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This second pilot edition of Boiling Frogs 

Post Roundtable expands on the background 

information discussed in a short clip by 

James Corbett which I sent earlier this 

week.
Sibel Edmonds is a former FBI translator 

who was fired in March 2002, after accusing 

the FBI of deliberately suppressing and 

endangering national security, which later 

gained her awards and fame as a whistleblower. 

Edmonds testified before the 9/11 Commission, 

but her testimony was excluded from the 

official 9/11 Commission Report.

She is the founder of the National Security 

Whistleblowers Coalition (NSWBC) and Editor 

of her website, BoilingFrogsPost.com, where 

she has recently raised questions about the 

extremely slow release of the Snowden 

documents.

Corbett, along with Sibel Edmonds and 

Guillermo Jimenez discuss the controversy 

surrounding the $250 million dollar media 

venture between Glenn Greenwald and eBay 

Chairman, Pierre Omidyar. PayPal, a 

subsidiary of eBay has vocally supported 

and materially enabled illegal NSA activities.

They discuss the glacial pace at which the 

Snowden documents are being released, in 

the name of mutli-million-dollar profits and 

Edmonds is still waiting for a response to an 

open letter to Snowden, as to whether he 

condones the manner with which the 

documents he obtained at the risk of his own 

life have been handled (if, indeed his story is 

all that it has been purported to be, of which 

she has expressed some doubt) and whether 

he is receiving his fair “cut” from these 

astronomical deals.

For this, Edmonds, a longtime supporter of 

Greenwald’s crusade against the lapdog, 

propagandist and criminal mainstream media 

has found herself savaged by extremely 

unseemly tweets from Greenwald, and his 

emailed response to her perfectly reasonable 

questions were, quote: “Go away, bitch!”
Greenwald’s reactions demonstrate a complete 

breaking from rank among dissident journalists 

and whistleblowers – besides demonstrating 

immense misogyny. Greenwald’s unwarranted 

and absurd assaults against Edmonds truly beg 

askance as to his ultimate motivations.
At this juncture, it sure looks, walks and talks 

like an NSA buy-out of the data dump – probably 

the most legally prudent option for Greenwald – 

lest he become another Julian Assange or 

Chelsea Manning.
The Snowden documents are considered by 

the US to be stolen Government Property. 

Constitutional Law would argue that this 

property was, in turn illegally stolen from 

the People of the US – who unwittingly 

funded the NSA’s illegal activities, therefore, 

it legally belongs to the American People.

As a Constitutional Lawyer, I’m sure 

Greenwald has studied the situation and 

become convinced that this illegally-acquired 

cache is salable. But if this $250 million dollar 

Omidyar deal actually represents an NSA 

buy-out and a blockade of the information 

obtained, on pain of death by a recipient of 

the Sam Adams Award for integrity and 

ethics by the intelligence community; if it 

is a betrayal of Ed Snowden’s alleged 

intentions and his sacrifice, that will feltch 

beyond human comprehension. We’re 

watching and waiting…tapping our little 

toes, over here, Mr. Greenwald. 

 

 

That’s how we grow. Thanks.