Vanity Fair: Hastert Paid Off By FBI Target?

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Vanity Fair: Hastert Paid Off By FBI Target?

by BarbinMD

Wed Aug 3rd, 2005 at 21:36:52 PDT

According to Raw Story, the September issue of Vanity Fair is carrying a story about our favorite whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds. And in this piece is the stunning news that:

"...she reported hearing Turkish wiretap targets boast that they had a covert relationship with...Dennis Hastert, Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House since 1999. The targets reportedly discussed giving Hastert tens of thousands of dollars in surreptitious payments in exchange for political favors and information..."​

That's right...our esteemed Speaker of the House, apparently known as "Denny boy" in certain Turkish circles, is frequently mentioned on the wiretaps from an FBI investigation into covert activities by Turkish nationals.

With revelations like this slowly but surely leaking out, the question by Ms. Edmonds ACLU attorney takes on a new urgency:

"Just what in the world is the government trying to hide?"​

What indeed?

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And what do the wiretaps say?

"One name, however, apparently stood out--a man the Turkish callers often referred to by the nickname "Denny boy." It was the Republican congressman from Illinois and Speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert. According to some of the wiretaps, the FBI's targets had arranged for thousands of dollars to be paid to Hastert's campaign funds in small checks.​

According to Edmonds, Hastert's voice is never heard on the tapes and she has told investigators that it's possible that the claims were merely "hollow boasts". Perhaps so, but a more thorough examination of Hastert is certainly warranted, IMO.

Another incident that is frequently mentioned on the tapes occurred in October, 2000. Minutes before the scheduled full House vote on a resolution strongly opposed by Turkey, Hastert withdrew it. Although Vanity Fair said there was no evidence of a payment being made for the withdrawal,

"... a senior official at the Turkish Consulate is said to have claimed in one recording that the price for Hastert to withdraw the resolution would have been at least $50,000."​

Now that this damning information is out there, I shall relax and wait for the congressional investigation...and wait...and wait...

 

[Redneckman]

The kooks of the left wing fringe are desperate.

 

[edub69]

Hastert saluting his Dear Leader:

Wasn't he involved in reports of paying off somebody to vote for the Medicare bill (the bill whose cost was repeatedly lied about by the Bush Admin.)?

 

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The kooks of the left wing fringe are desperate.

are you refering to vanity fair?

 

[Redneckman]

are you refering to vanity fair?

No, I'm referring to Sibel Edmunds. Vanity Fair doesn't write this bilge, left wing disgruntled fired former FBI hacks do.

The left wing militant wacko fringe just keeps coming up with this shit, and they are hoping just once something will stick. It's not sticking, and you guys look like fools every time it doesn't. And you wonder why you keep getting your rear end handed to you in elections.

 

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No, I'm referring to Sibel Edmunds. Vanity Fair doesn't write this bilge, left wing disgruntled fired former FBI hacks do.

The left wing militant wacko fringe just keeps coming up with this shit, and they are hoping just once something will stick. It's not sticking, and you guys look like fools every time it doesn't. And you wonder why you keep getting your rear end handed to you in elections.

not sure what you are refering to but ok...

 

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No, I'm referring to Sibel Edmunds. Vanity Fair doesn't write this bilge, left wing disgruntled fired former FBI hacks do.

The left wing militant wacko fringe just keeps coming up with this shit, and they are hoping just once something will stick. It's not sticking, and you guys look like fools every time it doesn't. And you wonder why you keep getting your rear end handed to you in elections.

you must just be a fan of the corrupt GOP....

can't any of them do anything right?

So earlier today, the Secretary of Agriculture, Mike Johanns, was letting it be known that he had not approved of the third test of the "downer" cow undertaken at the behest of the department's inspector general, Phyllis Fong. [...] The thing is that later today the test Johanns was so exercised about, the one Inspector General Fong ordered, turned out to prove something important - the cow did have BSE, mad cow disease.

 

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the article claims the FBI was investigating attempts to bribe dems and republicans. I don't know if any dems bit, but I would like to. As far as I'm concerned it doesnt matter which side of the aisle corruption is on- the democratic party and nation will be better for having it rooted out.

 

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2003 WAPO article

The Washington Post, March 28, 2003 Friday
HEADLINE: Missteps With Turkey Prove Costly;
Diplomatic Debacle Denied U.S. a Strong Northern Thrust in Iraq

"The reason is that Turkey, a close NATO ally that shares a 218-mile border with Iraq, earlier this month refused a Bush administration request to permit the armored troop deployment from its soil...Administration officials even arranged a meeting between the Turks and House Speaker J. DENNIS HASTERT (R-Ill.), who assured them Congress would honor the president's budget request for Turkey. Yakis [Yasir Yakis, the former Turkish foreign minister who played a key role in the talks with the United States] preferred a written commitment, but the Turkish ambassador, Faruk Logoglu, told him Hastert's word was the best they could get under the U.S. system."

 

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Dated July 20, 2004:
From the Hill.com

Hastert kills amendment:



House GOP leaders are vowing to kill a controversial amendment that chastises a key U.S. ally following a successful Democratic maneuver to pass the bill late last week.

Rep. Jim Kolbe (R-Ariz.), chairman of the Appropriations Foreign Operations Subcommittee, exasperated House leaders last Thursday when he accepted a Democratic amendment, which would bar Turkey from lobbying against a Republican-backed resolution that would call the Ottoman Empire's killings of 1.5 Armenians during World War I "genocide."

Rep. Adam Schiff's (D-Calif.) amendment would deny Turkey the use of U.S. foreign aid money to lobby against the Armenian genocide resolution sponsored by GOP Rep. George Radanovich (Calif.). If enacted, Radanovich's resolution would be the first time Congress formally marked the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians between 1915 and 1923.

But House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) said he will not schedule
Radanovich's bill for a vote this Congress even though the Judiciary Committee has passed it.




And this:



Schiff, who represents one of the highest concentrations of Armenians in the United States, said he used the appropriations process because Hastert has not scheduled a vote. "Leadership understands the House will vote overwhelmingly to recognize Armenian genocide. ... They chose wisely to let it be voice voted," he told The Hill.

Radanovich told The Hill: "I think [the amendment] was a good way to keep Armenian genocide in front of people," adding that his bill will never be passed because "of the force of the Turkish lobby."




Denny kills a popular House bill, supported by his OWN party. And it wouldn't be GOP corruption without a mention of the Hammer:



In a harshly worded statement, Hastert, Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) and Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) acknowledged their displeasure with Kolbe and the amendment.




And who's the Washington representative for Turkey?
former House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bob Livingston


Who's your daddy, Denny boy?

 

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i will flood you with information

A letter from the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, thanking Dennis Hastert for killing the amendment:





Dear ATAA Members,

We are grateful to Hon. Dennis Hastert, Hon. Tom DeLay and Hon. Whip Roy Blunt, and we extended them our thanks and appreciation. We would also like you to send then your thank you letters through the fax numbers provided below.

As for Hon. Schiff... We will not send him a protest letter. We are not concerned by the name of his party; and we believe that he will learn the Turks' response at the upcoming elections in his district. However, this does not mean that he will not see ATAA in his office. We have requested a meeting. We will visit him in his office. Our approach to him, as with all American congressmen, will be positive, and we will only tell him about Turks and Turkey.

Therefore, I invite you once again to participate in the first Turkish-American Voter Registration Drive that is being done by ATAA in the United States.

Sincerely yours,

Ercument Kilic

Fax numbers:
Dennis Hastert: (202) 225-0697
Tom DeLay: (202) 225-5241
Whip Roy Blunt: (202) 225-5604




It also seems Hastert had a special relationship with Turkey. He was part of the first delegation to meet with the new Prime Minister of Turkey in 2002, shortly after the election.

 

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U.S. congressional leader assures Turkey of aid



By Reuters

WASHINGTON - At the Bush administration's urging, U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert privately assured Turkish officials that Congress would move swiftly to approve any economic aid package, congressional sources said Friday.

 

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Hastert's perfect obfuscation
http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com/hastert080305.htm

Hastert’s spokesman. . .told Vanity Fair that Hastert is “unaware of Turkish interests making donations” and his staff has “not seen any pattern of donors with foreign names.”

(Raw Story: "Edmonds was fired from the FBI after trying to persuade her bosses to investigation a Turkish family, the Dickersons, she said was trying to trade on her status as an FBI operative. She suspected that the American Turkish Council, which the family tried to persuade her to join, was a front group for criminal activity.")

See also:
Sibel Edmonds' spring 2005 offensive
FBI shields Pakistan/Turkey nuclear weapons development, drug trade, Cheney, Rumsfeld
http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/030905Stanton/030905stanton.html

See also:
"Special Report
Take the case of Jan Dickerson, a Turkish translator who worked with Sibel Edmonds.
The FBI has admitted that when Dickerson was hired last November, ..."
www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/0311/attachment1.htm

 

[Redneckman]

Edmunds wrote the article in vanity fair. Do some research on Sibel Edmunds' background before you question me about the validity of my points concerning why Sibel Edmunds cannot be trusted to write an objective article about a conservative.

 

[Redneckman]

the article claims the FBI was investigating attempts to bribe dems and republicans. I don't know if any dems bit, but I would like to. As far as I'm concerned it doesnt matter which side of the aisle corruption is on- the democratic party and nation will be better for having it rooted out.

Once I see you cutting and pasting articles accusing left wingers of corruption, and there are many examples, then I will believe you are sincere in this post.