Congresswoman traded sex tape for genocide bill?
Threatening to cut diplomatic ties and kick out US bases has been one of Turkey’s predicted means of pressure against America when it comes to the formal recognition of Ottoman Turkey’s 1915 genocide against indigenous Armenians. How about threatening with a sex tape?
Bribing the former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who now works for the Turkish lobby, is one thing. Making another member to drop support for Armenian genocide resolution by threatening to reveal her private sex secrets – is another story.
The sex story just broke, years after former FBI translator Sibel Edmunds – a whistleblower of Turkish decent, shared her allegations of corruption in the federal government.
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[After she left the testimony] I asked [Edmunds] if she specified whether the sitting bi-sexual, married Congresswoman who had been taped sleeping with a woman, without knowing, and then bribed by Turkish interests with the tape, to vote against the Armenian Genocide resolution had been a Democrat or a Republican. She said she is a Democrat, and that she testified to that during her deposition.
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It is unclear whether Sibel Edmunds mentioned the person by name, but one website (most likely very wrongly) claims it is an Illinois congresswoman.
Ironically, Sibel Edmunds might not have testified on this issue without the Turkish lobby which is seeking legal action against Armenian-American politician David Krikorian. As the Armenian Weekly summarizes:
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David Krikorian is the Democratic candidate in the 2010 elections for Ohio’s 2nd Congressional district. The seat is now held by Republican Jean Schmidt, who was the largest recipient of money from the Turkish lobby in the 2008 elections. Schmidt also fought the Armenian Genocide Resolution.
When her challenger, David Krikorian, pointed out that she was receiving blood money from Turks for helping deny the Armenian Genocide, Schmidt complained to the Ohio Elections Commission. Representing Schmidt and the Turkish American Defense Fund at the deposition on Aug. 8 was none other than the attorney and longtime voice of the Turkish lobby, Bruce Fein.
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Things get bad when people deny genocide.
Hayaser on 14 Aug 2009 at 1:32 am #
this sibel mibel woman is basically painting a target on herself
if she continues this path, eventually cia/fbi/nsa will have her silenced…permanently….at request of tukish gov’t, in fact i would’nt be surprised if turs murder one of their own to keep it silent, apparently she knows more than she leads on and is holding back alot due to fear. in that case, she should’ve never opened her mouth….”in public”
Miguel on 02 Sep 2009 at 1:44 pm #
The story is only partially correct, as outlined above. Sibel alleges that the Illinois Congresswomen, who is currently a strong supporter for Armenian Genocide Resolution, was in the midst of being blackmailed at the time Sibel was terminated from the FBI. She never knew if the Congresswoman caved in to the Turks demands, only that this woman was a target.