is known, but far from all, it seems. As a result, I always find it interesting when she speaks out.The core of her claims seems to be that prominent members of Congress (both parties) were connected to a Turkish more-or-less spy ring.
I certainly can't vouch for the veracity or accuracy of all her claims (nobody can entirely, although some of them were backed up by a 2004 investigation by the Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General), but here is her latest writing, a guest editorial at Brad Friedman's rather hectic blog. Make of it what you will, but it bears finding out more about her if you haven't heard of her claims before. Vanity Fair published the most revealing possible version of her story in 2005.
