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Date: July 19, 2007 8:16:35 PM PDT
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Subject: Cheney-ite Warhawk Eric Edelman PERSONALLY Involved w/
Libby in PLAME Leak
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/search?q=edelman
"There’s an organization called the American Turkish Council (ATC)
which is the prime body that has been investigated by the FBI and
the CIA for years, going back to 1996. In the Vanity Fair article
about Sibel [Edmond]'s case, she says that the ATC is a front for
criminal activity -- the ATC is the main one, but Sibel’s case also
touches very heavily on AIPAC, the Israeli lobby. Sibel intimates
that AIPAC and the ATC are both essentially front groups for a
larger [neocon/Israeli] network that [profits from] the black-
market nuclear arms trade, illegal arm exports, and heroin-
trafficking. "
eric edelman bio. part one
http://wotisitgood4.blogspot.com/2005/11/eric-edelman-bio-part-
one.html
OK -- I've been promising my piece on Eric Edelman for a week -
I've somewhat failed again.
My primary interest is understanding whether Eric Edelman is
involved in:
a) the outing of Valerie Plame and Brewster Jennings
b) any of the conspiracies suggested by Sibel Edmonds,
c) whether a) and b) are related
I've largely finished the first installment on his background - so
i'll post this now even though it's long, and a bit messy, and
somewhat incomplete - but at least i'll be able to say that i've at
least partially met my promise.
First, lets take a look at his background - from RightWeb we learn
the following:
"During his government career, Edelman has shuttled back and forth
between the State Department and DOD. His latest assignment was as
ambassador to Turkey, where he gained a reputation as a meddlesome
critic of the Turkish government at a time when anti-Americanism
began flaring up throughout the country.
President Bush named Edelman ambassador to Turkey a few months
after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003...
Serving at the time as Vice President Cheney's national security
adviser, Edelman assumed the ambassadorship in Ankara in July
2003. ...
[snip]
Like many other top officials of the Bush administration's foreign
policy team, Edelman began his government career in the Reagan
administration. While completing his doctorate in history at Yale
University, Edelman joined the U.S. Middle East Delegation to the
West Bank/Gaza Autonomy Talks. He then became a special assistant
to Secretary of State George Shultz. In 1990 Edelman moved from the
State Department to the Pentagon, where he officially served as
assistant deputy undersecretary of defense for Soviet and East
European affairs.
Edelman served under Cheney during the administration of Bush pere.
At that time he worked as part of a team headed by Paul Wolfowitz
that was charged with formulating a Defense Policy Guidance that
would serve as the post-Cold War framework for U.S. military
strategy. Others working on the draft grand strategy were Zalmay
Khalilzad and I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
[snip]
During the Clinton administration, Edelman moved back to the State
Department. As ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the
secretary of state on the Newly Independent States, Edelman oversaw
defense, security, and space issues.
Vice President Cheney brought Edelman back under his wing as
principal deputy assistant for national security affairs. As an
assistant to Cheney, he was part of the foreign policy network that
hurriedly established the "intelligence" rationales for the U.S.
invasion of Iraq. Edelman, who is close to such leading neocons as
Michael Ledeen and Richard Perle, worked closely in the vice
president's office with Scooter Libby in establishing a policy
network of hawks and neocons that was based at the Pentagon and
Cheney's office but extended through key figures into State, the
various intelligence agencies, and the National Security Council."
Edelman's full bio can be seen here
I'll discuss Edelman's more recent history in a moment, but first
let me demonstrate the extent of his 'entanglement' with the neocon
neocrazies who currently run the planet.
Here's one from the NewYorker in 2002:
"After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dick Cheney, then the Secretary
of Defense, set up a "shop," as they say, to think about American
foreign policy after the Cold War, at the grand strategic level.
The project, whose existence was kept quiet, included people who
are now back in the game, at a higher level: among them, Paul
Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense; Lewis Libby, Cheney's
chief of staff; and Eric Edelman, a senior foreign-policy adviser
to Cheney"
or there's this article describing the incoming Bush administration
in 2001:
"Wolfowitz reportedly brings with him, and has sprinkled through
the bureaucracy, a cadre of like-minded lieutenants. I. Lewis
Libby, a former Wolfowitz aide, is Cheney’s chief of staff. Eric
Edelman, a former Wolfowitz colleague, will be Libby’s right-hand
man."
And here's Dana Milbank from the Washington Post [May 14, 2002]
(via justin raimondo):
"[Richard] Perle's allies favor a more hawkish foreign policy and
an inclination for the United States to go it alone. Perle's lineup
of like-minded thinkers is impressive, starting with Vice President
Cheney. The vice president sometimes stays neutral, but his
sympathies undoubtedly are with the Perle crowd. Cheney deputies
Lewis "Scooter" Libby and Eric Edelman relay neoconservative views
to Rice at the National Security Council. At the NSC, they have a
sympathetic audience in Elliott Abrams, Robert Joseph, Wayne
Downing and Zalmay Khalilzad."
Ok - got that? He's a card-carrier (although he wasnt a PNAC
signatory).
Now we can have a look at his more recent history.
For one reason or other, after the invasion of Iraq, Edelman was
'promoted'(?) from being Cheney's national security adviser to the
Turkish ambassadorship (and you'll remember that Turkey's refusal
to allow the Americans to invade via Turkey was a cause of much
consternation.)
Edelman left Libby's emply on June 6, 2003 "'to begin language
training in preparation for a posting as ambassador to Turkey."
This is a week after 'Libby asks Bolton, and Grossman for
information about news report about CIA's secret envoy to Africa in
2002"
According to Fitzgerald, 2 weeks later (June 19, 2003, before
Wilson's NYT op-ed), Edelman "asked LIBBY whether information about
Wilson's trip could be shared with the press to rebut the
allegations that the VP had sent Wilson. LIBBY responded that there
would be complications at the CIA in disclosing that information
publicly, and that he could not discuss the matter on a non-secure
phone line."
"It was widely speculated that Edelman was named to this key post
not only because of his close ties to Washington's war party but
also due to his family connections to Turkey. Edelman's [Jewish]
grandmother fled Russia in the early 1920s, and his mother was born
in Turkey. His great uncle taught at Ankara University." (link)
That sounds like a load of nonsense! Can I sell you a bridge?
In any case, he started at his new gig in July 2003, and his time
in Turkey was widely seen as a failure - by the Turks, at least.
During his tenure. there were "widespread calls for his removal
from Turkey." His resignation "was reported by the Turkish media
with a sense of victory." (link).
Apart from his 'diplomatic' skills, Edelman also begged the prime
minister to censor articles in the press by Robert Fisk, Naomi
Klein, Dahr Jamail and presumably others. Apparently Edelman's
main concern was Fallujah, or more accurately, the reporting on the
war crimes (link).
After the 2004 election, in typical falling-uphill neocon fashion,
Edelman was slated for any number of positions:
1. condi rice's #2 (armitage's old job, and Zoellick's new job) (link)
2. condi rice's #3 - Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs
(Grossman's old job) (link)
3. Deputy Defense Secretary (wolfowitz's old job) (link)
4. Undersecretary of Defense (feith's old job) (link)
He announced his resignation from his job in Turkey in March, 05,
with an official exit date in July.
A week after he announced his resignation, he was nominated by
President Blinky to Feith's old job, Undersecretary of Defense,
Rumsfeld's top policy adviser.
Edelman appointment to Feith's job was held up for a while by Carl
Levin "as part of a dispute unrelated to Mr. Edelman," but the
nomination was eventually sent to the Senate on July 29. For
reasons not quite clear, the senate was unable to actually organise
a vote (!), and he was given a recess appointment on August 9. (link)
If we take the fact that they were unable to organise a floor vote
at face value, then why the recess appointment? Were they in a
real hurry to get Edelman to work? Or something more nefarious?
Barely three months into his new job, and along comes Fitzmas.
Edelman was seen as one of the key contenders to replace Libby, but
Addington got the job.
As I mentioned earlier, Edelman was named in the Libby indictment
-- a fact which he failed to disclose in his written statement to
the Senate. Apparently Mr Warner wasn't impressed -- he said that
Edelman "would have been well advised" to tell Congress this spring
about his "involvement" with the investigation into the C.I.A. leak
case" (link)
In any case, Mr Edelman has had a busy career, and a particularly
busy year.
The next installment of the series will look at how closely
Edelman's profile fits the story that Sibel is trying to tell - and
will probably look at some other people who might also fit the
profile - and i'll try again to tie them into Sibel's story. At
this early juncture, I imagine that the next piece will also try to
investigate why it was important for Edelman to go from Cheney's
national security advisor to Turkish ambassador and back into
Cheney's arms - and I'll also try to examine whether there's any
significance in the fact that Sibel is also pointing to Grossman
(Edelman followed Grossman into Turkey), and why Edelman is
currently in Feith's old job - given that Feith was a longtime
lobbyist for Turkey.
I havent found anything particularly damaging - other than the odd
career trajectories through the same spheres outlined by Sibel. as
i mentioned yesterday, she seemed to point specifically back to
Grossman - but i expect that Edelman's story might also shed some
light on the same shenanigans. We can also look at Edelmans
replacement in Turkey to see if there aren't more similarities.
Finally, I'll try to tie it up by looking at the Edelman/Plame
nexus to see if there is anything there - and the Grossman/Plame link.
If Sibel is correct, there's definitely a there there. Somewhere.
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