I think you should be following the Brad Blog as well for some information on Sibel Edmonds.

http://www.bradblog.com/ (it currently starts about 1/3 of the way down.)

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The Bomb in the Shadows: Proliferation, Corruption and the Way of the World. ... (Vote, Report, Down, January, Abuse)-Chris Floyd - Empire Burlesque - High Crimes and Low Comedy in the Bush Imperium

This week, the Sunday Times lifted the lid on one of the most important stories of the last quarter-century: how American officials sold nuclear arms technology to illegal proliferators -- including ideological allies of al Qaeda -- in return for bribes and other inducements. This widespread corruption has been protected from exposure by the highest levels of the U.S. government, which has gone to enormous lengths to protect the truth from coming out. The entire planet has been put at grave risk by the greed -- and geopolitical gamesmanship -- that lies behind this criminal enterprise, which actually is even more extensive, and goes back further in time, than the newspaper's remarkable revelations.

The Sunday Times story is based on the evidence provided by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, who has been subjected to an unprecedented campaign of state-enforced muzzling by the Bush Administration since she first tried to speak out about the corrupt connections between American officials and foreign agents she discovered when reviewing transcripts associated with the 9/11 investigation. As even the leaders of the whitewashing 9/11 Commission themselves now admit, that investigation was deliberately sabotaged by the Bush Administration - in part to cover up the nuclear proliferation network that has directly or indirectly enriched so many in the American elite over the past decades - including the sitting president of the United States, George W. Bush.

I read Chris Floyd ardently, but hadn't seen this just yet.

It actually does make sense to me to explain a lacklustred approach to investigate some elements surrounding 9/11. Is 9/11 conspiracy thinking generating a smokescreen for the bigger scandal?

Kinda like Ollie North, the man was a traitor to the constitution and the people of the United States. thatcan never be said often enough : Oliver North was a traitor. But his treachery was useful to the elites who were also traitors, anybody who knew what he was up to, or who helped cover it up or agreed to buy his slence with a pardon, were traitors to the United states.

and this is the same. Punishment of the innocent, praise and honour to the guilty. Trebles all round..cheers.

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I'm willing to buy the idea that there are those in government that want to suppress information, but similar scandals in the past have come out despite such attempts. The Pentagon Papers and the Iran-Contra affair are good examples.

In a country like the US there are still news outlets which would be happy to run with a scoop, they don't have to be very big ones either. A journalist like I.F. Stone was able to break some important stories during his heyday and he only put out a four page newsletter with a tiny circulation. So postulating a conspiracy that could cause all US media to clam up doesn't seem likely.

One reason that this story is not getting any play may be that those in the US who have looked into it find the information not credible. Perhaps they have other sources of information which contradict Edmonds, or perhaps they can't get any one to corroborate her claims. Whatever the reason there has to be one.

If the claims are true then getting supporting information from elsewhere would seem to be a priority if any more is going to come out of this affair.

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