The Foley cover-up is just one of many questions that Hastert

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should be answering. Here are a few more.


Did Speaker Hastert Accept Turkish Bribes to Deny Armenian Genocide and Approve Weapons Sales?

Former FBI translator turned whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds is now appealing her case to the U.S. Supreme Court. In March 2002, she was fired and she has been fighting now for nearly 3 years to blow the whistle on US government failures prior to 9-11. She has faced fierce opposition from the Bush administration, the FBI and some in Congress. This week, she grabbed headlines again after Vanity Fair published a major story about her. What is making news from that piece are allegations surrounding Illinois congressman and Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert.
Vanity Fair alleges that Hastert may have been the recipient of tens of thousands of dollars of secret payments from Turkish officials in exchange for political favors and information. In the article, titled "An Inconvenient Patriot," Edmonds says that she gave confidential testimony about the payments to congressional staffers, the Inspector General and members of the 9/11 Commission. Edmonds says that she heard of the payments while listening to FBI wiretaps of Turkish officials who were under surveillance by the FBI.

Sibel Edmonds speaks Farsi, Turkish and Azerbaijani. She was hired after September eleventh by the FBI to translate pre-9-11 intelligence gathered by the agency. She has publicly accused the U.S of having considerable evidence that Al Qaeda was planning to strike the United States using airplanes as weapons.

more at
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/10/1346254

Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal

Rep. Dennis Hastert: Northern Illinois Republican, House Majority Leader. Held a fundraiser at Abramoff's Signatures restaurant in D.C. in June 2003 that collected at least $21,500 for Hastert's Keep Our Majority PAC from Abramoff's firm and tribal clients. A week later, Hastert wrote Interior Secretary Gale Norton to urge her to reject a casino of the Jena band of Choctaw that would have competed with an Abramoff client. Between 1999-2004 received $82,000 from Abramoff.

more at
http://www.alternet.org/story/29827/

and

http://www.petemccloskey.com/press/HastertPR5-30.html


Hastert: Pockets quick $2 million profit in real estate deals

The transactions prompted questions Wednesday from the Sunlight Foundation, a new watchdog group, about whether Hastert, who earmarked $207 million in federal dollars for the proposed Prairie Parkway, had his profits swollen because of the highway.

Hastert attorney Randy Evans threatened legal action against Sunlight for the story it posted on its Web site about the deals.

How close is Prairie Parkway?

What's not disputed is that Hastert was able to turn a quick profit. Here's how the deals worked:

more at
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/06/hastert_pockets_quick_2_millio.html

and

http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/793

[Lerkfish]

1. wasn't hastert involved in the Sibel edmonds gagging?

[tsuki]

2. Yes, she was the FBI translator. nt