Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Deniz Edmonds is a former translator who worked as a contractor for the Federal Bureau of Investigationand founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. Edmonds gained public attention following her firing from her position as a language specialist at the FBI's Washington Field Office in March 2002. She had accused a colleague of covering up illicit activity involving Turkish nationals, alleged serious security breaches and cover-ups and that intelligence had been deliberately suppressed, endangering national security. Her later...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
CountryUnited States of America
When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.
I'm taken back by seeing the mass media's reaction to this. They are the window to our government's operation and what are they doing?
I started working for the Bureau immediately after 9/11 and I was performing translations for several languages: Farsi, Turkish, and Azerbaijani.