Chicago Public Radio WBEZ interviews Sibel Edmonds

Public radio station WBEZ apparently aired a 2 part radio show yesterday and today featuring interviews with Sibel Edmonds and information about her story on the program Worldview as part of a continuing National Security Whistleblowers series. Good news that her story is getting some air time!

Recent interest in Sibel Edmonds and Kill The Messenger

I’m not sure exactly why, but in the last couple of days I’ve had a surge of hits visiting related to Kill The Messenger and Sibel Edmonds.

Yesterday
kill the messenger movie – 10
sybil edmonds – 4
kill the messenger edmonds – 3
Today so far
kill the messenger movie – 4

It’s possible that some of those searchers are looking for the 2005 civil war movie with that name, but some are definitely seeking Sibel. I’m glad to see a renewal of interest in the documentary Kill The Messenger and in Sibel Edmonds, the FBI whistleblower who is considered to be the most gagged person in U.S. history.

Maybe it’s because The New American’s current issue has an article about Sibel Edmonds called Shooting the Messenger? Anyway, I wish I could point you towards an online venue to watch the documentary Kill The Messenger- since it’s still not available via Netflix (maybe they’d get the message if they got enough requests for it?) but unfortunately none of the ones which used to be around work anymore. I guess you might possibly also be able to order a copy by emailing the directors, though.

Wired Threat Level- Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier — Congress Reacts

Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier — Congress Reacts

a 45 megabit/second DS-3 line linking its most sensitive network to an unnamed third party.

45MB/sec. Wow.

A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier’s systems, exposing customers’ voice calls, data packets and physical movements to uncontrolled surveillance, according to a computer security consultant who says he worked for the carrier in late 2003.

“What I thought was alarming is how this carrier ended up essentially allowing a third party outside their organization to have unfettered access to their environment,” Babak Pasdar, now CEO of New York-based Bat Blue told Threat Level. “I wanted to put some access controls around it; they vehemently denied it. And when I wanted to put some logging around it, they denied that.”

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Wikileaks – shut down (but not effectively)

Perhaps you’ve heard of the recent court order in California which attempted to shut down Wikileaks at the request of a Swiss bank. Not particularly effective, though no doubt it will give the mirror sites a bit of a traffic boost. For anyone who runs across information on wikileaks (or elsewhere) which they feel is important, I recommend webcitation.org, screenshotting, copying the source code, downloading and spreading it all around. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket, in orther words.

Oh, yeah. Wikileaks information on the Swiss Bank/Cayman issue can be found here, the “shut down site” can be found hosted here. A current archive of wikipedia’s entry on wikileaks is here, which mentions searching “wikileaks cover names” to get around censorship issues under certain conditions. A list of such cover names is archived here.

So, if anyone wanted to anonymously leak onto the internet an FBI document which is claimed by the FBI not to exist such as, for instance, 203A-WF-210023 – a document which Sibel Edmonds and the UK Times say has existed in the past, there’s probably still a way, despite the “wikileaks shutdown”. 

Reporting on Sibel Edmonds in the United States

I’d like to take a moment to encourage the US media to do some actual investigative journalism and reporting on Sibel Edmonds in the wake of this morning’s Dallas Morning News coverage. Because, let’s face it- that DMN piece was a watered down version of a nearly month old article, published in the opinion section of the paper. Yet, nonetheless it’s among the most emailed stories on the online version of the paper and also among the most popular political news stories on Digg. I can’t help but think that the Dallas Morning News is going to be noticing an increase in web traffic. Now, just imagine if some mainstream US media or other were to devote an actual investigative and reporting budget to looking into her story. Imagine what sort of traffic something like that might bring. Just think of the advertising revenue…