Sibel Edmonds Lauds Gore Speech

[G_j]

http://news.baou.com/main.php?action=recent&rid=20751

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002289.htm

Blogged by Brad on 1/16/2006 @ 12:11pm PT...

EXCLUSIVE: Sibel Edmonds Lauds Gore Speech Calling for New Whistleblower Legislation
FBI Whistleblower on Necessity of Protections for Government 'Truth-Tellers'

The BRAD BLOG has obtained a statement from "Gag Ordered" FBI Whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, Founder and Director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coaltion , in response to Al Gore's just...

The BRAD BLOG has obtained a statement from "Gag Ordered" FBI Whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, Founder and Director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coaltion, in response to Al Gore's just completed speech earlier today in Washington D.C.

Gore's address, sponsored by a bi-partisan coalition, warned that our "constitution is in grave danger" and called for, amongst many other things (highlights of speech here), the creation of new Whistleblower Protections for members of the Executive Branch and others.

Edmonds, due to a rarely invoked "State Secrets" privilege by the Dept. of Justice, is legally barred from discussing remarkable and troubling findings she made as an FBI translator after 9/11, in regard to a number of explosive matters of national security.

She emailed the following statement to The BRAD BLOG moments ago:



The National Security Whistleblowers Coalition applauds Mr. Gore for his nonpartisan speech which very eloquently and sincerely expresses our core American values based on the notions of liberty and justice.

As stated by Mr. Gore, without whistleblowers the public would never know of the many abuses of constitutional rights by the government. Whistleblowers, Truth-Tellers, are responsible for the disclosure that President George W. Bush ordered unconstitutional surveillance of American citizens. These constitutional lifeguards take their patriotic oaths to heart and soul: Rather than complying with classification and secrecy orders designed to protect officials engaging in criminal conduct, whistleblowers choose to risk their livelihoods and the wrath of their agencies to get the truth out.

We applaud the call by Liberty Coalition & Al Gore for congress to enact new legislation that would provide meaningful whistleblower protections, especially for those patriots who report abuses of Executive Branch authority in the sensitive areas of national security. Hundreds of national security whistleblowers, patriotic government employees, have brought to the public’s attention cases of agency wrongdoing only to find themselves fired, stripped of their security clearance, and/or deprived of meaningful work, simply because they were courageous and patriotic enough to place the security of our nation above their own career security and interests.

Why should government employees have to choose between their livelihood and career, and fulfilling their highest duty of all: protecting the public’s interest?

The answer is very simple, because our legislative branch has failed to provide these patriots with any protection.

Whistleblowers have served as a constant and valuable check on the federal government. Considering the fact that to perform its legislative & oversight functions, congress must depend on information from the executive branch, why is it that the congress refuses to provide a safe & protected channel to those who can provide the congress with information, thus enable it to exercise its oversight responsibility?

[radio4progressives]

1. Good Find gj

:kick: :applause: :hi:

[ReadTomPaine]

2. She's a perfect example of why this protection is so sorely needed.

What she's learned alone could have brought down the Bush administration in anything resembling a sane environment. It still might.

[radio4progressives]

3. if only the courts were not so corrupt and fascists... NT

[ReadTomPaine]

5. Yes it's quite a view they have taken regarding her revelations..

She exposes corruption that goes the core of two governmental branches, and rather than take action the judiciary decides it's the corruption that must be protected from scrutiny, since it's such an explosive set of discoveries.

That's like a doctor telling you that they won't operate because they don't want to interfere with the well being of your cancerous tumors.

[G_j]

6. great analogy n/t

[cascadiance]

8. Hopefully it will be her cases that have been covered up will help impeach

... not only Bush, but also help impeach some of these justices/judges (Walton?) that helped cover up his actions by their rulings to reinforce this coverup.

[G_j]

9. fingers crossed! n/t

[pauldp]

4. kick nt

[G_j]

7. ==

[Uncle Joe]

10. It's a good thing the bastards can't stop her from

giving her political opinion yet.

Kicked and nominated.

:kick:

[Imagevision]

11. We really need the gag-order removed from Sibel > she's too important

and must be heard!!!