CREW: FEC: Regarding Speaker Dennis Hastert's Acceptance of Foreign Contributions: 8/16/2005 - CREW Hastert for Congress FEC Complaint

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FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSIONIn the matter of : Hastert for Congress CommitteeDallas Ingemunson, Treasurer MUR No.: _

COMPLAINT1. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington hereby brings this

complaint before the Federal Election Commission ("FEe") seeking an immediate investigationand enforcement action against the Hastert for Congress Committee and Dallas Ingemunson fordirect and serious violations of federal campaign finance law.

Complainant2. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is a non-profit, non-partisan

organization dedicated to ensuring accountability in public officials.Respondents

3. The Hastert for Congress Committee ("Hastert for Congress") is the principalcampaign committee of Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL). The committee isregistered under the Federal Election Campaign Act. 2 U.S.C. 433. Dallas Ingemunson is thetreasurer of Hastert for Congress.

Factual Allegations4. The September issue of Vanity Fair Magazine reports that in December 2001, an

F.RI. agent in Chicago, Joel Robertz asked F.B.I. translator Sibel Edmonds to review somewiretaps that had been generated by a counter-intelligence investigation that began in 1997.David Rose, An Inconvenient Patliot, Vanity Fair, page 281, September 2005 (attached asExhibit A). Part of the investigation involved allegations of attempts to bribe Members ofCongress. Id.


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5, Ms. Edmonds listened to more than 40 recordings supplied by Mr. Robertz, Id,Many involved an F,B.L target at Chicago, Illinois's Turkish Consulate, as well as members ofthe American-Turkish Council and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations, rd.

6. According to some of the wiretaps, the F.Rl.'s targets had arranged for tens ofthousands of dollars of campaign contributions to be sent to Rep. Hastert's campaign committeein small (i.e., less than $200) checks that did not have to be itemized. rd. at 281.

7, Notably, Hastert for Congress's FEC filings indicate that in 2000 and 2001 thecommittee received a significant number of unitemized contributions. The Mid-Year report,covering the period January 1,2001 through June 30, 2001, shows unitemized contributions of$65,470,23. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC FOlm 3, Report of Receipts andDisbursements, page 3, filed October 24,2002 (attached as Exhibit B). The Year-End report,covering the period July 1, 2001 through December 31,2001, shows unitemized contributions inthe amount of $45,390.52, Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3, Report of Receiptsand Disbursements, page 3, filed October 24,2002 (attached as Exhibit C). Thus, in 2001,Hastert for Congress received $110,860.75 in unitemized contributions.

8. The reports for 2000 also show a large number of un itemized contributions. ThePre-Primary Election Report, covering the period from January 1,2000 through March 1, 2000,shows unitemized contributions of$7,825. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3,RepOli of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed March 9,2000 (attached as Exhibit D). TheApril 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period of March 2, 2000 through March 31, 2000shows unitemized contributions of$19,505. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3,Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed June 27, 2001 (attached as Exhibit E). TheJuly 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period April 1, 2000 through June 30, 2000, shows

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unitemized contributions in the amount of$14,738. Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form3, Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed June 27, 2001 (attached as Exhibit F).The October 15th Quarterly Report, covering the period July 1, 2000 through September 30,2000, shows unitemized contributions in the amount of $22,795. Hastert for CongressCommittee FEC Form 3, Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3, filed May 30, 2001(attached as Exhibit G). The Post-General Election Report, covering the period October 19,2000 through November 27,2000, shows unitemized contributions in the amount of$7,412.Hastert for Congress Committee FEC Form 3, Report of Receipts and Disbursements, page 3,filed June 6, 2001 (attached as Exhibit H). Thus, in 2000, Hastert for Congress received $72,275in unitemized contributions.

COUNT I9. The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") strictly prohibits foreign nationals

from making political contributions and prohibits political committees from accepting campaigncontributions from foreign nationals. 2 U.S.C. 441e(a).

10. If a committee receives a contribution of questionable legality, it must follow fiveprocedures. First, within: ten day's of the treasurer's receipt of the contribution, the treasurermust either return the contribution to the donor without depositing it or deposit it 11 C.F .R.103.3(b)(I). Second, if the committee chooses to deposit the contribution, it must ensure thatthe funds are not spent because they may have to be refunded. 11 C.F.R. 103.3(b)(4). Third,the committee must keep a written record noting the reason why a contribution may beprohibited and must include this information when reporting the receipt of the contribution. 11C.F.R. 103.3(b)(5). Fourth, within 30 days of the treasurer's receipt of the contribution, thecommittee must make at least one written or oral request for evidence that the contribution is

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legal. 11 C.F.R. 103.3(b)(1). Fifth, within the 30 day period, the committee must eitherconfirm the legality ofthe contribution or refund the contribution. 11 C.F.R. 103.3(b)(1). SeeFEC, Campaign Guide for Congressional Candidates and Committees, page 18, Apri11999.

11. If the Hastert for Congress received an unusually large number of contributions inamounts just under $200 in a relatively condensed period of time, the treasurer's suspicionsshould have been raised, particularly if many of these checks appeared to be made out byindividuals with foreign names. As a result, the treasurer should have followed the proceduresoutlined by the Commission in 11 C.F.R. 103.3(b) to discover whether, in fact, the campaignillegally received contributions from foreign nationals.

WHEREFORE, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington requests that theFederal Election Commission conduct an investigation into whether or not Hastert for Congressaccepted contributions from foreign nationals in violation of federal campaign finance laws,impose sanctions appropriate to these violations and take such further action as may beappropriate.

Me anie Sloan, Executive DirectorCitizens for Responsibility and Ethics inWashington11 Dupont Circle, N.W., 2nd FloorWashington, D.C. 20036(202) 588-5565

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Verification

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, acting through Melanie Sloan,hereby verifies that the statements made in the attached Complaint are, upon information andbelief, true,

Sworn pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 100L:YU~elanie SloanSworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of August, 2005.


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L ov e of country led S ib el E dm onds to b ecom e a translator for the EBJ,following 9/11, But everyth ing changed w hen she accused a colleague ofcover ing up illic it a ctiv ity invo lv ing Tu rk is h nationa ls , F ir ed a fte r s ound ing th ealarm ? sh e's n ow fig hting fo r th e ide als th at m a de h er a n Americ an?

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n Washington, D.C, and its suburbs,December 2, 2001, was fine but cool,the start of the slide into winter aftera spell of unseasonable warmth. At10 o'clock that morning, Sibel andMatthew Edmonds were still in their

pajamas, sipping coffee in the kitchen oftheir waterfront town house in Alexandria,Virginia, and looking forward to a well-deserved lazy Sunday.

Since mid-September, nine days afterthe 9/11 attacks, Sibel had been exploitingher fluency in Turkish, Farsi, and Azerbai-

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jani as a translator at the FRL It was ar-duous, demanding work, and Edmonds-who had two bachelor's degrees, was aboutto begin studying for a master's, and hadplans for a doctorate-could have been con-sidered overqualified. But as a naturalizedTurkish-American, she saw the job as herpatriotic duty.

The Edmondses' thoughts were turningto brunch when Matthew answered the tele-phone. The caller was a woman he barelyknew-Melek Can Dickerson, who workedwith Sibel at the EB.I. "I'm in the area

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with my husband and I'd love you to meethim," Dickerson said. "Is it O.K. if wecome by?" Taken by surprise, Sibel andMatthew hurried to shower and dress. Theirguests arrived 30 minutes later. Matthew,a big man with a fuzz of gray beard, whoat 60 was nearly twice the age of his petite,vivacious wife, showed them into the kitch-en. TIley sat at a round, faux-marble tablewhile Sibel brewed tea.

Melek's husband, Douglas, a u.s. AirForce major who had spent several yearsas a military attache in the Turkish capital

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of Ankara, did most of the talking, Mat-thew recalls. "He was pretty outspoken,pretty outgoing-about meeting his wifein Turkey, and about his job. He was inweapons procurement." Like Matthew, hewas older than his wife, who had beenborn about a year before Sibel,

According to Sibel, Douglas asked ifshe and Matthew were involved with thelocal Turkish community, and whetherthey were members of two of its organizedgroups-the American-Turkish Council(ATC.) and the Assembly of Turkish Amer-ican Associations (AT.AA). "He said theAT.C. was a good organization to belongto," Matthew says. "It could help to en-sure that we could retire early and livewell, which was just what he and his wifeplanned to do. I said I was aware of theorganization, but I thought you had to bein a relevant business in order to join.

"Then he pointed at Sibel and said, 'Allyou have to do is tell them who you workfor and what youdo and you will getin very quickly.' ''Matthew could seethat his wife wasfar from comfortable: "Shetried to change the conversa-tion to the weather and such-like." But the Dickersons,says Matthew, steered it back to what theycalled their "network of high-level friends."Some, they said, worked at the Turkish Em-bassy in Washington. "They said they evenwent shopping weekly for [one of them]at a Mediterranean market;' Matthew says."They used to take him special Turkishbread."

Before long, the Dickersons left. At thetime, Matthew says, he found it "a strangeconversation for the first time you meet acouple. Why would someone I'd never metsay such things?"

Only Sibel knew just how strange. Alarge part of her work at the FRl. involvedlistening to the wiretapped conversationsof people who were targets of counter-intelligence investigations. As she would'later tell investigators from the Justice De-partment's Office of the Inspector General(O.I.G.) and the US. Congress, some ofthose targets were Turkish officials the Dick-ersons had described as high-level friends.In Sibel's view, the Dickersons had askedthe Edmondses to befriend FRI. suspects.(In August 2002, Melek Can Dickersoncalled Sibel's allegations "preposterous, lu-dicrous and slanderous.")

Sibel also recalled hearing wiretapsindicating that Turkish Embassy targetsfrequently spoke to staff members at theATe., one of the organizations the Dick-ersons allegedly wanted her and her hus-band to join. Sibellater told the O.LG. she

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assumed that the AT.C.'s board-which ischaired by Brent Scowcroft, PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush's national-security ad-viser-knew nothing of the use to which itwas being put. But the wiretaps suggestedto her that the Washington office of theAT.C. was being used as a front for crimi-nal activity.Sibel and Matthew stood at the windowof their oak-paneled hallway and watchedthe Dickersons leave. Sibel's Sunday hadbeen mined.Immediately and in the weeks that fol-lowed, Sibel Edmonds tried to persuadeher bosses to investigate the Dickersons.There was more to her suspicions thantheir peculiar Sunday visit. According todocuments filed by Edmonds's lawyers,Sibel believed Me1ek Can Dickerson hadleaked information to one or more targetsof an FRI. investigation, and had tried toprevent Edmonds from listening to wire-

taps of FB.I. targetsherself. But insteadof carrying out a thorough investigation ofher allegations, at the end of March 2002the FRI. fired Edmonds.

Edmonds is not the : f i rst avowed national-security whistle-blower to suffer retaliationat the hands of a government bureaucracythat feels threatened or embarrassed. Butbeing fired is one thing. Edmonds has alsobeen prevented from proceeding with hercourt challenge or even speaking with com-plete freedom about the case.

On top of the usual prohibition againstdisclosing classified information, the Bushadministration has smothered her case be-neath the all-encompassing blanket of the"state-secrets privilege" -a Draconian andrarely used legal weapon that allows thegovernment, merely by asserting a risk tonational security, to prevent the lawsuitsEdmonds has filed contesting her treat-ment from being heard in court at all. Ac-cording to the Department of Justice, toallow Edmonds her day in court, even at aclosed hearing attended only by personnelwith full security clearance, "could reason-ably be expected to cause serious damageto the foreign policy and national securityof the United States."

Using the state-secrets privilege in thisfashion is unusual, says Edmonds's attorneyAnn Beeson, of the American Civil Liber-ties Union. "It also begs a question: Just

what in the world is the government tto hide?"It may be more than another em

rassing security scandal. One counintelligence official familiar with Edmocase has told vanity Fair that the Eopened an investigation into covertity by Turkish nationals in the late 1That inquiry found evidence, mainlywiretaps, of attempts to corrupt sAmerican politicians in at least twocities-Washington and Chicago. Tothe end of 2001, Edmonds was asktranslate some of the thousands ofthat had been recorded by this operasome dating back to 1997.

Edmonds has given confidentialmony inside a secure Sensitive Commented Information Facili ty on severcasions: to congressional staffers, totigators from the 0.1.G., and to staffthe 9/11 commission. Sources familiathis testimony say that, in addition

allegations about the Dsons, she reported hearing

ish wiretap taboast that theycovert relationswith a very seni

itician indeed-Dennis Hastert, Recan congressman from Illinois and Ser of the House since 1999. The targportedly discussed giving Hastert tthousands of dollars in surreptitiousments in exchange for political favoinformation. "The Dickersons," sayofficial familiar with the case, "are otip of the iceberg."I's safe to say that Edmonds inhher fearless obstinacy from herRasim Deniz, who died in 2000.in the Tabriz region of northwesternmany of whose natives speak Farsisian), Turkish, and Azerbaijani, hone of the Middle East's leadingstructive surgeons, but his forthrightal and secular opinions brought hima series of conflicts with the local reOne of Sibel's earliest memoriessearch of her family's house in Tehmembers of SAVAK, the Shah's secrlice, who were looking for left-wingLater, in 1981, came a terrifying evafter the Ayatollah Khomeini's Isrevolution, when Sibel was 11.Shwaiting in the car while her fatherinto a restaurant for takeout. By thDeniz returned, his vehicle had beenin by government S.U.V's, and Sibsurrounded by black-clad revolutio

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guards, who announced they were takingher to jail because her headscarf was in-sufficientlymodest."My father showed his ID and askedthem, 'Do you know who I am?,'" Sibelsays, "He had been doing pro bono workin the slums of south Tehran for years,and now it was the height of the Iran-Iraqwar. He told them, 'Ihave treated somany of your brothers, If you take mydaughter, next time Ihave one in myoperating room who needs an amputa-tion at the wrist, Iwill cut his arm offat the shoulder. ' They letme go."It was time to get out.

As soon as he could,Denizabandoned his propertyand his post as head ofthe burn center at one ofTehran's most prestigioushospitals, and the familyfled to Turkey.

W hen Sibelwas 17,she wrote a paperfor a high-school competition. Herchosen subject was Turkey's cen-sorship laws, and why it was wrong to banbooks and jail dissident writers. Her prin-cipalwas outraged, she says,and askedherfather t6 get her to write something else.Deniz refused, but the incident caused afamily crisis. "My uncle 17'1aSayor of Is-tanbul, and suddenly my essaywas beingdiscussed at an emergency meeting of thewhole Deniz tribe. My dad was the onlyone who supportedwhat I'd done. Thatwas the last straw forme. I decided to takea break and go to theUnited States. I came here and fell inlovewith a lot of things-freedom, NowI wonder: was it just an illusion?"Sibel enrolled at a college in Mary-land, where she studied English and hotelmanagement; later, she receivedbachelor'sdegrees at George Washington Universityin criminal justice and psychology, andworked with juvenile offenders. In 1992,at age 22, she had married Matthew Ed-monds, a divorced retail-technology con-sultant who had lived in Virginia all hislife.For a long time, they lived an idyllic,carefree life. They bought their house inAlexandria, and Sibe! transformed it intoan airy, spacioushaven, withmarble floors,a library, and breathtaking views acrossthe Potomac River to Washington. Mat-thew had always wanted to visit Russia,and at Sibel's suggestion they spent threemonths in St. Petersburg, working with a :children's hospital charity run by the cel-list Mstislav Rostropovich, Sibel's familyvisited America often, and she and Mat-SEPTEMBER 2005

thew spent their summers at a cottage theyhad bought in Bodrum, Turkey, on theAegean coast."People saidwewouldn't last1.\0 years;'Sibel says."And here we stillare, nearly 13years 011. A lot of people who go throughthe kind of experiences I've had find theyput a huge strain on their marriage. Mat-thew is my rock. Icouldn't have done itwithout him."

In 1978,when Sibel was eight and theIslamists' violent prelude to the Iranianrevolution was just beginning, a bombwent off in a movie theater nextto her elementary school. "I canremember sitting in a car, seeingthe rescuers pulling charred bod-

ies and stumps out of the fire. Then, onSeptember 11,to see this thing happeninghere, across the ocean-it brought it allback. They put out a call for translators,and I thought, Maybe I can help stop thisfrom happening again."

T he translation department Edmondsjoinedwas honsed in a huge,L-shapedroom in tile FRI.'s Wasllington fieldoffice. Some 200 to 300 translators sat inthis vast, open space, listeningwith head-phones to digitallyrecorded wiretaps. Thejob carried heavy responsibilities."Youaretile frontline,"Edmonds says."Youare thefilter for everypiece of intelligencewhichcomes in foreign languages. It's down toyou to decide what's important- 'perti-nent: as the FR!. calls it-and what'snot.You decide what requires verbatim trans-lation,what can be summarized, and what

should be marked 'not pertinent' and left.alone. By the time this material reachestheagents and analysts, you've already decid-ed what they're going to get." To get this'right requires a broad background of cul-tural and political knowledge: "If you'resimply a linguist, you won't be able to dis-cern these differences."She was surprised to discover that untilher arrival the F.B.I. had employed noTurkish-languagespecialistsat all. In earlyOctober she was joined by a second Turk-ish translator, who had been hired de-spite Ius having failed language-proficiencytests.Several weeks later, a third Turkishspeaker joined the department:MelekCan

Dickerson. In her application for the job,she wrote that she had not previouslyworked in America. In fact, however,shehad spent two years as an intern at anorganization that figured in many of thewiretaps-the American-TurkishCouncil.Much later, after Edmonds was fired,the FB.I. gavebriefings to the House andSenate. One source who was present saysbureau officials admitted that Dickersonhad concealed her history with the AIe.,not only in writing but also when inter-viewed as part of her background securitycheck. In addition, the officials concededthat Dickerson began a friendship at theATC. withone oftheFRI.'s targets."TIleyconfirmed that when she got to the bu-reau she was supposed to be listening tohis calls," says one congressional source."Tome, that was like asking a friend of amobster to listento him ordering hits. She

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gave the document to Bryan on Monday,February 1 1 . Early the following afternoon,the supervisor summoned Edmonds. Wait-ing in a nearby office were two other peo-ple, Feghali and Melek Can Dickerson. Infront of them were Edmonds's translationsof the wiretaps and her memo.

"Stephanie said that she'd taken mymemo to the supervisory special agent, TomFrields," Edmonds says. "He apparentlywouldn't even look at it until Mike Fegha-Ii and Dickerson had seen it and been giv-en a chance to comment. Stephanie saidthat, working for the government, there werecertain things you didn't do, and criticiz-ing yonr colleagues' work was one of them.She told me, 'Do you realize what thismeans? Ifyou were right, the people who didthe background checks would have to be in-vestigated. The whole translation departmentcould be shaken up!' Meanwhile, Iwas go-ing to be investigated for a possible securitybreach-for putting classified informationonto my home computer. Iwas told to go tothe security department at three P.M."

Before Edmonds left, Dickerson hadtime to sidle over to her desk. According toEdmonds, she made what sounded like athreat: "Why are you doing this, Sibel?Whydon't you just drop it?You know there couldbe serious consequences. Why put yourfamily in Turkey in danger over this?"

E dmonds says that the F.B.I.'s responseto her was beginning to shift from in-difference to outright retaliation. OnFebruary 13 , the day after her interviewwith the bureau security office, three agentscame to her home and seized the comput-er she shared with her husband. "I hadn'thad time to back up the data, and Ioldthem that most of my business was on thatcomputer," Matthew Edmonds says.

"An agent called the next morning,"Matthew says. "He told me, 'Everything onyour computer is destroyed, and we didn'tback it up.' They were playing games. WhenIgot the computer back, they had wipedeverything. Four days later,Igot a CD-ROMwith it all backed up." A lifelong conserva-tive Republican, Matthew was being shockedinto changing his worldview. "I was sonaive. Imean, what do you do if you thinkyour colleague might be a spy? You go tothe F.B.I.! Ithought if Sibel's supervisorwasn't fixing this problem she should go tohis superior, and so on up the chain. Some-one would eventually fix it. Iwas never acynical person. 1am now."While the agents were examining theEdmondses' computer, Mike Feghali waswriting a memo for hi s own managers, stat-ing "there was no basis" for Sibel 's allega-tions. A day earlier, an F.B.I. security of-ficer had interviewed Dickerson. A report

issued by the 0.1.0. in January 2005 states,"The Security Officer did not challenge theco-worker [Dickerson] with respect to anyinformation the co-worker provided, al -though that information was not consistentwith RB.I. records. In addition ... he didnot review other crucial EB.I. records,which would have supported some of Ed-monds' allegations." Instead, he treatedher claims as "performance issues," and"seemed not to appreciate or investigate theallegation that a co-worker may have beencommitting espionage."

According to a congressional source, thefact that Edmonds was a mere contractlinguist, rather than an agent, made herclaims less palatable. "They seemed to besaying, 'We don't need someone like thismaking trouble;" the source says. "Yet, to.her credit, she really did go up through thechain of command: to her boss, his boss,and so on."

Edmonds reached the top of thelanguage-section management on February22, when she met with supervisory specialagent Tom Frields, a gray-haired veteranwho was approaching the end of a longbureau career. At first it seemed he wastrying to set her mind at rest: "He told me,'I just want to assure you that everythingis fine, and as far as you're concerned, yonrwork on this matter is done,''' Edmonds


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might have an allegiance problem. But theyseemed not to get it. ... TIley blew off theirfriendship as 'just a social thing.' Theytold us, 'TIley had been colleagues at work,after ail.'"S hortly after the house visit from theD ick e rs on s, S ib e l conveyed her versionof the event to her supervisor, MikeFeghali-first orally and then in writing, The"supervisory language specialist" responsi-ble for linguists working in several MiddleEastern languages, Feghali is a Lebanese-American who had previously been anF.R.I. Arabic translator for many years.Edmonds says he told her not to worry.

Toward the end of December, Edmondswas absorbed in a translation when Dick-erson approached her desk. She swiftly gotto the point. .

To monitor every call on every line at alarge institution such as the Turkish Em-bassy in Washington would not be feasible.Inevitably, the F.B.I.,listens more carefully

the material she translated. Early in thenew year, 2002, Edmonds says, she dis-covered that Dennis Saccher, the FB.L'sspecial agent in charge of Turkish counter-intell igence, had developed his own, quiteseparate concerns about Dickerson.

On me morning of Janu31Y 14,Sibel says,Saccher asked Edmonds into his crampedcubicle on the fifth floor. On his deskwere printouts from the F.B.I. language-department database. They showed that onnumerous occasions Dickerson had markedcalls involving her friend and other counter-intelligence targets as "not pertinent," orhad submitted only brief summaries stat-ing that they contained nothing of interest,Some of these calls had a duration of morethan 15minutes, Saccher asked Edmondswhy she was no longer working on thesetargets ' conversations. She explained thenew division of labor, and went on to tellhim about the Dickersons' visit the previ-ous month. Saccher was appalled, Ed-monds says, telling her, "It sounds like es-

pionage to me."Saccher asked

legal payments. And a spokesperson for theAssembly of Turkish American Associa-tions said that to suggest the group was in-volved with espionage or illegal paymentsis "ridiculous.")

Another call allegedly discussed a pay-ment to a Pentagon official, who seemedto be involved in weapons-procurement ne-gotiations. Yet another implied that Turk-ish groups had been installing doctoral stu-dents at U.S. research institutions in orderto acquire information about black-marketnuclear weapons. In fact, much of whatEdmonds reportedly heard seemed to con-cern not state espionage but criminal activ-ity. There was talk, she told investigators,of laundering the profits of large-scaledrug deals and of selling classified militarytechnologies to the highest bidder.B efore entering the FB.I. building fortheir Friday meeting with Saccher,.Edmonds and Taskasen stood for awillie on the sidewalk, smoking cigarettes."Afterwards, we went directly to Saccher'soffice," Edmonds says. "We talked for a

little while, and he said he'd seeus downstairs for the meeting withFeghali a few minutes later, at nineA.M." They were barely out of theelevator when Feghali intercepted

them. He didn't know they had just comefrom Saccher's office.

"Come on, we're going to start the meet-ing," he said. "By the way, Dennis Sac-cher can't be mere. He's been sent out ~ome-where into the field." Later, Edmonds says,she called Saccher on the internal phone."Why the hell did you C311cel?"she asked.Bewildered, he told her that immediatelyafter she and Taskasen had left his officeFeghali phoned him, saying that the con-ference room was already in use, and thatthe meeting would have to be postponed.

Edmonds says Saccher also told herthat he had been ordered not to touch thecase hy his own superiors, who called ita "can of worms." Despite his role as spe-cial agent in charge of Turkish counter-intelligence, he had even been forbiddento obtain copies of her translations. Sac-cher had two small children 3J."1d. settledlife in Washington. If he dared to com-plain, Edmonds says, he risked being as-signed "to some fucked-up office in theland of tornadoes."

Instead, Edmonds was ushered into thewindowless office of Feghali's colleague,translation-department supervisor Steph-anie Bryan. Investigating possible espi-onage was not a task for which Bryan hadbeen trained or equipped.

Bryan heard Edmonds out and told herto set down her allegations in a confiden-tial memo. Edmonds says that Bryan ap-proved of her writing it at home. Edmonds

to the phones used by its targets, suchas the Dickersons' purported friend. Inthe past, the assignment of lines to eachtranslator had always been random: Ed-monds might have found herself listeningto a potentially significant conversation bya counter-intelligence target one minuteand an innocuous discussion about somediplomatic party the next. Now, however,according to Edmonds, Dickerson suggest-ed changing this system, so that each Turk-ish speaker would be permanently respon-sible for certain lines. She produced a listof names and numbers, together with herproposals for dividing them up. As Ed-monds would later tell her FB.I. bosses311dcongressional investigators, Dickersonhad assigned the American-Turkish Coun-cil and three other "high-value" diplomatictargets, including her friend, to herself.

Edmonds found this arrangement veryquestionable. But she says that Dickersonspent a large part of that afternoon talkingwith Feghali inside his office. TIle next dayhe announced in 311e-mail that he had de-cided to assign the Turkish wiretaps on ex-actly the basis recommended by Dickerson.

Like all the translators, Edmonds waseffectively working with two, parallel linesof management: Feghali and the seniortranslation-department bosses above him,on the one hand, 311d,on the other, the in-vestigators and agents who actually used

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Edmonds 311da colleague, Kevin Taskasen,to go back into the FB.L's digital wiretaparchive 311dlisten to some of the calls thatDickerson had marked "not pertinent,"and to re-translate as many as they could.Saccher suggested that they all meet withFeghali in a conference room 011 Friday,February 1 . First, however, Edmonds andTaskasen should go to Saccher 's office fora short pre-meeting-to review their find-ings and to discuss how to handle Feghali.

E dmonds had time to listen to numer-ous calls before the Friday meetmg,and some of them sounded important.According to her later secure testimony, inone conversation, recorded shortly afterDickerson reserved the targets' calls for her-self, a Turkish official spoke directly to aU.S. State Department staffer. TIley agreedthat the State Department staffer wouldsend a representative at 311appointed timeto the American-Turkish Council office, atIIll 14th Street }\TW,where he would begiven $7,000 in cash. "She told us she'dheard mention of exchanges of information,dead drops-that kind of thing," a congres-sional source says. "It was mostly moneyin exchange for secrets." (A spokespersonfor the ATe. denies that the organizationhas ever been involved in espionage or il-

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says. "I told him, 'No, it's not fine. Myfamily is worried about possible threats totheir safety in Turkey.' His face went througha transformation. He warned me that theseissues were classified at the highest leveland must not be disclosed to anyone. Hestarted to interrogate me: Who had I told?He said if it was anyone unauthorized hecould have me arrested,"

Edmonds's meeting with Frields on the22nd was probably her last chance to saveher job. The inspector general's 2005 reportdisclosed, "Immediately after the meeting,[Frie!ds] began to explore whether the FR!.had the option to cease using Edmonds

as a contract linguist."Four days later the bureau's con-tracting unit told him, "If it wasdetermined that [she] was unsuit-able, the FR!. would havesuffi-cient .reason to terminate her contract."

Stymied by Frields, Edmonds tried togo still higher, and on March 7 she wasgranted, an audience with James Caruso,the FB.!.'s deputy assistant director forcounterterrorism and counter-intelligence.Edmonds says he listened politely for morethan an hour but took no notes and askedno questions. Afterward, Matthew pickedher up and they drove to the Capital Grillefor an early lunch. It was only 11:30 andthe restaurant was still empty, but as theEdrnondses began to study their menus,they saw two men in suits pull up outsidein an FRI.-issue S.Uv. They came insideand sat down at the next table."They just sat and stared at Sibe1,"Mat-thew says. "They took out their cellphones,opened them, and put them on the table.

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They didn't eat or drink-just sat, staring atSibel, the whole time we were there." Mod-ified cell phones, Sibel knew, are commonlyused by bureau agents as a means of mak-ing covert recordings.

That afternoon, Sibel wrote to two offi-cial bodies with powers to investigate theFB.I.-the Justice Department's internal-affairs division, known as the Office of Pro-fessional Responsibility, and its independentwatchdog, the O.LG. She went onto send faxes to the Senate IntelligenceCommittee and Senators Charles Grass-ley, Republican from Iowa, and Pat-rick Leahy, Democrat from Vermont,

both of whom sit on the Senate JudiciaryCommittee, to say that she had found evi-dence of possible national-security breaches.

O n March 8, Sibel appeared at a dingylittle office in Washington's China-town, where she was polygraphed.According to the 2005 inspector general'sreport, the purpose of this examinationwas to discover whether she had made un-authorized disclosures of classified infor-mation. "She was not deceptive in her an-swers," the O.LG. reported.

Dickerson was polygraphed two weekslater, on March 21, and she too was deemedto have passed. But, according to an officialcited in the report, the questions she was

asked were vague and nonspecific: "ThePolygraph Unit Chief admitted that ques-tions directly on point could have beenasked but were not." Nevertheless, thenand for a long time afterward, the FRI."continued to rely on the [Dickerson] poly-graph as support for its position that Ed-monds' allegations were unfounded."

Dickerson's polygraph test, however un-satisfactory, seems to have sealed Edmonds's

fate at the FR!. The fol-lowing afternoon, she wasasked to wait in Steph-anie Bryan's office. "Fe-ghali saw me sitting thereand leaned across thedoorway;' Edmonds says"He tapped his watchand said, 'In less than anhour you will be fired,

you whore.''' A few minuteslater, she was summoned to ameeting with Frields. Theywere joined by Bryan andGeorge Stukenbroeker, thechief of personnel security andthe man in charge of investi-gating her case. Edmonds hadviolated every security rule inthe book, Stukenbroeker said.

A hulking security guard arrived to help escort her fromthe building. Edmonds asked ishe could return to her desk toretrieve some photos, includingshots of her late father of whichshe had no copies. Bryan refused, saying, "You'll never se

foot in the FR!. again."Bryan promised to forward

them, says Edmonds, who nevegot the photos back. Edmondslooked at Frields. "You are onlmaking your wrongdoing worse

and my case stronger. I will see you verysoon;' she told him. According to Edmonds,Frields replied, "Soon maybe, but it wilbe in jail. I'll see you in jail." (When interviewed by the OJ.G., Frields and anotherwitness denied his making this comment.)

Matthew was waiting outside. "I'm noa crybaby," Sibel says. "But as I got intomy husband's car that afternoon I was infloods, shaking."A s soon as she had returned home fromthe February meeting where Dickerson allegedly cautioned her not to endanger her family in Turkey, Sibel called hermother and sister in Istanbul, even thoughit was the middle of the night there. Sibe

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is the oldest of three sisters. The youngestwas studying in America and living with theEdmondses in Alexandria, but the middlesister-whose name Edmonds wishes to pro-tect-was enjoying a successful career atan international travel company based inIstanbul. The 29-year-old was also engagedto be married. Within days of receivingSibel's call, she flew with her mother toWashington.

Early in April, Sibel and Matthew werehaving lunch in their favorite Thai restau-rant in Old Town Alexandria-a preciouschance, with their house now fully occu-pied by Sibel's family, to share a private mo-ment together. "My cell phone rang," Sibelsays. "It was my middle sister. She saidsomething really bad had happened and Imust come back at once."

The sister's Istanbul neighbor had justphoned, saying that two policemen hadknocked on her door, asking for the sister 'swhereabouts. They would not disclose thereason, saying only that it was an "intelli-gence matter." They also left a document.

Sent by TevfikAsici of the Ata-koy Branch Police Station anddated April 11, it was addressed to Sibel'ssister and read, "For an important issueyour deposition/interrogation is required.Ifyou do not report to the station within 5days, between 09:00 and 17:00, as is re-quired by Turkish law CMK.l32, you willbe taken/arrested by force."

In July 2002, with a written recommen-dation from Senator Gressley, Sibel's sister re-quested political asylum in the United States.Her application statement cited the threatallegedly made by Dickerson, adding thatSibel would now be considered "a spy anda traitor to Turkey under Turkish law, andthe Turkish police will use me to get at her.Turkish police are known for using crueltyand torture during interrogation; subjects arekept without advice to family members andoften disappear with no trace." Estrangedfrom Sibel, the sister remains in America,unable to go home.

Edmonds did what numerous avowedwhistle-blowers had done before: she ap-pealed to Congress, and she got a lawyer-David Colapinto of the Washington firmKohn, Kohn & Colapinto, which advertisesitself on its Web site as specializing in casesof this kind. He filed suit under the Free-dom of Information Act for full disclosureof what had happened inside the bureau,SEPTEMBER 2005

and submitted a claim for damages for theviolation of Edmonds's constitutional rights.By August he was ready to depose Douglasand Melek Can Dickerson. But before theirscheduled deposition, the couple abruptlyleft the country. Douglas had been assignedto an air-force job in Belgium. VIrgilMagee,a US. Air Force spokesman in Belgium,confirms that Dickerson remains on activeduty in Europe, but refuses to say exactlywhere.T hat fall, Attorney General John Ash-croft tried to wipe out Edmonds's le-gal action by invoking the state-secretsprivilege. This recourse, derived from En-glish common-law, has never been the sub-ject of any congressional vote or statute.Normally, says Ann Beeson of the AC.L.U.,it is used by the government when it wantsto resist the legal "discovery" in court of aspecific piece of evidence that it fears mightharm national security if publicized. Butin Edmonds's case Ashcroft argued thatthe very subject of her lawsuit was a state

secret. To air her claims in front of federaljudges would jeopardize national security.

This, Beeson says, had distinct advan-tages for the FB.I. and the Department ofJustice: it meant they did not have to con-test the merits of her claims. Moreover,the substance of the arguments they usedto justify this level of secrecy was and issecret itself. The full version of Ashcroft'sdeclaration invoking the privilege, filed onOctober 18, 2002, was classified, and inpublic the case for blocking Edmonds'saction rested on the mere assertion that itwould be damaging to proceed. Later, in2004, the law firm Motley Rice sought todepose her for a pending case on behalf ofthe families of 9/11 victims. Immediately,Ashcroft asserted the privilege again. Mot-ley Rice submitted a list of questions itwanted to ask Edmonds, almost al l of whichwere prohibited. Among them: "When andwhere were you born"," "What languagesdo you speak"," and "Where did you go toschool?"

Edmonds still wanted to fight, and tochallenge Ashcroft in court. But over thenext few months, the relationship with herlawyers began to suffer. "Let's face it, tak-ing on the D.o.J. is no joke, especially inWashington," Edmonds says.

It was the absolute low point. "I triedto find another firm," she says, "but assoon as I mentioned the state-secrets priv-ilege, it was like, 'Turn around, go back,and by the way the clock is running at$450 an hOUL' I must have been turnedaway by 20 firms."

The Dickersons, the Justice Department,and the EB.I. and its relevant personneldeclined to comment for this article. InAugust 2002, Melek Can Dickerson toldthe Chicago Tiibune, "both the EB.I. andthe Department of Justice have conduct-ed separate investigations of [Edmonds's)claims ... . They fired her and, interesting-ly, they continued my contract."In September 2002, Colonel James Worth

of the Office of the Air Force InspectorGeneral said that, in response to a letterfrom Edmonds, there had been a "com-plete and thorough review of Major [Doug-las) Dickerson's relationship with theAmerican-Turkish Council" that found "noevidence of any deviation from the scopeof hi s duties." Edmonds says she was notinterviewed by those conducting the review.E dmonds's treatment by the FB.I. seemsto fit two baleful patterns: the first isthe bureau's refusal to address po-tentially disastrous internal-security flaws;the second is a general tendency among

national-security agencies to retaliateagainst whistle-blowers.

Amid the lush greenery of hisparents' garden in Plattsmouth, Ne-

braska, former EB.I. senior intelligence-operations specialist John Cole describeshow these institutional inclinations com-bined to destroy his career. Now 44, Colejoined the EB.I. in 1985.By the late 1990s,he was running undercover operations inthe Washington area, focusing on counter-terrorism and counter-intelligence. Later,while also playing a key role in the 9(11 in-vestigation, he became the EB.I.'s nationalcounter-intelligence program manager forIndia, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.

Early in the fall of 2001, Cole was askedto assess whether a woman who had ap-plied to work as a translator of Urdu, Paki-stan's national language, might pose a riskto security. "The personnel security offi-cer said she thought there was somethingthat didn't seem right," Cole says. "1 'Pentthrough the file and it stuck out a mile: shewas the daughter of a retired Pakistani gen-eral who had been their military attachein Washington." He adds that, to his knowl-edge, "Every single military attache they'veever assigned has been a known intelligenceofficer."

After September 11, this associationlooked especially risky. The Pakistani in-telligence service had trained and support-ed the Taliban in Afghanistan, and still

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contained elements who were far fromhappy with President Pervez Musharraf'spro-American policies. Cole gave his find-ings to the security officer. "Well done,"she said. "You've found it ."

A week later, she called Cole again, tosay that the woman had started work thatmorning with a top-secret security clear-ance. FB.I. director Robert Mueller hadpromised Congress that the bureau wouldhire lots of new Middle Eastern linguists,and normal procedures had been short-circuited as a result. As of July 2005, thewoman was still a bureau translator. SibelEdmonds says she remembers her well-as the leader of a group that pressed forseparate restrooms for Muslims.

Cole says the incident was only one ofseveral that caused him to doubt the qual-ity and security of the FB.I.'s counterter-rorism efforts, and, like Edmonds, he sayshe tried to fix the problems he saw by go-ing up the chain ofcommand. Gettingrid of an agent ofhis stature was. alot more difficultthan fil ing a contract linguist.Cole says the retaliation be-

,.gan when, after years of glow-ing reports, his annual ap-praisal found his work in one area to be"minimally acceptable." Next, he wasplaced under investigation by the Officeof Professional Responsibility, first on acharge that he had lied about a personalloan on a routine background check, andthen, after he took his case to Congress,on the same grounds used against Ed-monds-that he had disclosed classified in -formation without authorization. Finally,he was demoted to menial roles: "Theyliterally had me doing the xeroxing." Bit-terly disillusioned, he says, he resigned inMarch 2004.

"According to the terms of our employ-ment, whistle-blowing is an obligation," Colesays. "We sign a piece of paper every yearsaying we will report any mismanagementor evidence of a possible crime. But themanagement's shtick is that if you draw at-tention to the bureau's shortcomings you'redisgracing it."

vestigation into a suspected cell of Islamistterrorists. "I came down and reviewed thecase, and it was a complete mess;' he says."There were violations of FB.I. policy andviolations of the law. As someone who hadbeen through successful terrorism prose-cutions, I knew you couldn't afford tomake mistakes."

Like Cole, German says he thoughthimself obliged to report what was goingwrong, not to penalize other agents but in.the hope of putting it right. "I thought thebureau would do the right thing: that thecase would get back on track, and we'd getthe opportunity to take action against thebad guys involved." Instead, he says, hefaced thefamiliar litany of escalating retal-iation-including an internal investigationof his own work on the terrorist-cell case."Bear in mind that only a handful of peo-ple have ever infil trated terrorist groups,"German says. "You'd think that after 9/11

bureau agent. It prompted Tice to sendclassified e-mail to the D.I.A. security section, commenting that the Leung caseshowed that the FB.I. was "incompetent"The implication was that the D.LA. couldprove its competence by fully investigatingthe junior colleague.

Tice, a big, powerful man with a forthright manner, has to pause to control hiemotions when he describes what happened as a consequence. "I was sent for aemergency psychiatric evaluation. I tooall the computer tests and passed themwith flying colors. But then the shrink sayhe believes I'm unbalanced. Later he saiI 'm suffering from 'paranoid ideation." Hwas examined by an independent psychiatrist, who "found no evidence of mentadisorder." But he had already been denied,access to secure places at the N.S.A. Asresult , this highly commended technical-espionage expert was put to work in th

N.S.A.'s motor pool, "wiping snooff cars, vacuuming them, and dr iv

C ole is one of about 50 current andformer members of the FB.I., C.I.A.,National Security Agency, and otherbodies who have made contact recentlywith Sibel Edmonds. Another is Mike Ger-man, one of the bravest and most success-ful counterterrorism agents in the bureau'shistory, who penetrated a nee-Nazi gang inLos Angeles and a militia group in Seattleand brought them to justice.

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they might have been in-terested in that. But wordcame back to me that I'd never get a coun-terterrorist case again." He resigned fromthe bureau in June 2004.

As I talked to whistle-blowers, 1had theimpression that those treated the worstwere among the brightest and best.There could be no clearer example than

Russ Tice, an 18-year intelligence veteranwho has worked for the Pentagon's DefenseIntelligence Agency (D.I.A.) and Ameri-ca's eavesdroppers, the National SecurityAgency. "1 dealt with the super-sensitivestuff," he says. "1 obviously can't talk aboutit, but 1 had operational roles in both Af-ghanistan and Iraq."It was at the D.LA. in the spring of

2001 that he wrote a report setting downhis suspicions about a junior colleague, aChinese-American who Tice says was liv-ing a lavish lifestyle beyond her apparentmeans. Although she was supposed to beworking on a doctorate, he noticed her re-peatedly in the office, late at night, readingclassified materia! on an agency comput-er. "It's not like I obsessed over the issue,"Tice says. "I did my job, and then 9/11happened, and I was a very busy boy."

He moved to the N.S.A. toward the endof 2002. The trigger for his downfall thefollowing April was the arrest of KatrinaLeung, the FB.I. informant accused of spy-ing for China while having an affair with a

ing people around. People looked at mlike 1had bubonic plague." (The D.I.A. dinot respond to a request for comment, anan N.S.A. spokesperson said the agencdoes not discuss personnel matters.)

After about eight months of this purgatory, apparently an attempt to persuade himto resign, he was placed on "administrativeleave." Like other whistle-blowers, he trieand failed to.get his agency's leadership tredress his treatment. In August 2004, Ticwrote letters to members of the House anSenate. Six days later, the N.S.A. began thformal process which would lead to hgetting fired, and to having his clearancerevoked permanently. "What happenedme was total Stalin-era tactics," he say"Everyone I know or ever worked with sayI'm perfectly sane. Yet I just don't knowwhat to do next. I 've been in intelligence amy life, but without a security clearance,can't practice my trade."

E choing Cole and German, one of thcongressional staffers who heard Emonds's secure testimony likens thFB.I. to a family, "and you don't take youproblems outside it. They think they're thbest law-enforcement agency in the worldthat they're beyond criticism and beyondreproach." To an outside observer that ethoalone might explain the use of the statesecrets priv*ge against Edmonds. But, th

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vanity F a i l ' has established that aroundthe time the Dickersons visited theEdmondsea, in December 2001,Joel Robertz, an F.B.L specialagent in Chicago, contacted Sibeland asked her to review some wire-taps. Some were several years old,others more recent; all had beengenerated by a counter-intelligenceinvestigation that bad its start in1997. "It began in D.C.;' says anF.B.I. counter-intelligence officialwho is. familiar with the case file.But "it became apparent that Chi-cago was actually the center ofwhat was going on."It s subject was explosive: whatsounded like attempts to bribeelected members of Congress, bothDemocrat and Republican. "Therewas pressure within the bureau fora special prosecutor to be appoint-ed and take the case on," the offi-cial says. Instead, hiscolleagues were toldto alter the thrust oftheir investigation-

away from elected politicians and towardappointed officials. "This is the reason whyAshcroft reacted to Sibel in such an ex-treme fashion," he says. "It was to keepthis from coming out."

In her secure testimony, Edmonds dis-closed some of what she recalled hearing.In all, says a source who was present, shemanaged to listen to more than 40 of theChicago recordings supplied by Rober t z ,Many involved an F.B.I. target at the

~ city's large Turkish Consulate, as well asmembers of the American-Turkish Coun-

00 cil and the Assembly of Turkish Americanu Associations.~ some of the calls reportedly contained~ what sounded like references to large-'" scale drug shipments and other crimes.

To a person who knew nothing about their- context, the details were confusing, and it~ wasn't always clear what might be sig-

nificant. One name, however, apparently; stood out-a man the Turkish callers oftenr; referred to by the nickname "Denny boy."~ It was the Republican congressman from: Illinois and Speaker of the House, Dennise Hastert. According to some of the wire-~ taps, the RB.I.'s targets had arranged for::: tens of thousands of dollars to be paid to

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Hastert's campaign funds in small checks.Under Federal Election Commission rules,donations of less than $200 are not re-quired to be itemized in public fil ings.

Hastert himself was never heard in the

Committee amounted to $483,000. In con-trast, un-itemized contributions in the sameperiod to the committee run on behalfof the House majority leader, Tom DeLay,Republican of Texas, were only $99,000.An analysis of the filings of four other secnior Republicans shows that only one, ClayShaw, of Florida, declared a higher total inun-itemized donations than Hastert overthe same period: $552,000. The other threedeclared far less. Energy and CommerceCommittee chairman Joe Barton, of Texas,claimed $265,000; Armed Services Com-mittee chairman Duncan Hunter, of Cali-fornia, got $212,000; and Ways and MeansCommittee chairman Bill Thomas, of Cali-fornia, recorded $110,000.Edmonds reportedly added that therecordings also contained repeated refer-ences to Hastert's flip-flop, in the fall of2000, over an issue which remains of in-tense concern to the Turkish government-the continuing campaign to have Congressdesignate the killings of Armenians inTurkey between 1915 and 1923 a genocide.For many years, attempts had been madeto get the House to pass a genocide res-

olution, but they never got any-where until August 2000, when

Hastert, as Speaker,announced that hewould give it hisbacking and see that itreceived a full House

vote. He had a clear political rea-son, as analysts noted at the time:a California Republican incum-bent, locked in a tight congressional

race, was looking towi n over his dis tr ict 'sIJge Armenian com-munity. Thanks toHastert, the resolu-tion, vehemently op-posed by the Turks,passed the Interna-tional Relations Com-mittee by a large ma-jority. Then, on Oc-

tober 19 , minutes before the fullHouse vote, Hastert withdrew it.

At the time, he explained hisdecision by saying that he had re-ceived a letter from President Clin-ton arguing that the genocide res-olution, ifpassed, would harm U.S.interests, Again, the reported con-

tent of the Chicago wiretaps may well havebeen sheer bravado, and there is no evi-dence that any payment was ever made toHastert or his campaign. Nevertheless, asenior official at the Turkish Consulate issaid to have claimed in one recording thatthe price for Hastert to withdraw the reso-lution would have been at least $500,000.

Hastert's spokesman says the congress-

recordings, Edmonds told investigators, andit is possible that the claims of covert pay-ments were hollow boasts. Nevertheless,an examination of Hastert's federal filingsshows that the level of un-itemized pay-ments his campaigns received over manyyears was relatively high. Between April1996 and December 2002, un-itemized per-sonal donations to the Hastert for Congress


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man withdrewthe genocide resolutiononlybecause of the approach fromClinton,"andto insinuateanythingelsejust doesn't makeany sense." He adds that Hastert has noaffiliationwith the A.TC. or other groupsreportedlymentioned in the wiretaps: "Hedoes not know these organizations." Has-tert is "unaware of Turkishinterestsmakingdonations," the spokesman says, and hi sstaff has "not seen any pattern of donorswith foreign names."

to file a brief with the U.S. Su-preme Court. If the court agreesto take the case, the govern-ment's reasons for its actionsmay finally be forced into theopen; legal experts say the Su-preme Court has never allowedsecret arguments.

A week after the April appealhearing, Edmonds gath-ered more than 30 whistle-blowers from the FRI., C.I.A.,National Security Agency, De-partment of Homeland Securi-ty, and other agencies to briefstaffersfrom the House and Sen-ate. Among the whistle-blowerswere Daniel Ellsberg,who leakedthe Pentagon Papers to TheNew York Times in 1971, andColeen Rowley,the FRI. agentfrom Minneapolis who com-plained that Washington ignoredF or more than two years after Edmondswas fired, the Office of the InspectorGeneral's inquiry ground on. At last,in July 2004, its report was completed-and promptly labeled classified at the be-hest of the F.B.I. It took months of fur-ther pressure before a redacted, unclassi-fied version was finally issued, in Janu-ary 2005. It seemedto provide stunningvindication of Ed-monds's credibility."Many of Edmonds' core alle-gations relating to the co-worker[Melek Can Dickerson] were sup-ported by either documentary evi-denceor witnesses,"the report said."We believethat the FR!. shouldhave investigated the allegationsmore thoroughly."The FB.I. had justified firingEdmonds on the grounds that shehad a "disruptive effect," the re-port went on. However, "this dis-ruption related primarily to Ed-monds' aggressive pursuit of herallegations of misconduct, whichthe F.B.I. did not believe weresupported and which it did notadequately investigate. In fact, aswe described throughout our re-port, many of her allegations hadbases in fact,"the report read. "Webelieve... that the F.B.I.did not take themseriously enough, and that her allegationswere, in fact, the most significant factorin the FB.I.'s decision to terminate herservices."Meanwhile,Edmonds had new lawyers:the A.c.L. U's Ann Beeson, who is lead-ing the challenge to the state-secrets priv-ilege, and Mark Zaid, a private attorneywho specializes in national-securityissues.Zaid has filed a $10 million tort suit, cit-ing the threats to Edmonds's family, herinability to look after her real-estate andbusiness interests in Turkey, and a seriesof articles in the Turkish press that havevilified her.

In July 2004, a federal dis-trict court had ruled in favorof the government's use of thestate-secretsprivilege.LikeAsh-croft's declaration, its opinioncontained no specific facts. Next came abizarre hearing in the D.C. appeals courtin April 2005. The room was cleared ofreporters while Beeson spoke for 15min-utes. Then Beeson and Edmonds werealso expelled to make way for the De-partment of Justice's lawyers, who ad-dressed the judges in secret. Twoweekslater, the court rejected Edmonds's ap-peal, without expanding on the districtcourt's opinion. At press time, she was set

local agentswho in August2001had raisedconcerns about a flight student namedZacarias Moussaoui, who has since admit-ted to being an al-Qaeda terrorist.Many of those present had unearthedapparent breaches of national security;many said their careers had been wreckedas a result. At a press conference after thebriefings, Congressman Edward Markey,Democrat of Massachusetts, praised Ed-monds and her colleagues as "nationalheroes," pledging that he would introducea bill to make it a crime for any agencymanager to retaliate~gainst such individu-als. Afterward,the whistle-blowersmingledover hors d'oeuvres andexplored their commonground and experiences.ByJuly, they were working toformalize their associationas a not-for-profitcampaigngroup, the National Securi-ty WhistleblowersCoalition."When they took on Sibel,"saysMike German, who isnow the coalition'scongres-sional liaison, "they made the wrongwom-an mad."

"I'm going to keep pushing this as longas I can, but I'm not going to get obses-sional," Edmonds says. "There's otherthings I want to do with my life. But theday the Iranians tried to arrest me, my fa-ther toldme, 'Sibel,you liveyour lifeonce.How do you choose to live?According toyour principles, or in fear?' I have neverforgottenthose words."0282 I v A N IT Y F A I R I www.vanityfair.com SEPTEMBER 2005
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Octal.ler 1:SoQUHtenll Report lQ3) in I h o : :state of

(c ) 3D-Day PClST-I : fe.c1I00 Repoo fo r Ih e:JIJ~ 3 1 M i d-Y o :: r u- R o :: p o r l( NO I"H "! !I eGUonYea r On lY ! (M 'f J Genl :l < ll ( 3OG )

Terminat ion Report lTI :R) Ek:


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1012412002 20 ~41


1 " NAME OFCOMMnEE (in f u l Q USE FEe IMAIUhlG LABELOR: TYPE OR:PHIrU" EKi1JllJ; l t : :f t )opin! l.wt :overtl'llliloosIHas te rt f ur CQ ng re S$ CQmm lt te eI I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I I

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ADDR EO O (mrrbilr srd slneet)'I'

2" FEe IDENTIFICAT10N NUMBER .,. CITY .i. STATE A ZIP CODE ASTATE ., . D I STR IC T

C(J020BOOO 3" IS THISREPORT NEW(N) OR x AMENDED(A)4. TYPE OF R:EPORT fC tJ.;;.gs t:Orn;-)

(b) 12-Day P"RE-Elect ion RBp:lrt fortha:pnmal)' (12P) Gal'lElrflll12G) RLrlOff (12R)

Ap rl ll :5 OJB l: ar l~ Repo rt ( 01 )C!oovertlCJI'l12C) Spedal (12)

JU t !J 15 OuaOO l' ly Rap ;: .1 t ( 02 )Octol :oer 1:5 QJaten~ Report lQ:3) in lh eStata of

J J J b ! 31 Mid -Y t : 1 !r R ! :po r l(N~acUon Yaar only) (M'fJ C o e m :r n l ( 3 O G ) Runo ff r n lR )

Terrnnatlol'l Report lTER) E~ionon

5 " C ;: ;. vc :: ri ngP t: ri od D7 01 2001 12 31 2G 0 1

I ~ r ti f~ " thB l: I M i le E rnl lI T1inadh i !' >RapDr i sn t i to "the best D1 ~ k r;: :.v !le dg e a nd baiefi t i s lr ue , c or re et a nd oompai:a"T\Jpecr P ! 1 n 1 Name of TreasU'"er Dallas Ingem unaon

$i!Jf"I:!Ib,J[~ of Tteas urer E~n;:Ir iO;: iIIly FiJ.:;,;j b)' Da ll as I ngemunson 24 2002

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DE:TAJLEClSUMMARY PAGEof Receipts Page J

\M111!-orl)Tle Comrrl!tlee Name-Haabart for Congress Com mitieB

LRECEIPTS COLUMNATIl tBil Ttl ls; Pet10d COLUMtl8Ell!etlot1 CYCII!!"oo.Oate

13. LOANS(a) M~ or GUiliranJ:.::edbylrn:-

CSnC ldalie- .................................. 0.00 0.00

i . CON TR IBU TION S (o1her lhan loens) FROM:(Bj InaMdl.l&I9~nS; O1h1lr Than

Politici!l Corrrr il:J:.:;eli( I) l I:err tzeCi (use Schel lUe J ' . . J . . . . . . . . .(ii) Uritem iz..::,d .(iii) TOTAL of cl}rtribviioo5

from j r, :i . .. .! iJ I1 I Is . . . . .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . " "

360680.00t15390.52

~0607[J.52 808220.750.00 0.00

199658.56 537567.060.00 0.00

605729.08- 1345787.81

0.00 0.00

(b) Polit ica l Par tyCommth3135 .(C ) Oltll poltlesl CXlmmllteeg

(SlJGh as PACSj .(CI) The CBndlclatl!- .(e:) TOTAL CONTR IBUT IO ~ jS

(other than IOilir lS)(edd Un13511 (e)( i i i ) . (b), ( [ :) . end (d)

12. TRANSFERS FROM OTHERAUTHOR lZED COMM ITTEES .

(t;.) All OttK:r Loons .(c) TOTAL LOANS

(aCk:lunes 1 :3 (a) and (b )) .

0.00 0.000.00 0.00

14. OF FSE TS TO O PE RAT IN GEXPEN DITUR I:S( R r : : : f u O O ! ; , R r : : b a i : e : s , ~ ~ . ) . 2420.92 56370.74

15. O TH ER R EC E IP T-S(DlllldIlrd3, IrtetllS;t. etc.) . 10205.01 19291.60

16. TOTAl. RECEIPn (a dd L ir es11(6). 12, 131C) , 1lI. and 15)(Car ry Tfl l:el10 L lI 'Ie-24, page- 4). .. .. .. .. .. . . .. 618355.01 1421450.15


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RE PORT O F RECE IPTS AND D IS BURS EM ENTSro r Al l AuthQf'jzl Commltf4oll(Sl ,I ITImary ~! iJe) R E C E I V E DF E O EiZ A L E LE C T iG ritOMHISSKH4 H.~ lL RQaMAOORE$ (4'II l)mbflt . n e t ~reaI , ) r J ClMItt. If clnlielJ;lnt it19n pt'fIo,t;Io~ Alporttd_ - - 2_FEe . o e m . m ~ ] ; ~ ~ ~ 0; z qP_ O. Bo x (125 , 15 E. V IIllsoo 0002013000"

C ITY . S TATE s IMI Z I P ( lC lf JEBat.M!;l, I L 6 05 10

STATOOISTFUITI

o , t I r , p r f i f! 5 QY_Re)l'Ullo J u l > ' lIHlurutJrly rurpMo Oct:lI~t 1SQ u a r h f 1 : l i ftOp!;lr to JIIMIIIII)' 31 Y$IIr EM~Aepodo JLlI)' J1l1! ld -Year ~p


25/37

De taile d Summary Pageof Receipts and Dlsbll~emE!i'lt!{P ags -:1 :, F EC FORM 3 )

I. RECEJPlSI I \ \ 1 I l

(I) hxli l i ldLl l l l :9 l 'Pal1iarr t ;0tIJ., Th:pn P o o U i I . i W CamMI~!!.(i ) ' f toIm~ (U!lISSdJ!!dub /l,~ -._.-.- __ -._._ '-'-'-'-' ..__ _.~ I "u m c ~ ~ ._ _., - _ , , , - . _ . _ . _ _ - . - - . _ . - . _ . _ - . - . _ . _"(lII)'I"qtal c 4 r ' : : " ; IO l r i b L l l : k ! l 1 , frttm.llldhIidulll ,,_ _ _ -._ ._ .__..__ ,_ _ .

(b ) P o ' I h h : : s I party Comm~ - -_ -..,_,.._ .__.,..-._ __.__ ...-._ -.-.-{ ( ; :) O C h l l lf Political C O r n rn o ll tN r ll ( ! Su r: :1 l a G o p,.o..c::.) ... - "._ ". _ _" . ".-._ - -._ ._ .,,_ _,(dl1'htr Ctnd ill.llb !l ., .. '-" ._"",_ __ _ .-.,. "._ - - __ _ - -- _ .- __. ,.(_ ITOTAL cm. rTRI I3U11ONS (othe r thin 1~1' I$}(~ddi~III). t t l " (qa ll d ( d) )

( s o ) M: lde ~ G IS ll f' ;! l! 1kal ir d by m e . Cl.ndid5lbS _ - __ -.- -_ -'-.-.-."-( b )A l l OIhfIt I .t: II Ina _ ._ '-'-'- '_ ' .._ , -._ .- _ -._ ._ ._ __' ... -._ __ - .t(;} TOT AL. lOAN5 [add 1 !(II} and ._......- - " ... -._ ._ , -.. '- '- ' --

1 5 - O T H E : ~ R E C E 1 P T S . ( 'O lY~(I t , h 1 M r e iI : , me.) ..-._.-._ _.-._._ -- -._ __.

11,DtSHIJRSDlENTS~7 _O PE :A ATlI'fG E XP EfIIO ~T UR a ._ ._ ._ ".,_ . _ _ ..-._ ._ _ " -.-._ -- -.-._ ._ _..

t f l l } or Ltlfllflllo M a d ~ < l I I ' G l , I I i I l ' 8 T L l l l r t d by the (:;and id ill>o - ..._- _ . _ n . - . . . _ _ - .(ti l Of 1 0 . 1 1 ottJe.r tofI, _._ -.- --..'-"._._ _ -.-._.__ -.-._.- __-~-c)TOTPr l '_QNoI REPAYMENTS { ad d 1 9 (a )l ln d ( 1 : 1 ) ) . - . _ . _ - _ - . - . _ - _ . . .{ II l lndl: r ,ol! ; l .uals. lPlr&r;onf lC llhe r Than Politk ll C []r ru 'I"I~ ,_ ,_ ,_ ,_ , _ ..( I ; I ) PrJlibl F'BrIy CO OlIJIittto. ...... "-' .._ -... _..... - ... _ _....... _ ._ ."-' '-'-'-'-' - - -.{c ) CtM r ~ CorfniWl lMl (!tucll 11$ PIo.C &) ._ ._ .,,__ . ,. -._.. , -._ .-._ .

TOT /I ,L CON" 'I 1\ lBV1lON p ;e ;FUNOS (1I dd 2D (; I) . fln('l t e O ) . . _ - . _ . - -21. orneR D~~ENTS ,.__ _._ __ _ _._._ _ _ _ __ _

W'70&1.I! i1----_---~ TOTAL FtECEIPTS THIS PERiOP ( 1 T o m LW loo16) _ ._ _ _._ ._ _ _ ._ ,," _ __ _ _ __ ""_ '_ "' __"_ ''''' $1 M e e o . 1 e .- --- -- '---. -- --- -- ---I -- ---- -- --$7~t.:l9------~7'4iM:ro---

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I II . CASH SUMMARY-------- --- - -----------_ -- ----------_---: 25 -SUBTOTAL (ad d 1 J r I I & : l : ! o _ nd u"t: 204) ._ _ ._., ..__ _ _." .._ __ _._ . _." _._ ._ ,_._ ._._ _ _._ ._ "--------

------ --- -_ ---:t(!. TOTAL OISBUR .SEUE:N l "3 "nus pEFUOIJ ( f rOm Wne ~ _ ._ ._ _ _" ,_ ,_ ,_ ,_ , _ _ . , _ _.._ __ ._ _ _ _ .--- -- ----


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REPORT OF RECEIPTSAND DISBURSEMENTSfor An ALIlhorized CommiHeI'il

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3. ts THISREl"Of tT ANENDEr.; !f~4 . . TY PE O F R T:P OR T ~Chocrs!lOne}

{ill} Q1.w1Br l! / Repor t! !:

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F r o m :

I.FlECEIP1S

To :

11. ~ IBU11ON:S (~ef man loom;) fROM:~(;P) Ind it.r i .C hJ l~ns o ti1 l!1 r Th~n

Ptlli t i (); ll l c;>: : lmmlltMt II) fulmizOO (u$C $ched-.J la ft ,, } .. .. , " " . ,- -.(i) Un im rn i z. e ~L. . .. _. .. _ . _. .. ' " , - .. ' -' -' " -- " . _ . I(iii) T O T A L o r c D 1 " 1 1 t 1 b l . l t l l l M trqm I n d il l' id ~ " . . _ ._ .. _. .. . _ .. . _ ._ . . , .

(b) F'Dl i l i l$ l Piltrl,j'Commilts5..,_"."" .-.-._._. I~c} O I Ih e r PQ ll tl ca t C : Jm ~ !! ; I$yC;:1I ;II!! , P " A O S ) . _ . . , _ , . ,. , . .. .. _ . _ ._ . _. .. _ . . .. ..(d ) Th'.t ~nd id a b ll . .. .. - . .. - . .. . _ .. . _ ._ . . _. .. . _ .. . " " I(e) TOTAl CONTRIBUTIONS

(o t lY;!r t ' -an loans,) [i ldd L . i l " l M - 11(:a}( i i i } , {l!, Ie). and (d ))t2:. TRAN SF ER S F RO M O1 l;fE .R IU TH OR IZ ED C QMM LT IE ES ... _ ". ,,- .... _... _._13. LOANS

la J M Eld I t (If' G;Ulmm18ad I I ' ) ' 1 t " K 1Cal 'Kl l i :l :a te .. ._ . . .. . . , ._. . . . _ ._._._.._ .. . . _ ._._._..

[b) All OI: t' le r U li Rma . .. . _. . ,_ ,_ ,. _ ." . , .. _ . _ ." _' " . _.(c} T OT .A L L OA NS

ls.dd L i I " l 9 $ 1~ (~} ; 1100{ ti ll . . , . " -' " . _. .. - . _ .14, OFFSETS TO DPERA TING

EXPENOITURE;S ;(RafunLk. Reb~, ~}._ ..._...._.._..._._._._.

1 6 - . O 1H ER R 5C BIP TSlD jy i l jen . : ta. IntertlU, ~C .) . _ . .. _ .. .. _ .. . _ . .. . _ . " . _. .

~ S. fO T AL Re Ct : lP 'fS. (9d l! U n!;!!!;11(e). 12. 1~(!;!), 14,and 1~)(Carry T O h l lr l tc Une24, ~4)._._ ..._.......

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32820.00 I19:505.00 I5 2330 .00 ] I 1~80_00 I[ tOO I [ O . D D ]35608.40 J I 60812.63 ]

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1590.18J I ~ 9 0 1 : 4 ~ : : ]89 !eS_58 I I 200194..09 I

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For An AuthQrtil::edCm1Jni~J. NAI.l~QF

COMUITIEE ( in f ul l~ 1 : : : : : : 1I l - I l ; I i ! i ' i b B r t f ot C ong re s !o Com r il :t e eI I I I I I I I I I LJ....-..I II I I I I I ! I II i I I . . L . . J

AODRESS jnumber ami ' 6 I 1 t ! 1 . ' 1 1 : l. . .1 .. I I :

..-i- : In IS f ! a ( J I ! 1 . ! I . I2. F;;C IDEN11F'lCAllOff Nt"IM91;R .. CITY'" ZIF 'COOE .&

STATE. DlSTRlCTSTfo.1EA

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(Ii) au"~1tf Flieporb;:[] [] P r i m a r y (t2P) [J GCfllitl '411126) 0 Runoff {1m). P I C H 1 I 1 $ r . : : w ~ l ! ! t l ~ ReptJrt (01)8 0 C D m t f I I l t i o l 1 o (12C) [] Sped;1 {12S)J ul)' 1 :1 iO Ilill: 8r l: f ~ (Q2:)[] DO: : : I in 1 he 0obl!Jf 15:a~l!' ~ (03) EI4 I~( ;mon s t . l r l e m[] J aOO ll Y: ?i 1 v e ar -E nd ReptJf1 ffEl (e) s Q . .. D a ) I POST-EIIId:~ f i : ~ F l o r t tor thr t : :n July 3 1 Mid- Y O f lr Report IJ (lcfIe~1 (300) [] fl;yr'O'l'f1:30R) 0 $per . la l pcrs)~ NQ n.,f !le iliD n " (a ar On !} !) [M Y)0 DD: : : I i n l li ar DE II IT 1i rg jj "" , R e po rI; ( '1'ER) I= lBCl lDn 00 SUi te o r

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1s, TOTAL. RECE 'fPTG ( :lCld tinea1t(e}. t2, q(cj, 14. and 15)(~1TI t T o1 all0 U I'M l 'Z4. p l J j J I oi l. , "" . . """"" . . ..

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~ . . o . a 1 StATE'" OISTRICTI Ic~~e~o : : : : I 3. 18THlS 1 1 N e w aEPORT ~N) OR ~ A . ) - ~ ~TYPE Of REPOR .T (COO9a!t one-) I4.

{b) '2-D "", PRE~n RepocI.ror the :(a) OY:;1!1~11)I~po!llll: 0 0] Pr iJmI"Y (12P ) Getlel1l1 (12G) Runoff (1.2R)0 April t 5 Qy"'~ Re~nrt(Q1) [] 00 Comrt :n l lon {12C, Special (l2S}J ul y 1 5 Oy.a~r tl " RepOl!: ~Q:a)1 3 DD: : : I if! ' l t J e - DCl!ober 16 Ouater ly RepIJl! : lQ3~ E I! d: II !f t o n Sl~.of0 Ji ln lUary: ; l1 'fe;;lir. En d R.ep :x t f'!'E (c ) w-oay 1 " ' ( ; 1 $ . 1 ' . 1 : : 1 a o : : 6 o o RepM Ii;) r 1 1 " I e ~[J JUl'f31 Mi:l.-Y_ Report a Genera l {:lOG} [J Rl lnmJ( : ; IORj 0 SIlIl;]i&I 00$)(NQn-ele


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Wr i t e or T~ C't;Im~ r> l.am8Has te r t !b f CC41QI"8~Commntee

F r o m :

C O L U M N Alo1 sl Thb P 1k'IC I~.RECEIPTS11. C O N T R l B U 1 1 0 t o . l S ~oIr.erll'lal"!bruls) fROU:

( a ) I l! \d l y ld l l8 l !! fPe f1 i l Jf 1 :5J I h4I rT I l~nPOII!;l:;:aICI)M1mit te~(I) IIllrri;:i!Id{I.!$e $ t ; l t 1 l ! J d u l a A). . ." . . . . . ..(j) I Jn lIBm28d . .. _n ." _._ _. _ _ _._.( I i i ) T O T / 1 0 1 . .ootributiOllI5

i t O I ' l l I nI Il vi du :s 16 . .. _ _ . .. . _ .. .. . " .. .. , ..( 1 ; 1 ) Poli t ical Party c : o m r 'IIiItee Il _ " .(C;~ O i : h t e f " Pol~1 Commi im86( E I ! J I : h a5P " " , C S ) _ ._ _ _ _ ._ .n -_.-.{ d) T h il l C i 1 Il '1 1 ;1 1 l3 & ta. _ . _. .. . _ ._. .. .. .. " . .. .. _ ._. .. _ ..(III} TOTAL CON1R t6 'I .I T IO I 'l lS

(oIhrar 1 h : . n ~ I 1 6 J(I'li;ltl UII!! l3 11 (8)( i i i ) . (b), te~.111M~dll

1f.. TR AN SF fR S F RO M O TH ERAUTHORl ,ZE ) COMU ITTEES._ . .. .. " . ._ . _. ._. .

ra LOANStQ ) M:idl\! or G uB lB ni:e l!d ~ ~MC i lt lOd l dl lt e ._ . .. . , ,- . .. - . .. - ._ . .. . _ ._. .. . _. .. _ ._. .. . _

(b) All O tl\ar Loans ._ _ ._ _ ._ " .(C ) roT~L LOANS

( i ! t ( I < : I L J: 1E 1! l1 3( ~) ~ ( h) ) . .. . _ ._. ... _. .. _ . _. ..

14. OFF"SETSTO~iING5XPENC!mJRES(R8 funda , ~l!!I.. e b .: :. }_ ._ . .. . _ ._ . . . " . . , _ ._ . .. . _ . .

15. . OTl'IER I1E.CE~PTS{Dl l l f .dend5. I l 'l le red , e tc .. ). _ ._ . .. . _ .. .. _ .. .. _ .. .. . _ ..

1~ . T O T A L RECEl 'PTel (~lIIJe-s11(8). 12. 13(.;:), 14" and is} ....(CQ(I)I 1 ! . l 1 : : B 1r o L in e 2 4 _ 1 l I I! P d 1 ! lo 4 ) . _ _. .. _ . _ .. .

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12. lil" l.AN SFERS FROu OTHERp..UTHORllEU COM UITTEE !L .. '.'.' " .

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