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She identified herself as a <a href="/wiki/Whistleblower" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistleblower">whistleblower</a> 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. <sup id="cite_ref-forsale_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forsale-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The PEN American Center awarded her the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award in 2006 for her claims.<sup id="cite_ref-pen-sibel-edmonds_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pen-sibel-edmonds-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She published a memoir in March 2012, titled <i>Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, Sibel Edmonds founded and published the <i>Boiling Frogs Post</i>, an online media site that claims to offer nonpartisan investigative journalism.<sup id="cite_ref-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2016 as editor-in-chief Sibel expanded and founded NewsBud independent news media with associates, partnered with BFP.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_family_and_education"><span id="Early_life.2C_family_and_education"></span>Early life, family and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life, family and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The daughter of an <a href="/wiki/Iranian_Azerbaijanis" title="Iranian Azerbaijanis">Iranian Azerbaijani</a> father and <a href="/wiki/Turkish_people" title="Turkish people">Turkish</a> mother,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Edmonds lived in Iran and then Turkey before coming to the United States as a student<sup id="cite_ref-vanity_fair_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vanity_fair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 1988. Fluent in <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijani_language" title="Azerbaijani language">Azerbaijani</a>, <a href="/wiki/Turkish_language" title="Turkish language">Turkish</a>, <a href="/wiki/Persian_language" title="Persian language">Persian</a> and <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-vanity_fair_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vanity_fair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nswbc_staff_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswbc_staff-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Kill_The_Messenger_(2006)_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kill_The_Messenger_(2006)-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Edmonds earned her bachelor's degree in <a href="/wiki/Criminal_justice" title="Criminal justice">criminal justice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Psychology" title="Psychology">psychology</a> from <a href="/wiki/George_Washington_University" title="George Washington University">George Washington University</a><sup id="cite_ref-vanity_fair_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vanity_fair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and her master's in <a href="/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy">public policy</a> and international <a href="/wiki/Commerce" title="Commerce">commerce</a> from <a href="/wiki/George_Mason_University" title="George Mason University">George Mason University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nswbc_staff_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nswbc_staff-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, at age 22, she married Matthew Edmonds, a retail-technology consultant from Virginia.<sup id="cite_ref-vanity_fair_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vanity_fair-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="FBI_employment">FBI employment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: FBI employment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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<sup id="cite_ref-independent2004_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent2004-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> September 13, September 15, or September 20, 2001. Among her main roles was to translate covertly recorded conversations by Turkish diplomatic and political targets.<sup id="cite_ref-forsale_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forsale-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Edmonds filed complaints with the FBI's <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Professional_Responsibility" title="Office of Professional Responsibility">Office of Professional Responsibility</a> and the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice_Office_of_the_Inspector_General" title="United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General">United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General</a>. In response, she claims that managers retaliated<sup id="cite_ref-justa_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-justa-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> against her, and she was fired on March 22, 2002. In June 2002, the <a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> reported that the FBI claimed Edmonds was dismissed because her actions were disruptive and breached security and that she performed poorly at her job.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Edmonds's allegations of impropriety at the FBI later came to the attention of the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary">Senate Judiciary Committee</a>, 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 <a href="/wiki/Patrick_Leahy" title="Patrick Leahy">Patrick Leahy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Grassley" title="Chuck Grassley">Chuck Grassley</a> sending letters, dated June 19, 2002, August 13, 2002, and October 28, 2002 – to Inspector General <a href="/wiki/Glenn_A._Fine" class="mw-redirect" title="Glenn A. Fine">Glenn A. Fine</a>, Attorney General <a href="/wiki/John_Ashcroft" title="John Ashcroft">Ashcroft</a>, and FBI Director <a href="/wiki/Robert_Mueller" title="Robert Mueller">Robert Mueller</a>, 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.<sup id="cite_ref-aclu_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aclu-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-grassley_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-grassley-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-leahy.senate.gov_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-leahy.senate.gov-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-FBI">Post-FBI</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Post-FBI"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In April 2004, Edmonds claimed she had provided information to the panel investigating the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a> in February that year. Although she started work shortly after 9/11 and worked for just over six months, she claimed 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."<sup id="cite_ref-independent2004_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-independent2004-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On the 26th, a deposition of Edmonds was quashed under the state secrets privilege.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 13, 2004, Ashcroft submitted statements to justify the use of the <a href="/wiki/State_secrets_privilege" title="State secrets privilege">state secrets privilege</a> against the planned deposition by Edmonds,<sup id="cite_ref-burnett_ashcroft_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-burnett_ashcroft-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the same day, the FBI retroactively classified as <a href="/wiki/Top_Secret" class="mw-redirect" title="Top Secret">Top Secret</a> all of the material and statements that had been provided to the <a href="/wiki/Senate_Judiciary_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Judiciary Committee">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> in 2002 relating to Edmonds's own lawsuit, as well as the letters that had been sent by the Senators and republished by the <a href="/wiki/Project_on_Government_Oversight" class="mw-redirect" title="Project on Government Oversight">Project on Government Oversight</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-pogo_somf_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-pogo_somf-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-wp1_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wp1-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The reclassification did, however, keep Edmonds from testifying in the class action suit as well as her own whistleblower suit.<sup id="cite_ref-wp3_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wp3-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-wp4_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wp4-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The latter decision was appealed, and Inspector General Glenn A. Fine released a summary of the audit report, claiming "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."<sup id="cite_ref-usdoj_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usdoj-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2004, Edmonds founded the <a href="/wiki/National_Security_Whistleblowers_Coalition" title="National Security Whistleblowers Coalition">National Security Whistleblowers Coalition</a> (NSWBC), which exists to assist national security whistleblowers through advocacy and reform.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2005, Edmonds claimed in Vanity Fair that a price was set for <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Hastert" title="Dennis Hastert">Dennis Hastert</a> to withdraw support for the <a href="/wiki/Armenian_genocide" title="Armenian genocide">Armenian genocide</a> 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."<sup id="cite_ref-vf2005_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vf2005-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-courier_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-courier-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2006, a documentary about Edmonds's case called <i><a href="/wiki/Kill_the_Messenger_(2006_film)" title="Kill the Messenger (2006 film)">Kill the Messenger</a></i> (<i>Une Femme à Abattre</i>) premiered in France.<sup id="cite_ref-kill_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kill-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film discusses the Edmonds case and offers interviews with various involved individuals. </p><p>Edmonds gave testimony in August 2009 and gave information that had twice previously been gagged under state secrets privilege.<sup id="cite_ref-deposition_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-deposition-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-huffdep_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-huffdep-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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: </p> <dl><dd>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.</dd></dl> <p>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.'"<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Classified_Woman"><i>Classified Woman</i></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Classified Woman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, she published an autobiography called <i>Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir</i>. Reviewing the book for <a href="/wiki/The_American_Conservative" title="The American Conservative">The American Conservative</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philip_Giraldi" title="Philip Giraldi">Philip Giraldi</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-ac1_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ac1-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NewsBud">NewsBud</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: NewsBud"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Sibel Edmonds, along with others, formed NewsBud,<sup id="cite_ref-NewsBud_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NewsBud-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> supported by <a href="/wiki/Kickstarter" title="Kickstarter">Kickstarter</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About_Boiling_Frogs_Post-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Sibel D. Edmonds: <i>Classified Woman – The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir</i>. (2012) <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-615-60222-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-615-60222-3">0-615-60222-3</a></li> <li>Sibel D. Edmonds: <i>The Lone Gladio (Volume 1)</i> (2014) <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-692-21329-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-692-21329-5">0-692-21329-5</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/The_28_pages" title="The 28 pages">The 28 pages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Able_Danger" title="Able Danger">Able Danger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Shaffer_(intelligence_officer)" title="Anthony Shaffer (intelligence officer)">Anthony Shaffer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Cyclone" title="Operation Cyclone">Operation Cyclone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transparency_International" title="Transparency International">Transparency International</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptech" title="Ptech">Ptech</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Kelly_(weapons_expert)" title="David Kelly (weapons expert)">David Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Downing_Street_memo" title="Downing Street memo">Downing Street memo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Hilton" title="Stanley Hilton">Stanley Hilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_Turkish_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="American Turkish Council">American Turkish Council</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brewster_Jennings_%26_Associates" title="Brewster Jennings & Associates">Brewster Jennings & Associates</a></li></ul></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sibel_Edmonds&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-forsale-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-forsale_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-forsale_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCalvertLauria2008" class="citation news cs1">Calvert, Jonathan; Lauria, Joe (January 6, 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091950/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/world_news/article78158.ece">"For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets"</a>. <i>The Sunday Times</i>. 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February 1, 2011<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 25,</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+FBI+%22Kamikaze+Pilots%22+Case&rft.pub=Newsbud&rft.date=2011-02-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsbud.com%2F2011%2F02%2F01%2Fthe-fbi-%25e2%2580%259ckamikaze-pilots%25e2%2580%259d-case%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASibel+Edmonds" class="Z3988"></span> This "absolute order" that "we never got any warnings" is consistent with the comment by Senator <a href="/wiki/Bob_Graham" title="Bob Graham">Bob Graham</a>, a member of the <a href="/wiki/Joint_Inquiry_into_Intelligence_Community_Activities_before_and_after_the_Terrorist_Attacks_of_September_11,_2001" title="Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001">Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001</a> that, "the F.B.I. [went] beyond just covering up ... into ... aggressive deception." It is also consistent with the information in "<a href="/wiki/The_28_pages" title="The 28 pages">The 28 pages</a>" 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 <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>. These 28 pages were declassified July 15, 2016. 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