{"id":66366,"date":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/28\/surprise-powell-se-rebiffe-contre-bolton-mais-aussi-contre-rice\/"},"modified":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-28T00:00:00","slug":"surprise-powell-se-rebiffe-contre-bolton-mais-aussi-contre-rice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2005\/04\/28\/surprise-powell-se-rebiffe-contre-bolton-mais-aussi-contre-rice\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Powell se rebiffe, \u2014 contre Bolton, mais aussi contre Rice<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surprise! Powell se rebiffe, contre Bolton, mais aussi contre Rice<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t28 avril 2005 Ces mots sont lourds de sens: \u00ab …[Powell] acted as the good soldier to the end, giving every sign of desiring to fade away. But now he has re-emerged to conduct a campaign to defeat President Bush’s nomination of conservative hardliner and former undersecretary of state John Bolton as US ambassador to the UN.<\/em> \u00bb Ces mots sont de Sidney Blumenthal, dans sa chronique du 28 avril dans The Guardian<\/a>; si Blumenthal \u00e9crit cela, c’est qu’il se trouve lui-m\u00eame informellement engag\u00e9 dans une bataille, dans tous les cas parfaitement inform\u00e9 des conditions de cette bataille. Le reste de sa chronique le prouve.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCe que nous dit Blumenthal, c’est que Powell a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de rompre la discipline \u00e0 laquelle il s’est astreint durant son service au d\u00e9partement d’\u00c9tat, et depuis son d\u00e9part de l’administration. Avec deux pr\u00e9cisions int\u00e9ressantes, dont l’une n’est pas conduite \u00e0 son terme bien s\u00fbr, et dont la deuxi\u00e8me implique des perspectives importantes:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t• Il existe, autour de John Bolton, une grosse affaire qui a \u00e0 voir avec des messages de la NSA dont Bolton a eu communication \u00e0 sa demande. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t\u00ab The Bolton confirmation hearings have revealed his constant efforts to undermine Powell on Iran and Iraq, Syria and North Korea. They have also exposed a most curious incident that has triggered the administration’s stonewall reflex. The foreign relations committee has discovered that Bolton made a highly unusual request and gained access to 10 intercepts by the National Security Agency, which monitors worldwide communications, of conversations involving past and present government officials. Whose conversations did Bolton secretly secure and why?<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb Staff members on the committee believe that Bolton was probably spying on Powell, his senior advisers and other officials reporting to him on diplomatic initiatives that Bolton opposed. If so, it is also possible that Bolton was sharing this top-secret information with his neoconservative allies within the Pentagon and the vice-president’s office, with whom he was in daily contact and who were known to be working in league against Powell.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb If the intercepts are released they may disclose whether Bolton was a key figure in a counter-intelligence operation run inside the Bush administration against the secretary of state, who would resemble the hunted character played by Will Smith in Enemy of the State. Both Republican and Democratic senators have demanded that the state department, which holds the NSA intercepts, turn them over to the committee. But Rice so far has refused. What is she hiding by her cover-up?<\/em> \u00bb <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\t• Il appara\u00eet, selon Blumenthal, que l’objectif de Powell n’est pas seulement Bolton, mais Rice \u00e9galement. Rice, c’est-\u00e0-dire plus tr\u00e8s loin de GW lui-m\u00eame. (Quant \u00e0 Bolton, dans le cadre de ces grandes manuvres que nous sugg\u00e8re Blumenthal, ce n’est pas seulement Bolton, c’est aussi Cheney.) \u00ab In seeking to prevent the bullying and duplicitous ideologue from representing the US before the international organisation, Powell is engaging in hand-to-hand combat with his successor. Secretary of state Condoleezza Rice’s first true test has not arrived from abroad. Caught by Powell’s flanking movement, she is trapped in a crisis of credibility, which she herself is deepening.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tSurtout, sur ce deuxi\u00e8me point, Blumenthal termine par une hypoth\u00e8se qui ouvre des perspectives importantes et graves: \u00ab Rice’s rise has been dependent on her unwavering devotion to the president; in the Bolton case, she is again elevating loyalty to her leader above all else. Will Powell lose once more? But this episode points beyond the general’s revenge, Rice’s fealty, Bolton’s contempt or even presidential prerogative, to a gathering storm over constitutional government.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tBlumenthal d\u00e9crit, dans son article, l’activisme soudainement d\u00e9ploy\u00e9 par Powell, et par ses amis (son ancien n\u00b02 Armitage, son ancien chef de cabinet Lawrence B Wilkerson), pour attaquer Bolton et bloquer sa nomination. Manifestement, la pr\u00e9sentation que fait Blumenthal montre que l’action de Powell va largement au-del\u00e0 des personnes.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tL’administration GW Bush est une architecture de mensonges et d’impostures, d’ill\u00e9galit\u00e9s et d’actes arbitraires, qui s’appuie sur une pression constante exerc\u00e9e par une tr\u00e8s grande puissance de communication et appuy\u00e9e sur les constructions virtualistes post-9\/11 autour du mythe de la guerre contre la terreur. Si cette architecture est \u00e0 la fois puissante et efficace, elle est aussi fragile parce que sans fondation ni l\u00e9gitimit\u00e9. Elle a tenu jusqu’ici mais reste \u00e0 la merci d’un incident qui devient soudain incontr\u00f4lable et engendre des effets d\u00e9vastateurs. La question qu’on peut se poser avec l’affaire Bolton, et la soudaine d\u00e9cision de Powell de passer \u00e0 l’offensive, est de savoir s’il s’agit d’un incident de cette sorte, pouvant d\u00e9boucher sur une crise int\u00e9rieure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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