Cross-posted at Daily Kos

It is now more than one month since Sunday Times of the United Kingdom published their first article on what could be called "The Sibel Edmonds Case" on January 6: "For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets". This was the followed by "FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft" on January 20 and "Tip-off thwarted nuclear spy ring probe".

This is 2008, the year when the citizens of the USA will elect the new president of the United States of Planet Earth. :-) Everything revealed by Times, Sibel herself, her most ardent supporter and publisher Luke Ryland (unfortunately gone on a trip for months) as well as professional analysts like Philip Giraldi (ex-CIA).

As lukery (= Luke Ryland, the leading expert also here) has pointed out it's very much up to the rest of us to give the Sibel Edmonds case wings and legs to keep it moving. Citizen activity. Direct Democracy. If every person interested in this would spend 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 10 minutes every week to disseminate this story on the new and elsewhere it WILL fly really high. Really soon.

So when the first US not-so-minor newspaper publishes a little crumb of Sibel Edmunds information in their letters section (hopefully not only on the web) it should be celebrated, encouraged, commented and spread (as We Can Change the World did): Yuma Sun: "FBI whistleblower ignored by media". I might have missed something but I can't recall any other US newspaper mentioning Sibel Edmonds after Sunday Times (UK) published their three sensational article (see lukery for links).

Following up yesterdays The SENSATIONAL Sibel Edmonds Case. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NEEDS A NEW MEDIA, A RENEWED CONGRESS, AS WELL AS A NEW PRESIDENT WITH GUTS ENOUGH TO STOP CRIMINALS IN POWER. The leading expert on the Sibel Edmonds case, Luke Ryland, offers some updates today: Action Alert. Grossman to appear in DC Wednesday 10am and a summary of ex CIA agent Philip Geraldi's article "Found in Translation. FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets" as well as "UK media slams US media on Sibel Edmonds case" where he links to The Guardian's "US journalists ignore Sunday Times scoop on FBI nuclear scandal". In Guardian you can read "Harry Shearer, one of the voices behind The Simpsons, has used his own blogging voice to ask a pertinent question. Why has a story broken by the Sunday Times over here about nefarious goings-on in the States failed to take off in the American media?" A NEW MEDIA IS VITAL FOR US DEMOCRACY.

Former ambassador to Turkey and former State Department #3, Marc Grossman is the unnamed senior official in the UK Times' recent blockbuster "For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets".

"(Marc Grossman) was aiding foreign operatives against US interests by passing them highly classified information, not only from the State Department but also from the Pentagon, in exchange for money, position and political objectives."

This is a most sensational story in many ways. There is per se nothing new to these criminal activities in the grey zone where politicians, drug syndicates, weapons dealers, and covert operations meet. On the contrary this has been documented by US journalists, researchers, authors, and via declassified documents for some 40 years now. What IS truly sensational is that 1) it is current news in a case cutting through all these layers of traditional cover-up, and 2) an extremely brave US citizen is willing to take all the hardship to expose this.

The Sibel Edmonds case has been going on and on since 2002, when CBS 60 minutes had her on the program. YouTube copy of the VERY IMPORTANT BACKGROUND: lost in translation - part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. Since then there have only been snippets (see Sibel's web site Just a Citizen for links to the meager coverage in US main stream media, a coverage that more or less ended in 2005.)

This pandora's box - literally! - has now been opened on this side of the pond. Two weeks ago (January 6) Sunday Times (UK) published a long article covering some of the aspects of this complex case - "For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets" - to follow up with "FBI denies file exposing nuclear secrets theft" subtitled "The FBI has been accused of covering up a file detailing government dealings with a network stealing nuclear secrets" last week-end.