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Monday, July 24, 2006

The Secrets Behind 'State Secrets':How Turkey's Mafia-like 'Deep State' (and its Neocon Friends) Penetrated the American

"The Secrets Behind 'State Secrets':How Turkey's Mafia-like 'Deep State' (and its Neocon Friends) Penetrated the American

by Mike Mejia

http://www.opednews.com

French filmmaker Mathieu Verboud is set to release a new documentary for European television this fall, which will reveal important new insights into the case of former FBI translator and president of the National Security Whistleblower's Coalition Sibel Edmonds. Edmonds, a Turkish-American whose wrongful termination lawsuit was suppressed by the government's invocation of the all-too-common "state secrets privilege", reported to her superiors espionage and deliberate mistranslations on the part of fellow Turkish translator, Melek Can Dickerson. It seems Ms. Dickerson had relationships with targets of FBI investigation working at the Turkish Embassy and the American Turkish Council, a fact which meant that anything she translated was likely to be false. However, instead of receiving a promotion for bringing Ms. Dickerson's' espionage to the attention of her bosses, Edmonds was fired after she went in frustration to the U.S. Senate. "

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