Up at Bradblog: FBI attempts To Block Edmonds Testimony

[mmonk]

The BRAD BLOG has obtained both the FBI's response to FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds' notice of her intention to give a deposition this Saturday in response to a subpoena she received in a case before the Ohio Elections Commission (OEC). We've also been given exclusive access to her attorneys' response in turn which is to be officially released later this afternoon.

The FBI stated their objection to Edmonds' plans to testify in a two-page letter on Thursday, sent to Edmonds' attorney Stephen Kohn, at the National Whistleblowers Legal Defense & Education Fund. Edmonds and her attorneys, however, in their own two-page letter say the objections raised so far by the agency are not sufficient to block Edmonds' from "truthfully answer questions while under oath pursuant to a lawful subpoena" on Saturday morning in D.C. as scheduled.

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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7345

[jwirr]

1. Must be some *ss administration holdouts in the FBI.

[hootinholler]

9. Not really, there are I'm sure some Turkish owned assets there.

Dang that sounds like Yoda.

-Hoot

[napi21]

2. Why id the FBI trying to supress? What did THEY do wrong that

they don't want known?

[mmonk]

3. Still concerning the firing and the reasons I presume.

And of course "state secrets" as they would claim.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. A little too late for it, isn't it?

They were given TWO advance warnings. Both requests to respond from the DoJ were ignored. Sibel Edmonds should be clear to testify the state secrets tomorrow.

[mmonk]

6. But we all knew they would try.

[redqueen]

5. Too late now you complicit fuckers.

Soon even more people will know the truth.

[mmonk]

8. Wouldn't that be nice?

[redqueen]

10. It will be! (nt)

[mmonk]

7. This is where the FBI and DOJ will have difficulty:

Yesterday, Valerie Caproni, General Counsel of the FBI, and Vesper Mei, Senior Counsel with the Department of Justice responded by claiming that the subpoena to testify served on Edmonds was invalid and sought to bar her from appearing. The DOJ claimed that that Edmonds is under "no compulsion" to testify in the Krikorian case and the FBI asserted that she, "does not have approval for any disclosure of any information."

Neither the Justice Department nor the FBI has stated why testimony in a case of alleged election fraud would involve State Secrets and/or involve national security.

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[mmonk]

11. Go comment at Brad's blog.