BRENT SCOWCROFT ATTACKS ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LEGISLATION
Only days before Armenian Genocide legislation is set to come before a key U.S. House panel, American Turkish Council (ATC) Chairman Brent Scowcroft has warned Speaker Dennis Hastert that even the discussion of the Armenian Genocide on the floor of the U.S. House would be "counter-productive to the interests of the United States, reported the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).
In his September 12th letter, Scowcroft, speaking on behalf of the corporate members of the ATC, accused Congressional supporters of Armenian Genocide legislation (H.Res.316 and H.Con.Res.195) of trying to "pull Turkey away from the West. He stressed that: "The careless use of genocide language provides and excuse to do so, delivering a direct blow to American interests in the region."
"We are outraged that Brent Scowcroft appears to have so compromised his own integrity in pursuit of personal business interests that he finds himself enlisted by the Turkish government in its desperate and patently immoral genocide denial effort," said ANCA Executive Director Aram Hamparian.
"We are particularly troubled by his baseless comment regarding the 'careless use of genocide language' - a hateful insult to the victims of this crime, a direct offense to the Congressional authors of this legislation, and a repudiation of the U.S. archives, the unanimous judgment of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and the overwhelming evidence documenting this crime against humanity."
The ATC has come under scrutiny in recent weeks as the result of a 10-page story in Vanity Fair detailing FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmond's reports that it's officials were involved in illegal efforts to defeat Armenian Genocide legislation in the fall of 2000.
According to the article by contributing editor David Rose, Edmonds claimed FBI wiretaps - including those of the Turkish Embassy and Turkish groups such as the American Turkish Council (ATC) and the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA) - reveal that the Turkish government and its allies boasted of bribing members of Congress as part of an alleged deal to stop consideration of the Armenian Genocide Resolution.
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