Kill the Messenger (2006 film)
Kill The Messenger (French: Une Femme à Abattre) is a 2006 French documentary film about Sibel Edmonds. An English version was produced in 2007 by SBS Australia.
| Kill the Messenger | |
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| French | Une Femme à Abattre |
| Directed by | Mathieu Verboud Jean-Robert Viallet |
| Produced by | Bruno Nahon |
Production company | Zadig productions |
| Distributed by | Yleisradio |
Running time | 84 minutes |
| Country | France |
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The documentary focuses on both Ms. Edmonds's personal struggle to expose the criminality that she uncovered while at the FBI, and also the Sept. 11, 2001 tied 'secret' itself - the network of nuclear black-market, narcotics and illegal arms trafficking activities. Interviewees include David Rose,[1] Philip Giraldi, Daniel Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley and Russell Tice.
U.S. premiere
On September 9, 2009, the film had its U.S. premiere at the 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California.
Footnotes
- Rose, David (September 2005). "An Inconvenient Patriot. Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up alleged illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she's now preparing a Supreme Court appeal—and threatening some very powerful people". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 2006-03-24.
External links
- Kill the Messenger at IMDb
- "Kill The Messenger Une Femme A Abattre". justacitizen.com. Retrieved 2006-09-05.
- "Kill The Messenger A Documentary on State Secrets Privilege & U.S. Whistleblowers". National Security Whistleblowers Coalition. Retrieved 2006-09-05.
- "Kill The Messenger blog". sibeledmonds.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2006-09-05.
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