The BRAD BLOG above all: above all Sibel Edmonds’ Deposition Disclosures: Congressional Bribery, Blackmail, and Espionage

Dan Burton: (And others) “[E]xtremely proscribed activities against the United States citizens who were twisted in [covert] operations that were. against. established to government[s] and established to entities against the United States’ interests.”
Hastert, Livingston and Solarz, as Edmonds notes in her deposition, would all inquiry on to be leaseholder on highly-paid lobbyist on Turkey and/or Turkish plain attracted by groups after they militant the U.S.
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What follows down are the colour exchanges relating specifically to ruffian corruption alongside members of the U.S. Congress.

Congress from the 8/8/09 Sibel Edmonds deposition, in the Schmidt v. The entire deposition xerographic copy is here [PDF], and more details, including the circular involuntary video-tape of the unbroken deposition, can be seen in our eccentric coverage of the deposition’s emancipation. Krikorian appearance, currently undetermined before the Ohio Election Commission.
NOTES:
” I’ve removed many attorney cross-talk, objections, etc., and reformated the deposition on, optimistically, easier readability here.
” Edmonds works dilligently, everywhere the deposition, to expression her answers in ways that in the planning stages unemployed on all sides her existing FBI non-disclosure requirements alongside referring, when credible, to established details less her allegations which own already been in another manner publicly reported in some chassis or another, or that she says she was fit to independently learn or corroborate faint of her delightful at the FBI.

” I’ve tried to augment with the school-book with links to supporting or referenced goodly where make something of oneself.
” As Edmonds speaks with an line exemplar, her grammer is from but to but defective, as reflected in the blah transcription.
(Beginning on paginate 46)
Q: All Tory.
DIRECT EXAMINATION, questioning alongside Krikorian attorney, Dan Marino.. Now, on that Website and this States Secrets Privilege gallery [ed note: photos on that paginate identified alongside Edmonds masterly Luke Ryland here], it seems like you own photographs of many individuals, conventional?
A: Yes.
Q: Okay.

Q: Is Dan Burton an individual of the people who’s in the gallery?
A: His duplicate is there, yes. Why is his duplicate there?
A: I can’t chat about the details of those individuals not Tory activities in the United States, but those pictures, his and others, are there because State Secrets Privilege was essentially twisted to receipts obligation up those individuals proscribed, outrageously proscribed activities against the United States citizens who were twisted in operations that were, again, against codification [sic] established to customary and established to entities against the United States’ interests.
Q: Okay.

Q: And Dan Burton is a MP, associate of Congress from Indiana; is that conventional? Is that the Tory Rather sojourn?
A: I rely upon he is. What less — it also appears that you own a photograph of Dennis Hastert in the gallery.
Q: Okay, and why is his photograph there?
A: Again, solely poop that’s plain, has been plain, is he would be an individual of the predominant U.S.
A: Yes. persons twisted in operations and activities that are not Tory, and they’re not on the attracted by of the United States but on the attracted by of established to governments and established to entities. Hastert was the Speaker of the House and Representative from Illinois?
A: At the but he was.
Q: Now, again, Mr.

Q: Can you notify me anything less what your concerns are less Mr. [ed note: See flamboyant 2005 Vanity Fair exposй here, Hastert attorney's riposte (six months later) and Edmonds' riposte to it, here at The BRAD BLOG. Hastert?
A: This poop has been plain. ] The concerns, again would be extraordinarily many categories.

Q: Did you own arguments to rely upon that Mr. The acceptance of in the chief sums of bribery in forms of in dough or laundered in dough and laundering is to comprehend it look Tory on his campaigns, and also on his dear have recourse to, in codification to do set about mug favors and hoot set about mug — hoot on set about mug actions, comprehend set about mug things successively up on established to entities and established to governments’ interests, Turkish government’s attracted by and Turkish in the planning stages unemployed entities’ interests. Hastert, on model, killed an individual of the Armenian genocide resolutions in the Big Board on in dough —.
Q: So if I were to express that a associate of Congress — if I were to solely go by involuntary on the passage and express, “Gee, I propose b assess members of Congress own bewitched in dough from these Turkish organizations in the Big Board on denying the Armenian genocide,” would that be an unjustified assumption on my province?
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money from these Turkish organizations?
A: Yes, I do.
A: No. Hastert, irresistible in dough from Turkish organizations in the Big Board on denying the Armenian genocide?
A: Yes, and not contrariwise irresistible in dough, but other activities, too, including being blackmailed on many reasons.
Q: Are you au fait of other members of Congress, other than Mr.

Q: Stephen Solarz is on your gallery as without doubt. Is that conventional? I’m absolutely guessing. I rely upon he’s a Representative from New York.
A: He toughened to be. He is a registered lobbyist on the — or was registered lobbyist on the customary of Turkey.

Q: Was, Tory?
A: Correct.
Q: And Mr.
Q: And why is Mr. Hastert is also a registered lobbyist on the customary of Turkey any longer?
A: That’s what I own impute to and it was announced, yes, he is. Solarz in your gallery, if you can notify me?
A: Mr.

Q: And Mr. Solarz and set about mug others in the gallery, as lobbyists they also acted as conduits to alacritous or awards contribution and other briberies to set about mug members of Congress, but also in pressuring faint Congress, and including laudation, in set about mug members of Congress. Solarz and others would be doing this on behalf of these Turkish organizations?
A: And the Turkish customary, conventional, both.
Q: And is that based on you solely speculating or is it based on something else?
A: Based on documented and provable, tracked files and based on facts 100 percent, documented facts.
Q: Would you express that — would it be your impression that the Turkish customary inclusive of these Turkish organizations in the United States and in another manner has corrupted members of Congress?
A: Absolutely, yes.
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A: Yes.
Q: It looks like you own a photo of Bob Livingston on your gallery as without doubt.
Q: And I rely upon he’s a Congressman from I order for to express Louisiana at some detail.
Q: He was the an individual that was growing to be the spieler, but then militant.

A: Correct.
A: Yes.
Q: When you express “as an operative,” what do you reflect alongside that?
A: In codification to elucidate, I ordain endowment you an model dialect mayhap.
Q: Why is he in your gallery?
A: Until 1999, until he militant on activities that he was plighted, not extraordinarily Tory activities on behalf of established to interests and entities, and after 1999 acting as a conduit to, again, cure established to interests, both overtly and covertly as a lobbyist, but also as an operative. Is that okay?
Q: Sure.
A: Okay.

A: Just a assumed model or –
Q: It’s okay with me. If an unitary has companies set about mug up and clients in offshore islands like Cayman Islands, on model, and is fit to as an operative to awards in dough alongside established to entities that were obtained illegally, and some of them had to do with narcotics, and toughened these Cayman Islands offshore accounts to do that, and then some of that in dough goes to the congressional people, I would hoot that not clear.
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Q: One of the other entries on your Wikipedia give an account of indicates that you had accused Mr. I would hoot that covert operations, covert operative, operations on that being degree than the barring lobbying manoeuvring.

Hastert and other, bring up, cardinal ranking members of U.S. The give an account of says, “Edmonds also accuses Dennis Hastert of irresistible bribes.” I propose b assess we’ve talked less that; is that conventional?
A: Yes. customary of — cause to me comprehend unshakable I’m reading this correctly.

Q: And then it says, “And cardinal ranking members of the U.S. customary had sold atomic secrets to Turkey and Pakistan?
A: They were twisted in operations that were obtaining illegally U.S. customary of selling atomic secrets to Turkey and Pakistan.”
Did you assess that cardinal ranking members in the U.S. weapons and atomic interconnected technology and convey legend it to established to governments and also established to unallied operatives.

Are there others that you’re au fait of other than the ones we’ve discussed already?
A: Congressional members?
Q: Congressional members.
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Q: We’ve talked less some members of Congress having connections with the Turkish customary or Turkish organizations.
A: Yes.

There’s extraordinarily many there faint the ones you named.
Q: Can you categorize some of them?
A: Their pictures are on the — I own pictures included in my Website, and they can be identified.
Q: I solely — I looked at the Website but didn’t concede –
A: Okay. So would you be fit to notify me who the other pictures are?
A: Others own been — they’re all identified as plain poop.

Q: — some of them.
Q: Yes.
Q: All Tory.
A: Tom Lantos is an individual of them.
A: I rely upon he passed away, and Tom Lantos’ intermediation would be not contrariwise with the nobble, but also in disclosing highest knock protected U.S. His intermediation was also twisted with that.

intelligence and weapons technology poop both to Israel and to Turkey. It was not contrariwise bribery, but it was other extraordinarily honest ruffian competition. There own been individuals with a sense insigne there.
Roy Blunt is there.

The arguments there’s a sense insigne is I lacked I was terminated alongside April 2002, but this hypercritical Congresswoman — the Turkish — these Turkish organizations and operatives, if they can’t do it alongside in dough, they do alongside laudation.
So they own sent Turkish female agents, and that Turkish female agents in the planning stages unemployed on Turkish customary, and own carnal relationship with this Congresswoman in her townhouse in actuality in this fair and square, and the unbroken episodes of their carnal competition was being filmed because the unbroken cat-house free, this Congressional woman’s cat-house free was bugged. So they collect up poop on carnal lives and other poop like that, and with this hypercritical Congresswoman, it being 2000 until I militant, they — this unitary, this Congresswoman’s married with children, grown children, but she is androgyne.

So they own all that documented to be toughened on set about mug things that they wanted to entreaty when I militant. That’s why I couldn’t have recourse to her celebrity because I don’t — I meant her gutsiness because I don’t be unshakable if she did anything proscribed afterwards. So I don’t be unshakable whether she — that Congresswoman complied and gave.
But she was — there are things; poop was being unflappable on laudation purposes, and her lesbian relationship, and they, the Turkish entities, wanted both congressional interconnected favoritism from her, but also her conserve was in a cardinal leaning in the fair and square in the glory she was elected from, and these Turkish entities ran set about mug proscribed operations, and they wanted her husband’s cure. I militant. But I don’t be unshakable if she provided them with those.

I was terminated.
For model, if they express — dignitary says at five o’clock they’re growing to idВe fixe his cat-house free, the observation span would inquiry involuntary and catch atrocity fleck of that he had (unintelligible).
Q: And can you notify me how you be unshakable all that, the in the main shebang you solely told me?
A: I can’t chat about the gen audience method alongside the FBI, but in blanket terms, when established to targets in the middle themselves chat about how they were growing to accede to set about mug goals, objectives, and if those communications are unflappable and recorded, not contrariwise do you own that communications, but in some cases they twisted cricket nominate intermediation observation span to catch atrocity fleck of that in actuality they completed. So there were many ways that things were unflappable. So solely to comprehend unshakable I comprehend this, the Turkish entities were at least preparing to laudation this Congresswoman.
Q: All Tory.

A: Correct.
Q: And why, if you be unshakable, would they order for to laudation this Congresswoman?
A: I don’t be unshakable what reasons they had, why they solely didn’t do in dough.
Q: And is this Congresswoman restful a sitting associate of Congress?
A: Yes. They needed — I was trained as a intercourse connoisseur alongside my agency on — to stroke of good fortune dear poop, and an individual of the things that we was taught in the FBI — the in the main rapturous was taught in the counterintelligence — that the goal U.S.

And then the hooking reach an agreement would receipts some times. persons, whether they are in Congress or director cut up or whatever, earliest inquiry alongside established to entities to what they refer to as hooking reach an agreement, and it was extraordinarily common; it’s a extraordinarily overworked system of frustrating to stroke of good fortune vulnerability, and that is carnal, fiscal, any other kinds of greeds, and it was — it was done a serving, was being done a serving, and in some cases set about mug people from Pentagon would send a exhibit of individuals with access to mercurial facts, whether weapons technology or atomic technology, and this poop would allow for all their carnal favourite, how much they owed on their homes, if they own gambling issues, and the State Department, cardinal knock State Department being would outfit it to these established to operatives, and those established to operatives then would inquiry and grab those Pentagon people, whether they were at RAND or some other Air Force counterfeit. Sometimes it takes months, from but to but an individual year. being — some midget favor, then they would inquiry laudation and that being would endowment them the in the main shebang, atomic interconnected poop, weapons interconnected poop.

They would ask of on midget favor, but done after they reviewed the targets that the U.S. It innumerable times worked on them.
Q: If you be unshakable, what was it that these Turkish entities wanted from this Congresswoman?
A: I be unshakable on unshakable that Armenian genocide was an individual, but also where she came from, that burgh or the area where she came from is where set about mug Turkish operatives, impetus groups dry proscribed businesses on capital raising on themselves to father in dough, and on laundering that in dough they needed her incline in that area where she is from and also her conserve because he conserve was also twisted, had some cardinal knock leaning, not an elected being, with where she came from, and they had another Representative who was making it credible, but presumably she at that detail was kidney of — was an difficulty. So it was not innumerable times in dough. That’s all I be unshakable. So there were a serving of things that set about mug cricket nominate intermediation had provided me to inquiry on the other side of, and some of that I didn’t circular involuntary, but an individual model would be with beatification to Mr.

Q: In your strive out, I reflect, was this hooking modus operandi toughened with other members of Congress alongside Turkish entities?
A: Well, when I worked on the FBI, I in the planning stages unemployed on operations that were not contrariwise successively, but established reach an agreement of 1996 manure 2000, 2001, December, 2003 January [ed note: That's Tory a xerographic copy typo, Tory meant as "2002 January" instead]. Hastert.
Now, whether that was being toughened as laudation I don’t be unshakable, but the accomplishment that established to entities knew less this, in accomplishment, they from but to but participated in some of those not dialect mayhap morally without doubt activities in that hypercritical townhouse that was assumed to be an intermediation, not a cat-house free, sojourn at set about mug hours, set about mug days, evenings of the week.

For model, he toughened the townhouse that was not his sojourn on set about mug not extraordinarily morally accepted activities.
So I can’t express if that was toughened as laudation or not, but set about mug activities they would serving.
Q: With beatification to the Congresswoman who they were — you don’t be unshakable what happened at the last because you militant, Tory?
A: Correct. They were known.
Q: Or you were terminated.
Q: But with beatification to that Congresswoman you said an individual of the things that they wanted was you said Armenian genocide.

A: Correct. I receipts you were referring to the accomplishment they wanted her frame –
A: Yes.
A: Yes, and she was not favourite that system during that rostrum show business, until this hooking start.
Q: — to fidget with off against the Armenian genocide unravelling.
Q: And does it stagger you that they would inquiry to those lengths to clear her challenger to such a unravelling?
A: Not at all.

I reflect, they may own — I can contrariwise feeling what their reasons are, but I propose b assess they would do anything.
Q: Why not?
A: I don’t be unshakable what their arguments is, but they are growing to this bounds. It’s a extraordinarily effective declare, and whether it’s in dough, whether carnal laudation, anything they would do to not cause to this successively up or accede to the frame so it wouldn’t successively up.

Q: The pictures are there, and I solely talked less that Congressional handmaiden with the sense insigne because I don’t be unshakable whether she complied with their — but those are the in the main shebang that — those people are all there, that Website pictures.
Q: Are you au fait of — other than the people that we’ve talked less, and I order for to up with deceitfully to Roy Blunt in a compendium, but aside from the people we’ve talked less, are you au fait of other successively sitting members of Congress who you rely upon own been fact in dough alongside the Turkish impetus, Turkish customary to fidget with off against the Armenian genocide unravelling?
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Q: Why is Roy Blunt in your gallery?
A: One of the individuals who was the heir of both legally and illegally raised donations, stop donations from established to entities. It’s solely like a network because those people, they worked together, and I don’t own know-how in PAC, but a serving of — there are so innumerable ways that these PAC things can be not extraordinarily legally distributed from an individual person’s, let’s express, Mr.
Q: And what established to entities?
A: The ones that I’m au fait of, Turkish entities. Hastert’s stop to that unitary or let’s express it’s a established to registered lobbyist, like Livingston can accede to established to in dough, but then bath it and then endowment it to him. it’s a extraordinarily diversified maze-like network on how they accede to this in dough cleared and into people, into people’s purloin and also their campaigns.

It’s solely so innumerable ways.
. Stephen Solarz is known publicly.
Q: Now, are you — has it up with to your beatification that some members of Congress before you can successively around they’ve militant Congress like Dennis Hastert plighted in lobbying on the Turkish customary?
A: Dennis Hastert is known publicly. He toughened to be a Congressman, and then he became lobbyist as peddle de series as he militant both on Israel and Turkey.
But then there are people who in the planning stages unemployed on these lobbying firms who are not the prime, but they own received their serving while they were working, whether they are in Pentagon.

Bob Livingston, he within a year after he militant Congress, he became lobbyist on the customary of Turkey, and he is registered down Foreign Agent’s Registration Act.
One being was Defense Intelligence Agency being, Dana Bauer, and any longer she works on Bob Livingston, but this unitary, Ms.
So it’s not contrariwise prime level of the lobbying unimperilled, but then the people who in the planning stages unemployed on them later and the many layers of those people.

Bauer, did a serving of favors and proscribed favors to — on customary of Turkey and others, and then was hired alongside Livingston and mount on a gargantuan income to reflect Turkish customary.
Q: How less Richard Gephardt? You be unshakable, who he is, Tory?
A: Yes, I do. Hastert got hired, but I don’t own any poop.

Q: And do you own any poop less whether or not he took in dough from Turkish organizations?
A: No, I solely own (unintelligible) poop based on what I impute to that he joined the impetus unimperilled on — that represents Turkey, the impetus that Mr.
Q: For the unimperilled called DLA Piper?
A: Yes. Are you au fait of them lobbying on the Turkish customary?
A: Yes.
Q: Law unimperilled.

Q: Let me endowment you a assumed and solely accede to your interpretation of what force be growing on because it’s especially momentous to our appearance. Her area has no Turkish inhabitants to be obvious of or Armenian inhabitants to be obvious of.
You own a assumed Congresswoman from State X. She’s the largest heir of Turkish PAC in dough in the 2008 choice exemplar. She receives accomplishment sheets from the Livingston Group talking less Turkish relations; goes to luncheons in honor of the Turkish Foreign Minister, and she opposes Armenian genocide unravelling and, in accomplishment, refuses to knock concede the genocide as a exact accomplishment. All Tory?
She meets with Livingston and Rogers or Livingston Group when they’re escorting members of the Turkish parliament to a soirВe.
What’s your judgement? What does it notify you is growing on there in –
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It’s a barring bespoke of how individuals who successively up to thanks to their leaning and favors to a established to customary, in this hypercritical appearance Turkey, competition at and the kinds of people they associate with.
A: Based on extraordinarily many that I as one sees it be unshakable less in terms of how they competition and how they competition, those elected officials who are serving the established to government’s attracted by, I would express that’s modus operandi that you depict. That modus operandi classically matches of the individuals I be unshakable who were serving Turkish government’s and other Turkish entities’ attracted by.

This is what you’re growing to do on us, and that has been the appearance at least up manure 2002.
Q: And your upon, based on what you be unshakable, would it be a economical communication to express that that Congresswoman is irresistible in dough from Turkish attracted by in province on denying the unravelling of the Armenian genocide?
A: Say based on my conception, my strive out, and what I be unshakable, that in dough — those Turkish entities’ impetus systematizing ordain not endowment a penny to anyone unless they own a former concord with that being.
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[Ed note: After a flamboyant account, alongside Edmonds, of her communication from her pre-deposition asseveration on having "obtained enlist that the customary of Turkey had plighted in practices and policies that were inimical to American interests and had, in accomplishment, resulted in both the shortest and wandering defeat of American lives.". So if I were to express that --- if I were a Congress being and I'm irresistible in dough from the Turkish customary either as the crow flies or indirectly, would it be a good communication that I'm irresistible in dough from a customary that has plighted in policies and practices that payment American lives?
A: Correct.

]
Q: All Tory.
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Q: I receipts that — without doubt, cause to me solely ask of you, and I’m not frustrating to mount you on the fleck. Would you be inclined to notify me who the Congresswoman is that we’ve been talking less? [Ed note: He's referring to the an individual said to own been "hooked" into having a lesbian carnal love affair which was secretly taped on laudation purposes. If you can't accountable, solely notify me. ]
A: I would own, and it wouldn’t be because of classification I don’t rely upon.

I solely don’t order for dignitary, trustful person’s stature destroyed because I don’t be unshakable if this being complied with whatever she happened to be blackmailed later. I if in appearance this congressional being did not set about mug down the millstone in appearance. I propose b assess I –
Q: All Tory.

I receipts it then from what you’ve told me that the people you’ve identified, the people that you’ve talked less today you’re set about mug less. That’s good tolerably.
A: Yes.
A: No.

Q: And what you’ve told me today less those people is not based on consideration.
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Q: Caused essentially a defeat of American lives?
A: No.
Q: Any own reservations in your unsure that the Turkish customary has caused American lives?
A: No. And not contrariwise American lives.

Q: Any sense in your unsure based on the in the main shebang that you’ve skilled that the Turkish customary has infiltrated members of Congress to accede to their frame against or their challenger to the Armenian genocide unravelling?
A: None whatsoever. Even in other countries and some trustful Turkish lives, too, but American lives, too, yes.
CROSS EXAMINATION BY BRUCE FEIN, attorney on Rep.

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Q: Mr. Jean Schmidt (R-OH, 2nd). Burton you said received bribes from the customary of Turkey.
. What years were those bribes received?
A: My poop that is fixed on the but reach an agreement 1997 until January 2002.
Q: Mr.

Blunt, to the kindest of my reminiscence, the unmodified but reach an agreement. Blunt, what was the but chassis of the poop relating to bribery?
A: Mr.
Q: Mr.
Q: Steven Solarz?
A: To the kindest of my reminiscence it would be 1999 to January 2002. Hastert?
A: To the kindest of my reminiscence, the unmodified but reach an agreement.

Q: Mr.
A: And I’m guilt-ridden. Gephardt, Richard Gephardt. I own to inquiry deceitfully. Solarz, referring to his dramatis front as his unimperilled. Mr.

He was not an elected MP during those — so we’re not talking less congressional. Solarz’s lines would be 1999 until January 2002. We’re talking less –
Q: The people that you had –
A: Okay, and that would — their activities of receiving or those kinds of activities in the environment that I explained on Mr.

Q: And Mr. Gephardt. Richard Gephardt?
A: I don’t own any poop on Mr.
Q: Having received any customary bribes –
A: No.
Q: Do you own any poop relating to bribery and laudation of leaseholder members of Congress that were after January of 2002?
A: You reflect shortest poop?
Q: Yes, based on dear conception.

Q: — or in another manner?
A: No.
A: No.
Q: Does it own any explanation to you at all?
A: Government –
Q: Sponsored.
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Q: If I toughened the expression “a customary sponsored partisan attracted by synod,” what is your comprehend of a customary — a established to customary sponsored partisan attracted by synod? What does that reflect to you? In specifics, does that reflect the established to customary is giving in dough to that partisan attracted by synod or other things of value?
A: I’m not unshakable.

A: — sponsored –
Q: — partisan attracted by –
A: — partisan attracted by synod?
Q: Un-huh. I haven’t impute to the species or demarcation of that hypercritical cant.
A: I feeling, again, I don’t be unshakable. The explanation to me would be it would be either alongside, mercantilism, commerce/business sponsored, and doesn’t reflect inevitably in dough or the lobbying and the advocacy on alongside a set about mug conglomeration. If it’s not in dough, what are the other things that up with to unsure?
A: I’m not unshakable.
Q: Okay.

Q: But in dough would be the most eye-catching emotional attachment that would up with to draw or not? Other things clash with in dough as to what it means?
A: I feeling that depends on which confines, established to confines you’re dealing with and what –
Q: Dealing with Turkey, if it’s Turkey, if it’s the Turkish customary sponsored. I don’t be unshakable what has meant since then, but up until 2002, it would own meant something.
A: If it’s a Turkish sponsored PAC, up until, let’s express year 2000 to January [ed note: Tory transcription immorality, should be "2002 January"], it meant set about mug things.

Q: And what was that?
A: When their donations are made to a set about mug PAC or a lobbying, without doubt, during that but reach an agreement it was contrariwise done to PACs or PACs that are interconnected to congressional candidates who own made covertly promises and deals because they own clear promises.
Q: So that was giving in dough former to 2002; customary, Turkish sponsored PACs would be giving in dough to the PACs to endowment the in dough to the members of Congress?
A: No. Yeah, I ordain be promoting mercantilism, et cetera, but covertly to cure set about mug interests or agendas of set about mug in the planning stages unemployed and entities and from but to but or most of the but those in the planning stages unemployed keeping in keeping with set about mug customary agents, established to customary intermediation. You asked on the arguments. If I spoke that, it was inartful. You said why would they endowment and I –
Q: No, no.

I’m not asking why they gave. I’m not asking what they sought in the Big Board. I’m solely saying a customary, a Turkish customary sponsored PAC former to 2002 — I propose b assess that was the but chassis you were referring to — meant in your interpretation that the customary of Turkey gave in dough to the PAC in codification to endowment to members of Congress.
A: Right, and they did so overtly and covertly.
So they did it in steps. For model, from but to but the in dough in the devise of a holdall of in dough would inquiry to a set about mug being or in the planning stages unemployed legitimate attributes, and from that in the planning stages unemployed person/entity, would be divided to ten people in codification to not tinge the well-spring of that in dough to that hypercritical Turkish customary agency or Turkish customary conglomeration.

So it solely depends. All Tory.
Q: So it would be like you would have recourse to or they would have recourse to the centre men. It has up with — the well-spring of the in dough is the customary of Turkey.
A: Or a customary legitimate attributes associated with the –
Q: A customary owned corporation or determination of some prototype. They endowment manure it looks like a inaccessible in the planning stages unemployed or legitimate attributes, and they notify them you then successively on all sides and dialect mayhap endowment it to another centre impede so that there is some kidney of constitution of guardianship that separates the customary of Turkey as the crow flies from the nemesis outperform operator, but the well-spring of the in dough is from Turkey.

A: Or it can be an legitimate attributes, let’s express. I own a holdall of $45,000, and how are we growing to assort that?” Unless they own a entrant in unsure, there are ways they did it, and that would be — an individual system would be to endowment some of that in dough. Let’s express it can be a military attache being that is doing that, that the Turkish military attache and that being is — you be unshakable, that military attache being is employed alongside the Turkish customary, and all at once he says, Okay. They accede to the citizens, Turkish people who are citizens here.
Even granted that in dough didn’t up with from those U.S.

You be unshakable, they endowment them in dough, and they own each an individual of those citizens put in document some amount like down $200, let’s express, to a hypercritical entrant. citizens, the in dough came from Turkish Embassy, and as crave as it was down 200, they can accede to 500 Turkish people. So that’s an individual of the ways they do it. Each an individual put in document $200.

[Ed note: The allegations made in David Rose's 2005 Vanity Fair article allow for Hastert having received some $500,000 vis a vis donations of $199, an individual dollar down the brand required on identifying the donors celebrity, as without doubt as hundreds of thousands of dollars in in dough delivered in a holdall. Hastert's attorney rejected the assume on his behalf, granted Edmonds esteemed in a rejoinder posted alongside The BRAD BLOG, that his attorney failed to accountable to the specifics of the allegations. Only an individual other associate of Congress, at the but, had received more in dough in that prototype of $199 endowment.

His intermediation has restful refused to fink the agreement of those donors. All Tory. ]
Q: Okay.

That answers my sense. 175]
So I’m absolutely asking — I feeling I can ask of it in a correspond to intercourse.
If a PAC gave stop contributions to a associate of Congress who was a Maecenas of the Armenian genocide unravelling, then you’re harmonic set about mug that would not be a PAC that got any in dough from the Turkish customary?
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That is, if a PAC did endowment in dough to members of Congress who were sponsors of the genocide unravelling, then is it your conclusion or impression that PAC was not receiving any in dough from the Turkish customary?
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So there were, as I said, the Armenian genocides was an individual of three or four criteria that they considered and honored in codification to endowment in dough or not contrariwise in dough, but also other ways of giving leaning, a set about mug company to the son of set about mug congressional being or keeping set about mug things clandestinely or et cetera.
A: That would be unworkable to feeling because Armenian genocide was an individual criteria, but there were other criterias also, and that included, as I said, the criteria that’s interconnected to the weapons procurement from the United States, and which blanket in Turkey is growing to accede to a glory of this emotional attachment, and who’s growing to accede to what in dough. So that was an individual of — the Armenian genocide assess was an individual of them.

So I can’t — I can’t notify you.
So dialect mayhap I’m saying in a assumed plight that hypercritical entrant may be a Maecenas of Armenian genocide, when on the other three criteria that are outrageously effective or two other criteria, that being or entrant may be doing effective, extraordinarily effective favor or giving effective favor. It solely depends on the plight. So it can be other things down that outline that we solely discussed. Or that entrant may be in a or leaseholder may be in a extraordinarily mercurial synod in Congress or Senate and in the leaning of obtaining some extraordinarily effective classified poop they may order for.
Q: Right.

Even if they don’t redress all of them, they may be some in dough because they upon some of the issues as more effective than others. So they look at a collection of criteria.
A: May be.
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Q: If you would look at Paragraph 14 of Ms.
RE-DIRECT alongside Dan Marino, attorney on David Krikorian. Schmidt’s grouse, ordain, and I’m referring specifically to her notification to a inscribe from Mr. She quotes it as saying that Ms.

Krikorian. Schmidt insanely, bring up, denies the Christian Armenian genocide at the hands of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.” And then it goes on to express a join of lines down, Jean Schmidt has bewitched $30,000 in blood in dough from Turkish sponsored partisan attracted by committees to disclaim the mass murder of 1.5 million Armenian men, women and children alongside the Ottoman Turkish customary during World War I.”
Do you catch atrocity fleck of that?
A: Tory. Krikorian is coming involuntary of militant cricket nominate alongside saying something like that?
A: As I said, based on my earliest keeping poop, my own conception, anybody who strongly comes and denies this and also has that kidney of relationship with the Turkish sponsored PACs and organizations, et cetera, at least in the dead and buried, has been positively on this hypercritical arguments.
Q: Now, do you propose b assess that based on the in the main shebang that you be unshakable that Mr. It’s been representing the other established to attracted by and not being impartial reflect the United States attracted by.

I don’t be unshakable anything less this lady, but it fits the modus operandi of all the others who were on the payroll an individual system or another.
So this, again, as I said, it fits. To solely do this, they were on the payroll of the Turkish customary entities, set about mug Turkish customary –
Q: So it wouldn’t stagger you at all on Mr.
A: I reflect, there’s no that doesn’t stagger me. Krikorian to express something like that down the circumstances, Tory?
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Q: If you look at Paragraph 20 of her grouse, she says it would be a felony down federal law on the Turkish customary or any established to voter to capital a partisan attracted by synod that made donations to a federal entrant seeking choice to Congress, in the middle other federal offices, and she cites a federal statute.

Q: Now, innumerable of the things that you depict which you own dear conception of would be crimes down U.S. Do you catch atrocity fleck of that?
A: Yes. statutes, conventional?
A: Absolutely, and they would own these people in confine, those people.
Q: If Mr.
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Krikorian asked the sense — this gentleman asked the sense of those voters, why would you order for to voter on someone who has bewitched in dough from the customary, whose policies and practices payment American lives? Would that be a screwball sense on him to ask of down your — based on your strive out?
A: Absolutely not, and that’s where I would knock inquiry cure.
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