nuclear black market element in the case of former FBI translator
Sibel Edmonds this year, and we are expecting more fallout in the
near future as new evidence and witnesses come forward.
In the meantime, another important angle to Edmonds' case has opened
up. Earlier this week, the New York Post ran a Page 6 piece, ODD FILM
BY HILLARY BACKER, which highlights the close relationship between
Hillary Clinton and Chicago-based Turkish businessman Mehmet Celebi.
Celebi, "one of the national leaders of the Turkish-American
community in the US," is a key fundraiser for Clinton, and is one of
Clinton's Chicago delegates to the 2008 Democratic National
Convention. Celebi was also heavily involved in the controversial
2006 movie "Valley of the Wolves: Iraq" which has been widely
regarded as "anti-Semitic, anti-American, conspiratorial agitprop."
Mehmet Celebi is also a key figure in the Sibel Edmonds case - he is
heavily involved in the narcotics trade in the US and the corruption
and bribery of high-level US officials.
According to Celebi's bio:
He has been serving as the President of the Turkish-American Cultural
Alliance (TACA) since 2000, and as Member of the Board/Vice-President
of the Assembly of Turkish-American Associations (ATAA), a
Washington, D.C. based umbrella organization representing 57
organizations.
The Chicago-based Turkish-American Cultural Alliance (TACA) and the
Assembly of Turkish-American Associations (ATAA) both figure
prominently in Sibel Edmonds' case. Both are reported to be front
groups for criminal activity involving illegal weapons sales,
narcotics trafficking, and the bribery and corruption of high level
US officials.
Mehmet Celebi first came to my attention in my first interview with
Sibel in January 2006. My notes from that interview read:
"Sibel mentioned the mafia nature of the Turkish business
establishment - in particular she mentioned Celebi as one of the key
players - apparently they are involved in an arms trading cartel, and
they ship narcotics in the cargo of their planes as they zoom around.
One of the Celebi family members (Mehmet Celebi) is chairman of the
Turkish American Cultural Association (TACA) in Illinois. (Sibel has
often pointed to both Chicago, and also to 'cultural exchanges')."
TACA and the ATAA were both targets of an FBI counter-intelligence
operation investigating the corruption and bribery of high-level US
officials from 1997 onward, including the period when Celebi had high
level positions at these organizations.
According to the 2005 investigative piece in Vanity Fair into Sibel's
case:
Vanity Fair has established that around ... December 2001, Joel
Robertz, an F.B.I. special agent in Chicago, contacted Sibel and
asked her to review some wiretaps. Some were several years old,
others more recent; all had been generated by a counter-intelligence
that had its start in 1997. "It began in D.C.," says an F.B.I.
counter-intelligence official who is familiar with the case file. "It
became apparent that Chicago was actually the center of what was
going on."
Its subject was explosive; what sounded like attempts to bribe
elected members of Congress, both Democrat and Republican. "There was
pressure within the bureau for a special prosecutor to be appointed
and take the case on," the official says. Instead, his colleagues
were told to alter the thrust of their investigation – away from
elected politicians and toward appointed officials. "This is the
reason why Ashcroft reacted to Sibel in such an extreme fashion," he
says "It was to keep this from coming out."
In her secure testimony, Edmonds disclosed some of what she recalled
hearing. In all, says a source who was present, she managed to listen
to more than 40 of the Chicago recordings supplied by Robertz. Many
involved an F.B.I. target at the city's large Turkish Consulate, as
well as members of the American-Turkish Consulate, as well as members
of the American-Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American
Associates (ATAA).
Some of the calls reportedly contained what sounded like references
to large scale drug shipments and other crimes. To a person who knew
nothing about their context, the details were confusing and it wasn't
always clear what might be significant. One name, however, apparently
stood out – a man the Turkish callers often referred to by the
nickname "Denny boy." It was the Republican congressman from Illinois
and Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert."
Hastert is from Chicago, of course, but he wasn't the only
congressmen who was bribed by these groups - others who were
identified in Sibel's Rogues Gallery are Roy Blunt, Tom Lantos, Dan
Burton, Robert Livingston and Steven Solarz.
The Vanity Fair article identifies a number of different mechanisms
for bribing these Congressmen, and the bribes appear to come from
three separate, yet overlapping, groups. In an article in 2006, I
attempted to categorize these groups:
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_luke_ryl_080213_key_clinton_ba
cker_g.htm
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