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‘State Secrets’ privilege NOT asserted by DoJ; FBI whistleblower answered ALL questions under oath on Turkish infiltration of U.S. Government…
Live blogging coverage of the Sibel Edmonds deposition at the National Whistleblowers Center in Washington D.C. For background see previous coverage:
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8:00am PT (11:00am ET): The deposition has now begun inside the National Whisteblowers Center, and has not, apparently, been blocked by an assertion of the “state secrets” privilege by the DoJ.
The BRAD BLOG has some folks covering outside the testimony this morning, and I just spoke to some of the folks on the ground outside the NWC, just before the deposition was set to begin, including David Krikorian, who flew in last night from Ohio.
He said his team intended to ask detailed questions on the three major points they’d described in their press release [PDF] issued earlier this week, focusing on whether and how “The Government of Turkey had illegally infiltrated and influenced various U.S. government institutions and officials, including the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and individual members of the United States Congress.”
Krikorian did not seem dissuaded by the FBI’s and then the DoJ’s attempts to block Edmonds’ testimony, and that they intended to be thorough in their deposition. “That’s pretty much the whole point of this exercise,” he told me.
There are apparently a handful of mostly independent and foreign media outlets present outside the NWC. No corporate MSM, from the reports I’ve gotten. Independent TV/media, an Armenian English language weekly, and press attache representatives of some foreign governments are among those present.
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