Release of the ‘Dancing Israelis’, Coincidence or Blackmail?

By Doug Steil | Aletho News | November 16, 2010

By now, after nine years, anyone who has seriously looked into the circumstances surrounding 9/11 has read about the so-called “five dancing Israelis“, who, according to reports, had set up across the Hudson River “to document the event” (in their own words) in Manhattan, even before the crash of the first airplane coming from the north into the World Trade Center tower.

These “dancing Israelis”, as we can all surmise, were Mossad operatives, who were involved in operational aspects of the Zionist attack on lower Manhattan that fateful day, September 11, 2001. Two additional “suspects”, who were surely also part of the same Israeli operational team, were arrested on the approach to the George Washington Bridge, and, as was reported live that evening on the televised News (before this aspect to the story was buried), their van was laden with tons of explosives. (Though media reports may not have explicitly identified the people in the vans with explosives as Israeli, there should be little doubt that they were all part of the same team.)

There are two important aspects in conjunction with the 9/11 event in New York that have been virtually ignored even in the alternative media, which deserve closer scrutiny. One point involves the possible large-scale catastrophe that may have been induced by these operatives with explosives if they had not been apprehended as their van was about to drive onto the George Washington Bridge. The second aspect concerns the suspicious circumstances surrounding the crash of Flight 587, on November 12, 2001, more than nine years ago, in conjunction with the inexplicable release, just a few days later, of the “dancing Israelis” and other agents who had been involved in the 9/11 operation, including those who may have been on their way to blow up the George Washington Bridge.

By stalling the van at the middle of the bridge and getting away in time, a directed high-power explosion at that spot along the side might certainly have done some serious damage to a section of this bridge, given the dual cables per side , each slightly less than 36 inches in diameter. Most likely a truck explosion in itself would not have ripped both cables. But then, perhaps such a truck explosion was merely meant to serve as a low-tech trigger – to provide an explanation to the public, for why both cables on one side could have ripped – which itself would have been achieved by detonating a prepared coat of micro-thermite around the cables, just as the WTC towers were detonated by micro-thermite placed at crucial points along the structure weeks in advance, though the Government unconvincingly blamed structural failure caused by impacting airplanes and resulting fires. In light of what is known about the explosive thermite at the three WTC towers that were imploded into their footprint, it is not implausible, that the George Washington Bridge was also targeted for destruction that day, but this aspect of the operation was completely botched due to the van being intercepted. Just a few months earlier, in May, modifications to the George Washingtom Bridge were completed. Who would have ever noticed if coatings of micro-thermite were being applied during this renovation project ? Below are some quotes from NYRoads:

The project involved the rehabilitation of girders, columns, bridge decks, drainage and electrical systems, and roadway surfaces. New roadway expansion joints, guardrails, crash barriers, signs and lighting were also installed. The $38 million project was completed in May 2001.

Some pertinent questions arise in this context. Might some “follow-up work” of minor scope have been performed after the reported May completion date, shortly before 9/11, under the guise that something had not initially been done properly and thus needed to be corrected? What companies were involved in that multi-million dollar contract, and which companies were involved in the subsequent project, which would have removed any traces of micro-thermite coating that, according to this presumptive scenario, was applied more than nine years ago?

In 2002, the Port Authority began work to repaint the 604-foot-tall towers and the underside of the upper deck. Workers are removing older coats of lead-based paint, and are applying a three-coat paint system that includes a zinc primer, epoxy intermediate coat and a urethane topcoat. The $85 million project was completed in 2006.

Some investigative scrutiny of this previously neglected topic could certainly help in putting more pieces of the puzzle together, regarding what appears to have been planned as a spectacular and explosive encore on that ‘Demolition Day’, featuring live helicopter video of a major suspension bridge falling into the Hudson River, with only its two towers remaining. If one assumes that these putative Israeli suspects, disguised in Arab clothing, were prevented by their arrest at the on-ramp to the bridge from perpetrating a major crime – this would subsequently have impacted millions of people who commute between New Jersey and Manhattan – one can understand that it would take substantial pressure to get them released from custody. And we know from numerous reports, that they were all released just before Thanksgiving.

But why were these Isareli operatives ever released given their involvement? According to a report written by Christopher Ketcham, the Ha’aretz newspaper claimed that high-level Zionists in America were actively involved in obtaining their release:

Following what ABC News reported were “high-level negotiations between Israeli and U.S. government officials”, a settlement was reached in the case of the five Urban Moving Systems suspects. Intense political pressure apparently had been brought to bear. The reputable Israeli daily Ha’aretz reported that by the last week of October 2001, some six weeks after the men had been detained, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and two unidentified “prominent New York congressmen” were lobbying heavily for their release. According to a source at ABC News close to the 20/20 report, high-profile criminal lawyer Alan Dershowitz also stepped in as a negotiator on behalf of the men to smooth out differences with the U.S. government.

These high-level efforts may not have been sufficient, given that these captured agents were certainly involved in more than event documentation or simply driving moving vans. Perhaps a bit more high-level pressure was required to get these people ‘moving’ again. In this context, an interesting aspect that has not been widely reported is the fact that, just a week before their eventual release, American Airlines Flight 587 crashed after takeoff from Kennedy Airport in Queens. Though it was not widely reported – on the contrary, it appears that once again there was a big cover-up in this matter – the likely cause, according to a credible expert, was sabotage:

Expert Marshall Smith opined, “A single point failure, the in-flight actuation of the left engine thrust reverser, can account for all three observed phenomena of the clean breaking off of the tail and the failure of both pylons holding the engines.”

The mechanical engineer, aviation ground school instructor and former NASA adviser painted this scenario: During the night, a terrorist saboteur disguised as a ground crew mechanic reached up in the back of the left jet engine of the American Airlines Airbus and cut the hydraulic line going to the thrust reverser actuator and the control safety sensor lines.

Knowing the conventional path that the airliner would fly upon takeoff from Kennedy Airport on its course to Santo Domingo in the Caribbean Sea, the saboteurs could be almost certain that the plane would eventually crash into the water, thus making recovery of evidence and probable cause analysis more difficult, along with the minimized possibility of any inconvenient revelations possibly leaking out to the public. As it turned out, the jet crashed onto the narrow land strip, in a neighborhood in Rockaway Park, (“the Irish Riviera“).

Let us look at the timeline of the week long period between the crash of AA587 and the release of the Israeli agents a few days later. Flight 587 crashed on Veteran’s Day, Monday November 12, 2001. According to reports, the Mossad agents were released after “71 days” in custody. Anyone can easily verify the accuracy of the timeline implied by the headline, which indicates the week long period between the crash and the release of the agents: Assuming that September 11 already counts as a day, that yields 20 days in September, 31 days in October and 20 days in November (the last day presumably not a full day), thus Tuesday, November 20. The decision to release them must have come on the day before, Monday, November 19, in order to make arrangements to fly them back to Israel. On that day the New York Times published a prepared story, pushing the highly questionable notion of composite tail fin stress as the presumptive cause of the accident. This unsupported claim appears to be another case of contrived media misdirection (an endeavor the NYT is proficient in), to distract the public from the issue of sabotage.

It is reasonable to assume, however, that if by then the Government had already concocted and propagated a technically unlikely explanation — one that blamed the manufacturer Airbus for an alleged design flaw in conjunction with pilot over-reaction to vortexes from an airplane ahead — the technically far more plausible cause of the crash, which was consistent with observations from witnesses and physical evidence at the crash site, would have already been apparent to investigators and experts, such as the man whose assessment of sabotage is cited in the story cited above. Those who had the opportunity to examine the left engine could easily have corroborated the sabotage. (This raises the question, if one of the numerous investigators became upset that the matter was being covered up and talked about it with others.)

Based on the timeline, these Israeli operatives would have arrived back in Israel not before November 21. They appeared on the talk show sometime before the end of the month, after a few days of intensive de-briefing.

Thanksgiving Day was on November 22, so that any possible news of their release from custody and arrival back in Israel would have easily been drowned out as Americans were focusing on that major holiday.

CBS Report On 9/11: Ground Level Explosion Caused WTC To Collapse

This is from a FOIA request from NIST. Clearly things were said here that provide some great information apart from the ground explosion reports. Namely the fact that there were to be jewish arab peace talks around this time and we can clearly see how this attack GREATLY benefited the jewish state as it brought the US full force into the middle east to attack THEIR enemies.

BBC: Al Qaeda Does NOT Exist

Remeber: Do Not Question The Government Story of 9/11 Signed Obama/Bush

'CIA And Mossad Carried Out 9/11'

"The US and the Zionists developed the strategy of the September 11 attacks in an effort to counter the Islamic vigilance and to control energy resources in the Middle East," IRNA quoted Brigadier General Yahya Rahim-Safavi as saying on Saturday.

He further added that al-Qaeda and its leader Osama bin Laden did not possess the essential intelligence capacity anywhere near the level of CIA, Pentagon and the FBI in order to conduct the surprise attacks against sensitive centers in the United States on September 11.

According to General Rahim-Safavi, heads of Israel's Mossad and the US played roles in the event.

"The September 11 attacks in the US and the shameful act of Qur'an burning by the US and Zionist regime (Israel) were in line with Islamophobia efforts by enemies of Islam who have fears over the spread of Islam and the Islamic vigilance," he further explained.

The Iranian commander also pointed out that the US and certain Western countries invaded Iraq and Afghanistan, a move that proved security is not sustainable in the world.

Moreover, General Rahim-Safavi pointed to the high potentials of Muslim countries and predicted that the Muslim world with its unique features and capabilities will turn into a premier and important power center of the world in the near future.

In his address to the UN General Assembly on Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the US took advantage of the 'suspicious' September 11 incidents to justify its destructive occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq that cost many thousands of innocent lives.

The Iranian chief executive went on to raise serious questions about the credibility of the US government's account of the 9/11 attacks, suggesting that "a very powerful and complex terrorist group, able to successfully cross all layers of the American intelligence and security, carried out the attacks.”

A Myriad Of 911 Stories

Yeah I know a week late, I apologize I've been busy and I figure better late than never. Here is the original source


Don't want to hear this?

Tough. Grow up.
9/11 Commissioners:

• The 9/11 Commission's co-chairs said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements (free subscription required)

• 9/11 Commission co-chair Lee Hamilton says "I don't believe for a minute we got everything right", that the Commission was set up to fail, that people should keep asking questions about 9/11, and that the 9/11 debate should continue

• 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"
  

• 9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"
  

• 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ." He also said that the investigation depended too heavily on the accounts of Al Qaeda detainees who were physically coerced into talking

• And the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - recently said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened". He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described .... The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true." And he said: "It's almost a culture of concealment, for lack of a better word. There were interviews made at the FAA's New York center the night of 9/11 and those tapes were destroyed. The CIA tapes of the interrogations were destroyed. The story of 9/11 itself, to put it mildly, was distorted and was completely different from the way things happened"

If even the 9/11 Commissioners don't buy the official story, why do you?

Senior intelligence officers:

• Former military analyst and famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said that the case of a certain 9/11 whistleblower is "far more explosive than the Pentagon Papers". He also said that the government is ordering the media to cover up her allegations about 9/11. And he said that some of the claims concerning government involvement in 9/11 are credible, that "very serious questions have been raised about what they [U.S. government officials] knew beforehand and how much involvement there might have been", that engineering 9/11 would not be humanly or psychologically beyond the scope of the current administration, and that there's enough evidence to justify a new, "hard-hitting" investigation into 9/11 with subpoenas and testimony taken under oath (see this and this)

• A 27-year CIA veteran, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and personally delivered intelligence briefings to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, their Vice Presidents, Secretaries of State, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many other senior government officials (Raymond McGovern) said “I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke”

• A 29-year CIA veteran, former National Intelligence Officer (NIO) and former Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis (William Bill Christison) said “I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe (and see this)

• A number of intelligence officials, including a CIA Operations Officer who co-chaired a CIA multi-agency task force coordinating intelligence efforts among many intelligence and law enforcement agencies (Lynne Larkin) sent a joint letter to Congress expressing their concerns about “serious shortcomings,” “omissions,” and “major flaws” in the 9/11 Commission Report and offering their services for a new investigation (they were ignored)

• A decorated 20-year CIA veteran, who Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter Seymour Hersh called "perhaps the best on-the-ground field officer in the Middle East”, and whose astounding career formed the script for the Academy Award winning motion picture Syriana (Robert Baer) said that "the evidence points at" 9/11 having had aspects of being an inside job

• The Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs, who served as Senior Analyst from 1966 - 1990. He also served as Professor of International Security at the National War College from 1986 - 2004 (Melvin Goodman) said "The final [9/11 Commission] report is ultimately a coverup"

If even our country's top intelligence officers don't buy the official story, why do you?

Congressmen:

• According to the Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here)

• Current Democratic U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy said "The two questions that the congress will not ask . . . is why did 9/11 happen on George Bush's watch when he had clear warnings that it was going to happen? Why did they allow it to happen?"

• Current Republican Congressman Ron Paul calls for a new 9/11 investigation and states that "we see the [9/11] investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on"

• Current Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich hints that we aren't being told the truth about 9/11

• Current Republican Congressman Jason Chafetz says that we need to be vigilant and continue to investigate 9/11

• Former Democratic Senator Mike Gravel states that he supports a new 9/11 investigation and that we don't know the truth about 9/11

• Former Republican Senator Lincoln Chaffee endorses a new 9/11 investigation

• Former U.S. Democratic Congressman Dan Hamburg doesn't believe the official version of events

• Former U.S. Republican Congressman and senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, and who served six years as the Chairman of the Military Research and Development Subcommittee Curt Weldon has shown that the U.S. tracked hijackers before 9/11, is open to hearing information about explosives in the Twin Towers, and is open to the possibility that 9/11 was an inside job

If there is bipartisan questioning of the official story, why aren't you questioning it?

Other government officials:

• U.S. General, Commanding General of U.S. European Command and Supreme Allied Commander Europe, decorated with the Bronze Star, Silver Star, and Purple Heart (General Wesley Clark) said "We've never finished the investigation of 9/11 and whether the administration actually misused the intelligence information it had. The evidence seems pretty clear to me. I've seen that for a long time"

• Former Deputy Secretary for Intelligence and Warning under Nixon, Ford, and Carter (Morton Goulder), former Deputy Director to the White House Task Force on Terrorism (Edward L. Peck), and former US Department of State Foreign Service Officer (J. Michael Springmann), as well as a who's who of liberals and independents) jointly call for a new investigation into 9/11

• Former Federal Prosecutor, Office of Special Investigations, U.S. Department of Justice under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan; former U.S. Army Intelligence officer, and currently a widely-sought media commentator on terrorism and intelligence services (John Loftus) says "The information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert a defense of incompetence"

• The Group Director on matters of national security in the U.S. Government Accountability Office said that President Bush did not respond to unprecedented warnings of the 9/11 disaster and conducted a massive cover-up instead of accepting responsibility

• Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan (Col. Ronald D. Ray) said that the official story of 9/11 is "the dog that doesn't hunt"

• The former director of the FBI (Louis Freeh) says there was a cover up by the 9/11 Commission

If top government officials are skeptical, why aren't you?

Numerous other politicians, judges, legal scholars, and attorneys also question at least some aspects of the government's version of 9/11.

BBC Reporter Knows Mossad Did 911

buildingwhat.org

This is a commercial that 911 victims families are trying to get to air in New York. Let's spread this around.



on the other hand you have this neo con zionist shill

Is Wikileaks Tied To The CIA Or Mossad?

Up until recently I have been an outspoken supporter of wikileaks, their founder Julian Assange and their stated mission online. As things sometimes do some information has begun to circulate that wikileaks is funded by George Soros and has ties to the Mossad and or the CIA. Now I can't confirm any of these allegations but I do consider them noteworthy.

One of the biggest red flags for me is Assange's statement that he is "annoyed" by 911 Truth stating that there are "actual conspiracies" out there. Now anyone who has honestly taken the time to investigate 911 knows at least 1 thing for certain, we aren't getting all the facts on 911, so for someone like Assange to try and divert attention from it is very suspicious.

Many people have made up their minds about Assange and wikileaks but I am not one of them, not yet. I most certainly will proceed with caution from this point but I'm not going to condemn them now, I see no reason to rush to judgement.

The following links provide a balance to the very favorable coverage I have given them in the past. Take these for what they're worth.



Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is 'annoyed' by 9/11 truth

Is the latest Wikileaks release serving the military industrial complex?

GORDON DUFF: WIKI-LEAKS IS ISRAEL, LIKE WE ALL DIDN’T KNOW

WIKILEAKS WORKS FOR THE CIA AND MOSSAD?

Russia Today Is Possibly The Worlds Fairest Mainstream News Source

What other mainstream news organization brings guests on to discuss 9/11?

I highly recommend subscribing to their youtube channel.

Military Knows Israel Did 9/11

 SOURCE

"The U.S. Military Knows The Israelis Did 911"


A few months ago I wrote about a "near civil war"
environment within the U.S. military & intelligence
community. And last week I posted an article written
by former CIA intelligence analyst Ray McGovern, about
the trip to Israel last month, taken by Chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adrmiral Mike Mullen. A trip which
received very little coverage in the mainstream press.

http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=26372538

Admiral Mullen did something last month that heretofore,
would have been unthinkable in U.S. - Israeli relations.

After the U.S. government flatly turned down Israel's request
to attack Iran (Haaretz Article), Mullen brought up the highly
sensitive issue of Israel's attack on the U.S.S. Liberty during
the Six Day War, and publicly warned Israel to not even think
about any more game theory-false flag attacks.

Add to that, the rise in tensions over Israel's out right
humiliation of Vice President Joe Biden, by using the occassion
of his official visit to defy America, and announce the plan
to build another 1,600 homes in the disputed East Jerusalem
settlement area.

While Admiral Mullen brought up the issue of the U.S.S.
Liberty, that wasn't the game theory-false flag attack
he was referring to...

It seems a well respected former instructor at the
U.S. Army College has broken the silence over a subject
that has been dominating the non-public conversation
of U.S. - Israeli relations... the belief by a large
contingent within the U.S. military that Israel was
behind the 911 attacks.

Here's a recording of a bombshell radio interview with
Dr. Alan Sabrosky, who is the former Director of Studies
at the U.S. Army War College, a former instructor at the
U.S. Military Academy, and a Marine Corp, Vietnam veteran.

Dr. Sabrosky has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown
University, and the Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Dr. Sabrosky lectures
on defense and foreign affairs in the United States and abroad.

Here's a 3-part radio interview with Sabrosky, U.S.S. Liberty
Survivor Phil Tourney, and radio host Mark Glenn, that I'm
sure America and Israel's political establishment wishes never
took place...

"What we need to stand up and say, is not only did they attack
the U.S.S. Liberty, but they did 911."

"It is 100% certain that 911 was a Mossad operation - period."

"Americans need to understand... they did it."

-- Dr. Alan Sabrosky,
Former Director of Strategic Studies, U.S. Army War College

*** You will want to download and record these, because
I don't believe they'll stay up long...

Part I:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsWcQXr1Nk8

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkGjhyLcWD0

Part III
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_D-omHxQo8

Now you know why Admiral Mike Mullen brought up the
attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, and publicly warned Israel
about further game theory-false flag attacks...

And now you know why Ron Paul said that America has fallen
to a CIA coup, because it is our intelligence agencies, not
our military that we need to fear.

Do you all understand what incredible courage it takes for
Admiral Mullen, Congressman Ron Paul, and Dr. Alan Sabrosky
to make these statements publicly?

I guess we'll find out shortly, if Ariel Sharon was right...

"We, the Jewish people, control America.
And the Americans know it."

-- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
October 3, 2001 (IAP News)

Say a prayer tonight for a damn fine Marine, Dr.Alan Sabrosky,
and say a prayer for America, because they're both going to
need it.

And pray that unlike the cover up of the attack on the U.S.S.
Liberty, that the truth of 911 will be allowed to come out,
because the triumph of light over darkness, and of freedom and
democracy over collectivism and global governance, will depend
on it.

America, you've found a few good men who've stood up,
now it's your turn.

SOTB

The Interesting Saga Of Hal Turner

I first became familiar with Turner around the time he was arrested, I listened to a couple of his shows and was distressed at how he was being treated by the "authorities".  When Hal was taken into custody for saying the three judges who blatantly ruled against the Bill of Rights "should be killed" I was outraged.  

After in custody it came out that indeed he was working for the FBI's JTTF.  When this came out I was quite devastated, and hurt since it is so hard to know who you can trust (the main reason I started this blog).  Now though, there is more evidence that has come out in this case and I think it is a must read.


I still maintain that I see no reason to rush to pass judgment on Hal.  When he was first arrested I was behind him 95%, when it came out that he worked with the FBI I turned to 95% against him.  Now to be honest I am somewhere in between and I will hold judgment on him until as many facts as possible come out.


Here is the story from Turners website.


Last week, we announced that we would begin telling you what the FBI paid Hal Turner to do. Today, we begin that process with a fascinating story about Israeli involvement with 9/11, and an FBI counter intelligence operation against the ADL and AIPAC.

The information in this story comes from letters written by Hal Turner from federal prison before he got out on bail. He remains free, awaiting a third trial on charges he “threatened” 3 judges. Hal Turner is presently under a “gag order” imposed by the court. That order prevents him from speaking to the media and from using the internet. The information in this story was written in letters to us before that gag order was imposed on Hal. We, Hal’s family, are not subject to any such gag order, so we’ve decided to publish the letters Hal mailed to us from prison so you, the American people, can know the truth.

In any case below where links to outside media sources are included in this story, these links were researched by us to corroborate information provided by Hal in his letters from prison. Here now, Hal Turner’s first “mission” as a National Security Intelligence Operative with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Just weeks after being recruited into the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner got a phone call from one of the top people inside the FBI to arrange a meeting. During that call, it was made clear to Turner that he was to keep this meeting secret from his regular FBI contacts, Agent Stephen Haug and Det. Leonard Nerbetski!

The meeting took place a week or so later at a small diner on Market Street at the intersection of Flemming Street in Newark, NJ, just blocks north of the Newark Police Precinct. In attendance was a top level Special Agent in Charge and a Supervising Special Agent from FBI Newark.

The FBI told Turner that they had been familiar with his show for quite some time and there were problems within the FBI and US Justice Department that Turner was in a unique position to help with. This didn’t make sense to Turner because by his own admission, he was a nobody. He had a relatively small internet webcast which at the time had maybe 20,000 listeners per night and his radio show was only carried on about two dozen radio stations throughout America.

Even with the radio audience, Turner wasn’t even a blip on any media radar screen. Despite the small radio audience, Turner’s web site had about two million unique visitors a year and Turner didn’t see how he could possibly be in any position at all to help.

The FBI went on to explain their thinking and the explanation astonished Turner. We think it will absolutely fascinate you too.

September 11 – FBI Newark Had Advance Warning

The discussion began with the attacks of September 11 and how the FBI in Newark had been approached and warned about such attacks more than a full YEAR before the attacks took place.

The FBI told Turner that in March of 2000, a Pakistani-born British citizen named Niaz Khan walked into the FBI’s Newark, NJ office and told them he had been recruited by Osama Bin Laden’s group to hijack airplanes and was now in the U.S. to carry out such a plan.

Niaz Khan had been a waiter in a Curry restaurant in London, had become disgruntled at his life and became receptive to the preaching of a local Muslim Cleric. He learned about Jihad and decided that since his life was so miserable, he was willing to die for Allah.

Bin Laden’s group trained him in hijacking techniques, how to smuggle weapons through airport security, how to overpower passengers and the like. They flew him from London, to Pakistan and elsewhere so he could familiarize himself with real life airport security procedures to prepare.

Once he arrived at JFK Airport in New York, Al Qaida wired him about a quarter million dollars with instructions to recruit and train others for the attacks, but Khan got cold feet. Instead of using the money to recruit others, Khan travelled to Atlantic City and gambled away most of the money!

Fearful that AL-Qaida would find him and kill him for what he’d done, Khan walked into the FBI office in Newark, NJ and spilled his guts. FBI Newark interviewed him for 6 weeks. They administered at least two separate lie detector tests and Khan passed both!

Despite the evidence, a strange order came down from FBI Headquarters in Washington: Cut Khan loose. FBI HQ told FBI Newark to put Khan on a plane back to Britain and forget about him. FBI HQ said that British Intelligence, known as MI-5, would interview Khan once he arrived in Britain. So, despite the time and effort put into investigating Khan, FBI Newark complied with the instructions from HQ and sent Khan back to Britain.

On September 11, 2001, the attacks Khan had warned about, took place. The FBI people told Turner they were devastated because everyone in FBI Newark instantly remembered Niaz Khan and realized the attacks could have been prevented. This motivated FBI Newark to go after the 9-11 investigation with a vengeance, but each time they tried, more strange orders came down from FBI HQ in Washington, telling FBI Newark to back off.

Bear in mind that Hal Turner was being told all of this by the FBI in the summer of 2003 shortly after he was recruited by the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF). More than a year later, this part of Hal Turner’s story was confirmed by main stream media sources when NBC News, the London “Guardian” Newspaper and The London “Independent” newspaper all published stories containing the facts laid out above.

The Israeli Connection to 9-11

The FBI went on to tell Turner that on September 11, 2001 a series of things took place in addition to the attacks themselves, which lead FBI Newark to believe the state of Israel was deeply involved in the events of that day.

First, while the World Trade Center was under attack in lower Manhattan, a white Chevy van was directly across the Hudson River in Liberty State Park in Jersey City. A group of 5 men were with the van and they had set up video cameras before the attacks took place. When the jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center, witnesses in Liberty State Park watched in horror as the men with the white van cheered with joy as the attacks took place. The witnesses called police with a description of the van and of the men.

Police issued a “BOLO” (Be On the Look Out) for the van. A couple hours later, a police officer in East Rutherford, NJ was patrolling Route 3 near Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands. This location provided a clear view of the World Trade Center which was about four miles to the east.

The officer came upon a moving-van-type of truck parked on the service road next to the highway where a number of men were standing and cheering with joy as the World Trade Center towers collapsed. The officer confronted them men, who produced ID showing they were Israeli citizens. The answers they gave to the Officer’s questions raised great suspicion with the officer so he arrested all the men on “suspicion” of involvement with the attacks.

The moving-van, from a company named Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, NJ, was impounded and the FBI was notified. Bomb-sniffing dogs were brought to the van and they “alerted” to the presence of explosives. Packages inside the vehicle were x-rayed by portable x-ray machine, but none contained explosives.

Found inside the van were maps of New York City with certain locations highlighted. FBI Newark obtained search warrants for Urban Moving Systems offices in Weehawken, NJ. But upon arrival, the offices were vacant; cleaned out. A check of company personnel revealed a majority of the company’s employees were . . . . . Israelis . . . . . and they had flown out of the country within days of the attacks. All of them flew to . . . . . Israel.

The FBI went on to tell Hal Turner that the Israelis who were arrested with the moving van were detained in jail and repeatedly questioned. One man refused a lie detector test for ten weeks and when he finally relented and took the test, he failed. Then, a strange order came down from FBI HQ in Washington: Let the men go.

FBI HQ told FBI Newark that the men were Israeli intelligence agents from the Mossad (The Israeli version of the CIA) and they had been in the US to track militant Arabs. But FBI Newark didn’t believe that explanation. FBI Newark believed the men were part of the attacks of 9-11 and the whole story about them being in the US to track Arabs was merely a “cover story.”

Bear in mind that Hal Turner was being told this by the FBI in 2003. The main stream media confirmed this aspect of Hal’s story in June, 2002, when ABC News “20/20” ran a major story confirming the facts laid out above. The ABC News story can still be seen at: http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=123885&page=1

Second, on the day of the 9-11 attacks, rumors swirled that some 4,000 Jewish people who worked in the World Trade Center, just happened to not show up for work on 9-11. This was also reported on AL-MANAR Television news in Beirut, Lebanon shortly after the attacks. FBI Newark began investigating that claim and a week or so later, another strange order came down from FBI HQ: Stop the investigation.

Third, hours before the attacks of 9-11, an Israeli company named Odigo, allegedly received an instant message warning the attacks against the World Trade Center were going to take place that morning. Odigo alerted Israeli authorities but somehow, Israel “dropped the ball” and didn’t tell the US.

The main stream media revealed this information just days after the attacks of 9-11. One such example of this coverage can still be found in the Israeli News Service called HAARETZ at: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=77744&contrassID=/has

But as before, when FBI Newark began investigating the claims that ODIGO had gotten an instant message hours before the attacks, FBI HQ told FBI Newark to stop investigating.

Last but certainly not least, ICTS an Israeli owned security company, sells services to every airport from which the hijacked 9-11 planes operated, including security, sometimes through wholly owned subsidiaries like Huntleigh USA Corporation.

The FBI told Turner that such an incredible feat of hijacking four aircraft without a single arrest at the gate would require the resources of a nation-state. This is even more true with the revelation that at least one gun had managed to be aboard a hijacked plane.

The one company that had inside access to all of the airports from which hijacked planes departed on 9-11, and to the airports used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber was ICTS, an Israeli company.

The FBI told Hal Turner that FBI Newark believed that it was no accident that Israel failed to pass along the pre-attack information from Odigo. They went on to tell Turner that FBI Newark believed that Israel knew the attacks were going to take place because Israel was involved in the attacks. The evidence, they said, is irrefutable.

The two high-level FBI people who met with Hal Turner that day told him they believed the FBI HQ was compromised. They told Hal that anytime any investigation was opened into a possible Israeli connection to 9-11, FBI HQ squashed the investigation. It was clear to FBI Newark that FBI HQ had security leaks who were thwarting any investigation of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and they had a plan to plug those leaks.

ADL and AIPAC Infiltration of US Law Enforcement

The FBI told Turner that the Israeli government maintains a vast spy network and major propaganda machines inside the United States. The “fronts” for that spy network and the source of the major propaganda are the Anti Defamation League (ADL) and the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

These groups promote themselves as being supportive of Jewish people and Jewish interests. They also tout themselves as guardians against “hate” and “anti-Semitism.” The reality, however, is quite different. The FBI explained that these groups are information –gathering networks and propaganda outlets. They seek-out anyone who espouses views contrary to Israel then smear and discredit such people as Anti-Semites, Bigots, Racists or even Nazis. In addition, whenever the state of Israel does something horrific, like bombing innocent Palestinians, invading another country or killing “militants,” ADL and AIPAC launch intense propaganda campaigns to smooth-over public relations.

The FBI told Hal Turner that whenever members of these two groups identify a potential “threat” to Jewish or Israeli interests, they engage intense efforts to find out anything and everything they can about the “threat.” So whenever a media personality, media outlet or political candidate says or does anything which conflicts with the Israeli agenda, the ADL and AIPAC go into attack mode.

The FBI explained that one way the ADL gets information about people they perceive as “threats” is by infiltrating law enforcement agencies in the USA to gain access to confidential police records. The ADL has a notorious history of doing this and has been caught several times accessing and possessing confidential police files. One such example of ADL illegally accessing police files, covered by the “Los Angeles Times” newspaper, can be read here: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-04-17/news/mn-24002_1_illegal-spying

The FBI explained to Turner that AIPAC also has a very long history of actual espionage against the United States and provided Turner with un-redacted, classified documents for him to view proving what they claimed. You can read declassified or redacted versions of those same documents at this link: http://www.irmep.org/ila/economy/

The FBI wanted to exploit this aspect of ADL/AIPAC conduct to identify leaks and plug them.

Counter-Intelligence Operation

The FBI told Hal Turner that the fastest way to achieve this goal was for the FBI to attach an electronic “symbol” to Turner’s FBI records. This way, whenever any law enforcement agency or someone inside the Justice Department made an inquiry into FBI files about Hal Turner, the FBI computer system would read the “symbol” and secretly generate a report to the Joint Terrorism task Force showing who made the inquiry, the agency they were with, and the date and time the inquiry was made. This would allow the JTTF to identify ADL/AIPAC infiltrators and plug the information leaks.

This made sense to Turner, but he asked what he would have to do to make this system work? Why would the ADL or AIPAC even bother with him? The FBI told him to wait a few days until the FBI could put the electronic symbol on his files. Once Turner was notified that the symbol was in place, he was to go on the air and on the internet and ferociously attack jews and Israel with a level of vitriolic hatred akin to Josef Goebbels from the former Third Reich in World War 2 Nazi Germany. Turner agreed to do it but was warned in very strong terms to never reveal this operation to anyone, including to his primary JTTF contacts, Stephen Haug and Leonard Nerbetski. In order for the operation to work, he was told, no one could know about it, especially FBI HQ.

About two weeks later, Hal Turner got a call from Special Agent Stephen Haug, his primary contact at JTTF. Haug told Turner that the FBI had decided to place an electronic symbol on his file to “make certain Hal wasn’t concealing any police troubles from the FBI during his time with JTTF.” That’s what Haug thought, but Turner knew the truth. That phone call was the signal for Turner to let loose with anti-Jewish and anti-Israeli venom for the counter-intelligence operation and he did so with gusto.

Hal Turner went on the air and on his web site and let loose with every form of vitriolic filth imaginable about Jews and Israel. It didn’t take long for the ADL and AIPAC to take the bait.

Astonishing results!

Within weeks, dozens of unauthorized inquiries were being made into Hal Turner’s FBI files from law enforcement agencies around the country. Unauthorized accesses were made from within the Department of Justice, from within the FBI, from the Secret Service, from the US Marshal Service, from the US Capitol Police, from the Pennsylvania State Police and many other agencies. Each time an inquiry was made, a secret report of it went to the JTTF.

Over the coming months, JTTF made personal visits to those agencies and took up the issue of unauthorized access. They knew which operator did it, from which agency, from which computer terminal and those people were called on the carpet. It was made clear that such accesses to FBI files were not to be done in the future unless they were part of a legitimate and documented police investigation. It was made very clear that if future unauthorized accesses were made, the agency itself could find its access to FBI databases CUT OFF and anyone making such unauthorized accesses would be criminally prosecuted! Word of this spread like wildfire within law enforcement circles.

About 9 months later, in a casual phone conversation with the Special Agent in Charge of FBI Newark, it was revealed to Hal Turner that this operation netted “over 100” leaks. The FBI told Hal Turner that his work was the single most successful counter-intelligence effort in years and the nation owed Hal a debt of gratitude for cutting off unauthorized access to FBI files.

Investigating 9-11 and Israel, the end result:

With most of the pro-Israel leaks in the legal system plugged, FBI Newark was able to more thoroughly investigate what really happened on 9-11. The results? Well, let’s just say that when the real culprit behind 9-11 was properly identified by a preponderance of evidence, he was “dealt with.”

You heard about it in January, 2006, but never made the connection between what you heard in 2006 and what happened on 9-11. What YOU heard was that Israeli leader Ariel Sharon suffered a massive stroke. Yea. Right. A “stroke.” . . . . . . .

The truth is that Ariel Sharon was identified by US Intelligence Agencies as being the key to the attacks of 9-11. It was Israel and its intelligence agencies that funded and facilitated the Arabs who ultimately were duped into pulling-off the attacks.

The problem was that politically, Sharon and Israel were untouchable. For years Israel has bought-off half the US Congress, so our elected officials damn sure wouldn’t take any action. Instead, a decision was taken within the US Intelligence Community to take action.

Ariel Sharon had suffered a mini stroke in mid-December 2005 and at that time it was found he suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a brain disorder which, in conjunction with anticoagulant medication prescribed after his first stroke, greatly increased his risk of cerebral hemorrhage.

With this information in U.S. hands, and with all the evidence we needed pointing to Sharon’s involvement in the attacks of 9-11, medical folks within the US intelligence community were consulted. It was decided that the introduction of certain Amino acids with a concentrated dose of blood-thinners would guarantee Ariel Sharon would suffer an immediate cerebral hemorrhage. All it would take was a needle to the neck and Sharon would literally blow a gasket within hours.

That needle was administered by US intelligence operatives who were able to surreptitiously gain access to Mr. Sharon at his Sycamore Ranch in the Negev region of Israel. He blew a gasket and suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage within minutes which basically resulted in brain death.

As panic ensued at the Sycamore ranch as Ariel Sharon went into convulsions, the US Intelligence operatives quietly slipped away undetected.

To all the world, it was a natural medical disaster that destroyed Ariel Sharon. To Intelligence Operatives like Hal Turner, the truth was quite different; and quite satisfying too.

That was one small part of the price Israel was to pay for their role in helping to kill almost 3,000 Americans on 9-11. No war. No political haggling. No investigations. No court. No Trial by jury. Just (brain) dead; exactly the way Israel itself deals with its enemies. We wonder how they like it now that its been done to them?

Until publication of this blog page, no one else in the entire world has ever released this fact. Now, the whole world knows.

Israel was to pay a further price for their role in 9-11 when they invaded Lebanon in 2007. We’ll talk more about that in an upcoming article describing what Hal Turner did for the FBI and the CIA during his trip to Brazil.

The U.S. Intelligence Community isn’t finished punishing Israel yet. If Congress doesn’t like it, they can go fuck themselves because the intelligence community has all the dirt on them too. Any member of Congress who steps out of line knows his dirt would be dumped on national TV, so Congress will keep quiet and pretend nothing’s going on. The intel community will take care of this Israeli business and when it’s over, justice will have prevailed.

Interesting Tid-Bit

One interesting tid-bit of information about 9-11 that may be of interest to you is a law suit brought by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in the year 1998. The Port Authority owns the World Trade Center and at that time in 1998, it became known to Port Authority engineers that the World Trade Center towers suffered from a serious design flaw: The exterior stainless steel of the two towers was attached directly to the interior structural steel girders.

By attaching the stainless steel directly to the steel girders, in the presence of saltwater air from New York Harbor, caused oxidation of the structural steel to occur much more rapidly than anyone expected. Put simply, the steel girders holding up the two world trade center towers was disintegrating from this oxidation and ultimately, the two towers would have to be taken apart and fixed.

The Port Authority filed a claim with its insurance company to have them pay for this design flaw. The Insurance company refused, so the Port Authority sued the Insurance company in the United States District Court in Newark, New Jersey. The case was heard before the Honorable John Bissell.

Ultimately, Judge Bissell found in favor of the Insurance company. If anyone was going to pay to have the two towers taken apart and fixed, it would have to be the Port Authority itself. Look up the case on the US District Court’s PACER System. All the records are still there for everyone to see.

Instead of fixing the world trade center towers, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey sold its leases for tenants inside the World Trade Center, to Larry Silverstein, an ardent pro-Israel real estate developer. Silverstein stood to make a billion dollars from buying the leases . . . . . until he found out that the two buildings were going to fall down from the oxidation of the steel structure.

So with the WTC buildings headed for collapse anyway, and with billions at stake, the FBI speculated to Hal Turner that a plan was hatched to destroy the two buildings in an act of “terrorism.” This would get the government to foot the reconstruction bill, incense the American people into going to war, and ultimately, shift the war from terrorists to Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was the biggest enemy of the State of Israel in the middle east.

In one fell swoop, the World Trade center, which was falling down anyway, would be taken care of, America would go to war against Israel’s biggest enemy, and the American people would pay for it all with their lives and national fortune.

The big government guys and their defense contractor buddies would get rich from bombing Iraq and Afghanistan back to the stone age, then double their money with government contracts to rebuild it all. No one in the nation had a clue as to how it all fit together. Until now.

Now, you know the truth

In his role as a national security intelligence operative for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Hal Turner protected America and its citizens from people with foreign loyalties who were illegally misusing police records to achieve their political, social and cultural goals. He also became privy to incredible information from intelligence operations of many kinds. Hal revealed these things to us after his own government betrayed him. We have now revealed some of what Hal told us, to all of you.

In doing what he did to plug the leaks of police information from pro-Israeli infiltrators, Hal begot powerful enemies in the ADL and AIPAC. Those groups had never been so cleverly outfoxed before. They had never faced this level of counter-intelligence operation and they fell for it hook-line-and-sinker. They got caught red-handed and a whole slew of their henchmen in law enforcement got straightened out, thus cutting-off (at least temporarily) the ADL/AIPAC flow of police information.

Perhaps that’s why representatives from ADL have been attending Hal Turner’s recent trials. Clearly, they want to get back at Hal for so successfully cutting-off their access to law enforcement records. Too bad for the ADL and AIPAC that Hal Turner is a loyal American who puts America ahead of Israel.

More than a year later, the FBI told Hal that the operation was so successful; they had another operation they needed him to do. This one would target the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, AL and its role in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

More on that in our next installment of “What the FBI Paid Hal Turner To Do.”

Coming soon:

Hal Turner’s Brazil Trip: How the FBI and CIA arranged for Hal Turner to deliver military satellite communication hook-ups to a man from Syria for the Lebanese Militia to defeat the Israeli Army months before Israel invaded Lebanon, and;

Nuclear Theft: How Six U.S. Nuclear-tipped Cruise Missiles were successfully STOLEN from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota and were to be used to destroy 6 American cities to usher-in the “New World Order” Thankfully, the theft was stopped even though those nuclear cruise missiles sat, unguarded and out in the open at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana for more than 12 hours. Guess whose White House authorization code was used to release the weapons for transport? Was it Dick Cheney’s? Maybe that’s why Cheney was in a wheel chair at Barack Obama’s inauguration – maybe someone beat the hell out of him for what he’d done. Check back to find out.

BTW: We wonder if Assistant US Attorney William Hogan is glad he brought a case against Hal Turner now that a whole slew of dirty government inside-information is starting to pour out? Still think he’s a “street snitch?” Still think this is all a “Walter Mitty secret agent fantasy?” Congratulations Mr. Hogan! Rest assured, this is just the beginning. Oh, by the way Mr. Hogan, all the powerful interests that Hal Turner exposed to us in his writings from prison – mailed through his attorneys as “legal mail” so no one at the prisons could read it first - will have YOU and your boss, Patrick Fitzgerald, to thank for all their dirty laundry coming out in public. Ain’t “free speech” grand?

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I will let you know when I know more.

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Sibel Edmonds Under Oath

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Sibel Edmonds Interview

By Sibel Edmonds and Philip Giraldi

September 22, 2009 "The American Conservative" - November Issue -- Sibel Edmonds has a story to tell. She went to work as a Turkish and Farsi translator for the FBI five days after 9/11. Part of her job was to translate and transcribe recordings of conversations between suspected Turkish intelligence agents and their American contacts. She was fired from the FBI in April 2002 after she raised concerns that one of the translators in her section was a member of a Turkish organization that was under investigation for bribing senior government officials and members of Congress, drug trafficking, illegal weapons sales, money laundering, and nuclear proliferation. She appealed her termination, but was more alarmed that no effort was being made to address the corruption that she had been monitoring.

A Department of Justice inspector general’s report called Edmonds’s allegations “credible,” “serious,” and “warrant[ing] a thorough and careful review by the FBI.” Ranking Senate Judiciary Committee members Pat Leahy (D-Vt.) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have backed her publicly. “60 Minutes” launched an investigation of her claims and found them believable. No one has ever disproved any of Edmonds’s revelations, which she says can be verified by FBI investigative files.

John Ashcroft’s Justice Department confirmed Edmonds’s veracity in a backhanded way by twice invoking the dubious State Secrets Privilege so she could not tell what she knows. The ACLU has called her “the most gagged person in the history of the United States of America.”

But on Aug. 8, she was finally able to testify under oath in a court case filed in Ohio and agreed to an interview with The American Conservative based on that testimony. What follows is her own account of what some consider the most incredible tale of corruption and influence peddling in recent times. As Sibel herself puts it, “If this were written up as a novel, no one would believe it.”

PHILIP GIRALDI: We were very interested to learn of your four-hour deposition in the case involving allegations that Congresswoman Jean Schmidt accepted money from the Turkish government in return for political favors. You provided many names and details for the first time on the record and swore an oath confirming that the deposition was true.

Basically, you map out a corruption scheme involving U.S. government employees and members of Congress and agents of foreign governments. These agents were able to obtain information that was either used directly by those foreign governments or sold to third parties, with the proceeds often used as bribes to breed further corruption. Let’s start with the first government official you identified, Marc Grossman, then the third highest-ranking official at the State Department.

SIBEL EDMONDS: During my work with the FBI, one of the major operational files that I was transcribing and translating started in late 1996 and continued until 2002, when I left the Bureau. Because the FBI had had no Turkish translators, these files were archived, but were considered to be very important operations. As part of the background, I was briefed about why these operations had been initiated and who the targets were.

Grossman became a person of interest early on in the investigative file while he was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey [1994-97], when he became personally involved with operatives both from the Turkish government and from suspected criminal groups. He also had suspicious contact with a number of official and non-official Israelis. Grossman was removed from Turkey short of tour during a scandal referred to as “Susurluk” by the media. It involved a number of high-level criminals as well as senior army and intelligence officers with whom he had been in contact.

Another individual who was working for Grossman, Air Force Major Douglas Dickerson, was also removed from Turkey and sent to Germany. After he and his Turkish wife Can returned to the U.S., he went to work for Douglas Feith and she was hired as an FBI Turkish translator. My complaints about her connection to Turkish lobbying groups led to my eventual firing.

Grossman and Dickerson had to leave the country because a big investigation had started in Turkey. Special prosecutors were appointed, and the case was headlined in England, Germany, Italy, and in some of the Balkan countries because the criminal groups were found to be active in all those places. A leading figure in the scandal, Mehmet Eymür, led a major paramilitary group for the Turkish intelligence service. To keep him from testifying, Eymür was sent by the Turkish government to the United States, where he worked for eight months as head of intelligence at the Turkish Embassy in Washington. He later became a U.S. citizen and now lives in McLean, Virginia. The central figure in this scandal was Abdullah Catli. In 1989, while “most wanted” by Interpol, he came to the U.S., was granted residency, and settled in Chicago, where he continued to conduct his operations until 1996.



GIRALDI: So Grossman at this point comes back to the United States. He’s rewarded with the third-highest position at the State Department, and he allegedly uses this position to do favors for “Turkish interests”—both for the Turkish government and for possible criminal interests. Sometimes, the two converge. The FBI is aware of his activities and is listening to his phone calls. When someone who is Turkish calls Grossman, the FBI monitors that individual’s phone calls, and when the Turk calls a friend who is a Pakistani or an Egyptian or a Saudi, they monitor all those contacts, widening the net.

EDMONDS: Correct.

GIRALDI: And Grossman received money as a result. In one case, you said that a State Department colleague went to pick up a bag of money…

EDMONDS: $14,000

GIRALDI: What kind of information was Grossman giving to foreign countries? Did he give assistance to foreign individuals penetrating U.S. government labs and defense installations as has been reported? It’s also been reported that he was the conduit to a group of congressmen who become, in a sense, the targets to be recruited as “agents of influence.”

EDMONDS: Yes, that’s correct. Grossman assisted his Turkish and Israeli contacts directly, and he also facilitated access to members of Congress who might be inclined to help for reasons of their own or could be bribed into cooperation. The top person obtaining classified information was Congressman Tom Lantos. A Lantos associate, Alan Makovsky worked very closely with Dr. Sabri Sayari in Georgetown University, who is widely believed to be a Turkish spy. Lantos would give Makovsky highly classified policy-related documents obtained during defense briefings for passage to Israel because Makovsky was also working for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

GIRALDI: Makovsky is now working for the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, a pro-Israeli think tank.

EDMONDS: Yes. Lantos was at the time probably the most outspoken supporter of Israel in Congress. AIPAC would take out the information from Lantos that was relevant to Israel, and they would give the rest of it to their Turkish associates. The Turks would go through the leftovers, take what they wanted, and then try to sell the rest. If there were something relevant to Pakistan, they would contact the ISI officer at the embassy and say, “We’ve got this and this, let’s sit down and talk.” And then they would sell it to the Pakistanis.

GIRALDI: ISI—Pakistani intelligence—has been linked to the Pakistani nuclear proliferation program as well as to al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

So the FBI was monitoring these connections going from a congressman to a congressman’s assistant to a foreign individual who is connected with intelligence to other intelligence people who are located at different embassies in Washington. And all of this information is in an FBI file somewhere?

EDMONDS: Two sets of FBI files, but the AIPAC-related files and the Turkish files ended up converging in one. The FBI agents believed that they were looking at the same operation. It didn’t start with AIPAC originally. It started with the Israeli Embassy. The original targets were intelligence officers under diplomatic cover in the Turkish Embassy and the Israeli Embassy. It was those contacts that led to the American Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations and then to AIPAC fronting for the Israelis. It moved forward from there.

GIRALDI: So the FBI was monitoring people from the Israeli Embassy and the Turkish Embassy and one, might presume, the Pakistani Embassy as well?

EDMONDS: They were the secondary target. They got leftovers from the Turks and Israelis. The FBI would intercept communications to try to identify who the diplomatic target’s intelligence chief was, but then, in addition to that, there are individuals there, maybe the military attaché, who had their own contacts who were operating independently of others in the embassy.

GIRALDI: So the network starts with a person like Grossman in the State Department providing information that enables Turkish and Israeli intelligence officers to have access to people in Congress, who then provide classified information that winds up in the foreign embassies?

EDMONDS: Absolutely. And we also had Pentagon officials doing the same thing. We were looking at Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. They had a list of individuals in the Pentagon broken down by access to certain types of information. Some of them would be policy related, some of them would be weapons-technology related, some of them would be nuclear-related. Perle and Feith would provide the names of those Americans, officials in the Pentagon, to Grossman, together with highly sensitive personal information: this person is a closet gay; this person has a chronic gambling issue; this person is an alcoholic. The files on the American targets would contain things like the size of their mortgages or whether they were going through divorces. One Air Force major I remember was going through a really nasty divorce and a child custody fight. They detailed all different kinds of vulnerabilities.

GIRALDI: So they had access to their personnel files and also their security files and were illegally accessing this kind of information to give to foreign agents who exploited the vulnerabilities of these people to recruit them as sources of information?

EDMONDS: Yes. Some of those individuals on the list were also working for the RAND Corporation. RAND ended up becoming one of the prime targets for these foreign agents.

GIRALDI: RAND does highly classified research for the U.S. government. So they were setting up these people for recruitment as agents or as agents of influence?

EDMONDS: Yes, and the RAND sources would be paid peanuts compared to what the information was worth when it was sold if it was not immediately useful for Turkey or Israel. They also had sources who were working in some midwestern Air Force bases. The sources would provide the information on CD’s and DVD’s. In one case, for example, a Turkish military attaché got the disc and discovered that it was something really important, so he offered it to the Pakistani ISI person at the embassy, but the price was too high. Then a Turkish contact in Chicago said he knew two Saudi businessmen in Detroit who would be very interested in this information, and they would pay the price. So the Turkish military attaché flew to Detroit with his assistant to make the sale.

GIRALDI: We know Grossman was receiving money for services.

EDMONDS: Yes. Sometimes he would give money to the people who were working with him, identified in phone calls on a first-name basis, whether it’s a John or a Joe. He also took care of some other people, including his contact at the New York Times. Grossman would brag, “We just fax to our people at the New York Times. They print it under their names.”

GIRALDI: Did Feith and Perle receive any money that you know of?

EDMONDS: No.

GIRALDI: So they were doing favors for other reasons. Both Feith and Perle were lobbyists for Turkey and also were involved with Israel on defense contracts, including some for Northrop Grumman, which Feith represented in Israel.

EDMONDS: They had arrangements with various companies, some of them members of the American Turkish Council. They had arrangements with Kissinger’s group, with Northrop Grumman, with former secretary of state James Baker’s group, and also with former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft.

The monitoring of the Turks picked up contacts with Feith, Wolfowitz, and Perle in the summer of 2001, four months before 9/11. They were discussing with the Turkish ambassador in Washington an arrangement whereby the U.S. would invade Iraq and divide the country. The UK would take the south, the rest would go to the U.S. They were negotiating what Turkey required in exchange for allowing an attack from Turkish soil. The Turks were very supportive, but wanted a three-part division of Iraq to include their own occupation of the Kurdish region. The three Defense Department officials said that would be more than they could agree to, but they continued daily communications to the ambassador and his defense attaché in an attempt to convince them to help.

Meanwhile Scowcroft, who was also the chairman of the American Turkish Council, Baker, Richard Armitage, and Grossman began negotiating separately for a possible Turkish protectorate. Nothing was decided, and then 9/11 took place.

Scowcroft was all for invading Iraq in 2001 and even wrote a paper for the Pentagon explaining why the Turkish northern front would be essential. I know Scowcroft came off as a hero to some for saying he was against the war, but he was very much for it until his client’s conditions were not met by the Bush administration.

GIRALDI: Armitage was deputy secretary of state at the time Scowcroft and Baker were running their own consulting firms that were doing business with Turkey. Grossman had just become undersecretary, third in the State hierarchy behind Armitage.

You’ve previouly alluded to efforts by Grossman, as well as high-ranking officials at the Pentagon, to place Ph.D. students. Can you describe that in more detail?

EDMONDS: The seeding operation started before Marc Grossman arrived at the State Department. The Turkish agents had a network of Turkish professors in various universities with access to government information. Their top source was a Turkish-born professor of nuclear physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was useful because MIT would place a bunch of Ph.D. or graduate-level students in various nuclear facilities like Sandia or Los Alamos, and some of them were able to work for the Air Force. He would provide the list of Ph.D. students who should get these positions. In some cases, the Turkish military attaché would ask that certain students be placed in important positions. And they were not necessarily all Turkish, but the ones they selected had struck deals with the Turkish agents to provide information in return for money. If for some reason they had difficulty getting a secuity clearance, Grossman would ensure that the State Department would arrange to clear them.

In exchange for the information that these students would provide, they would be paid $4,000 or $5,000. And the information that was sold to the two Saudis in Detroit went for something like $350,000 or $400,000.

GIRALDI: This corruption wasn’t confined to the State Department and the Pentagon—it infected Congress as well. You’ve named people like former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, now a registered agent of the Turkish government. In your deposition, you describe the process of breaking foreign-originated contributions into small units, $200 or less, so that the source didn’t have to be reported. Was this the primary means of influencing congressmen, or did foreign agents exploit vulnerabilities to get what they wanted using something like blackmail?

EDMONDS: In early 1997, because of the information that the FBI was getting on the Turkish diplomatic community, the Justice Department had already started to investigate several Republican congressmen. The number-one congressman involved with the Turkish community, both in terms of providing information and doing favors, was Bob Livingston. Number-two after him was Dan Burton, and then he became number-one until Hastert became the speaker of the House. Bill Clinton’s attorney general, Janet Reno, was briefed on the investigations, and since they were Republicans, she authorized that they be continued.

Well, as the FBI developed more information, Tom Lantos was added to this list, and then they got a lot on Douglas Feith and Richard Perle and Marc Grossman. At this point, the Justice Department said they wanted the FBI to only focus on Congress, leaving the executive branch people out of it. But the FBI agents involved wanted to continue pursuing Perle and Feith because the Israeli Embassy was also connected. Then the Monica Lewinsky scandal erupted, and everything was placed on the back burner.

But some of the agents continued to investigate the congressional connection. In 1999, they wiretapped the congressmen directly. (Prior to that point they were getting all their information secondhand through FISA, as their primary targets were foreigners.) The questionably legal wiretap gave the perfect excuse to the Justice Department. As soon as they found out, they refused permission to monitor the congressmen and Grossman as primary targets. But the inquiry was kept alive in Chicago because the FBI office there was pursuing its own investigation. The epicenter of a lot of the foreign espionage activity was Chicago.

GIRALDI: So the investigation stopped in Washington, but continued in Chicago?

EDMONDS: Yes, and in 2000, another representative was added to the list, Jan Schakowsky, the Democratic congresswoman from Illinois. Turkish agents started gathering information on her, and they found out that she was bisexual. So a Turkish agent struck up a relationship with her. When Jan Schakowsky’s mother died, the Turkish woman went to the funeral, hoping to exploit her vulnerability. They later were intimate in Schakowsky’s townhouse, which had been set up with recording devices and hidden cameras. They needed Schakowsky and her husband Robert Creamer to perform certain illegal operational facilitations for them in Illinois. They already had Hastert, the mayor, and several other Illinois state senators involved. I don’t know if Congresswoman Schakowsky ever was actually blackmailed or did anything for the Turkish woman.

GIRALDI: So we have a pattern of corruption starting with government officials providing information to foreigners and helping them make contact with other Americans who had valuable information. Some of these officials, like Marc Grossman, were receiving money directly. Others were receiving business favors: Pentagon associates like Doug Feith and Richard Perle had interests in Israel and Turkey. The stolen information was being sold, and the money that was being generated was used to corrupt certain congressmen to influence policy and provide still more information—in many cases information related to nuclear technology.

EDMONDS: As well as weapons technology, conventional weapons technology, and Pentagon policy-related information.

GIRALDI: You also have information on al-Qaeda, specifically al-Qaeda in Central Asia and Bosnia. You were privy to conversations that suggested the CIA was supporting al-Qaeda in central Asia and the Balkans, training people to get money, get weapons, and this contact continued until 9/11…

EDMONDS: I don’t know if it was CIA. There were certain forces in the U.S. government who worked with the Turkish paramilitary groups, including Abdullah Çatli’s group, Fethullah Gülen.

GIRALDI: Well, that could be either Joint Special Operations Command or CIA.

EDMONDS: Maybe in a lot of cases when they said State Department, they meant CIA?

GIRALDI: When they said State Department, they probably meant CIA.

EDMONDS: Okay. So these conversations, between 1997 and 2001, had to do with a Central Asia operation that involved bin Laden. Not once did anybody use the word “al-Qaeda.” It was always “mujahideen,” always “bin Laden” and, in fact, not “bin Laden” but “bin Ladens” plural. There were several bin Ladens who were going on private jets to Azerbaijan and Tajikistan. The Turkish ambassador in Azerbaijan worked with them.

There were bin Ladens, with the help of Pakistanis or Saudis, under our management. Marc Grossman was leading it, 100 percent, bringing people from East Turkestan into Kyrgyzstan, from Kyrgyzstan to Azerbaijan, from Azerbaijan some of them were being channeled to Chechnya, some of them were being channeled to Bosnia. From Turkey, they were putting all these bin Ladens on NATO planes. People and weapons went one way, drugs came back.

GIRALDI: Was the U.S. government aware of this circular deal?

EDMONDS: 100 percent. A lot of the drugs were going to Belgium with NATO planes. After that, they went to the UK, and a lot came to the U.S. via military planes to distribution centers in Chicago and Paterson, New Jersey. Turkish diplomats who would never be searched were coming with suitcases of heroin.

GIRALDI: And, of course, none of this has been investigated. What do you think the chances are that the Obama administration will try to end this criminal activity?

EDMONDS: Well, even during Obama’s presidential campaign, I did not buy into his slogan of “change” being promoted by the media and, unfortunately, by the naïve blogosphere. First of all, Obama’s record as a senator, short as it was, spoke clearly. For all those changes that he was promising, he had done nothing. In fact, he had taken the opposite position, whether it was regarding the NSA’s wiretapping or the issue of national-security whistleblowers. We whistleblowers had written to his Senate office. He never responded, even though he was on the relevant committees.

As soon as Obama became president, he showed us that the State Secrets Privilege was going to continue to be a tool of choice. It’s an arcane executive privilege to cover up wrongdoing—in many cases, criminal activities. And the Obama administration has not only defended using the State Secrets Privilege, it has been trying to take it even further than the previous terrible administration by maintaining that the U.S. government has sovereign immunity. This is Obama’s change: his administration seems to think it doesn’t even have to invoke state secrets as our leaders are emperors who possess this sovereign immunity. This is not the kind of language that anybody in a democracy would use.

The other thing I noticed is how Chicago, with its culture of political corruption, is central to the new administration. When I saw that Obama’s choice of chief of staff was Rahm Emanuel, knowing his relationship with Mayor Richard Daley and with the Hastert crowd, I knew we were not going to see positive changes. Changes possibly, but changes for the worse. It was no coincidence that the Turkish criminal entity’s operation centered on Chicago.

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Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator and the founder of the Nation