After years of fighting court battles and gag orders, Sibel Edmonds has finally published “Classified Woman” in which she tells the story our government has fought to keep secret.

Edmonds took a job as a translator at the FBI shortly after 9-11, what she discovered while working for the FBI has caused her nothing but legal trouble and grief.

As strong as they come, she fought and fought to tell the world what she knows.

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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ4qqe84u50]Sibel Edmonds: US government needs to keep the fear factor alive

Published on May 9, 2012 by 

The Obama administration has the worst track record when it comes to prosecuting whistleblowers. Obama once claimed he’d work hard to have a transparent government, but many have faced retaliation for revealing controversial government information. Sibel Edmonds, who is a whistleblower, waited 340 days for FBI clearance of her memoir but finally released it on her own. Edmonds, founder of the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition, joins us for more.