Sibel Edmonds Update

The American Conservative reports:

For those who just cannot get enough on the Sibel Edmonds story, there is a new posting over at Bradblog by Brad Friedman regarding the testimony of FBI Counterintelligence officer John Cole.

Friedman relates how “An 18-year Counterintelligence and Counterterrorism Manager for the FBI has called for a Special Counsel to be appointed to investigate the allegations of FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds. John M. Cole, who now works as an intelligence contractor for the Air Force, made his comments during an audio interview released late last week with radio journalist Peter B. Collins.

“He also offered a detailed insiders look at the panicked concerns among high-level officials inside the Bureau as Edmonds disturbing allegations began coming to light back in 2002, before they would be quashed for seven long years by the Bush Administration’s unprecedented use of the so-called ‘State Secrets Privilege’ to gag her.

Per Cole ‘Everybody at headquarters level at the bureau knew that what she was saying was extremely accurate. … They were trying to figure out ways of keeping this whole thing quiet, because they didn’t want Sibel to come out.’