Sunday, February 25, 2007
  MP3 AUDIO of a panel discussion on national security whistleblowers following the US premiere of "Kill the Messenger." The French-produced documentary film was about FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a translator who noted some shady business within weeks afer being employed immediately after 9/11. Participants include FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds and investigative reporter Jim Bamford.
Panelist information from Edmonds' National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: Mathieu Verboud, Film Director, Kill the Messenger- In 2005, Mathieu Verboud and Jean Robert Viallet co-directed "The Lost Children of Tranquility Bay," an investigative documentary on ultra violent boot camps for troubled teens in the U.S. "Kill The Messenger," "Une Femme a abattre," is the second film co-directed by Verboud and Viallet. This exclusive investigative piece tells the story of Sibel Edmonds, an ex-FBI employee fighting to expose a major espionage case, and its subsequent cover-up by the US government.
James Bamford, Author, Investigative Journalist - Mr. Bamford is a bestselling author and one of the country's leading writers on intelligence and national security issues. His books include The Puzzle Palace and Body of Secrets, the only two books on the ultrasecret National Security Agency, and most recently A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies... Mr. Bamford has also written for many magazines, including investigative cover stories for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine and The Los Angeles Times Magazine, and is a contributing writer for Rolling Stone. He recently won the 2006 National Magazine Award for Reporting, the highest honor in the magazine industry. He also spent a decade as the Washington Investigative Producer for the ABC News program, World News Tonight, and was a distinguished visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Robert Parry, Investigative Journalist, Consortium News- Mr. Parry is an investigative journalist. During the 1980’s he worked for Associated Press and Newsweek, and broke a number of Iran-Contra stories. He was the first journalist to report on Oliver North’s activities in the White House basement, and the first to describe the Nicaraguan Contras’ involvement with Cocaine traffickers. In 1995, he established Consortium News as an online publication dedicated to investigative journalism. Mr. Parry has written several books, including Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the press and “Project Truth” and Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.
Ben Wizner, Attorney, ACLU- Ben Wizner has been a staff attorney at the ACLU since 2001. He is counsel in the ACLU's challenge to the rendition to torture of an innocent German citizen (El-Masri v. Tenet), as well as in the ACLU's suits seeking to expose FBI and Pentagon surveillance of domestic groups and individuals. He was part of the legal team representing Sibel Edmonds in her suit challenging her unlawful termination by the FBI. Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and New York University School of Law.
Stephen Kohn, attorney, KK&C; Chairman of the Board, National Whistleblower Center- Mr. Kohn is one of the nation's foremost experts in the area of whistleblower protection. Mr. Kohn wrote the first legal treatise on whistleblowing and has successfully litigated many of the nation's landmark whistleblower cases, including Sibel Edmonds' case. He is a former Clinical Supervisor at the Antioch School of Law. He has a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, an M.A. in Political Science from Brown University, and a B.S. in Social Education from Boston University. Mr. Kohn is the author of numerous books and law review articles on whistleblowing and the rights of political dissidents.
Kristina Borjesson- An award-winning print and broadcast journalist for more than twenty-five years, Kristina Borjesson is a noted media critic and investigative journalist. Her latest book, Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11: Top Journalists Speak Out contains a series of candid conversations with leading US journalists, including national security and intelligence reporters, examining mainstream press coverage of the run-up to the Iraq war. Most recently, Borjesson has been producing an investigative documentary for HDNet’s Dan Rather Reports. The program focuses on key individuals in the US government responsible for generating and disseminating the false information used to take the US to war in Iraq. Labels: whistleblowers
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