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Sunday, August 9, 2009
August 10, 2009 — SPECIAL REPORT.
"The Congresswoman and the Turkish Lobby sexual blackmail ring" – Wayne Madsen
The following is an updated special report by Wayne Madsen, published
here with his permission, on the deposition given by Sibel Edmonds in
Washington D.C. yesterday (August 8, 2009). His original story follows
this update.
[WMR is publishing its 10 August issue a day earlier because of the
breaking nature over the weekend of the story involving the American
Turkish Council blackmail of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, a member of the
House Select Committee on Intelligence].
WMR previously reported that Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a
close ally of President Barack Obama and his chief of staff, former
Representative Rahm Emanuel, who, like Schakowsky, represented a
Chicago district, was sexually blackmailed by a lesbian prostitute who
worked for the American Turkish Council (ATC).
The ATC and its affiliated Turkish government lobbying organizations
were cited by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds in her deposition in
an Ohio Election Commission complaint filed by Representative Jean
Schmidt (R-OH) against her 2008 opponent, David Krikorian, over
statements by Krikorian that Schmidt received financial support from
the Turkish lobby in the United States. Edmonds was subpoenaed for a
deposition in the case in support of Krikorian’s allegations that the
Turkish Lobby has wielded tremendous influence over U.S. policymakers
like Schmidt in Congress. After raising objections to Edmonds’s
testimony, pursuant to a state secret gag order imposed by
then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, neither the Justice Department
nor the FBI moved to block Edmonds’s statements at her deposition on
August 8 in Washington, DC.
WMR has received additional confirmation from a high-level
Congressional source that Schakowsky regularly engaged in a lesbian
sexual tryst at a Washington DC townhouse with a female employee of
the ATC. WMR previously reported that law enforcement sources told us
that the tryst location was bugged by a Turkish surveillance team that
recorded the encounters. The recordings were later used to blackmail
Schakowsky into backing away from supporting Armenian genocide
resolution initiatives in the House. The surveillance operation was so
complex, a second surveillance team monitored the primary team to
ensure the bugging devices were properly installed before what the FBI
called the "hooking process" commenced.
WMR has obtained from a law enforcement source the first name of the
ATC employee but we are withholding it from release to protect the
privacy of someone who may have been forced into the prostitution
situation by Turkish intelligence officers.
WMR has been informed that another Democratic member of the House was
contacted in 2006 by a controversial web journalist who ostensibly
represents the "progressive" community and who is a competitor of
WMR. The journalist inquired as to whether the member had heard
anything about Schakowsky having a lesbian affair with a possible
foreign intelligence operative. The member replied no but would ask
Schakowsky in private about it during their next meeting. The member
met with Schakowsky in the Chicago Democrat’s House office and stated:
"Jan, you know sometimes that in our position we are often put into
the position of doing things that we normally would not do."
Upon hearing that, Schakowsky appeared to understand what was being
intimated and she threw her head back and became very
upset. Schakowsky then replied that she did not care about the
situation because she was "getting in good with the leadership." At
the time, Dennis Hastert, who was also alleged to have received bribes
from the Turkish Lobby, was Speaker of the House.
The latest information received by WMR appears to indicate that
Hastert was well aware of the sexual blackmail by Turkish intelligence
agents being used against Schakowsky and that he approved of it.
The House member who was contacted by the journalist later told the
journalist that Schakowsky had been contacted and that "she seemed to
understand the issue and was quite upset about it," adding she "tried
to get in with the leadership." The journalist, who is supportive of
Israeli policies, never revealed Schakowsky’s name but appeared to be
involved in a fishing expedition to see what other members of the
House knew about Schakowsky’s situation at the time.
The member was appalled at Schakowsky’s explanation because the member
considered her to be a "soul mate" on issues ranging from opposition
to the Iraq war — Schakowsky had opposed the Iraq War Resolution —
to private military contractors and U.S. Israeli policy. Schakowsky
was a founding member of the Out-of-Iraq Caucus.
The member stated that after the encounter over the "lesbian" issue,
Schakowsky
"went quiet" on all her signature issues, including her vocal
opposition to the role of private military contractors, adding that
she became very hawkish in support of Israel.
The member felt that Schakowsky was "set up" by the Turkish Lobby,
working in concert with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), to "control her." The member also said that Schakowsky
noticeably "backed off" many issues, including the role of private
military companies.
In January 2007, after the Democrats captured the House, Speaker Nancy
Pelosi appointed Schakowsky to be a member of the House Select
Committee on Intelligence. Currently, Schakowsky is chair of the House
Select Committee on Intelligence’s Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations — which puts her in a conflict-of-interest in
investigating Turkish and related Israeli intelligence penetration of
the FBI and State Department, as stated under oath by Edmonds, and the
paying of bribes by Turkish government interests to current and former
members of Congress.
WMR has also learned from congressional sources that Illinois Governor
Rod Blagojevich was aware of Schakowsky’s "problems" and that he
resisted pressure from Obama and Emanuel to appoint Schakowsky to
Obama’s vacant Senate seat. When Blagojevich signaled he was going to
appoint someone other than Schakowsky to the seat, the joint Israeli
and Turkish lobbies, in addition to Emanuel, arranged for
U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald to receive a
green light to arrest Blagojevich even before any federal corruption
indictments were handed down by a grand jury. Blagojevich was later
impeached by the Illinois House and removed from office by the state
senate. An indictment on multiple counts was later handed down by a
federal grand jury.
WMR has previously reported that Fitzgerald dragged his feet on the
investigation of the leak by the Bush White House of the covert
identities of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster
Jennings & Associates cover firm. Fitzgerald, WMR is told, was trying
to limit damaging exposure to the nuclear smuggling operation that
involved the Turkish and Israeli Lobbies and Turkish MIT and Israeli
Mossad intelligence operations. Mrs. Wilson and her team were
apparently narrowing in on the Turks and Israelis in nuclear smuggling
around the world. The key U.S. government players in outing Brewster
Jennings were named by Edmonds in her deposition.
August 10, 2009 — SPECIAL REPORT. The Congresswoman and the Turkish
Lobby sexual blackmail ring – Wayne Madsen Report (9 August 2009)
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Original Story Published on WMR on 08/09/09:
August 8-9, 2009 — BREAKING NEWS. SPECIAL REPORT. Turkish government
blackmailed sitting member of House of Representatives
Ohio Election Commission officials and lawyers representing Ohio
Democratic House of Representatives candidate David Krikorian and
incumbent Ohio Republican Representative Jean Schmidt heard testimony
Saturday morning and afternoon from former FBI Turkish and Farsi
translator Sibel Edmonds in a case brought against Krikorian by
incumbent Republican Representative Jean Schmidt. Schmidt alleges in
her complaint to the commission that Krikorian made "false statements"
in his 2008 independent race against Schmidt. The commission
subpoenaed Edmonds in the case, Schmidt v. Krikorian and the
deposition was held at the offices of the National Whistleblowers
Legal Defense and Education Fund in Georgetown, Washington, DC.
According to sources attending the deposition, Edmonds testified that
while she was working as a translator for the FBI she was aware of
bribes being made by the Turkish government to elected and former
members of Congress, as well as senior officials of the executive
branch, including the Department of State.
The Eric Holder Justice Department attempted to block Edmonds’s
testimony and said it considered the subpoenaed testimony by the Ohio
Election Commission to be void since it was conducted in the District
of Columbia and not Ohio. However, no Justice Department or FBI
representatives attended the deposition by Edmonds as had been
previously expected. Edmonds has been blocked from revealing the
nature of the Turkish espionage and bribery ring by a State Secret gag
order that was imposed by Attorney General John Ashcroft. There is
uncertainty as to whether the Holder Justice Department will block
release of Edmonds’s testimony transcript and video.
After Edmonds was fired from her FBI job after she complained to her
superiors about Turkish intelligence infiltration of the translation
branch of the bureau, she was exonerated in a report by the FBI’s
Inspector General. Her allegations were also supported by senior
members of the U.S. Senate.
Edmonds’s testimony under oath revealed that the American Turkish
Council (ATC), which has been cited by a number of informed observers
as a sister organization of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC), paid bribes to a number of members of the House of
Representatives in return for opposing the Armenian genocide
resolution as well as providing other legislative assistance to
Turkish special interests. Other Turkish organization in the United
States named in the bribery scandal is the Assembly of Turkish
American Assoiactions (ATAA).
WMR has learned that attorneys for Schmidt objected to most of
Edmonds’s statements.
Named as recipients of Turkish government bribes are, in addition to
Schmidt, former House Speakers Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Dick Gephardt
(D-MO), and brief House Speaker Robert Livingston (R-LA), as well as
Representative Dan Burton (R-IN) and former Representative Stephen
Solarz (D-NY). Also named are Brent Scowcroft, former National
Security Adviser under George H. W. Bush and Gerald Ford and former
George W. Bush State Department Political Undersecretary Marc
Grossman.
Edmonds’s testimony also dealt with the involvement of the Rand
Corporation with the Turkish espionage and bribery operations in the
United States. Edmonds’s testimony also dealt with Turkish and Israeli
joint operations to engage in smuggling nuclear technology from the
United States. In particular, the Turkish espionage and
influence-peddling ring was heavily involved in the Bush White House
"outing" the covert identities of CIA counterproliferation officer
Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates
non-official CIA cover firm. WMR has learned from another informed
source that the nuclear smuggling operations also involved Israel PhD
students at American universities and research firms.
The Turkish operations also involved the U.S. corporate media, which
was pressured by the Turkish organizations not to cover the Armenian
genocide issue.
Krikorian, in a statement during a break in the deposition, said that
based on what he heard, such criminality "should not be tolerated in
the land of the free and home of the brave," adding that what he heard
constitutes "high crimes against the U.S. government."
Perhaps the most explosive part of the deposition involved the Turkish
government being engaged in a sexual blackmail operation against a
sitting member of the House of Representative. In what the FBI termed
a "hooking process," an ATC female operative enticed a female member
of the House into a lesbian sexual encounter at a Washington, DC
townhouse. A Turkish intelligence surveillance team had placed
surveillance bugs throughout the townhouse, including the bedroom and
captured the lesbian tryst on tape, according to Edmonds’s
testimony. To ensure the surveillance team successfully completed its
technical surveillance operation, another Turkish operational team was
present outside the townhouse to make sure the surveillance team
carried out its task.
After the surveillance recordings were made known to the House member,
she changed her support for the Armenian genocide resolution and
announced her opposition to it.
The identity of the House member in question was not revealed during
the deposition by Edmonds. However, WMR has learned from another
informed source that it is Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), a
strong supporter of AIPAC and Israel and a close political ally of
President Obama and his chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
The first sexual encounter between Schakowsky and the Turkish lesbian
prostitute reportedly occurred at a vulnerable time for Schakowsky,
just after her mother’s death. The first sexual encounter was followed
by numerous others, according to U.S. law enforcement sources.
To her credit, Schakowsky has been a vocal opponent of private
military contractors and the lack of government oversight of their
activities, especially in Latin American and Iraq.
Informed Ohio political sources report that Schmidt’s complaint
against Krikorian has resulted in unforeseen "blow-back" with the
Edmonds testimony and that Schmidt is under significant pressure to
drop her complaint against Krikorian lest more damaging information is
revealed about members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
Schakowsky is a Chief Democratic Deputy Whip in the House and a member
of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She is
married with grown children and was mentioned as a possible
replacement to fill Obama’s Illinois Senate seat. She has also been
mentioned as a possible Senate candidate in 2010 to replace tainted
Senator Roland Burris.
The revelations about Schakowsky will not come as good news to
Democrats in Illinois, already buffeted by scandals involving indicted
and impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich and ethics issues involving
Burris, Obama’s replacement in the Senate. However, the Turkish
bribery scandal is bipartisan with Hastert also implicated in bribe
taking.
August 8-9, 2009 — BREAKING NEWS. SPECIAL REPORT. Turkish government
blackmailed sitting member of House of Representatives – Wayne Madsen
Report (9 August 2009)
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