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Founder - President:
Sibel Edmonds
Sibel Edmonds worked
as a language specialist for the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
During her work with the bureau, she discovered and reported serious
acts of security breaches, cover-ups, and intentional blocking of
intelligence that had national security implications. After she
reported these acts to FBI management, she was retaliated against by
the FBI and ultimately fired in March 2002. Since that time, court
proceedings on her issues have been blocked by the assertion of
“State Secret Privilege” by Attorney General Ashcroft; the Congress
of the United States has been gagged and prevented from any
discussion of her case through retroactive re-classification by the
Department of Justice. Ms. Edmonds is fluent in Turkish, Farsi and
Azerbaijani; and has a MA in Public Policy and International
Commerce from George Mason University, and a BA in Criminal Justice
and Psychology from George Washington University.
PEN American Center
awarded Ms. Edmonds the 2006 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for
her "commitment to preserving the free flow of information in the United
States in a time of growing international isolation and increasing
government secrecy".
(www.justacitizen.com)
Senior Advisor:
Professor William Weaver
Bill
Weaver served in U.S. Army signals intelligence for eight years in
Berlin and Augsburg, Germany in the late 1970s and 1980s. He
subsequently received his law degree and Ph.D. in politics from the
University of Virginia, where he was on the editorial board of the
Virginia Law Review. He is presently an Associate Professor
and Associate Director of Faculty for the Institute for Policy and
Economic Development and an Associate in the Center for Law and
Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso. He specializes
in executive branch secrecy policy, governmental abuse, and law and
bureaucracy. His articles have appeared in American Political
Science Review, Political Science Quarterly, Virginia
Law Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization
and other journals. He has co-authored several books on law and
political theory.
Operations Coordinator:
Steve Elson
Steve Elson has
twenty-two years military experience, primarily in Naval Special
Warfare. He has nine years Federal Service with DEA/FAA, and one
year with Local Law Enforcement in Undercover Narcotics. Mr. Elson
specializes in Counterterrorism, Intelligence, and Security, both
nationally and internationally, enhanced by a wide range of training
and advanced studies in diverse topics relating to security,
leadership, and intelligence. He holds a Masters Degree in National
Security Affairs/Naval Intelligence with a focus on Terrorism.
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