'[Sibel] Edmonds is appealing the Bush administration's arcane use of 'state secrets privilege,' invoked last year to throw out her U.S. District Court lawsuit alleging retaliation for telling FBI superiors about shoddy wiretap translations and allegations that wiretap information was passed to the target of an FBI investigation. Given our multiple reports and numerous other interviews, Edmonds heard much more -- but enough to warrant public suppression of criminal evidence by a wholly Republican appeals court panel?...

Criminal evidence in Edmonds' explosive case is apparently getting too close to Washington officials, since the former contract linguist also told us she would not deny that 'once this issue gets to be ... investigated, you will be seeing certain [American] people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will be prosecuted criminally,' revealing the content of the FBI intercepts she heard indicates that recognizable, very high-profile American citizens are linked to the 911 attacks.

Edmonds implied that legislators and even lobbyists were benefiting from laundered narcotics proceeds in an earlier interview with the Baltimore Sun, '... this money travels. And you start trying to go to the root of it and it's getting into somebody's political campaign, and somebody's lobbying. And people don't want to be traced back to this money.'

So the Bush administration's Department of Justice enlisted its taxpayer-funded lawyers to petition a Republican U.S. Appeals Court to suppress Sibel Edmonds' criminal evidence allegations -- linked to a 3,000 death mass murder -- in the name of 'state secrets.'

When we asked how many Americans were named in the intercepts, Edmonds said 'There is direct evidence involving no more than ten American names that I recognized,' further revealing that 'some are heads of government agencies or politicians -- but I don't want to go any further than that,' as we listened in stunned silence.

When asked in 2002 by CBS 60 Minutes co-host Ed Bradley, 'did she seem credible to you? Did her story seem credible?' Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) said 'Absolutely, she's credible. And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story.'

-- tomflocco.com