Editing Sibel Edmonds

{{Short description|American whistleblower (born 1970)}}
{{Original research|date=December 2020}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2021}}
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 | image       = Sibel edmonds on RT.png
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 | caption     = Edmonds in 2012
 | name        = Sibel Edmonds
 | birth_date  = {{birth year and age|1970}}
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 | nationality = Turkish-American, Iranian-American
 | known_for   = Whistleblower
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'''Sibel Edmonds''' is a former contract [[translator]] for the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI) and the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news website NewsBud.

The FBI hired her as a translator shortly after [[September 11 attacks|9/11]] but fired her after less than seven months.  She identified herself as a [[whistleblower]] and challenged her termination; however, the courts dismissed her lawsuit for wrongful termination because the FBI would need to disclose privileged information.  She accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals, alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security. {{r|forsale}}<ref>{{cite news|title=FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article79024.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304062342/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article79024.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|publisher=The Sunday Times|date=January 20, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Calvert|first1=Jonathan|last2=Lauria|first2=Joe|title=Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article79562.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802000442/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article79562.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 2, 2016|publisher=The Sunday Times|date=January 27, 2008}}</ref> Following her accusations, the US attorney-general imposed a state secrets privilege order on her, which prevents her from revealing more information about the FBI.<ref>{{Cite web|date=March 18, 2008|title=For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets – Times Online|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece|access-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080318084155/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece|archive-date=March 18, 2008}}</ref> The [[PEN America|PEN American Center]] awarded her the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 2006.<ref name="pen-sibel-edmonds">{{cite web |url=https://pen.org/press-release/2006-pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award/ |title=2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award |author=Larry Siems |work=PEN American Center |date=March 29, 2006 |access-date=19 December 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218053452/http://www.pen.org/press-release/2006/03/29/2006-pennewmans-own-first-amendment-award |archive-date=December 18, 2013}}</ref> She published a memoir in March 2012, titled ''Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.classifiedwoman.com/ |title=The Sibel Edmonds Story &#124; A Memoir |publisher=Classified Woman |access-date=May 22, 2013 |archive-date=June 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606142422/http://www.classifiedwoman.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In 2004, Sibel Edmonds founded and published the ''Boiling Frogs Post'', an online media site that states it offers nonpartisan investigative journalism.<ref name="About Boiling Frogs Post">[http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/about-us/ About Boiling Frogs Post]. URL accessed April 20, 2010.</ref> In 2016 as editor-in-chief Sibel expanded and founded NewsBud independent news media with associates, partnered with BFP.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Edmonds|first1=Sibel|title=About NewsBud|url=http://www.newsbud.com/about-us/|website=NewsBud|date=October 18, 2009|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=November 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130042316/http://www.newsbud.com/about-us/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Early life, family and education ==
The daughter of an [[Iranian Azerbaijanis|Iranian Azerbaijani]] father and [[Turkish people|Turkish]] mother,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kkc.com/our-firm/meet-the-whistleblowers/sibel-edmonds/|title=Sibel Edmonds|work=KKC}}</ref> Edmonds lived in Iran and then Turkey before coming to the United States as a student<ref name="vanity_fair">{{Cite news|url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9774.htm|title=An Inconvenient Patriot|last=Rose|first=David|magazine=Vanity Fair|date=August 15, 2005|access-date=December 9, 2016|archive-date=May 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130503080527/http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9774.htm|url-status=dead}} "But as a naturalized Turkish-American, she saw the job as her patriotic duty."</ref> in 1988. Fluent in [[Azerbaijani language|Azerbaijani]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]], [[Persian language|Persian]] and [[English language|English]],<ref name="vanity_fair" /><ref name="nswbc_staff">{{cite web|url=http://www.nswbc.org/nswbc_staff.htm|title=National Security Whistleblowers Coalition – About Us|access-date=October 15, 2008}}</ref><ref name="Kill The Messenger (2006)">{{citation |title=Kill The Messenger (2006) documentary |publisher=CANAL+ / Zadig Productions|date=2006 |quote=from 4m47s to 4m55s}}</ref> Edmonds earned her bachelor's degree in [[criminal justice]] and [[psychology]] from [[George Washington University]]<ref name="vanity_fair" /> and her master's in [[public policy]] and international [[commerce]] from [[George Mason University]].<ref name="nswbc_staff" />

In 1992, at age 22, she married Matthew Edmonds, a retail-technology consultant from Virginia.<ref name="vanity_fair" />

== FBI employment ==
Edmonds worked for the FBI for six months from late September 2001 until March 2002. Edmonds was hired, as a contractor, to work as an interpreter in the translations unit of the FBI in Washington on{{r|independent2004}} September 13, September 15, or September 20, 2001. Among her main roles was to translate covertly recorded conversations by Turkish diplomatic and political targets.{{r|forsale}}

Edmonds filed complaints with the FBI's [[Office of Professional Responsibility]] and the [[United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General]]. In response, she said that managers retaliated{{r|justa}} against her, and she was fired on March 22, 2002. In June 2002, the [[Associated Press]] and ''[[The Washington Post|Washington Post]]'' wrote that the FBI said Edmonds was dismissed because her actions were disruptive and breached security and that she performed poorly at her job.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-70274620.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516193258/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P1-70274620.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 16, 2011|title=FBI Told to Give Papers to Whistleblower|work=highbeam.com}}</ref> A 2005 internal investigation by the FBI Office of the Inspector General found that many of Edmonds's allegations of misconduct "had some basis in fact" and that "her allegations were at least a contributing factor in the FBI's decision to terminate her services," but were unable to substantiate all of her allegations, nor did they make a statement regarding her dismissal being improper.<ref>{{cite web|title=A Review of the FBI's Actions in Connection With Allegations Raised By Contract Linguist Sibel Edmonds|url=https://fas.org/irp/agency/doj/oig/sedmonds.html|publisher=U.S. Department of Justice – Office of the Inspector General}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=December 2024}}

Edmonds's allegations of impropriety at the FBI later came to the attention of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]], which held unclassified hearings on the matter on June 17, 2002, and July 9, 2002. During the hearings, the FBI provided various unclassified documents and statements relating to the case, which led to Senators [[Patrick Leahy]] and [[Chuck Grassley]] sending letters, dated June 19, 2002, August 13, 2002, and October 28, 2002 – to Inspector General [[Glenn A. Fine]], Attorney General [[John Ashcroft|Ashcroft]], and FBI Director [[Robert Mueller]], respectively – asking for explanations and calling for an independent audit of the FBI's translation unit. These documents were published on the Senators' web sites.{{r|aclu}}{{r|grassley}}{{r|"leahy.senate.gov"}}

== Post-FBI ==

In April 2004, Edmonds stated she had provided information to the panel investigating the [[September 11 attacks]] in February that year. Although she started work shortly after 9/11 and worked for just over six months, she said knowledge of information circulating within the FBI during spring and summer of 2001. The session was closed and over three hours long, she said. Reportedly, she told the commission that the FBI knew of a planned attack months away and the terrorists were in place. She stated, "There was general information about the time-frame, about methods to be used but not specifically about how they would be used and about people being in place and who was ordering these sorts of terror attacks. There were other cities that were mentioned. Major cities with skyscrapers."{{r|independent2004}} On the 26th, a deposition of Edmonds was quashed under the state secrets privilege.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Strohm |first1=Chris |title=Quashed Testimony |url=http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/043004lb.htm |publisher=Government Executive |date=April 30, 2004 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040803120226/http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0404/043004lb.htm |archive-date=August 3, 2004}}</ref>

On May 13, 2004, Ashcroft submitted statements to justify the use of the [[state secrets privilege]] against the planned deposition by Edmonds,<ref name=burnett_ashcroft /> and the same day, the FBI retroactively classified as [[Top Secret]] all of the material and statements that had been provided to the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] in 2002 relating to Edmonds's own lawsuit, as well as the letters that had been sent by the Senators and republished by the [[Project on Government Oversight]].<ref name=pogo_somf>{{cite web|url=http://www.pogo.org/about/press-room/releases/2004/gs-oc-20040623.html|title=POGO v. John Ashcroft|date=June 23, 2004 }}</ref>

On June 23, 2004, the retroactive reclassification was challenged in a suit filed by the Project on Government Oversight, citing fear that the group might be retroactively punished for having published the letters on its website. The Justice Department tried to get the suit dismissed, and the Justice Department explicitly approved their release to the Project on Government Oversight.{{r|wp1}} The reclassification did, however, keep Edmonds from testifying in the class action suit as well as her own whistleblower suit.{{r|wp3}}{{r|wp4}} The latter decision was appealed, and Inspector General Glenn A. Fine released a summary of the audit report, stating "that many of her allegations were supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough, and that her allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision to terminate her services. Rather than investigate Edmonds's allegations vigorously and thoroughly, the FBI concluded that she was a disruption and terminated her contract."{{r|usdoj}}

In August 2004, Edmonds founded the [[National Security Whistleblowers Coalition]] (NSWBC), which exists to assist national security whistleblowers through advocacy and reform.<ref>[http://www.nswbc.org/purpose.htm National Security Whistleblowers Coalition] purpose message. URL accessed April 20, 2010.</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Edmonds|first1=Sibel|title=Newsbud's Warning on the Fake News Bucket List – Watch out for the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing|url=http://www.newsbud.com/2016/11/30/newsbuds-warning-on-the-fake-news-bucket-list-watch-out-for-the-wolves-in-sheeps-clothing/|website=NewsBud|date=December 2016|access-date=December 1, 2016|archive-date=December 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201213139/http://www.newsbud.com/2016/11/30/newsbuds-warning-on-the-fake-news-bucket-list-watch-out-for-the-wolves-in-sheeps-clothing/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Edmonds|first1=Sibel|title=Newsbud's Warning on the Fake News Bucket List – Watch out for the Wolves in Sheep's Clothing|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73ajATm_NE |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211213/O73ajATm_NE |archive-date=December 13, 2021 |url-status=live|website=YouTube|date=November 30, 2016 |publisher=NewsBud|access-date=December 1, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> 

In September 2005, Edmonds said in ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' that a price was set for [[Dennis Hastert]] to withdraw support for the [[Armenian genocide]] resolution. That the "... Turkish Consulate ... claimed in one recording that the price for Hastert to withdraw the resolution would have been at least $500,000."{{r|vf2005}}{{r|courier}}

In September 2006, a documentary about Edmonds's case called ''[[Kill the Messenger (2006 film)|Kill the Messenger]]'' (''Une Femme à Abattre'') premiered in France.{{r|"kill"}} The film discusses the Edmonds case and offers interviews with various involved individuals.

Edmonds gave testimony in August 2009 and gave information that had twice previously been gagged under state secrets privilege.{{r|deposition}}{{r|huffdep}}

On February 1, 2011, Edmonds published a story on her own website, adding details of events she described as taking place in April 2001. The account is of another translator's description of meetings with an Iranian informant months before 9/11, and FBI agents' reaction to it:

:Bin Laden's group is planning a massive terrorist attack in the United States. The order has been issued. They are targeting major cities, big metropolitan cities; they think four or five cities; New York City, Chicago, Washington DC, and San Francisco; possibly Los Angeles or Las Vegas. They will use airplanes to carry out the attacks. They said that some of the individuals involved in carrying this out are already in the United States. They are here in the U.S., living among us, and I believe some in US government already know about all of this.

Edmonds said that two agents with whom this other translator had worked reported this information to a
"Special Agent in Charge (SAC)" months before the attack.  After the attack, one of them told their translator that the SAC "called us into his office and gave us an order; an absolute order [that] we never got any warnings. Those conversations never existed; it never happened; period. He said this is very sensitive…and that no one should ever mention a word about this case; period.'"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newsbud.com/2011/02/01/the-fbi-%e2%80%9ckamikaze-pilots%e2%80%9d-case/ |title= The FBI "Kamikaze Pilots" Case |work= Newsbud |date=February 1, 2011 |access-date=December 25, 2020}}  This "absolute order" that "we never got any warnings" is consistent with the comment by Senator [[Bob Graham]], a member of the [[Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001]] that, "the F.B.I. [went] beyond just covering up ... into ... aggressive deception."  It is also consistent with the information in "[[The 28 pages]]" redacted from the December 2002 report of that Joint Inquiry, which documented FBI awareness of multiple incidents from at least as early as 1999 indicating preparations for attack(s) something like what actually happened in the [[September 11 attacks]].  These 28 pages were declassified July 15, 2016.  See also, {{cite Q|Q65002265}}<!-- Florida Ex-Senator Pursues Claims of Saudi Ties to Sept. 11 Attacks -->.</ref>

== ''Classified Woman'' ==
In 2012, she published an autobiography called ''Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir''. Reviewing the book for ''[[The American Conservative]]'', [[Philip Giraldi]] said that some details of the book could be challenged due to passage of time. However, he felt the central thesis of government incompetence and corruption was correct.{{r|ac1}}

== NewsBud ==
Sibel Edmonds, along with others, formed NewsBud,<ref name="NewsBud">{{cite web|title=NewsBud – Where Media Integrity Matters|url=http://www.newsbud.com/about-us/|website=NewsBud|date=October 18, 2009|access-date=November 29, 2016|archive-date=November 30, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161130042316/http://www.newsbud.com/about-us/|url-status=dead}}</ref> supported by [[Kickstarter]] donations. Sibel Edmonds's primarily solo Boiling Frogs Post featuring articles and videos is being merged and absorbed into NewsBud – so BFP content is becoming NewsBud content and NewsBud content occasionally appears as a BFP heading or website.<ref name="About Boiling Frogs Post" />

== Bibliography ==
* Sibel D. Edmonds: ''Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir''. (2012) {{ISBN|0-615-60222-3}}
* Sibel D. Edmonds: ''The Lone Gladio (Volume 1)'' (2014) {{ISBN|0-692-21329-5}}

== See also ==
{{columns-list|
*[[The 28 pages]]
*[[Able Danger]]
*[[Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer)|Anthony Shaffer]]
*[[Operation Cyclone]]
*[[Transparency International]]
*[[Ptech]]
*[[David Kelly (weapons expert)|David Kelly]]
*[[Downing Street memo]]
*[[Stanley Hilton]]
*[[American Turkish Council]]
*[[Brewster Jennings & Associates]]
}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|refs=

<ref name=ac1>{{cite web|title=Sibel Edmonds's Secrets|date=November 23, 2012 |url=http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/sibel-edmondss-secrets/|publisher=American Conservative|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=burnett_ashcroft>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/sgp/jud/edmonds051404.pdf|title=Statement of John Ashcroft filed in Burnett v. Al Baraka Investment & Dev. Corp.|date=May 13, 2004 |access-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name=courier>{{cite web|title=Hastert Should also be Investigated On Turkish Bribery Accusations|date=June 2, 2015 |url=http://www.thecaliforniacourier.com/hastert-should-also-be-investigated-on-turkish-bribery-accusations/|publisher=The Californian Courier|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=deposition>{{cite web|title=BEFORE THE OHIO ELECTIONS COMMISSION DEPOSITION|url=http://www.bradblog.com/Docs/SibelEdmondsDeposition_Transcript_080809.pdf|publisher=bradblog.com|access-date=June 12, 2015}}&nbsp; [http://ariwatch.com/Links/SibelEdmondsDeposition2009.htm HTML version].</ref>

<ref name=huffdep>{{cite web|title=Formerly-'Gagged' FBI Whistleblower Details Congressional Blackmail, Bribery, Espionage, Corruption in Remarkable Videotaped Deposition|date=September 27, 2009|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/formerly-gagged-fbi-whist_b_269787.html|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=vf2005>{{cite web|title=An Inconvenient Patriot|date=October 2005|url=http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2005/09/edmonds200509|publisher=Vanity Fair|access-date=June 12, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=independent2004>{{cite web|last1=BUNCOMBE|first1=ANDREW|title='I saw papers that show US knew al-Qa'ida would attack cities with aeroplanes'|date=April 2004|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-saw-papers-that-show-us-knew-al-qaida-would-attack-cities-with-aeroplanes-558612.html|publisher=Independent|access-date=May 15, 2015}}</ref>

<ref name=aclu>{{cite web|url=https://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/18815prs20050112.html|publisher=ACLU|title=Government is Abusing "States Secrets Privilege" to Cover Up National Security Blunders, ACLU Says|date=January 12, 2005 |access-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name=grassley>{{cite web|url=http://grassley.senate.gov/releases/2002/p02r10-28.htm|archive-date=October 15, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061015012851/http://grassley.senate.gov/releases/2002/p02r10-28.htm|access-date=August 16, 2009|date=October 28, 2002|title=Grassley Seeks Overhaul of FBI's Translation Unit}}</ref>

<ref name="leahy.senate.gov">{{cite web|url=http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200208/081302.html|archive-date=November 20, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021120112002/http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200208/081302.html|access-date=August 16, 2009 |date=August 13, 2002 |title=August 13, 2002 letter from Senators Leahy & Grassley to Attorney General John Ashcroft}}</ref>

<ref name=justa>[http://www.justacitizen.com/articles_documents/Edmonds.ReplyBrief.pdf US Court of Appeals] Reply Brief of the Plaintiff-Appellant, SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT <br />"provides direct support for Ms. Edmonds allegation that the FBI fired her for disclosing serious security breaches within the agency"</ref>

<ref name=forsale>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article78158.ece|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091950/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article78158.ece|url-status=dead|archive-date=March 4, 2016|title=For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets|last1=Calvert|first1=Jonathan|last2=Lauria|first2=Joe|newspaper=The Sunday Times|date=January 6, 2008 | location=London | access-date=May 23, 2010}}</ref>

<ref name=usdoj>{{cite web
 | url=http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0501/final.pdf
 | title=A Review of the FBI's Actions in Connection With Allegations Raised By Contract Linguist Sibel Edmonds, Special Report, January 2005 (Unclassified Summary)
 | publisher=Office of the Inspector General, Office of Oversight and Review
 |date=July 2004
 | access-date=June 19, 2007
| pages=10–11, 31
 | quote=We found that many of Edmonds's core allegations relating to the co-worker were supported by either documentary evidence or witnesses other than Edmonds. … With respect to an allegation that focused on the co-worker's performance, which Edmonds believed to be an indication of a security problem, the evidence clearly corroborated Edmonds's allegations. … With regard to some of Edmonds's allegations, the OIG did not find evidence to support her allegation or the inferences that she drew from certain facts. However, Edmonds's assertions regarding the co-worker, when viewed as a whole, raised substantial questions and were supported by various pieces of evidence. … Rather than investigate Edmonds's allegations vigorously and thoroughly, the FBI concluded that she was a disruption and terminated her contract. We concluded that the FBI could not show, by clear and convincing evidence, that it would have terminated Edmonds's services absent her disclosures. … We believe that many of her allegations were supported, that the FBI did not take them seriously enough, and that her allegations were, in fact, the most significant factor in the FBI's decision to terminate her services.
}} [http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0501/index.htm HTML version] also available.</ref>

<ref name="kill">{{cite web
| title =Kill The Messenger Une Femme à Abattre
| work =justacitizen.com
| url =http://www.justacitizen.com/KillTheMessenger.html
| access-date=September 5, 2006
}}</ref>

<ref name=wp1>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45322-2005Feb22.html | newspaper=The Washington Post | title=Access to Memos Is Affirmed | date=February 23, 2005 | access-date=May 23, 2010 | first=R. Jeffrey | last=Smith}}</ref>

<ref name=wp3>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/07/06/fbi.translator/|title=FBI translator suit dismissed over security issues|date=July 6, 2004 |publisher=CNN|access-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>

<ref name=wp4>{{cite news|url=https://www.foxnews.com/story/fbi-whistleblower-suit-thrown-out|title=FBI Whistleblower Suit Thrown Out|date=July 6, 2004|publisher=FOX News|access-date=August 16, 2009}}</ref>

}}

== External links ==
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* U.S. Department of Justice. Office of the Inspector General. Audit Division. [http://www.usdoj.gov/oig/reports/FBI/a0533/final.pdf  ''Federal Bureau of Investigation's Foreign Language Translation Program Follow-up'']. Audit Report 05-33 July 2005.
* [[American Civil Liberties Union]] (ACLU). [https://www.aclu.org/national-security/sibel-edmonds-patriot-silenced-unjustly-fired-fighting-back-help-keep-america-safe "Sibel Edmonds: A Patriot Silenced, Unjustly Fired but Fighting Back to Help Keep America Safe"].

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