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911 Whistleblower Moves to Dismiss Judge Walton www.911Truth.org \|\| April 03, 2006 Lost in last week's hubbub over the media breakthroughs for 9/11 truth was the latest twist in the Sibel Edmonds saga. The FBI whistleblower last Thursday filed a court motion demanding that the federal judge hearing her First Amendment case be recused for deliberately hiding his financial background. The judge, Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. Edmonds is seeking to show Judge Walton is in violation of federal law (The Ethics in Government Act) because of his refusal to meet financial disclosure provisions. A few months after September 11th, the FBI hired Edmonds as a translator for Farsi and Turkish. She says she discovered that documents already translated (and suppressed) prior to 9/11 had contained details of a pending attack on the US with airplanes. In addition, one of her colleagues attempted to recruit her as a spy for a Turkish lobbying group. When she spoke out about these experiences - and other finds suggesting corruption, money laundering and drug deals at the top levels of the US government - she was fired. Attorney General John Ashcroft slapped Edmonds with a gag order under the seldom-used State Secrets Act. In the most bizarre and Orwellian twist, Ashcroft "retroactively classified" many of the statements Edmonds had already made. This included information published in the press prior to the gag order. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Edmonds took up a long court battle for her right to speak out, but ran into Judge Walton, who has upheld the "State Secrets" provision over Edmonds' First Amendment rights. Adding to the general feel of impropriety about the proceedings, Edmonds originally had a different judge assigned to her case at random (as per the usual procedure), only to have the hearings reassigned to Walton's court without explanation. (The original judge, James Robertson, also held a seat on the FISA court, which he later resigned in protest over the NSA wiretapping scandal.) The Justice Department's inspector general ultimately determined that Edmonds' firing was due "in part" to her whistleblowing activities. But there have been no consequences for those responsible, and her efforts to get the gag order lifted have been frustrated in court. The 9/11 Commission heard Edmonds' story in several hours of closed-door testimony - and, typically, completely omitted it from their report, either to confirm or deny. This prompted Edmonds to write a scathing open letter to the chairman of the commission, and to take her case to the public. As a founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Edmonds has taken up the fight to achieve greater protection for freedom of speech and for whistleblowers. As a naturalized citizen, she is a powerful and outspoken advocate for the rights of all citizens, the rights we now see endangered. 911Truth.org has provided extensive coverage on the Edmonds case through more than a dozen stories and archived items from other sites. See the collection of past articles, below. (nl) About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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911 Whistleblower Moves to Dismiss Judge Walton

www.911Truth.org || April 03, 2006

Lost in last week's hubbub over the media breakthroughs for 9/11 truth was the latest twist in the Sibel Edmonds saga. The FBI whistleblower last Thursday filed a court motion demanding that the federal judge hearing her First Amendment case be recused for deliberately hiding his financial background.

The judge, Reggie Walton, is also currently hearing the perjury case involving I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, former chief of staff to Dick Cheney, on allegations that Libby leaked the name of a CIA operative to the media. Edmonds is seeking to show Judge Walton is in violation of federal law (The Ethics in Government Act) because of his refusal to meet financial disclosure provisions.

A few months after September 11th, the FBI hired Edmonds as a translator for Farsi and Turkish. She says she discovered that documents already translated (and suppressed) prior to 9/11 had contained details of a pending attack on the US with airplanes. In addition, one of her colleagues attempted to recruit her as a spy for a Turkish lobbying group. When she spoke out about these experiences - and other finds suggesting corruption, money laundering and drug deals at the top levels of the US government - she was fired. Attorney General John Ashcroft slapped Edmonds with a gag order under the seldom-used State Secrets Act. In the most bizarre and Orwellian twist, Ashcroft "retroactively classified" many of the statements Edmonds had already made. This included information published in the press prior to the gag order.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Edmonds took up a long court battle for her right to speak out, but ran into Judge Walton, who has upheld the "State Secrets" provision over Edmonds' First Amendment rights. Adding to the general feel of impropriety about the proceedings, Edmonds originally had a different judge assigned to her case at random (as per the usual procedure), only to have the hearings reassigned to Walton's court without explanation. (The original judge, James Robertson, also held a seat on the FISA court, which he later resigned in protest over the NSA wiretapping scandal.)

The Justice Department's inspector general ultimately determined that Edmonds' firing was due "in part" to her whistleblowing activities. But there have been no consequences for those responsible, and her efforts to get the gag order lifted have been frustrated in court. The 9/11 Commission heard Edmonds' story in several hours of closed-door testimony - and, typically, completely omitted it from their report, either to confirm or deny. This prompted Edmonds to write a scathing open letter to the chairman of the commission, and to take her case to the public.

As a founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, Edmonds has taken up the fight to achieve greater protection for freedom of speech and for whistleblowers. As a naturalized citizen, she is a powerful and outspoken advocate for the rights of all citizens, the rights we now see endangered. 911Truth.org has provided extensive coverage on the Edmonds case through more than a dozen stories and archived items from other sites. See the collection of past articles, below. (nl)

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