"...this money travels. And you start trying to
go to the root of it and it’s getting into somebody’s political campaign,
and somebody’s lobbying. And people don’t want to be traced back to this
money. Once this issue gets to be investigated, you will be seeing certain
[American] people that we know from this country standing trial; and they will
be prosecuted criminally." (Sibel Edmonds, former FBI linguist and 9-11
federal whistleblower)
by Tom Flocco
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Curt Weldon
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LOS ANGELES—October 16, 2006—TomFlocco.com—Following
reports of an FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) Public Integrity Section
probe of House Armed Services Committee Vice Chairman Curt Weldon (R-7-PA),
federal agents who spoke with U.S. intelligence authority Thomas Heneghan said
“there is evidence of money laundering via secret accounts linked to
companies such as Solutions North America which in turn are connected to
Bosnia, Serbia and oil accounts in Moscow—all linked to the Gary Best and
Bush-Clinton crime syndicate.”
In interviews this weekend Heneghan told TomFlocco.com that
intelligence sources told him, “companies who engaged in business with
Solutions North America involve a tie-in to Saudi Arabia and funding for the
9/11 attacks via the American Turkish Council.”
According to former FBI translator Sibel Edmonds, explosive evidence linking
the American Turkish Council to money laundering and secret congressional
campaign accounts was covered up by a federal district court and a three judge
appeals court panel which issued a federal gag order to silence the 9 11
federal whistleblower who we interviewed on four separate occasions for TomFlocco.com
stories.
On Saturday The Associated Press (AP) independently confirmed the
original story regarding the FBI probe of congressional sale of influence
allegedly involving Weldon by McClatchy Newspapers, but AP broke
new ground by adding that the inquiry is being handled by agents from
Washington and Philadelphia FBI field offices coordinated by the Public
Integrity Section; however, neither agency will confirm or deny the probe.
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Sibel Edmonds at home
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The FBI has reportedly been investigating Weldon for a
number of months regarding allegations of political sale of influence in
return for lucrative federal contracts for his daughter Karen and long-time
Delaware County political ally Charles P. Sexton who created their Solutions
North America firm in 2002 after registering with the Justice Department as
representatives of foreign clients.
Sibel Edmonds specially mentioned the Turkish American Council when we
asked the FBI contract linguist if she would deny that laundered drug money
linked to the 9/11 attacks found its way into recent House, Senate and
Presidential campaign war-chests according to what she heard in intelligence
intercepts she was required to translate: “There is direct evidence
involving no more than ten American names that I recognized. Some are heads of
government agencies or politicians—but I don’t want to go any further than
that.”
In an exclusive interview in April, 2005, Edmonds said, “Tom, I’m telling
you that not a single newspaper covered what happened to me on Thursday when I
went into court…[Judge David] Ginsberg kicked everyone out, cut off my
lawyer’s arguments and told us ‘we have questions to ask the
government’s attorneys that you cannot hear.’ “
“Nobody is looking at the Department of Defense aspect of the whole 9-11
cover-up. The FBI is citing two reasons for my gag order: to protect
‘sensitive’ diplomatic relations and to protect foreign U.S. business
relationships,” the FBI translator said, explaining from a position of
having seen and heard evidence of congressional money laundering, “The State
Department is the main reason for the cover-up…Pakistan, Turkey…espionage
in the State Department…preventing an investigation.”
When asked in 2002 by CBS 60 Minutes co-host Ed Bradley, “Did she [Sibel
Edmonds] seem credible to you? Did her story seem credible?” Senator Charles
Grassley (R-IA) said, “Absolutely, she’s credible. And the reason I feel
she’s credible is because people within the FBI have corroborated a lot of
her story.”
FBI intelligence intercepts and money laundering?
While AP and McClatchy News are reporting an FBI probe regarding
allegations of Weldon’s sale of political influence in return for lucrative
contracts for a family member and a political friend, it is not known whether
Edmonds’ translated intelligence intercepts revealing money laundering by
foreign entities is also at issue.
Karen Weldon’s Solutions North America partner and long-time Curt Weldon
political ally Charles P. Sexton reportedly sold his local Delaware County
security business, Foulke Associates, Inc., to an unnamed corporation for $6
million soon after Solutions opened for business.
Given Friday and Saturday reports, Congressman Weldon’s Democrat opponent,
Delaware County native and retired Admiral Joseph Sestak, has yet to question
whether the entity purchasing Sexton’s security firm paid far more than
Foulke Associates was actually worth—a common money laundering practice
related to financial payoffs.
Sestak will have an opportunity to ask Weldon about Sibel Edmonds,
intelligence intercepts and money laundering this Friday at their second
debate to be held on Charles Sexton’s home turf, the Springfield, Delaware
County Country Club.
Not only was Foulke sold for $6 million at the time Solutions was created by
Ms. Weldon and Sexton, but also around the same time the Russian and Serbian
contracts totaling nearly $1 million were beginning to be firmed up, signed
and operational for Solutions North America.
Before becoming a Delaware County Councilman, Sexton was the leader of the
Springfield Republican Party while running Foulke Associates, which raises
questions as to how many business owners within Springfield’s dense
commercial real estate developments have been encouraged to employ Foulke
Associates for their security needs.
Karen Weldon and Charles Sexton have declined to offer comment regarding the
Solutions contracts and the sale of Foulke Associates, referring questions to
their Media attorney Joseph Fioravanti, a former federal prosecutor with
reportedly close ties to the Delaware County Republican Party.
Weldon silent on top-secret 9-11 / Iraq War Cambone notes
After seven months, constituent voter TomFlocco.com spoke directly with
Weldon after his October 6 debate at the Drexelbrook Conference Center in
Upper Darby, asking whether he was planning to call Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld and Under-Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Stephen Cambone to
testify before his Armed services committee to explain Cambone’s
explosive hand written observations during meetings with Rumsfeld on the day
of the September 11 attacks.
The heavily redacted notes provide cryptic but meritorious evidence placing
war with Iraq as foremost on the minds of Bush administration officials
simultaneously as the alleged “hijackers” attacked America on September
11, 2001 while also referencing Saddam Hussein’s son Uday and Usama bin
Laden regarding a letter
sent to Russian President Vladimir Putin which allegedly indicated prior
knowledge of the 9-11 attacks
Rumsfeld: “Hard to get a good case…Need to move swiftly. Near term
target needs…Go massive—(Sweep) it all up. Things related and not.....
Tasks [Pentagon attorney] Jim Haynes to talk w/ PW [former Deputy Secretary of
Defense Paul Wolfowitz] for additional support v/v [visavis—with relation
to] Usis [Uday Hussein-Saddam's son] & connection w/ UBL [Usama bin Laden]
" (Stephen Cambone notes, 2:40 pm, Sept. 11, 2001—4.5 hours after
attacks)
“I never saw them,” said Weldon, even though we had sent the Freedom of
Information Act office-certified notes with the official government seal and
signatures via email to his district and Capitol Hill offices with URL links
to TomFlocco.com, had a open
letter to Weldon published in the widely-read local News of Delaware
County referring specifically to Cambone’s 9-11 notes while also calling his
offices at least five times since the March 5 letter was published.
Quickly leaning toward the exit after photos with Admiral Sestak and a short
individual press conference, Rep. Weldon told TomFlocco.com, “send me
the Cambone notes. I read everything you write, good job,” after which the
Armed Services Vice-Chairman offered his hand and quickly left the building.
It is important to note that we had also sent Weldon’s office a story
explaining the significance of the Cambone notes which accompanied the top
secret documents which the GOP House veteran, his chief-of-staff Russ Caso or
another staffer undoubtedly would have read: Top-secret
notes confirm congressional, 9-11 Commission & Pentagon cover up of Iraq
war plans on day of Sept. 11 attacks.
Interestingly, Sestak and his staff have also been in possession of the
Cambone notes and accompanying stories since the middle of the summer, while
also failing to publicize their existence and implications for the Iraq War
and their relationship to the 9-11 attacks, raising additional serious
questions about a full-scale bipartisan cover-up regarding the role of the
9-11 attacks in fanning the flames of war and patriotic fervor against a
country with no weapons of mass destruction.