WE MUST END TURKISH OCCUPATION OF WASHINGTON
The internationalization of the Armenian Cause during the last several years has apparently caused great discomfort to Ankara.
In order to undermine the Cause, Turkey has been intensifying its efforts in the United States by pouring millions of dollars to silence any American public figure or entity that talks truthfully about the Armenian Genocide.
Because Turkey has adopted “the end justifies the means” immoral code of operation, its bloody hands have been caught when the bribery of elected public officials in the United States began making scandalous headlines.
In an Aug 12 article titled “The congresswoman and the Turkish Lobby sexual blackmail ring,” Wayne Madsen of Online Journal reported that The American Turkish Council (ATC) “and its affiliated Turkish government lobbying organizations were cited by former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds in her deposition in an Ohio Election Commission complaint filed by Representative Jean Schmidt (R-OH) against her 2008 opponent, David Krikorian, over statements by Krikorian that Schmidt received financial support from the Turkish lobby in the United States. Edmonds was subpoenaed for a deposition in the case in support of Krikorian’s allegations that the Turkish Lobby has wielded tremendous influence over U.S. policymakers like Schmidt in Congress. After raising objections to Edmonds’s testimony, pursuant to a “state secret” gag order imposed by then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, neither the Justice Department nor the FBI moved to block Edmonds’ statements at her deposition on August 8 in Washington, DC. (Please use the following link to read the complete article: onlinejournal.com).
Madsen added that a supporter of the Armenian Genocide resolution in U.S. Congress Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) “was sexually blackmailed by a lesbian prostitute who worked for the American Turkish Council (ATC). … The tryst location was bugged by a Turkish surveillance team that recorded the encounters. The recordings were later used to blackmail Schakowsky into backing away from supporting Armenian genocide resolution initiatives in the House.”
A House member close to Schakowsky, felt that she was “set up” by the Turkish Lobby working in concert with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), to “control her.” The member also said that Schakowsky noticeably “backed off” many issues, including the role of private military companies, further reported Madsen.
Madsen also wrote that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich being aware of Schakowsky’s “problems” and as such “resisted pressure from Obama and Emanuel to appoint Schakowsky to Obama’s vacant Senate seat. When Blagojevich signaled he was going to appoint someone other than Schakowsky to the seat, the joint Israeli and Turkish lobbies, in addition to Emanuel, arranged for U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald to receive a green light to arrest Blagojevich even before any federal corruption indictments were handed down by a grand jury.”
On another note, “Fitzgerald dragged his feet on the investigation of the leak by the Bush White House of the covert identities of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings & Associates cover firm. Fitzgerald, WMR is told, was trying to limit damaging exposure to the nuclear smuggling operation that involved the Turkish and Israeli Lobbies and Turkish MIT and Israeli Mossad intelligence operations. Mrs. Wilson and her team were apparently narrowing in on the Turks and Israelis in nuclear smuggling around the world. The key U.S. government players in outing Brewster Jennings were named by Edmonds in her deposition.”
In another interesting development, Congresswoman Schmidt has been found to have taken more money from the Turkish lobby than 65 other recipient Members of the U.S. Congress during the 2008 election, in order to deny the Armenian Genocide. David Krikorian, a candidate in the Ohio Second Congressional District race (www.krikorian2010.com) opposing Cong. Schmidt, recently referred to a frivolous complaint by the highly unpopular incumbent. He said in a recent interview with the Armenian Weekly: “The complaint was filed in April 2009, after I filed to seek office as a Democratic candidate in the 2010 elections. As you know, in 2008, I ran as an Independent candidate, and the statements that Schmidt is claiming as false were made in the 2008 election cycle.
It’s an interesting situation: You got a false-statement claim from a previous election period. She could have filed a complaint against me at any time but only chose to file a complaint after I announced that I would be seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination in 2010. What that tells us, off the bat, is that she is obviously concerned about facing me in a general election. I think she simply looked at the numbers and said, If Krikorian got 18 percent of the votes as an Independent candidate, then he’s going to have a very good shot of beating me as a party-backed candidate. That has to be one of the motivating factors behind why she chose to file.”
In an August 14 article titled “Turkish Lobby Group 'Declares War' on Sibel Edmonds' Under-Oath Testimony,” Brad Friedman of bradblog.com, wrote: “In a rather extraordinary unbylined blog item posted on Wednesday, the Turkish Coalition of America (TCA) has launched what appears to be an all-out assault on FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and her remarkable, long-awaited under-oath deposition taken over the weekend in the Ohio Election Commission (OEC)'s Schmidt v. Krikorian case. Called as a witness for David Krikorian, … Edmonds (who is Turkish-American) testified to infiltration, bribery, corruption, and blackmail within the U.S. Government, by current and former members of the U.S. House and other high ranking officials, on behalf of Turkish interests.” One shouldn’t be surprised to learn of several more unfolding scandalous stories tying Turkey with corruption cases involving many other elected public officials in the United States.
The time for housecleaning is just around the corner. The mid-term elections of Nov. 2010 are only fourteen months away. Voters on both sides of the aisle should move to unseat corrupt individuals like Schmidt, in order to get rid of the contemporary Turkish political yoke and the gag rule in the U.S. We must end the Turkish occupation of Washington.
By Appo Jabarian
Executive Publisher / Managing Editor
USA Armenian Life Magazine
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