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Classified Woman-The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir Paperback – March 9, 2012

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In this startling new memoir, Sibel Edmonds—the most classified woman in U.S. history—takes us on a surreal journey that begins with the secretive FBI and down the dark halls of a feckless Congress to a stonewalling judiciary and finally, to the national security whistleblowers movement she spearheaded. Having lived under Middle East dictatorships, Edmonds knows firsthand what can happen when government is allowed to operate in secret. Hers is a sobering perspective that combines painful experience with a rallying cry for the public’s right to know and to hold the lawbreakers accountable. With U.S. citizens increasingly stripped of their rights in a calibrated media blackout, Edmonds’ story is a wake-up call for all Americans who, willingly or unwillingly, traded liberty for illusive security in the wake of 9/11.

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Edmonds must feel a bit like Alice at the tea party, where justice is not being served, and where a secret is a secret but why it's a secret or who says it's a secret is a secret, and we can't tell you why because it's a secret -- Editorial, Seattle Post

"She's credible. And the reason I feel she's very credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of her story." --Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), "60 Minutes"

"Sibel Edmonds would not let an intimidating FBI shut her mouth, and as a result, suffered grievous consequences, but she has persevered and we are better off for her sacrifices." -- Paul Newman

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Sibel Edmonds is the editor of Boiling Frogs Post and the founder- director of National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. She is the recipient of the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Ms. Edmonds worked as a language specialist for the FBI where she reported serious acts of security breaches and cover-ups, and for that she was retaliated against and ultimately fired. The court proceedings on her case were blocked by the assertion of State Secrets Privilege, and the U.S. Congress has been gagged and prevented from taking up or even discussing her case through retroactive classification issued by the Department of Justice. Ms. Edmonds has a MA in Public Policy from George Mason University, and a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology from George Washington University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sibel Edmonds; 0 edition (March 9, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615602223
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615602226
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches

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Sibel Edmonds is editor of Boiling Frogs Post and founder- director of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, and author of the acclaimed book Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story, and a brand new novel The Lone Gladio. She is the recipient of the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award. Ms. Edmonds has been subjected to several government-asserted State Secrets Privilege orders, and the U.S. Congress has been indefinitely gagged and prevented from taking up her case through unprecedented retroactive classification orders issued by the Department of Justice. She is nationally recognized as the most classified woman in the United States. Ms. Edmonds is a certified linguist, fluent in four languages, and has an MA in public policy from George Mason University and a BA in criminal justice and psychology from George Washington University.

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Luc De Jaeger

What a hero !

Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2018

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Nobody in this world can top the courage, resilience, tenacity, integrity and honesty that Sibel Edmonds has shown through her incredible crusade for truth. She had to endure more than mental hardship and horror, more than Kafka could have imagined. It's clear how sick this world and the top of some key organisations and governments (like the FBI, DOJ and judges) are. After reading her testimony and life story, I much better understand the recent tumult around former FBI Director Comey and his decisions as well as the problematic image of the FBI. Clearly, the top of the FBI and a lot of governments is so sick; you cannot but throw up instantly. Thanks to Sibel Edmonds, our eyes are wide open now and the current situations in the USA and the world are becoming very very clear. This is war and terror of the nastiest sort. The more comes out, the better. Sibel Edmonds needs all our full support. She truly is a (super) hero !

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Thomas J. Busse

Controlled Opposition

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2018

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This book needs to be approached with a healthy degree of skepticism. Most of Edmonds claims lack supporting documentation and cannot be verified. Furthermore, although Edmonds purports to be a whistleblower, her freedom stands in contrast to this - true whistleblowers tend to be "disappeared." My reading therefore is Edmonds fulfills a "Controlled Opposition" function - she is purposely put out there as a whistleblower but in actuality is a disruptor among researchers and critics of the national security apparatus. Her recent disinformation campaign and takedown of the excellent work of journalist Jessica Beeley in Syria reinforces my impression of Edmonds.

Still, controlled opposition can be read for its juicy "limited hangouts" and there are a few here. I unfortunately do not know any compiendum of consensus from researchers regarding what to take as legitimate and what to ignore. Edmonds also very pretty, but from a high-vantage point, how does she have income unless she has employment? There's something about young, photogenic, and attractive "confidence people" that after awhile becomes a predictable "method." Her knowledge is insufficiently compartmentalized, which is still not explained by her work as a "translator." Fast forward to her buzzword "gladio" pieces, if anything her insider knowledge should diminish through time- and this book shows her experience with the FBI, not with the agencies that perform covert actions abroad. Instead, her experience seems to increase over time. I do not find her credible, and this book should be moved to the "True Crime fiction" section of this website.

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Haley Heathman

Read if you're ready to take the red pill

Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2017

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Jaw dropping story of a one woman's fight against the government she once thought was out to protect her and its citizens. In the end, we see a jaded and disillusioned freedom fighter who, after fighting the government for over a decade, has realized that government is more interested in protecting itself and its special interests than it is in its citizens.

You'll be amazed and angered at the astonishing incompetence and the REAL way the government operates -- rewarding failure instead of success and wasting as much money as humanly possible in the process so that they don't "lose" their funding.

This book will tear the veil off the fairytale version of how government works that we all get taught in our government run K-12 schools. A must-read if you're ready to swallow the "red pill" and learn some frightening truths about the deceptiveness and lawlessness of our own government.

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"Classified Woman" should be required reading for all Americans.

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2017

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I had never heard of Sibel Edmonds until I saw a post on Facebook where someone mentioned that her book “Classified Woman” was an enlightening story so I ordered it. I started reading it and finished within a day.

Her story is the proof that there are powers in control of America that are destroying the constitutional rights of all Americans and they need to be stopped. Ms. Edmonds experience with the FBI, Congress and the courts certainly proves that we all need to take action.

I’m just thankful that Ms. Edmonds persevered against some of the most powerful organizations in the world and even though they tried to silence her, she found a way expose the corruption.

"Classified Woman" should be required reading for all Americans.

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IkuraKeta

very sad. Not just for Sibel

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2016

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I've been a fan of Sibel Edmonds' web site, "Boiling Frogs Post" for a couple of years and follow many of the journalists she hosts. I did read "The Lone Gladio" when it was first published and was very intrigued with the topic -- I found the writing well done, expressive and compelling. However, I still hadn't read Sibel's account of her incredible experience with our government when she made a heartfelt and genuine effort to reveal important information she'd come upon while in her role as an FBI translator during the period of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. The book represents a timeline of her valiant efforts to reveal the misdeeds of various important and powerful individuals, elected as well as chosen U.S. officials and representatives embroiled in corruption and very serious crimes.

I just finished reading her book and can't stop thinking of what Sibel went through after approaching various government oversight agencies and representatives and being completely silenced. I found her story extremely credible, yet very, very sad. Not just for Sibel, but for all Americans -- the sense of betrayal is enormous. Sibel Edmonds is the perfect model of a concerned citizen and patriot, as well as extremely courageous and self-sacrificing. I hope someday the truth is revealed. It would probably represent a healing for the country.

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Charles Soper

An epiphany out of darkness

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2017

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An amazing book, the most extraordinary I have read for some time. The authoress is corroborated by Inspector General reporting, and other official sources.
She is a remarkably resilient and patient warmaiden of justice and transparency.
She has all but been stifled by the combination of a lazy and careless media, corrupt politicians on both sides of the aisle, and worst of all a complicit and deeply corrupted judiciary.
Her writing is a detailed, precise but scorching indictment of the depth of rot and corruption in the Department of Justice and the FBI.
However the stench of decadence from the Depts of Defence and State, the lapdog TV & newspaper media, and much of the two Houses of Congress and their organs reeks to high Heaven.

If you care about the USA and its future, read it!

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Baraniecki Mark Stuart

Despotism Marketed as Security

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2014

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In this excellent book Sibel Edmonds explains how the American government was warned by foreign intelligence sources prior to 9/11 about imminent attacks in the US involving aircraft and high-rise buildings and how they actively turned away the information.

For example, her FBI Head of Unit, special agent in charge, Thomas Frields was probably following instructions when he said, "We never got any warnings. These conversations never existed; it never happened, period. No one should ever mention a word about this, period. Never!" - and this was apart from other foreign intelligence agencies delivering warnings that weren't covered in the book.

The greater part of the account deals with her efforts to use official channels whether in the FBI or Congress to alert the government to blocked 911 information and other items concerning large scale theft and sale of government secrets. She doesn't get much or any support, with the thieves turning on her and getting her fired from the FBI.

Basically, she is that rarest of people, an American citizen who can put her national loyalty ahead of her personal interests.

It was made 100% clear to her that it was in her interest to shut up, ignore what was happening, follow instructions, accept what she was told and take the promotion on offer, so it was a particularly tough situation to fight, since as an ex FBI employee she couldn't legally reveal government secrets to make her case and the problem is visible throughout the book.

Interestingly it is also a problem for her opponents who would really like to get her out of circulation in totalitarian style and can't.

To understand some of this, maybe its useful to take a step back. Shouldn't the US government be interested in information about the biggest terror attack in the United States history? Shouldn't the press be looking at every detail of this attack? Why does the government only reluctantly accept and inquiry into events over a year later and dictate the outcome? Shortly afterwards the US attacked Iraq by mistake? (no WMD) so where was the inquiry into the fabricated WMD story and its immediate mass publication?

The plain obvious answer is in Edmond's book (and elsewhere) and it is that an important section of the US government knew that 911 was coming. It suited their purposes as the trigger for launching the pre-prepared WMD story/Iraq war, the "War on Terror", the Patriot Act and the mass destruction of American constitutional rights.

The book doesn't spell it out, but the WMD story wasn't the only item that was prepared in advance of the 9/11 attack.

World Trade Center Building 7 was the third tower that collapsed that day shortly after the aircraft hit the other two. The obvious controlled demolition process was so at variance with the government account that 1500 outraged architects and structural engineers formed an organization stating that the government story was a lie. They are familiar with the properties of structural steel, melting temperatures, thermite residue, falling resistance etc. and they have no doubt that this building was deliberately brought down. Its more than interesting to Google "Building 7" and follow the document and video trail.

On page 277 the author asks, "How do we get through to those that have readily accepted the despotism being marketed to them as security?" and this is a really interesting question.

One way may be to stop using labels like "The National Whistleblowers Center". Surely the "Patriot Act" and "Homeland Security" sound much better to a general audience so perhaps Edmonds could recheck the basic rules of Doublespeak.

Also "whistleblowing" and criticising elected governments and representatives (while exposing this and that) is mostly seen as negative and uninspiring. Maybe its better to directly enter politics with clear and positive policies (American Independence Party? - as in independence from special interests) funded by individual small contributions and powered by grass-roots volunteers.

So altogether a very worthwhile book and highly recommended.

UPDATE 8th December 2014
I'm probably one of the last people to see this video but it clearly supports Edmonds story; YouTube "CIA Lindauer Extreme Prejudice". CIA insider Lindauer shows that Edmonds very much understates the secret servic pre-knowledge of the WTC attacks, and that they were enabled and guided to conclusion with Iraq immediately identified as a guilty party (Lindauer makes 100% clear Iraq had nothing to do with it).

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K H

It reads like an old style spy novel

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2014

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Except that it is an autobiography of Mrs. Edmond's job as translator with the Washington FBI, and its after play, that includes a detailed account of her confrontation with the very noncooperative United States legal system, Congress and the various bureaucracies.

Most people, who have worked within large hierarchical organizations, will probably realize, that it may be dangerous to point out errors committed by coworkers or by people in higher levels. The author describes how she was fired from the FBI because she was doing her work too well for her boss' liking, being not only a more productive and a better translator than her colleagues, but also insisting on pursuing the organization's obvious goal and purposes - that would have to include unraveling serious crime.

Searching for some phrase to characterize the contents of this book, the sentence "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" comes to mind. Hamlet, the truth-seeker, does not want to play along with what he conceives as foul play.

What I missed in this book was an index, or at least a list of the definition of the many acronyms that are used, as well as a list of the host of different persons one meets while progressing through its 350 pages. Apart from this, the book is well organized into distinct chapters, and is easy to read, not least due its pleasant typographic features. It is only the lack of the mentioned lists, that slows down the reading. Which is why I have marked only four of five possible stars.

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bettyparry

TOUGH MAMA

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 7, 2015

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This was pre-Snowden. An auto-bio which tells of how 9/11 meant that the democratic rights of USA citizens were expendable due to security being regarded as so important. Edmonds is quickly recruited into translating urgent messages and documents. She finds that the info for attacking skyscrapers was known but not passed on. She sees that corruption and enemy within makes the protection of the country extremely weak. Enemy spies are operating within the department and people in positions of power in the US administration are on the payroll of enemy organisations. Her life becomes unbearable as she seeks to expose all the things which harm the country by the bodies which should be protecting it. They regard her as a troublemaker rather than a positive whistle-blower. The last half of the book is the legal struggle by her to protect herself from overwhelming forces, and try and inform the US people what was going on under Bush. She tries hard to get the info out whilst putting her life in danger. The CIA and the FBI regard her as an enemy of the state. Her book was refused by all publishers so in the end she had to publish it herself. She was stunned to realise that in the land of the free that she wasn't and that her rights are merely lent not given. All this was before Snowden came on to the scene. I recommend it totally. One good-looking tough cooky.

Thomas Dana Lloyd

One of the early whistle-blowers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2014

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The story of an early whistleblower on how the major agencies were using and often "producing" those devious characters often publicly branded with the infamous "T-word". Her Turkish background is especially helpful for insights on how the US has set up and protected its very own "religious extremists" in the United Staters and the Middle East, willing pawns in Washington's geopolitical manoeuvering above all since 2001. This is now corroborated by increasingly significant amounts of evidence, both historical (e.g. "A Mosque in Munich" by Ian Johnson) and in evidence emerging on current events.

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