WASHINGTON -- January 25 -- An event this Wednesday will feature groups including the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) that support a challenge to the excessive secrecy imposed over the case of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (media advisory follows). A statement that will be made at the event by Danielle Brian, Executive Director of POGO, follows.

POGO, other open government groups, and groups representing families of the 9/11 terrorist attacks filed an amicus brief in support of Ms. Edmonds legal challenge last week. A copy of the amicus can be viewed here: http://www.pogo.org/m/hsp/hsp-edmondsamicus-2004.pdf

POGO has also filed litigation over the legality of the retroactive classification of information concerning Sibel Edmonds' whistleblowing. Legal documents in POGO v. Ashcroft can be viewed here: http://www.pogo.org/p/government/pogovashcroft.html

The Project On Government Oversight investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. Founded in 1981, POGO is a politically-independent, nonprofit watchdog that strives to promote a government that is accountable to the citizenry.

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