{"id":69753,"date":"2008-03-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/le-kc-45-est-il-une-vilaine-casserolle-pour-mccain\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T00:00:00","slug":"le-kc-45-est-il-une-vilaine-casserolle-pour-mccain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2008\/03\/14\/le-kc-45-est-il-une-vilaine-casserolle-pour-mccain\/","title":{"rendered":"Le KC-45 est-il une vilaine casserolle pour McCain?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Un signal montre que que l’affaire du choix de EADS-Airbus (Norhrop Grumman) pour le programme KC-45 de l’USAF pourrait \u00eatre un grave sujet de controverse contre John McCain, candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence. Une information diffus\u00e9e par ABC.News<\/em> et diverses interventions de d\u00e9mocrates signale cette possible \u00e9volution, principalement \u00e0 partir de la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation que l’\u00e9quipe de campagne \u00e9lectorale de McCain compte trois anciens lobbystes washingtoniens qui ont travaill\u00e9 pour EADS\/Northrop Grummand dans l’affaire KC-45.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tRAW Story<\/em> a publi\u00e9 ces pr\u00e9cisions, hier:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00abRepublican presidential candidate John McCain might be glad that he hasn’t received a whole lot of attention since he officially locked up his party’s nomination earlier this month, because most eyes are on the still-ongoing Democratic race.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbBut critics of the Arizona senator are starting to make waves about the Arizona senator’s relationships with lobbyists with a European company, by charging that the results cost Americans jobs, according to ABC News.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bb…McCain pushed for EADS to get the contract, and his campaign employs three former EADS lobbyists, although there is no specific evidence of impropriety, according to ABC.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\u00bbMr. Clean has a bunch of lobbyists that work for a company that won that contract, House Democratic Caucus chairman Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., told the network. Some people claim the way the specs were written, it was all but certain that the company that his campaign lobbyists worked for couldn’t but get that contract.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tMcCain se d\u00e9fend avec divers arguments: les lobbyistes qu’il emploie, s’ils ont travaill\u00e9 pour EADS, ne l’ont pas personnellement contact\u00e9 lorsqu’ils travaillaient dans le cadre du programme KC-45; en emp\u00eachant d’attribuer le contrat pr\u00e9c\u00e9dant \u00e0 Boeing, sans concurrence, il a mis \u00e0 jour des scandales et fait \u00e9conomiser des sommes consid\u00e9rables au tr\u00e9sor US. Mais ces arguments rationnels, juste ou pas c’est \u00e0 voir, ont peu de poids face \u00e0 l’effet produit par la nouvelle, que ABC.News<\/em> r\u00e9sume de la sorte: \u00abWhat Senator McCain said he has tried to do is make the process for bidding more open, transparent and competitive, explained ABC’s Jake Tapper explained in a segment on the network. In making that argument, McCain has benefited this consortium run largely by Airbus. It has benefited that company without question. Was Senator McCain trying to benefit that company? That’s an open question but Boeing seems to think so. A lot of the Democrats in Congress seem to think that the deck was stacked against Boeing.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCes diverses remarques semblent montrer que les d\u00e9mocrates sont bien d\u00e9cid\u00e9s \u00e0 utliser l’affaire KC-45 contre McCain, une fois qu’ils seront quittes de la d\u00e9signation de leur candidat. Ils auront l’avantage de pouvoir faire co\u00efncider ces attaques \u00e9ventuelles avec des actions au Congr\u00e8s contre le choix de l’USAF, puisqu’ils contr\u00f4lent les commissions quI peuvent agir dans ce sens. D’autre part, il y a l’affaire de la plainte de Boeing devant le GAO. Le GAO a cent jours pour statuer sur une plainte et cet organisme a l’habitude d’utiliser tout son d\u00e9lai l\u00e9gal pour se d\u00e9cider; cela implique qu’il y aura un autre point de relance de l’int\u00e9r\u00eat pol\u00e9mique \u00e9galement dans les trois mois qui viennent, qui sera lui aussi utilis\u00e9 par les d\u00e9mocrates pour intensifier leurs attaques contre McCain. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tLa question de la pr\u00e9sence de ces trois anciens lobbyistes de EADS dans l’\u00e9quipe de McCain, m\u00eame si elle n’implique en rien une conduite critiquable du candidat r\u00e9publicain, ouvre la voie \u00e0 des types nouveaux d’attaque. Il est probable que les d\u00e9mocrates vont lancer des campagnes de rumeurs qui ne porteront plus sur la fausset\u00e9 ou l’erreur du choix de McCain (en emp\u00eachant Boeing d’avoir primitivement le contrat) mais sur son honn\u00eatet\u00e9 dans ce choix, cela sur une question fondamentale de s\u00e9curit\u00e9 nationale.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

\tMis en ligne le 14 mars 2008 \u00e0 15H35<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Un signal montre que que l’affaire du choix de EADS-Airbus (Norhrop Grumman) pour le programme KC-45 de l’USAF pourrait \u00eatre un grave sujet de controverse contre John McCain, candidat r\u00e9publicain \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidence. Une information diffus\u00e9e par ABC.News et diverses interventions de d\u00e9mocrates signale cette possible \u00e9volution, principalement \u00e0 partir de la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation que l’\u00e9quipe… <\/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":[3192,6120,4215,4581,7468,4063],"class_list":["post-69753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-boeing","tag-campagne","tag-eads","tag-kc-45","tag-lobbyiste","tag-mccain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69753","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=69753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}