The allegation of Turkey influence buying/peddling in Washington is not a well known issue, though I have touched on this strange, thrilling and paranoid brew of a story over the years.   Often but not exclusively at the center of this byzantine byzantineness is the obsessive cultishness of the modern Turkey government to deny the facts of the several Armenian genocides in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries by the pre-World War 1 Ottoman Empire.  Sibel Edmonds comes to the story late.  Of the many wild stories she has told, many reported corroborated since her FBI firing in '02, one eye-popping whopper involves the alleged Turkey bribing of Dennis Hastert, who is now a registered lobbyist for Turkey.  (She tells other stories of nukes, Bin Laden, Tehran, ISI, AQ Khan.)   Long after Edmonds was in government, the Armenian genocide vote in the House was a strange brew of a controversy, in 2007. More and more to this tale. For now, I watch because my mother's family history includes the radical dislocation of my mother's family by the Ottoman Empire genocides against perceived enemies and non Moslems.  If Eric Holder is responsible for Edmonds finally talking on the record, good for him, and good for POTUS.  Let the apparent sunlight here continue.