This story came up on anti-war.com, balkananalysis.com, and on officialwire.com this morning... Sibel Edmonds just released this press release through her NSWBC (National Security Whistleblower's Coalition), that takes issue with the government's retaliation against Sandalio Gonzalez, a DEA Special Agent in charge in El Paso, TX when he reported concerns of the feds supporting and protecting an informant that was involved in torture and murder of people. These actions allegedly also put at risk DEA agents in the field who were threatened by this informant as well.
Good to see that Sibel still has time to help other whistleblowers despite coming to a very important point in her own case now.
From:
http://balkanalysis.blogspot.com/2005_09_01_balkanalysis_archive.html---------------------------------
nsourcing Torture
The government's latest reprisal against a respected employee in the security field has been publicized by Sibel Edmonds'new whistleblowers' coalition,the
NSWBC. It discusses the case of one Sandalio Gonzalez, former DEA Special Agent in charge in El Paso, Texas.
According to the press release, this well-liked, thirty-three year veteran of law enforcement was 'forced into retirement' when he reported concerns that
"...the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Texas, along with federal law enforcement agents, supported and protected a confidential informant who they knew had 'supervised' torture and murder of people, and who they knew would engage in similar activity in the future. After discovering that the informant murdered at least one person, law enforcement agents and the U.S. Attorney’s Office allegedly stood by as he participated in, and aided and abetted numerous other killings. The actions alleged by Mr. Gonzalez also placed United States agents in Mexico at risk and resulted in the near abduction and murders of a DEA agent and his family in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico."
For all the talk this past year about the US
'outsourcing' torture to third-world countries and banana republics where normal rules do not apply and where things can be done quietly and efficiently, it's gratifying to know that the practice can still be enjoyed at home. And it's nice to see that the practice of endangering the lives of security staff, as
Plame-gate and
Ms. Edmonds' own case have evidenced, is also still going on.
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