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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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 Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 1:42 am Post subject: Sibel Edmunds - No responses to offer |
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from the US.
Media Silenced?
Imagine how different things might be today if the NY Times had run the wiretapping story before the '04 elections...
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..."From what I understand, from what she has to tell, it has a major difference from the Pentagon Papers in that it deals directly with criminal activity and may involve impeachable offenses," Ellsberg explained. "And I don't necessarily mean the President or the Vice-President, though I wouldn't be surprised if the information reached up that high. But other members of the Executive Branch may be impeached as well. And she says similar about Congress."
...Ellsberg, the former defense analyst and one-time State Department official, knows well the plight of whistleblowers. He himself was prepared to spend his life in prison for the exposure of some 7,000 pages of classified Department of Defense documents, concerning Executive Branch manipulation of facts and outright lies leading the country into an extended war in Vietnam.
Ellsberg seemed hardly surprised that today's American mainstream broadcast media has so far failed to take Edmonds up on her offer, despite the blockbuster nature of her allegations.
As Edmonds has also alluded, Ellsberg pointed to the New York Times, who "sat on the NSA spying story for over a year" when they "could have put it out before the 2004 election, which might have changed the outcome."
"There will be phone calls going out to the media saying 'don't even think of touching it, you will be prosecuted for violating national security,'" he told us.
"I have been receiving calls from the mainstream media all day," Edmonds recounted the day after we ran the story announcing that she was prepared to violate her gag-order to disclose all of the national security-related criminal allegations she has been kept from disclosing for the past five years.
"The media called from Japan and France and Belgium and Germany and Canada and from all over the world," she told The BRAD BLOG.
"But not from here?," we asked incredulously.
"I'm getting contact from all over the world, but not from here. Isn't that disgusting?," she shot back... |
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Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee
Joined: 25 May 2003
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| wasn't she hired after 9-11? |
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Harpeau
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
Location: Coquitlam, BC
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| wasn't she hired after 9-11? |
Yes, but she had to review tapes etc. from before 9-11. I hope that she'll eventually be able to speak her mind. |
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keane
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:43 am Post subject: |
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| Joo Rip Gwa Rhhee wrote: |
| wasn't she hired after 9-11? |
It's not a 9/11 thread. |
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