{"id":2603,"date":"2006-01-06T10:06:17","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:06:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2006-01-06T10:06:17","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T17:06:17","slug":"libby-franklin-the-osp-and-sibel-edmonds-whats-it-all-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/06\/libby-franklin-the-osp-and-sibel-edmonds-whats-it-all-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Libby, Franklin, the OSP and Sibel Edmonds – What’s It All About?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds<\/a>, the woman<\/a> who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented “state’s secrets privilege,” there is good news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lukery, proprietor of the excellent blog wot is it good for?<\/a>, has put in the time and gray matter to piece together what we can learn from what she can say around her gag order. (Which was recently upheld by the Supreme Court without comment.)<\/p>\n

It seems clear at this point that the many scandals of the neoconservatives who lied us into Iraq, as Edmonds told me last August 13<\/a>, are connected together. It seems more and more likely that her half-told portion is the puzzle piece to hold them all together, though many questions indeed remain.<\/p>\n

Lukery’s excellent summary is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Notes from his interview of her here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

More from him on the subject here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Christopher Deliso’s interviews of Sibel are here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His 3 latest articles on all this here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>, my December 17th interview of him on the subject here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sibel’s website<\/a>, the notorious Vanity Fair<\/a> article<\/a>, and the transcript of my most recent interview of her here<\/a>, mp3 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all those who have been trying to keep up with (and make sense of) the story of Sibel Edmonds, the woman who learned terrible things while translating for the FBI, blew the whistle and was promptly fired and gagged with the court invented “state’s secrets privilege,” there is good news. Lukery, proprietor of the […]<\/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-2603","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\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}