Too little, too late

The Record's Herb Jackson, formerly of the Asbury Park Press, gives the best rundown on Thursday's 235-181 energy bill vote in the House that would move a little -- not enough -- money from oil subsidies to renewable fuel incentives. Senate gamesmanship on Friday seemed pretty clear it won't get through there unless Big Oil gets its payday, so it's anyone's guess this where it will stand now. I'm not optimistic.

Also will update what whistleblowing FBI translator Sibel Edmonds knows and why it matters to New Jersey.

What a clever girl

Former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds is the most gagged person in U.S. history, and yet, she manages to find a way around it:

"I assumed the enemy was foreign."

"I had taken the oath to protect my new country, against all enemies, and this was my chance to serve my country. I assumed the enemy was foreign. ...

Within a few months, I came across some serious issues. Wrongdoing. Some of those would be considered criminal, within the FBI. Some of those involved security breaches, 911 related coverups, and sabotaged intelligence operations. In one case, due to the pressure of the State Department and Pentagon, the FBI was prevented from criminally investigating certain U.S. officials who were engaged in actions against our national security, having loyalties to other governments."

Among the things she knows is the names of four sitting members of Congress who are being bribed by the Turks. Much, more more at Monosyllabic Fish.

If only we knew what Sibel knows

Monosyllabic Fish puts together some big pieces of the illegal spying/Gonzales puzzle with the help of whistleblowing translater Sibel Edmonds, speaking here:


More Sibel:


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Plamegate and Sibel Edmonds

Lukery at the Wotisitgood4 blog has a fresh post about fired FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, the most legally gagged person in American history. I think Luke is an Aussie who hasn't been afraid to dig and speculate, and Sibel has said he understands and connects the dots better than anyone else about the truths she can't say without being tried for treason under the Bush/Cheney regime.

What we didn't see anyone yesterday ask Valerie Plame under oath -- and maybe this was one of the things on the gag list someone gave our House representatives -- is about exactly when Plame's cover company was outed. Most of us think Robert Novak did it with the second column he published in July 2003 a week after his first one that outed her as a CIA agent who is Joe Wilson's wife.

What educated speculation tells us is that one of the things Sibel heard when translating the pre-9/11 tapes in 2001 is that Marc Grossman, who was in the State Department when Plame was outed in 2003 and is part of AIPAC, outed Brewster Jennings in 2001 to a quasi-criminal Turkish organization dealing in the underground nuclear market that Plame was tracking. Dick Cheney can out Plame, but Sibel can't out the rest of that plot that shut down Plame's cover company two years earlier. Funny. Not very objective.

Go here for a link to a trailer for a new movie about Sibel.