An article in the Online Journal by Mike Mejia ties former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds’ case to the outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings. The story involves the nuclear black market, which Plame and Brewster Jennings were investigating, and the possible illicit selling of US nuclear technology overseas by members of the Bush administration. In other words, Libby and others may have had a number of reasons to want to destroy Plame and Brewster Jennings beyond the Niger uranium story.
Here’s an excerpt from the article: The outing of Valerie Plame may have severely damaged a CIA operation to monitor a nuclear black market faciliated by the shadowy but well-connected Washington lobby group, the American Turkish Council (ATC). (Those familiar with the Sibel Edmonds case will know the ATC is the very same organization that the former FBI translator heard on wiretaps in connection with various alleged illegal activities, some connected to 9/11.) From Edmonds, Deliso obtained the following admission: “Plame’s undercover job involved the organizations [the FBI had been investigating], the ATC (American-Turkish Council) and the ATA (American-Turkish Association) . . . the Brewster Jennings network was very active in Turkey and with the Turkish community in the U.S. during the late 1990s, 2000, and 2001 . . . in places like Chicago, Boston, and Paterson, N.J.”
The American Turkish Council is also connected to the neocons like Perle and Feith, who are allies of Scooter Libby. Maybe the outing of Plame and Brewster Jennings was also intended to protect criminal activity?
Edmonds may have been silenced by the Supreme Court, but there are other avenues open to investigate this story. For example: Examining the role of former Ambassador to Turkey, recently turned lobbyist, Marc Grossman? Or the roles of John Bolton, Frederick Fleitz, David Wurmser, and another former ambassador to Turkey Eric Edelman?
