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Sibel Edmonds [1970-0] American

Rank: 103
Public Servant, Translator

Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a former translator who worked as a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition.

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We need to stop saying we can't rock this boat when it needs to be rocked.		101
And I have been campaigning for the past three months trying to get the Senate Judiciary Committee that has the oversight authority and responsibility to start its own public hearings.		102
You get to a point where it gets very complex, where you have money laundering activities, drug related activities, and terrorist support activities converging at certain points and becoming one.		103
On the other hand I have seen several, several top targets for these investigations of these terrorist activities that were allowed to leave the country - I'm not talking about weeks, I'm talking about months after 9/11.		104
At that point, which would be around February 2002, they came and they confiscated my computer, because, they said, they were suspecting that I was communicating with certain Senate members and taking this issue outside the Bureau.		105
And you see many people just turning away from these channels of mass media, and they're just turning in to alternative providers, because they just see what's happening.		106
I understand the Saudis have been named because fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia.		107
But I can tell you that the issue, on one side, boils down to money - a lot of money. And it boils down to people and their connections with this money, and that's the portion that, even with this book, has not been mentioned to this day.		108
But I can tell that once, and if, and when this issue gets to be, under real terms, investigated, you will be seeing certain people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally.		109
And, believe me; they will do everything to cover this up.		110
And after I started working for the Bureau, most of my translation duties included translations of documents and investigations that actually started way before 9/11.		111
During my work there I came across some very significant issues that I started reporting in December of 2001 to the mid-level management within the FBI.		112
And they asked me to take a polygraph as to the allegations and reports I'd made. I volunteered and I took the polygraph and passed it without a glitch.		113
The information I requested under the Freedom of Information Act has been blocked for two years.		114
However, I keep reminding them that this issue is not a new issue that has come out for this election. This issue has been in the courts for two years and two months now.		115
We have to remind the people: Congress has the constitutional obligation and public responsibility to oversee these issues and the Department of Justice's operations.		116
I see people detained for simple INS violations.		117
And I am saying, how about the other two branches? And putting the pressure on our representatives in the Senate and the Congress, and the court system. They should be counter-acting this corruption, but they are sitting there silent.		118
Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.		119
The only people I have seen who have been truly pushing for the truth are the family members.		120

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