La corruption impos\u00e9e par le syst\u00e8me et ses suites corrompent tous les comportements, jusqu’aux d\u00e9tails les plus absurdes et les plus m\u00e9diocres. C’est le cas pour Randy Cunningham<\/a>, dont Time Magazine<\/em> vient de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler un aspect peu reluisant<\/a> de sa conduite dans sa coop\u00e9ration avec le minist\u00e8re public pour obtenir une peine de prison r\u00e9duite. Cunningham s’est conduit comme un vulgaire informateur de la police en provoquant des entretiens qu’il a enregistr\u00e9s sur un magn\u00e9tophone portatif, \u00e0 la demande des enqu\u00eateurs.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00ab Washington’s power players have always bragged about being well-wired, but for disgraced former congressman Duke Cunningham, wired wasn’t just a figure of speech. In a week when legislators are focused on the question of who else might be brought down by ex-lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s cooperation with prosecutors as he seeks lenient sentencing over his two federal guilty pleas this week, sources tell TIME that in a separate investigation, ex-Rep. Cunningham wore a wire to help investigators gather evidence against others just before copping his own plea.<\/em> ()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bb The identity of those with whom the San Diego congressman met while wearing the wire remains unclear, and is the source of furious and nervous speculation by congressional Republicans. A Cunningham lawyer, K. Lee Blalack, refused to confirm or deny the story, and wouldn’t say whether Cunningham will implicate any other members of Congress. The FBI is believed to be continuing its probe of defense contractors involved in the Cunningham case. An FBI spokesman declined comment. Asked whether Cunningham, an ace Navy fighter pilot decorated for his service in Vietnam, had worn a wire, the spokesman said the response from a higher-up was, Like I’d tell you.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tC’est un aspect tr\u00e8s particulier du syst\u00e8me am\u00e9ricaniste, qui constitue un moyen important de tenir les hommes et d’\u00e9viter les r\u00e9voltes dangereuses: le recours \u00e0 l’humiliation. D’une part, le syst\u00e8me facilite la corruption d’une fa\u00e7on end\u00e9mique, il y oblige m\u00eame avec l’officialisation du lobbying et l’intervention tr\u00e8s co\u00fbteuse de la communication. D’autre part, quand les exc\u00e8s compromettent l’\u00e9quilibre g\u00e9n\u00e9ral de la corruption n\u00e9cessaire, il menace de frapper tr\u00e8s fort (et il tient ses promesses en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral) et il peut d’autant mieux humilier les coupables en proposant officiellement (c’est ce point qui est le plus terrible) la d\u00e9nonciation contre une certaine mansu\u00e9tude. (Ce qu’on sait des prisons US est assez terrible pour rendre cette proposition attrayante.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCette m\u00e9canique est in fine<\/em> celle du maccarthysme qui n’est nullement une aberration du syst\u00e8me, mais la logique du syst\u00e8me conduite \u00e0 son terme. Le syst\u00e8me am\u00e9ricaniste est une quasi-perfection d’all\u00e9geance des individus \u00e0 une m\u00e9canique, autant par la soumission \u00e0 l’argent et par l’empire de la publicit\u00e9 et des relations publiques, que par la crainte de la prison et l’abaissement par l’humiliation officielle (l’incitation \u00e0 la d\u00e9nonciation publique).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 8 janvier 2006 \u00e0 09H42<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" La corruption impos\u00e9e par le syst\u00e8me et ses suites corrompent tous les comportements, jusqu’aux d\u00e9tails les plus absurdes et les plus m\u00e9diocres. C’est le cas pour Randy Cunningham, dont Time Magazine vient de r\u00e9v\u00e9ler un aspect peu reluisant de sa conduite dans sa coop\u00e9ration avec le minist\u00e8re public pour obtenir une peine de prison r\u00e9duite.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4867,3806,3285,3858,1571],"class_list":["post-67158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-as","tag-cmi","tag-congres","tag-corruption","tag-cunningham"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}