Why the emphasis on whistleblower protection?
Sibel Edmonds, besides being an incredibly brave woman, is an ex-FBI, post-9/11 translator who sought to bring some very strange and incriminating documents to the attention of her bosses, and later key member of Congress. She was stopped in her attempt, and had an arcane but draconian law asserting “state secret privilege” plastered on her, preventing her from saying anything concrete about what she knows. She went to the federal courts to remove the gag order, only to have Judge Reggie Walton — the same judge “randomly” assigned to the Libby case — reject her motion. So we don’t know what were in those documents… yet. Well, then, what’s the Edmonds case all about? Daily Kos blogger, Necons Will Ban Me, had an excellent diary on Edmonds that attracted a lot attention back on 1/6/06: Evidently the American Turkish Council, AIPAC, the Usual Neocon Suspects (Feith/Perle/Wolfowitz/Libby) and specific high-ranking individuals including former Turkish ambassadors Eric Edelman and Marc G
