Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a former contract translator for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news website NewsBud.
18 Facts About Sibel Edmonds
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Sibel Edmonds identified herself as a whistleblower and challenged her termination; however, the courts dismissed her lawsuit for wrongful termination because the FBI would need to disclose privileged information.
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Sibel Edmonds 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.
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In 2004, Sibel Edmonds founded and published the Boiling Frogs Post, an online media site that claims to offer nonpartisan investigative journalism.
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In 2016 as editor-in-chief Sibel expanded and founded NewsBud independent news media with associates, partnered with BFP.
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The daughter of an Iranian Azerbaijani father and Turkish mother, Sibel Edmonds lived in Iran and then Turkey before coming to the United States as a student in 1988.
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Fluent in Azerbaijani, Turkish, Persian and English, Sibel Edmonds earned her bachelor's degree in criminal justice and psychology from George Washington University and her master's in public policy and international commerce from George Mason University.
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Sibel Edmonds worked for the FBI for six months from late September 2001 until March 2002.
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Sibel Edmonds was hired, as a contractor, to work as an interpreter in the translations unit of the FBI in Washington on September 13, September 15, or September 20,2001.
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Sibel Edmonds filed complaints with the FBI's Office of Professional Responsibility and the United States Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
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In June 2002, the Associated Press and Washington Post reported that the FBI claimed Sibel Edmonds was dismissed because her actions were disruptive and breached security and that she performed poorly at her job.
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The reclassification did keep Sibel Edmonds from testifying in the class action suit as well as her own whistleblower suit.
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Rather than investigate Sibel Edmonds's allegations vigorously and thoroughly, the FBI concluded that she was a disruption and terminated her contract.
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In September 2005, Sibel Edmonds claimed in Vanity Fair that a price was set for Dennis Hastert to withdraw support for the Armenian genocide resolution.
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In September 2006, a documentary about Sibel Edmonds's case called Kill the Messenger premiered in France.
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Sibel Edmonds gave testimony in August 2009 and gave information that had twice previously been gagged under state secrets privilege.
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On February 1,2011, Sibel Edmonds published a story on her own website, adding details of events she described as taking place in April 2001.
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Sibel Edmonds said that two agents with whom this other translator had worked reported this information to a "Special Agent in Charge " months before the attack.