{"id":1867,"date":"2005-02-27T04:56:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-27T11:56:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2005-02-27T04:56:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-27T11:56:36","slug":"still-trying-to-silence-sibel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/still-trying-to-silence-sibel\/","title":{"rendered":"Still Trying to Silence Sibel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sibel Edmonds, the heroic FBI contract translator &#8211; turned &#8211; whistle blower, despite the Department of Justice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/comments.php?id=P1852_0_1_0\">dropping their attempted application<\/a> of the &#8220;state secrets privilege&#8221; to silence her last week, is now up against the same tactic with a different name.<\/p>\n<p>According to John Files at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/26\/politics\/26whistle.html\"><i>the New York Times<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The government has told a federal appeals court that a suit by an F.B.I. translator who was fired after accusing the bureau of ineptitude should not be allowed to proceed because it would cause &#8216;significant damage to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for the government said in a brief filed with the court on Thursday that the suit could not continue without disclosing privileged and classified information.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This apparently means, &#8220;If we let her tell you what she knows, we might be in trouble.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justacitizen.com\/\">Sibel Edmonds&#8217; Website<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weekendinterviewshow.com\/audio\/edmonds.mp3\">My interview of her (mp3)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sibel Edmonds, the heroic FBI contract translator &#8211; turned &#8211; whistle blower, despite the Department of Justice dropping their attempted application of the &#8220;state secrets privilege&#8221; to silence her last week, is now up against the same tactic with a different name. According to John Files at the New York Times: &#8220;The government has told [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1867"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}