Daily Inspiration Quote by Sibel Edmonds

It’s a small sentence with the blunt force of a paper trail. Edmonds isn’t trying to sound noble; she’s trying to sound legible. “They asked me” frames the polygraph as an institutional demand, not a personal stunt. “I volunteered” instantly flips the power dynamic: she wasn’t cornered, she stepped forward. In whistleblower narratives, that move matters because the standard counterattack is always credibility. This line preempts the smear by walking the audience through procedure: request, compliance, result.

The phrasing is deliberately workmanlike. “Allegations and reports I’d made” carries the bureaucratic chill of forms and memos, but it also signals something darker: the system is treating her claims as a liability to be managed. The polygraph becomes less a truth-finding tool than a loyalty test, a way to move the spotlight from the substance of the allegations to the character of the person making them. Edmonds meets that test on its own terms, then uses it as a weapon.

“Passed it without a glitch” is the tell. It’s not poetic; it’s technical, almost IT language, implying clean data, no anomalies, nothing for skeptics to hang on. She’s not arguing that polygraphs are perfect. She’s arguing that even by the government’s preferred yardstick - the one often used to intimidate and discredit - she cleared the bar. Subtext: if you still won’t hear me now, the problem isn’t my truthfulness. It’s your appetite for the truth.