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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION 2 In the matter of: Hastert for Congress Committee cnA Dallas Ingemunson, Treasurer MUR No.:

COMPLAINT b 1. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington hereby brings this ul kr complaint before the Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) seeking an immediate investigation

and enforcement action against the Hastert for Congress Committee and Dallas Ingemunson for

direct and serious violations of federal campaign finance law.

Comdainant

2. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a non-profit, non-partisan

organization dedicated to ensuring accountability in public officials.

Respondents

3. The Hastert for Congress Committee (“Hastert for Congress”) is the principal

campaign committee of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL). The committee is

registered under the Federal Election Campaign Act. 2 U.S.C. $433. Dallas Ingemunson is the

treasurer of Hastert for Congress.

Factual Allegations

4. The September issue of Vanity Fair Magazine reports that in December 200 1, an

F.B.I. agent in Chicago, Joel Robertz asked F.B.I. translator to review some

wiretaps that had been generated by a counter-intelligence investigation that began in 1997.

David Rose, An Inconvenient Patriot, Vanity Fair, page 281, September 2005 (attached as

I Exhibit A). Part of the investigation involved allegations of attempts to bribe Members of Congress. Id. 5. Ms. Edmonds listened to more than 40 recordings supplied by Mr. Robertz. Id.

Many involved an F.B.I. target at Chicago, Illinois’s Turkish Consulate, as well as members of the American-Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations. Id.

6. According to some of the wiretaps, the F.B.I.3 targets had arranged for tens of thousands of dollars of campaign contributions to be sent to Rep. Hastert’s campaign committee in small (i.e., less than $200) checks that did not have to be itemized. Id. at 28 1.

7. Notably, Hastert for Congress’s FEC filings indicate that in 2000 and 2001 the committee received a significant number of unitemized contributions. The Mid-Year report, covering the period January 1, 200 1 through June 30,2001, shows unitemized contributions of

$65,470.23. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3, Report of Receipts and

Disbursements, page 3, filed October 24,2002 (attached as Exhibit B). The Year-End report, covering the period July 1, 200 1 through December 3 1, 200 1, shows unitemized contributions in the amount of $45,390.52. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3. Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed October 24,2002 (attached as Exhibit C). Thus, in 2001,

Hastert for Congress received $1 10,860.75 in unitemized contributions.

8. The reports for 2000 also show a large number of unitemized contributions. The

Pre-Primary Election Report, covering the period from January 1, 2000 through March 1, 2000, shows unitemized contributions of $7,825. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3,

Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed March 9,2000 (attached as Exhibit D). The

April 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period of March 2,2000 through March 3 1, 2000 shows unitemized contributions of $19,505. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3,

Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed June 27,2001 (attached as Exhibit E). The

July 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period April 1,2000 through June 30,2000, shows

2 unitemized contributions in the amount of $14,738. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form

3, Report of R&eipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed June 27,2001 (attached as Exhibit F).

The October 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period July 1,2000 through September 30,

2000, shows unitemized contributions in the amount of $22,795. Hastert for Congress

Committee FEC Form 3. Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed May 30,2001

(attached as Exhibit G). The Post-General Election Report, covering the period October 19,

2000 through November 27,2000, shows unitemized contributions in the amount of $7,412.

Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3. Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed June 6,2001 (attached as Exhibit H). Thus, in 2000, Hastert for Congress received $72,275 in unitemized contributions.

COUNT I

9. The Federal Election Campaign Act (“FECA”) strictly prohibits foreign nationals from making political contributions and prohibits political committees from accepting campaign

contributions from foreign nationals. 2 U.S.C. §441e(a):

10. If a committee receives a contribution of questionable legality, it must follow five procedures. First, within ten day’s of the treasurer’s receipt of the contribution, the treasurer

must either return the contribution to the donor without depositing it or deposit it. 11 C.F.R.

§103.3(b)(1). Second, if the committee chooses to deposit the contribution, it must ensure that

the funds are not spent because they may have to be refbnded. 11 C.F.R. §103.3@)(4). Third, the committee must keep a written record noting the reason why a contribution may be prohibited and must include this information when reporting the receipt of the contribution. 11 C.F.R. 5 103.3(b)(5). Fourth, within 30 days of the treasurer’s receipt of the contribution, the committee must make at least one written or oral request for evidence that the contribution is

3 legal. 1 1 C.F.R. 6 103.3(b)(1). Fifth, within the 30 day period, the committee must either confirm the legality of the contribution or refund the contribution. 11 C.F.R. §103.3(b)(l). See

FEC, CamPainn Guide for Conmessional Candidates and Committees, page 18, April 1999.

11. If the Hastert for Congress received an unusually large number of contributions in amounts just under $200 in a relatively condensed period of time, the treasurer's suspicions should have been raised, particularly if many of these checks appeared to be made out by individuals with foreign names. As a result, the treasurer should have followed the procedures outlined by the Commission in 11 C.F.R. §103.3(b) to discover whether, in fact, the campaign illegally received contributions fiom foreign nationals.

WHEREFORE, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington requests that the

Federal Election Commission conduct an investigation into whether or not Hastert for Congress accepted contributions from foreign nationals in violation of federal campaign finance laws,

impose sanctions appropriate to these violations and take such fbrther action as may be

appropriate.

Meranie Sloan, Executive Director Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., 2ndFloor Washington, D.C. 20036 (202) 588-5565

4 Verification

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, acting through Melanie Sloan, hereby verifies that the statements made in the attached Complaint are, upon information and belief, true.

Swornpursuant to 18 U.S.C. 0 1001.

Melanie Sloan

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of August, 2005. e

EXHIBIT A a spell of unseasonable warmth. At to begin studymg for a master’s, and had Matthew hurried to shower and dress Their 10 o’clock that momng, Sibel and plans for a doctorate-could have been con- guests arrived 30 minutes later. Matthm, IMatthew Edmonds were still in thelr sidered overqaed But as a natwahzed a big man wth a fuzz of gray beard, who ? pajamas, sippmg coffee in the kitchen of Turkish-Amencan, she saw the job as her at 60 was nearly twice the age of his petite, their waterfront town house m Alexandna, patriotic duty. mcious wife, showed them into the kitch- Z , and looking forward to a well- The Edmondses’ thoughts were turning en. They sat at a round, faux-marble table ! deserved lazy Sunday. to brunch when Matthew answered the tele while Sibel brewed tea. roa Since midSeptember, medays after phone. The caller was a woman he barely Melek’s husband, Douglas, a U.S. Air E the 9/11 attacks, Sibel had been exploiting knew-Melek Can Dickenon, who worked Force major who had spent several years 2 her fluency in Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbai- with Sibel at the EB.1. “I’m in the area as a military attache in the Turkish capital 2

264 I VANITY FAIR I wwwvanityfaircom PHOTOGRAPH BY HENRY LEUTWYLER SEPTEMBER 2005 of Ankara, Idmost of the tallung, Mat- assumed thal the A.T.C.’s board- ch is what m the world 1s the government trymg thew recalls. “He was pretty outspoken, chaired by Brent Scowcroft, President to hde?” pretty outgoing-about meeting hls wife George H. W Bush’s national-secunty ad- It may be more than another embar- in Turkey, and about his job. He was in mer-knew notlung of the use to whch it rassing security scandal One counter- weapons procurement ” Lke Matthew, he was bemg put. But the mtaps suggested mtehgence officd hmdiar wth Edmonds’s was older than his wife, who had been to her that the Washington ofice of the case has told Kznzty Fuzr that the FB I born about a year before &bel AXC. was being used as a front for cm- opened an mvestigatlon into covert activ- Accordmg to Sibel, Douglas asked if nal mty ity by Turhsh natlonals in the late 1990s she and Matthew were mvolved with the Sibel and Matthew stood at the wmdow That inquiry found evidence, mainly via local Turkish community, and whether of their oakqaneled hallway and watched wiretaps, of attempts to corrupt senior they were members of two of its orgamed the Dickersons leave. Sibel’s Sunday had Amencan pohcians m at least two major groups-the American-Turkish Council been med cities-Washmgton and Chicago Toward (ATC) and the Assembly of Turldsh Amer- the end of 2001, Edmonds was asked to ican Assocmtions (ATAA ) “He sad the mmediately and 111 the weeks that fol- translate some of the thousands of calls ATC was a good organizahon to belong lowed, Sibel Edmonds tned to persuade that had been recorded by ths operation, to,” Matthew says. “It could help to en- Iher bosses to bagatethe Dickersons. gome datlng back to 1997. sure that we could retire early and live Thgre was more to her suspicions than Edmonds has given confidential tesh- well, whch was just what he and his wife their pecuhar Sunday visit. According to mony inside a secure Sensitive Compart- planned to do. I sad I was aware of the documents filed by Edmonds’s lawyers, mented Informahon Fachty on several 00 orgmaon, but I thought you had to be Sibel believed Melek Can Dickerson lpd casions. to congressional staffers, to inves- in a relevant busmess m order to join. leaked mformabon to one or more targets tigators from the 0 1.G , and to staff from “Then he pomted at Sibel and said, ‘AU of an FB I. invesbgabon, and had tned to the 9/11 commmion. Sources fimihar wth you have to do IS tell them who you work prevent Edmonds from htening to wire- tlus testunony say that, in adhbon to her for and what you allegations about the Dicker- do and you wdl get sons, she reported heanng Turk- in very quickly.”’ Matthew could see that his wife was far from codortable “She - tion to the weather and such ish wiretap targets like ” But the Dickersons, boast that they had a says Matthew, steered it back to what they called ther “network of hgh-level fhends ” herself. But instead wth a very semor pol- Some, they sad, worked at the Turlash Em- of canymg out a thorough invesbgabon of itician indeed-Dennis Hastert, Republi- bassy in Washington. “They sad they even her allegations, at the end of March 2002 can congressman from IUlnols and Speak- went shoppmg weekly for [one of them] the EB I fired Edmonds. er of the House smce 1999 The targets re at a Med~temeanmarket,” Matthew says Edmonds IS not the first avowed national- portedly discussed giving Hastert tens of “They used to take hm special Turlush semty whstle-blower to suffer retahahon thousands of dollars m surreptitious pay- bread.” at the hands of a government bureaucracy ments m exchange for pohtlcal favors and Before long, the Dickersons left. At the that feels threatened or embarrassed But informabon “The Dickersons,” says one time, Matthew says, he found it “a strange bemg fired is one thmg Edmonds has also officnl fwarwth the case, “are only the conversabon for the first bme you meet a been prevented from proceedmg with her bp of thk iceberg.” couple. Why would someone I’d never met court challenge or even speaking wth com- say such thmgs7” plete freedom about the case t’s safe to say that Edmonds inhenkd Only Sibel knew just how strange A On top of the usual prohbihon against her fearless obstmacy from her father, large part of her work at the EB.1. involved disclosmg classdied informaon, the Bush IRasim Dew, who died in 2000 Born - listenmg to the wiretapped conversations admimstration has smothered her case be m the Tab- regon of northwestern Iran, of people who were targets of counter- neath the all-encompassing blanket of the many of whose natlves speak Farsi (Per- mtelhgence inveshgations As she would “state-secrets privrlege”--a Dracoman and sian), Turkish, and Azerbaijani, he was later tell mvestigatorS from the Jusbce De rarely used legal weapon that allows the one of the Middle East’s leading recon- partment’s Office of the Inspector General government, merely by asserting a risk to structive surgeons, but hu forthright Irber- (0.1 G.) and the US Congress, some of national security, to prevent the lawsuits al and secular opltllons brought hun into those targets were Turlosh officds the Dick- Edmonds has filed contesting her treat- a senes of confbcts with the local regmes. ersons had descnbed as hgh-level friends. ment from bemg heard m court at all. A0 One of Sibel’s earliest memories is of a In Sibel’s mew, the Dickersons had asked cordmg to the Department of Jushce, to search of her farmly’s house m Tehran bY the Edmondses to befiiend EB I suspects allow Edmonds her day m court, even at a members of SAVAK, the Shah’s secret p* (In August 2002, Melek Can Dickerson closed heanng attended only by personnel hce, who were lookmg for left-wmg boob called Sibel’s allegaons “preposterous, lu- wth N1 secunty clearance, “could reason- Later, in 1981, came a ternfying evening d~crousand slanderous.”) ably be expected to cause senous damage after the Ayatollah Khomeini’s Islamist Sibel also recalled hearing wiretaps to the foreign poky and mihod security revolution, when Sibel was 11. She Was indicating that Turlush Embassy targets of the .” waiting in the car whlle her father went frequently spoke to stdmembers at the Using the statssecrets pnvdege in hs into a restaurant for takeout By the tme ATC., one of the organizabons the Dick- hhon 1s unusual, says Edmonds’s attorney Dem returned, lm vehcle had been boxed ersons allegedly wanted her and her hus- Ann Beeson, of the Amencan Civil Liber- 111 by government S UV’s, and Sibel Wa band to JO~Sibel later told the 0 I G. she ties Umon “It also begs a question Just surrounded by black-clad revolutionarj

266 I V A N I T Y F A I R I www vonityfoir corn SEPTEMBER 200: her to jail because her headscarf was m- had bought in Bodrum, Turkey, on the alone By the tune this matend reaches the sufficiently modest Aegean coast agents and analysts, you’ve already decid- “My father showed his ID and asked “People said we wouldn’t last two years,” ed what they’re going to get ” To get th’ them, ‘Do you know who I Sibel Sibel says “And here we stdl are, nearly 13 nght requlres a broad background of cul- says “He had been domg pro work years on. A lot of people who go through tural and political knowledge- “If you’re in the slums of south Tehran for years, the land of experiences I’ve had find they simply a hgwst, you won’t be able to dis- and now it was the height of the Iran-Iraq put a huge stram on their marnage Mat- cern these Merences ” war. He told them, ‘I have treated so thew is my rock I couldn’t have done it She was surpmed to &cover that untd many of your brothers If you take my without hm.” her arrival the FB I had employed no daughter, next time I have one in my In 1978, when Sibel was eight and the Turhsh-language specialists at all. In early operating room who needs an amputa- Islamists’ violent prelude to the Iranian October she was jorned by a second Turk- tion at the wrist, I will cut his arm off revolution was just beginning, a bomb ish translator, who had been hired de-

Sibel enrolled at a college in Mary- land, where she studied Engllsh and hotel ies and stumps out of the fire. Then, on Dickerson. In her application for the job, management, later, she recenred bachelor’s September 11, to see thls thmg happemng she wrote that she had not previously degrees at George Washngton Unnrersity here, across the ocean-it brought it all worked in America. In fact, however, she in criminal justice and psychology, and back They put out a call for translators, had spent two years as an intern at an worked with juvemle offenders In 1992, and I thought, Maybe I can help stop this orgamzahon that figured in many of the at age 22, she bad marned Matthew Ed- from happemng agam” wlretaps-the Ammcan-Turlush Council monds, a dlvorced retml-technology con- Much later, after Edmonds was fired, sultant who had lived in Virginia all his he translabon department Edmonds the FB I gave bnefings to the House and Me. jomed was housed m a huge, Lshaped Senate. One source who was present says For a long time, they lived an idyllic, T room m the FB 1’s Waslungton field bureau officials admitted that Dickerson carefree Me They bought thelr house in office. Some 200 to 300 translators sat in had concealed her history wth the AT.C , Alexandna, and Sibel transformed It mto thls vast, open space, listening with head- not only in writing but also when inter- an auy, spacious haven, urlth marble floors, phones to digitally recorded wlretaps The mewed as part of her background secunty a library, and breathtaking views across job camed heavy mponsibihes “You are check. In adhhon, the officials conceded the Potomac Rwer to Washington. Mat- the front he,’’ Edmonds says. “You are the that Dickerson began a friendshp at the thew had always wanted to visit Russia, filter for every piece of lntelhgence whch A.TC wth one of the FB I ’s targets “They and at Sibel’s suggeshon they spent three comes m foreign languages. It’s down to confirmed that when she got to the bu- months in St. Petersburg, workmg with a you to decide what’s important--‘perti- reau she was supposed to be hstemng to children’s hospital chanty run by the cel- nent,’ as the FB I. calls it-and what’s not hs calls,’’ says one congressional source. list Mstislav Rostropovich Sibel’s family You decide what requires verb- trans- “To me, that was hke ashng a friend of a visited Amenca often, and she and Mat- labon, what can be summanzed, and what mobster to Men to hm ordermg hts She

SEPTEMBER 2005 wwwvanityfotrcorn I VANITY FAIR I 271 I forthe , 1 gave the document to Bryan on9 onday, r dmonds says that the FB 1’s by the 0 I G. m January 2005 states, h ssocia- February 11 Early the followmg afternoon, to her was be-g to shift from in- “The Secunty Officer dld not challenge the -m- I the supervisor summoned Edmonds Wat- t difference to outnght retaliauon On co-worker [Dickerson] wth respect to any yments ing m a nearby office were two other peo- February 13, the day after her interview information the co-worker provided, al- ple, Feghah and Melek Can Dickerson In wth the bureau security office, three agents though that informahon was not consistent apw- 1 front of them were Edmonds’s translahons came to her home and selzed the comput- wth FB I records In addition .. he did :eemed of the wxetaps and her memo. er she shared wth her husband. “I hadn’t not review other crucial FB.1. records, tent ne- “Stephanie said that she’d taken my had tune to back up the data, and I told whch would have supported some of Ed- tTurk- ~ memo to the supemory spedagent, Tom them that most of my busmess was on that monds’ allegations.” Instead, he treated IralStU- * Fnelds,” Edmonds says. “He apparently computer,” Matthew Edmonds says her claims as “performance issues,)’ and 10rder , wouldn’t even look at it untd Mike Fegha- “An agent called the next morning,” “seemed not to appreciate or unrestigate the market h and Dickerson had seen it and been gv- Matthew says. “He told me, ‘Everythmg on allegabon that a co-worker may have been If what en a chance to comment Stephanie said your computer IS destroyed, and we dldn’t committmg espionage ” to con- .( that, wohgfor the government, there were backrtup’Theywereplayinggames When Accordmg to a congressional source, the d activ- certain thmgs you didn’t do, and cnhcn- I got the computer back, they had wiped fact that Edmonds was a mere contract igators, ;‘ mg your colleagues’ work was one of them eve- Four days later, I got a CD-ROM linguist, rather than an agent, made her e-scale She told me, ‘Do you realize what this wth it all backed up ” A Mklong consem- chms less palatable. “They seemed to be nJ.llw I means7 If you were nght, the people who did he Repubhcau,,Mat&hew was bemg shocked saying, ‘We don’t need someone hke this the background checks would have to be m- into changing his worldview. “I was so malung trouble,”’ the source says. “Yet, to mtqgded The whole translabon department m“ve I mean, what do you do if you think her cdt,she really dd go up through the ing for could be shaken upl’ Meanwhile, I was go- your colleague might be a spy? You go to cham of command. to her boss, his boss, tccher, ; mg to be mvestgated for a possible secunty the EB I.! I thought if Sibel’s supervisor and so on” I d for a 4 breach-for puttmg classdied dormahon wasn’t fixing thts problem she should go to Edmonds reached the’top of the ut3t€3 , onto my home computer I was told to go to hu supenor, and so on up the cham. Some- hguage-sectlon management on February ccher’s the secunty department at three PM.” one would eventually fm it I was never a 22, when she met with supervisory specd 3 for a Before Edmonds left, Dickerson had cynical person I am now” agent Tom Fnelds, a gray-haired veteran !“ see tune to sidle over to her desk Accordq to While the agents were examimng the who was approaching the end of a long Edmonds, she made what sounded like a Edmondses’ computer, Mlke Feghali was bureau career At first it seemed he was P me threat. “Why are you domg h,Sibel? Why wntmg a memo for hu own managers, stat- trying to set her mind at rest. “He told me, the don’t you drop rt7 You know there could mg “there was no basls” for Sibel’s allega- ‘I just want to assure you that everything be senbus consequences Why put your hons. A day earher, an EB.1. secunty of- rs fine, and as fir as you’re concerned, your Wym Turkey m danger over this?, ficer had interviewed Dickerson. A report work on this matter is done,”’ Edmonds z%eet- ’I Gkac- &&ne @b, phone asked diately office le con- id that oned. Id her ich the illed it as spe- lunter- lidden 3 Sac- settled I com- ing as- in the

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rmght have an allegiance problem But they the material she translated. Early in the legaljqments And a spokesperson for the gave the doc Assembly of Turlush Amencan Associa- seemed not to get rt .. They blew off ther new year, 2002, Edmonds says, she dis- 8 February 11 friendshp as ‘just a social thing’ They covered that Dennis Saccher, the FB.1.k tions said that to suggest the group was ~1- the superviso told us, ‘“hey had been colleagues at work, special agent m charge of Turlush counter- volved with espionage or dlegal payments mgmanear &r all.’ ” mtehgence, had developed hs own, qwte is “ridiculous.”) ple, Feghah i separate concerns about Dickerson. Another call allegedly dlscussed a pay- front of then: hortly after the house visit from the On the mowof January 14, Sibel says, ment to a Pentagon official, who seemed . oftheweta] I>l&mm, Sibel conveyed her version Saccher asked Edmonds into hls cramped to be mvolved m weapons-procurement ne ‘‘ Stephan S of the event to her supervisor, Mike cubicle on the fifth floor On his desk gotiaons Yet another lmplied that Turk- memo to the Feghakht orally and then m wn-. The were pnntouts from the FB I. language- ish groups had been installing doctoral stu- Fnelds,” Ed “supervlsory language specialist” responsi- department database. They showed that on dents at U.S research instttutions m order wouldn’t eve ble for hguists worlung in several Middle nummus occasions Dickerson had marked to acquire mformabon about black-market - h and Dicker Eastern languages, Feghall is a Lebanese- calls mvohmg her hend and other counter- nuclear weapons In fact, much of what en a chance American who had previously been an intelhgence targets as “not pertinent,” or Edmonds repor@dlyheard seemed to con- that, whg FB I. Arabic translator for many years. had submitted only brief summaries stat- cern not state espionage but mmal activ- certain thing Edmonds says he told her not to worry mg that they contamed notlung of mkrest ity There was talk, she told invesbgators, lng your colic Toward the end of December, Edmonds Some of these calls had a duratton of more of laundenng the profits of large-scale She told me was absorbed m a translabon when Dick- than 15 mutes Saccher asked Edmonds drug deals and of selhg classified dtary means7 XYOL ersm approached her desk. She swiftly got why she was no longer workmg on these technologies to the hghest hdder. thebadcgmu to the pornt. targets’ conversations. She explained the vmgated. Th To momtor every call on every line at a new divlsion of labor, and went on to tell efore entenng the FB.1 buddmg for could be sha large msbtubon such as the Turlush Em- him about the Dickersons’ visit the previ- their Friday meeting with Saccher, mg to be mw bassy m Waslungton would not be feasible. ous month Saccher was appalled, Ed- B Edmonds and Taskasen stood for a breach-for 1 Inevitably, the FB I.,&tens more carefully monds says, telllng her, “It sounds hke es- while on the sidewalk, smolung cigarettes. onto my horn pionage to me.” “Afterwards,we went dxectly to Saccher’s the secuIlty c w Saccher asked office,” Edmonds says “We talked for a Before E( Pll little while, and he said he’d see meto sidle ‘V us downstairs for the meeting with Edmonds, SI fV Feghali a few minutes later, at mne threat. “why ?I A M.” They were barely out of the don’t you JW Q4 elevator when Feghali intercepted be serious c VT them. He hdn’t know they had just come fdym Tur Yf from Saccher’s office r. to the phones used by its targets, such “Come on,we’re gomg to start the meet- 4.0 as the Dickersons’ purported fnend. In ing,” he said. “By the way, Dennis,Sac- r.ld the past, the assignment of hnes to each Edmonds and a colleague, Kevin Taskasen, cher can’t be thm. He’s been sent out some translator had always been random Ed- to go back into the EB 1’s digtal wiretap where into the field.” Later, Edmonds says, monds might have found herself hstemng archiye and listen to some of the calls that she called Saccher on the internal phone to a potentially sigdicant conversaon by Dickerson had marked “not pertinent,” “Why the hell &d you cancel?” she asked. a counter-intelligence target one minute and to re-translate as many as they could . Bewddered, he told her that unmehately and an mocuous &scussion about some Saccher suggested that they all meet with after she and Taskasen had left hs office diplomabc party the next. Now, however, Feghali in a conference room on Friday, Feghah phoned hm,sapg that the con- according to Edmonds, Dickerson suggest- February 1. First, however, Edmonds and ference room was already m use, and that ed ch- & system.,so that each Turk- Taskasen should go to Saccher’s office for the meeting would have to be postponed ish speaker would be permanently respon- a short pre-meeting-to review their find- Edmonds says Saccher also told her sible for certarn hes. She produced a list ings and to &scuss how to handle Feghah. that he had been ordered not to touch the of names and numbers, together with her case by his own superiors, who called it proposals for dividing them up As Ed- dmonds had tune to hstkn to numer- a “can of worms ” Despite h role as spa monds would later tell her FB I bosses ous calls before the Friday meeting, cial agent in charge of Turkish counter- and congressional mvestigators, Dickerson E and some of them sounded unportant. intelligence, he had even been forbidden had assped the Amencan-Tuhh Coun- Accordmg to her later secure tesbmony, rn to obtm copies of her translations. Sao cd and three other “high-due” diplomate one conversation, recorded shortly after cher had two small chddren and a settled targets, mcludmg her hend, to herself. Dickerson reserved the targets’ calls for her- life in Washington. If he dared to com- Edmonds found th~sarrangement very self, a Turlush official spoke directly to a plan, Edmonds says, he risked bemg as- quemonable But she says that Dickerson U.S State Department sWer They agreed signed “to some fucked-up office in the spent a large part of that afternoon tallang that the State Department staffer would land of tornadoes ” with Feghah mide IS office The next day send a representative at an appomted time Instead, Edmonds was ushered mto the he announced m an e-mad that he had de to the Ammcan-Turkish Councd office, at windowless office of Feghali’s colleague, cided to asslgn the Twlush wiretaps on ex- 1111 14th Street NW, where he would be translation-department supervisor Steph- actly the basB recommended by Ddcerson given $7,000 in cash “She told us she’d anie Bryan. Investigabng possible espi- Like all the translators, Edmonds was heard mentton of exchanges of mformatton, onage was not a task for whch Bryan had effecbvely workmg with two, parallel lines dead drops-that kind of thmg,” a congres- been tramed or equipped of management Feghali and the semor sional source says “It was mostly money Bryan heard Edmonds out and told her translabon-departmentbosses above hlm, m exchange for secrets.” (A spokesperson to set down her allegations m a conliden- on the one hand, and, on the other, the m- for the ATC demes that the omon bal memo Edmonds says that Bryan ap vestigators and agents who actually used has ever been involved in espionage or 11- proved of her wntmg it at home Edmonds

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fine. My They didn’t eat or dd-just sat, st At asked were vague and nonspecific “The threats to Sibel, the whole tune we were there ” Mod- Polygraph Umt Chef admitted that ques- their s&q m Turkey’ His hce went through died cell phones, Sibel knew, are commonty tions directly on point could have been a transformation. He warned me that these used by bureau agents as a means of mak- asked but were not ” Nevertheless, then issues were classified at the lughest level mg covert recordmgs. and for a long hme afterward, the FB I and must not be dlsclosed to anyone. He That afternoon, Sibel wrote to two offi- ‘kontmued to rely on the [Dickerson] poly- started to mterrogate me: Who had I told? cia1 bodies with powers to mvestigate the graph as support for its position that Ed- He said if it was anyone unauthonzed he FB I -the Justice Department’s mternal- monds’ allegahons were unfounded.” could have me arrested.” a5rs dnrrsion, known as the Office of Pro- Dickerson’s polygraph test, however un-

hte at the FB I The fol- lowing afternoon, she was asked to wait in Steph- anie Bryan’s office “Fe- ghah saw me si- there and leaned across the doorway,’’ Edmonds says. “He tapped his watch and said, ‘In less than an hour you will be fired, you whore ”’ A few mmutes later, she was summoned to a meeting with Frields They were joined by Bryan and George Stukenbroeker, the chief of personnel sea@and the man in charge of mvesti- gatmg her case. Edmonds had violated every seamy rule m the book, Stukenbroeker said A huIlang ~ec~n@guard a- nved to help escort her from the buildmg Edmonds asked If ’ she could return to her desk to retneve some photos, including shots of her late tither of whch she had no copies. Bryan re- sed, saymg, “You’ll never set foot in the EB I agam.” Bryanpmmisedtohd

as a contract hgwt.” Four days later the bureau’s con-

them, says Edmonds, who never able, the FB.1. would have sum- got the photos back Edmonds cient jeason to terminate her contract.” looked at Fnelds. “You are only Stymed by Fnelds, Edmonds tned to makingyour~~~~worse, go still higher, and on March 7 she was both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary and my case stronger. I wdl see you very granted an audience with James Caruso, Commttee, to say that she had found evi- soon,” she told him. Acwdmg to Edmonds, the F.B 1’s deputy assistant director for dence of possible national-secunty breaches. Frields replied, “Soon maybe, but it will counterterronsm and counter-mtelligence. be in jd.I’ll see you in jd”(When inter- Edmonds says he listened pohtely for more n March 8, Sibel appeared at a dmgy wewed by the 0 I.G., Fnelds and another than an hour but took no notes and asked little office in Washington’s China- wtness denied his mahug this comment.) no questions Afterward, Matthew picked 0town, where she was polygraphed Matthew was waiting outside “I’m not her up and they drove to Grille According to the 2005 inspector general‘s a crybaby,” Sibel says “But as I got mto for an early lunch. It was only 11.30 and report, the purpose of this examination my husband‘s car that afternoon I was in the restaur& was stdl empty, but as the w& to dscover whether she had made un- floods, shalung ” Edmondses began to study their menus, authomed disclosures of classified infor- they saw two men m suits pull up outside maon “She was not decepbve in her an- s soon as she had returned home fiwn m an FB.1 -issue S U.V. They came inside swers,” the 0I.G reported. the February meetmg where Dicker- and sat down at the next table Dickerson was polygraphed two weeks A son allegedly cauhoned her not to en- “They just sat and stared at Sibel,” Mat- later; on March 21, and she too was deemed danger her hmdy m Twkey, Sibel called her thew says ‘“Ihey took out thm cell phones, to have passed. But, accordmg to an officd mother and sister in Istanbul, even though opened them, and put them on the table cited in the report, the questions she was it was the middle of the Illght there. Sibel

2 74 I V A N I T Y F A I R I www vanityfair corn SEPTEMBER 2005 d a clam for damages for thea It was the absolute low pomt “I tned was studymg m Amenca and m-with-the vlolaon of Edmonds’s const.Itut.Ional‘nghts to find another firm,” she says, “but as Edmondses in Ahandna, but the mddle By August he was ready to depose Douglas soon as I menhoned the state-secrets priv- sister-whose name Edmonds mhes to pm and Melek Can I>lckerson But before their ilege, it was lke, ‘Turn around, go back, tect-was enjoying a successful career at scheduled deposihon, the couple abruptly and by the way the clock is runmng at an mternahonal travel company based m left the country. Douglas had been assqpxd $450 an hour’ I must have been turned Istanbul. The 29-year-old was also engaged to an awforce job m Belgnun. V‘ Magee, awayby2Ofirms” to be married Within days of receivmg a U.S Au Force spokesman m Belgium, The D~ckemns,the Justice Department, Sibel’s call, she flew with her mother to confirms that Dickerson remam on actme and the FB I. and its relevant personnel Washmgton duty m Europe, but refuses to say exactly declined to comment for this article. In Early m Apnl, Sibel and Matthew were where August 2002, Melek Can Dickerson told havmg lunch m theu hvorite Tha restau- the Chzcago Trzbune, “both the EB.1. and rant m Old Town Alexandria-a precious hat fall, Attorney General John Ash- the Department of Justice have conduct- chance, wth ther house now fully occu- croft tried to wipe out Edmonds’s le- ed separate mvestigahons of [Edm~nds~s] pied by Sibel’s fkmdy, to share a pnvate me T gal a&on by molung the state-secrets claims . . They fired her and, mteresting- ment together. “My cell phone rang,” Sibel pnvdege. This recourse, demed from En- ly, they continued my contract ” says “It was my middle sister. She said ash commondiaw,has never been the sub- In September 2002, Colonel James Worth somethmg really bad had happened and I ject of any congressional vote or statute. of the Ofice of the Ax Force Inspector must come back at once.” Normally, says-AnnBeeson of the kCL U, General said that, in response to a letter The slster’s Istanbul nelghbor had just it 1s used by the government when it wants from Edmonds, there had been a “com- phoned, saying that two policemen had to reslst the legal “discovery” in court of a plete and thorough review of Major [Doug- knocked on her door, aslung for the aster’s specific piece of evidence that it kars might las] Dickerson’s relationship with the whereabouts They would not duclose the harm national security If publicized But American-Turkish Council" that found “no reason, saymg only that it was an “mtelli- in Edmonds’s case Ashcroft argued that mdence of any dewahon from the scope gence matter ” They also left a document. the very subject of her lawsuit was a state of his duties” Edmonds says she was not hewedby those conductmg the review

dmonds’s treatment by the EB.1 seems to fit two baleful patterns the first is Ethe bureau’s refusal to address PO- tentrally disastrous internal-security flaws; the second is a general tendency among national-secunty agencies to retahate , agamt whistle-blowers. Sent by Tevfik Asia of the Ah- Amid the lush greenery of hs koy Branch Poke StaQon and parents’ garden in Plattsmouth, Ne- dated Apnl 11, it was addressed to Sibel’s secret To ax her claims m front of federal braska, former EB I semor mtelligence- sister and read, “For an important issue judges would jeopardize nahond secunty. operations specialist John Cole describes your deposition/mterrogahon is required. Thls, Beeson says, had distinct advan- how these institutional inclinations com- If you do not report to the -on wthh 5 tages for the EB I. and the Department of bined to destroy his career Now 44, Cole days, between 09 00 and 17.00, as is re Jmce. it meant they ddnot have to con- jomed the FB I. m 1985 By the late 1990~~ quired by Turlush law CMK.132, you wdl test the merits of her claims. Moreover, he was running undegcover operations m be taken/arrested by force.” the substance of the arguments they used the Wasbgton area, focusing on counter- In July 2002, with a wntten recommen- to just@ hslevel of secrecy was and 1s terronsm and counter-intelhgence. Later, &on fiom Senator Grassley, Sibel‘s s-r re- secret itself. The full version of Ashcroft’s whde also playmg a key role m the 9/11 m- quested polit~calasylum m the Unaed States. declarahon mvolung the pnvilege, filed on vestigation, he became the EB 1’s natronal Her appllcation statement cited the threat October 18, 2002, was classified, and in counter-intelligence program manager for allegedly made by Dickerson, addmg that public the case for bloclung Edmonds’s India, Afighamstan, and Palustan Sbel would now be considered “a spy and acbon rested on the mere assertion that it Early in the fill of 2001, Cole was asked a tmtor to Turkey under Turlush law, and would be damagmg to proceed. Later, m to assess whether a woman who had ap- the-TwMpqhce vvlll use me to get at her. 2004, the law firm Motley Wce sought to plied to work as a translator of Urdu, Paki- Twlash poke are hown for usmg cruelty depose her for a pendmg case on behalf of stan,~nahonal language, mght pose a nsk and torture during mterrogatiOn, subjects are the fades of 9/11 victims. Immediately, to security. “The personnel secunty ofi- kept without advice to hndy members and Ashcroft asserted the pnvilege again Mot- cer said she thought there was something often &appear wth no trace” Estranged ley kce subrmtted a list of questions it that didn’t seem right,', Cole says “I went from Sibel, the slster remu 111 Amenca, wanted to ask Edmonds, almost all of whch through the file and it stuck out a deshe unable to go home were prohiited Among them “When and was the daughter of a retmd Pakistani gem Edmonds did what numerous avowed where were you born?,” “What languages eral who had been their military attache whistle-blowers had done before she ap- do you speak?,” and “Where dd you go to 111 Washmgeon.yyHe adds that, to IS howl- pealed to Congress, and she got a lawyer- school^" edge, “Every smgle mhtary attache they’ve David Colapinto of the Washmgton firm Edmonds stdl wanted to fight, and to ever assigned has been a known mtelhgence Kohn, Kohn & Colapmto, wluch adverbses challenge Ashcroft in court. But over the officer ” itself on its Web site as spechmg 111 cases next few months, the relationshlp with her After September 11, this association of hsland. He filed suit under the Free lawyers began to suffer “Let’s face it, tak- looked especially nsky The Palcistam in- dom of Informahon Act for 111 disclosure mg on the D 0 J 1s no joke, especially in telhgence service had trsuned and support- of what had happened mide the bureau, Wasbgton,” Edmonds says. ed the Taliban in Afghanistan, and still

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contained elements who were far from vesugabon mto a suspected cell of Isl bureau agent. It prompted Tice to send a . happy wth President Pervez Musharraf‘s terronsts “I came down and reweweda the classdied e-mad to the D.1 A. secunty sec- pro-Amencan policies. Cole gave IS find- case, and it was a complete mess,” he says. tion, commentmg that the Leung case ings to the secunty officer “Well done,” “There were wolat~onsof FB I policy and showed that the FB I was “mcompetent.” she sad “You’ve found it.” violabons of the law. As someone who had The unphcafion was that the D.1 A could A week later, she called Cole agam, to been through successful terronsm prose- prove its competence by fully mvesbgatmg say that the woman had started work that cutions, I knew you couldn’t afford to the jmor colleague. momng with a top-secret secunty clear- make mistakes.” Tice, a big, powerful man with a forth- ance. FBI dlrector had Like Cole, German says he thought nght manner, has to pause to control hls promised Congress that the bureau would hmself obhged to report what was gomg emotions when he describes what hap- hue lots of new Middle Eastern lingusts, wrong, not to penahe other agents but in pened as a consequence “I was sent for an and normal procedures had been short- the hope of puttmg it nght “I thought the emergency psychlatnc evaluation. I took -- circuited as a result As of July 2005, the bureau would do the nght hgthat the all the computer tests and passed them 1 woman was still a bureau translator. Sibel case would get back on track, and we’d get w~thflying colors But then the shrink says a Edmonds says she remembers her well- the opportumty to take actlon against the he beheves I’m unbalanced. Later he sad 2, as the leader of a group that pressed for bad guys involved.” Instead, he says, he I’m suffenng from ‘paranoid ideahon.”’ He ’:, separate restrooms for Musl~ms faced the&rruhr htany of escalating retal- was examined by an mdependent psych- .- Cole says the incident was only one of iation-ycludmg an mternal mvestigatron atnst, who “found no evidence of mental I’ several that caused him to doubt the qual- of his own work on the terromt-cell case. border ” But he had already been demed

ity and secunty of the FB.1.k counterter- “Bear m rmnd that only a handfid of pee access to secure places at the N S.A. As a ?. I ronsm efforts, and, lke Edmonds, he says ple have ever infiltrated terronst groups,” result, this highly commended technical- ‘, 1 he tned to fur the problems he saw by go- German says “You’d thmk that after 9/11 espionage expert was put to work in the ‘ I ing up the cham of cokiand Getting off cars, vacuu&ng the6 &d dnv- rid of an agent of his stature was a i lot more difficult j than finng a contract hpst Cole says the retaliation be- I ‘ gan when, aRer years of glow- :i ing reports, his .annual ap- .. ! praisal found Ius work in one area to be SI “minimally acceptable ” Next, he was terested m that But word #I placed under mvestigahon by the Office came back to me that I’d never get a cow ing people around People looked at me, ’ of Professional Responsibility, first on a tertemmt case qm.”He reslgned fiom lrke I had buboruc plague” (The D I A. dld ’15 charge that he had lied about a personal the bureau m June 2004. not respond to a request for comment, and loan on a routme background check, and an N S.A spokesperson said the agency y, I then, after he took hs case to Congress, s I talked to wMe4bwers, I had the does not dlscuss personnel matters ) *. I on the same grounds used against Ed- nupression that those treated the worst After about e@ months of thts .I. monds-that he had &closed classdied in- A were among the bnghtest and best. ry, apparently an attempt to persuade lum , formation without authonzabon. Fmally, There could be no clearer example than to resign, he was placed on “adrrrrmstratnre he was demoted to menial roles: “They Russ Tice, an 18-year intelligence veteran leave” Like other whde-blowers, he bed hterally had me doing the xeroxmg.” Bit- who has worked for the Pentagon’s Dehe ahd faded toiet IS agency’s leadership to terly disdlusioned, he says, he resigned m Intelligence Agency (D.1 A ) and Amen- redress his treatment In August 2004, Tice ’,: March 2004 cayseavesdroppers, the National Secunty wrote letters to members of the House and ,.

“Accordmg to the terms of our employ- Agency. “I dealt with the super-sensitive Senate SIXdays later, the N S A. began the a’, mqnt, wlustle4lowmg is an ob-on,’,” Cole SM;”he says “I obviously can‘t talk about formal process whch would lead to hs says. “We sign a piece of paper every year it, but I had operational roles m both Af- gettmg fired, and to havmg hs clearance ’ saymg we wdl report any mismanagement ghamstan and Iraq” revoked permanently “What happened to .’. or eFdence of a possible cnme. But the It was at the D I.A. in the spring of me was total Stahn-era tactxs,” he says. *. management’s shttck 1s that If you draw at- 2001 that he wrote a report settmg down “Everyone I know or ever worked wth says .. tenhon to the bureau’s shortcomgs you’re hs suspicions about a jumor colleague, a I’m perfectly sane Yet I just don’t know dlsgracmg it.” Chmese-Amencan who Tice says ?as liv- what to do next. I’ve been III mtelhgence all ;* mg a lavish Mestyle beyond her apparent my Me’ but wthout a secunty clearance, 14 ole is one of about 50 current and means Although she was supposed to be can’t practxe my trade ” J’ former members of the EB I ,C I A , worlung on a doctorate, he nobced her re- C Nahonal Secunty Agency, and other peatedly in the office, late at mght, reading cholng Cole and German, one of the bodies who have made contact recently classified material on an agency comput- congressional staffers who heard Ed- 1 wth Sibel Edmonds. Another ls Mike Ger- er “It’s not like I obsessed over the Issue,” E monds’s secure tesbmony likens the i man, one of the bravest and most success- Tice says “I did my job, and then 9/11\, EB I to a Wy,“and you don’t take you ; 11 counterterronsm agents m the bureau’s happened, and I was a very busy boy.” problems outside it. They thmk they‘re the i hlstory, who penetrated a neo-Nan gang m He moved to the N.S A toward the end best law-enforcement agency m the world, : Los Angeles and a dtmgroup m Seattle of 2002. The tngger for h~sdownfd the that they’re beyond cnticism and beyond and brought them tojustxe followmg Apnl was the arrest of Katrma reproach.” To an outside observer that etha German made hls bed of nads m 2002, Leung, the EB I. dormant accused of spy- alone might explam the use of the state- when he was asked to get mvolved 111 an m- mg for kawhde having an a5rwth a secrets pnvllege agamst Edmonds But, the

280 I V A N I T Y F A I R I www vanibfair cam SEPTEMBER 2005 a end a staffer adds, some of the -taps she sad Hastert’s campa~gnhnds III small checks. Comttee amounted to $483,000 In con- y seo she translated “menboned government of- Under Federal Elemon Comrmssion rules, trast, un-rtemized contnbubons m the same case ficials” Here may he an entxely different donations of less than $200 are not re- period to the committee run on behalf tent.” dunension to her case qumd to be itemized m pubhc filings of the House majonty leader, Tom DeLay, could Vanity Fan has estabhshed that around Hastert hself was never heard m the Repubhcan of Texas, were only $99,000 wv3 the time the Dickersons vrsited the An analysis of the hgsof four other se- Edmondses, in December 2001, mor Republlcans shows that only one, Clay forth- Joel Robertz, an FB I special Shaw, of Flonda, declared a hgher total m 01 hs agent LU Chcago, contacted Sibel un-itemized donations than Hastert over hap- and asked her to mew some wm the same period. $552,000. The other three for an taps. Some were several years old, declared far less. Energy and Commerce took others more recent, all had been Committee chrunnan Joe Barton, of Texas, them generated by a counter-intelhgence clamed $265,000, Armed Services Com- k says invesbgation that had its start in mittee charman Duncan Hunter, of Cab e said 1997 “It began in D C ,” says an fom, got $212,000; and Ways and Means ”’ He FB I counter-mtelligence oficial Comrmttee chman Bdl Thomas, of Cab- sychi- who 1s famhar with the case fde. forma, recorded $110,000 iental But “it became apparent that Chi- Edrqonds reportedly added that the lenied cago was actually the center of recordings also contamed repeated refer- Asa what was going on” ences to Hastert’s fhp-flop, m the fall of 1mcal- Its subject was explosive. what 2000, over an issue whch remams of m- in the sounded like attempts to bribe tense concern to the Tuhh government- , snow elected members of Congress, both the contrnurng campagn to have Congress 3 dnv- Democrat and Republican “There designate the killings of Armenians in was pressure wthm the bureau for Turkey between 1915 and 1923 a genocide. a specd prosecutor to For many years, attempts had been made ed and take the case o to get the House to pass a genocide res- cial says Instead, hs olution, but they never got any- colleagves were told where untd August 2000, when to alter the thrust of Hastert, as Speaker, their investigation- announced that he would give it his J backmgandseethatit recemd a full House - vote He had a clear pohtical rea- son, as analysts noted at the tune: gency away from elected politicians and toward a Cahfornia Republican mcum- 1 appointed officds. ‘‘TIUS1s the reason why I bent, locked m a utamgresid wPtc+ Ashcroft reacted to Sibel in such an ex- . race, was lookmg to Le hun treme fashion,” he says “It was to keep y over his dlstrlct’s :tratnre thls from commg out.” large Armenian corn- 2 tned In her secure testunony, Edmonds dis- munity Thanks to ;hip to closed some of what she recalled heanng. Hastert, the resolu- 4, Tice In all, says a source who was present, she tion, vehemently op se and managed to hsten to more than 40 of the posed by the Turks, an the Chcago recordings supphed by Robertz. passed the Interna- to hls Many invol&d an F.B I target at the bonal~mcom- irance : city’s large Twlush Consulate, as well as rmtteebyalzugema- ned to members of the Amencan-Turkish Coun- Jj j01ity. Then, on Oc- :says i cd and the Asseinbly of Turiush American tober 19, minutes before the full th says Assoclahons House vote, Hastert withdrew it. know InLu time, he expla;ined his nce all ome of the calls reportedly contamed declsion by saymg that he had re- ince, I .. “Swhat sounded kreferences to large- cewed a letter from President Clm- scale drug dupments and other cnmes. ton arguing that the genocide res- ’ To a person who knew nothmg about theu olut~on,Ifpassed, would harm US. of the context, the detds were confusmg, and it the : rep01 con- rd Ed- E wasn’t always clear what might be sig- recodngs, Edmonds told investgatoxs, and tent of the chlcago wmtaps m& well have ns the nificant. One name, however, apparently it 1s possible that the clams of covert pay- been sheer bravado, and there IS no evi- .e your f stood out-a man the Turkish callers often ments were hollow boasts Nevertheless, dence that any payment was ever made to ’re the E referred to by the mckname “Denny boy” an examination of Hasted’s federal filings Hasted or his campaign Nevertheless, a world, 2 It was the Repubhcan congressman from shows that the level of un-itemized pay- senior oflicial at the Turkish Consulate is Beyond E Ilhois and Speaker of the House, Dennis ments his campagns received over many sad to have clamed m one recordmg that t ethos Hastert According to some of the wire- years was relatively high. Between April the pnce for Hastert to withdraw the reso- state- : taps, the FB 1’s targets had arranged for 1996 and December 2002, un-itemued per- lubon would have been at least $500,000. ut, the 1 E tens of thousands of dollars to be paid to sonal donabons to the Hastert for Congress Hasted’s spokesman says the congress-

2005 I SEPTEMBER 2005 www vonityfoir corn I v A N I T Y F A I R I 281 to fde a bnef with the U.S. Su- because of the approach finm Qmton, “and preme Court If the court agrees to mmuate anyhng else pst doesn’t make to take the case, the govern- any sense” He adds that Hastert has no ment’s reasons for its actions affihation with the A.TC or other groups may finally be forced into the reportedly menboned in the wmtaps: “He open, legal experts say the Su- does not know these orgamahons ” Has- preme Court has never allowed E krt is ‘‘UMW~IR of Turlash interests makmg secret ,arguments. donations,” the spokesman says, and his E staff has “not seen any pattern of donors week after the Apnl appeal wth foreign names ” hearing, Edmonds gath- It A ered more than 30 whlstle- c or more than two years after Edmonds blowers from the FB I., C I A , was fired, the Ofice of the Inspector National Security Agency, De- E FGeneral’s mqury ground on. At last, partment of Homeland Secun- E in July 2004, its report was completed- ty, and other agencies to brief It and promptly labeled classdied at the be- staffers from the House and Sen- ate Among the whrstle-blowers 1

were Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked ir the Pentagon Papers to The New York Tzmes in 1971, and C Coleen Rowley, the FB I. agent from Minneapoh who com- E phed that Washgton ignored

monds’s credibdity. “Many of Edmonds’ core de- gahdns relating to the co-worker [Melek Can Dickerson] were sup ported by either documentary m- dence or vvltnesses,’y the report sad. “We beheve that the EB.1. should have investigated the allegabons more thoroughly..” The FB I. had justified finng Edmonds on the grounds that she had a “disruptwe effect,” the re- port went on. However, “thds ruphon related pnmarily to Ed-

Meanwh.de, Edmonds had new lawyers. contained no specific facts Next came a sional hon,“they made the wrong worn- i. In the A.C.L.U’s Ann Beeson, who is lead- blzarre hearing in the D C. appeals court an mad ” a ing the challenge to the state-secrets priv- 111 Apnl 2005 The room was cleared of “I’m go- to keep puhgths as long ilege, and Mark Zaid, a pnvate attorney reporters while Beeson spoke for 15 nun- as I can, but I’m not gomg to get obses- 5 who specialtzes m nabonal-semty Issues. utes. Then Beeson and Edmonds were sional,” Edmonds says “There’s other Zaid has filed a $10 mdlion tort suit, cit- also expelled to make way for the De- thmgs I want to do with my life But the mg the threats to Edmonds’s fady, her partment of Justice’s lawyers, who ad- day the Iran~anstried to arrest me, my fa- inabihty to look after her real-estate and dressed the judges in secret. Two weeks ther told me, ‘Sibel, you heyour Me once. ; busmess interests 111 Turkey, and a senes later, the court rejected Edmonds’s ap- How do you choose to he7 Accordmg to ; of articles in the Turkish press that have peal, without expanding on the district your pnnciples, or m fear7’ I have never f aiedher court’s oplnion At press tune, she was set forgotten those words ” 0E

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CONTRIBUTIONS(&BT lh IDRni) FROM.

328805 65470 23 395275 23 402150.23 11. m 0 11Il

329Il31 337908 50

am 0 00 id) TheCsndldate ..... IC)TOTAL COWTRl BUTIOHS iuther than Iuams) ' 7243116 23 740058 73 [edd Lne5 1 I[e#ii] (b), [c] end (d])

TRANSFERS FROM OTHER Ilm 0. IlIl AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE8....

13 LMNS la) Made or Guaranteed by ihe a. m D 00 Cenddak ...... 000 0 00 ib) AllOtther Lwrrs ...... (e) TQTALLQAN8 Urn P.aa redd Unas isre) end (b1) ......

14 OFFSETS TO OPERATING EXPENDITURES 53849.82 53949.82 (Refunds, Retat#, cte ) ......

15 OTHER REC EIPTG 8825.W 9088 59 [Olrrl&rrdS, I~mscetc ) ......

18 TOTAL RECEIPTS (add Lints 11@) IZ, 13[C], 14 end 151 784981 CG 803095 14 rceriy Tnbl ta Lire aa,page 4). .. p1 I

EXHIBIT C REPORT OF RECEIPTS FEC AND DISBURSEMENTS FORM 3 For An Ruthorixed Committee

I NAMEOF USE FEC MAILING LABEL Lmde Fbpng, type MMMITTEE (in f ullj OR TYPE OR PRlNTV owthe llrres

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COLUMN A COLUMN 8 I RECEIPTS I Tdel ThlS hvkd Oettlan Cprile=tum0*

I1 CONTRIBUTIONS(hsr Ihan I~sns)FROM.

360680 OQ 45390 52 408070 52 8U8220 75 11m 0 11a Pdrhed PartyC~mmtiees ..... Cnher Poltlcal Cammlttees 199658 S 537567 116 much IS PACSJ ...... 0. 00 o on The Cundldatc ...... TOTAL COMTRI BUTIOH8 loher ihan loans) 6115729.05 1345787 ai [add he5 1 1[e)(iii] (b), [E] snd (d])

12 TRANSFERS FROM OTHER 11. al 0 1113 AUTHORIZED COMMITTEE8 ...

13 LCANS la1 Mack a Guaranteed bylk 000 D no Canddek ...... 0.00 0 00 ib) AllOtthcrLwns...... (e) TQTALLOAN& u. rn a uu redd Uneg 13!e) end (bl)......

14. OFFSETS TO OPERATING EXPENDITURES 242Q.92 56370.74 [Refunds, Rckw, etc.) ......

15 OTHER REC EIPTG 102U5 01 19291.8U [OIulAdenCls, IWerest. &e.) ...... 16 TOTAL RECEIPT3 (add Lines ll(e] 12,131~1.14 end 151 8 18355 01 142145U.15 rCeriy Tolael to LIW 24, psp4, . pl e

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