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Alexandra Bruce
January 10, 2014
This second pilot edition of Boiling Frogs Post Roundtable expands on the background information discussed in a short clip by James Corbett which I sent earlier this week.
Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator who gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI’s Washington Field Office in March 2002. She had accused the FBI of deliberately suppressing and endangering national security, which later gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower. Edmonds testified before the 9/11 Commission, but her testimony was excluded from the official 567 page 9/11 Commission Report.
She is the founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) and Editor of her website, BoilingFrogsPost.com, where she has recently raised questions about the handling of the extremely slow release of the Snowden documents, which were given to The Washington Post and the UK Guardian, along with Journalist and Constitutional Lawyer, Glenn Greenwald and filmmaker, Laura Poitras.
The UK Guardian had their laptop, containing these files destroyed by British Intelligence and likely, the others cited above have experienced their own versions of government duress, due to their possession of the Snowden documents. Greenwald, for one had a laptop containing these files stolen from his Rio de Janeiro apartment and his Brazilian husband, David Miranda was detained for some 17 hours at London’s Heathrow airport, en route from Germany to Brazil, where Miranda was interrogated but finally released.
Corbett, along with Sibel Edmonds and Guillermo Jimenez discuss the controversy surrounding the $250 million dollar media venture between Glenn Greenwald and eBay Chairman, Pierre Omidyar. PayPal is a subsidiary of eBay who have vocally supported and materially enabled illegal NSA activities.
They discuss the glacial pace at which the Snowden documents are being released in the name of mutli-million-dollar profits and Edmonds is still waiting for a response to an open letter to Snowden as to whether he condones the manner with which the documents he obtained have been handled and whether or not he is receiving his fair “cut” from these astronomical deals.
For this, Edmonds, a longtime supporter of Greenwald’s crusade against the lapdog, propagandist and criminal mainstream media has found herself savaged by extremely unseemly tweets from Greenwald, and his emailed response to her perfectly reasonable questions were, quote: “Go away, bitch!”
Greenwald’s reactions demonstrate a complete breaking of rank among dissident journalists and whistleblowers – besides demonstrating immense misogyny. Greenwald’s unwarranted and absurd assaults against Edmonds truly beg askance as to his ultimate motivations.
At this juncture, it sure looks, walks and talks like an NSA buy-out of the data dump – probably the most legally prudent option for Greenwald – lest he become another Julian Assange or Chelsea Manning.
The Snowden documents are considered by the US to be stolen Government Property. The US Constitution would argue that this property was, in turn illegally stolen from the People of the US.
As a Constitutional Lawyer, I’m sure Greenwald has studied the situation and become convinced that this illegally-acquired cache is salable. But if this $250 million dollar Omidyar deal actually represents an NSA buy-out and a blockade of the information obtained, on pain of death by a recipient of the Sam Adams Award for integrity and ethics by the intelligence community; if it is a betrayal of Ed Snowden’s intentions and his sacrifice, that will feltch beyond human comprehension. We’re watching and waiting…tapping our little toes, over here, Mr. Greenwald.
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