Il s’av\u00e8re que l’administration GW Bush, dont on sait qu’elle fonctionnait sur le mode faith-based<\/em> (d\u00e9fini<\/a> par Ron Suskind), \u00e9quivalent en plus chic de notre virtualisme, avait obtenu l’ardente coop\u00e9ration des services diplomatiques des Etats-Unis. Et la pratique, bien entendu, continue. C’est le th\u00e8me d’un excellent et exclusif article du Washington Times<\/em> sur la pratique en question, en date du 16 septembre 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tL’article montre, \u00e0 partir de diverses interviews, confidences, etc., combien cette pratique s’est g\u00e9n\u00e9ralis\u00e9e, comme pratique d’autocensure pour conformer les nouvelles aux convictions et croyances diverses du centre, \u00e0 Washington. Il s’agit aussi bien d’une d\u00e9marche du conformisme des psychologies que d’un souci de pr\u00e9server ses chances de progresser dans la hi\u00e9rarchie, de la part de ceux qui sacrifient \u00e0 ces pratiques.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abU.S. embassies are discouraging or suppressing negative reports to Washington about U.S. allies, sometimes depriving officials of information they need to make good policy decisions, current and former diplomats say.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbOne diplomat told The Washington Times that he has decided to resign in part because of frustration with rampant self-censorship by Foreign Service officers and their superiors that has gone so far as to ban bad news cables from countries that are friendly with the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThe diplomat, who asked that his name not be used for fear of retribution against himself and colleagues, said that, in one instance under the George W. Bush administration, an embassy in the Middle East did not report local government interference in elections. Senior management censored accounts of low morale at another Middle East mission that had been the target of terrorist attacks, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbMore than a dozen diplomats serving in Washington and abroad told The Times that they agreed with most of the officer’s critique, and that the censorship has continued to a lesser extent in the Obama administration. All asked not to be named to avoid retribution.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tDivers moyens ou canaux avaient \u00e9t\u00e9 et ont \u00e9t\u00e9 \u00e9tablis pour lutter contre cette tendance et encourager les vues critiques et dissidentes parmi le corps diplomatiques. Force est de constater que les messages sont caviard\u00e9s et que les services sont moribonds<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThe resigning officer said that, during one of his tours, his ambassador, a political appointee of President Bush, flat out banned any bad-news’ cables, and made it known at all levels that we were only to produce ‘good-news stories’ about our [host] country, a U.S. ally. The officer said he had written several cables critical of senior leaders in his host country and about interference by the government in the electoral process, but many of them were either quashed or radically altered. On the other hand, he said, negative cables are common regarding countries with strained relations with Washington, such as Burma, Zimbabwe and Venezuela.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbSusan Johnson, president of the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), the diplomats union, pointed out that the State Department has a dissent channel, through which officers can express disagreements with policy or other issues. However, there seems to be a widespread perception in the Foreign Service that the channel is almost moribund, she said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tIl est certain que cette tendance \u00e0 peindre la situation ext\u00e9rieure conform\u00e9ment \u00e0 la vision des autorit\u00e9s centrales a toujours plus ou moins exist\u00e9. Nous avons le souvenir, du temps o\u00f9 Le Monde<\/em> avait encore quelque autorit\u00e9, avant le 11 septembre 2001, de l’exemple qu’on nous avait donn\u00e9 d’un jeune diplomate fran\u00e7ais \u00e0 l’OTAN qui n’\u00e9crivait aucune de ses d\u00e9p\u00eaches pour Paris sans avoir lu Le Monde<\/em> du jour, pour s’en inspirer au moins dans l’esprit A c\u00f4t\u00e9 de cela, bien entendu, ce que d\u00e9crit le Washington Times<\/em> est d’une toute autre substance, parce que reflet d’une tendance g\u00e9n\u00e9rale et proche d’\u00eatre syst\u00e9matique. Il s’agit d’un mouvement g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, r\u00e9pondant aussi bien \u00e0 des exigences dissimul\u00e9es qu’\u00e0 des psychologies, celle du caract\u00e8re am\u00e9ricaniste, particuli\u00e8rement form\u00e9es \u00e0 l’alignement sur les perceptions officielles. Le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne a d\u00e9j\u00e0 \u00e9t\u00e9 signal\u00e9 au niveau militaire, o\u00f9 la pratique des bonnes nouvelles des guerres en cours, qui favorisent l’avancement en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, est tr\u00e8s largement r\u00e9pandue. Mais que le ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne touche les services diplomatiques US, r\u00e9put\u00e9s pour leur puissance, leur autonomie de vue, leur int\u00e9r\u00eat objectif pour les sujets les plus vastes, surtout dans les postes \u00e0 l’\u00e9tranger, voil\u00e0 qui est une nouvelle bien inqui\u00e9tante pour le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme. Cela l’est d’autant plus que cela touche une psychologie g\u00e9n\u00e9rale largement auto-suffisante et inclin\u00e9e \u00e0 voir le monde \u00e0 partir des seules conceptions am\u00e9ricanistes, et \u00e0 l’image des conceptions am\u00e9ricanistes. Il nous para\u00eet \u00e9vident qu’il faut faire de ce que nous disent ces r\u00e9v\u00e9lations une des causes majeures de nombre d’avatars, d’erreurs d’\u00e9valuation, de d\u00e9cisions contre-productives, et, en g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, la cause d’une rupture de perception formidable entre la direction du syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme et le reste du monde. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 16 septembre 2009 \u00e0 14H29<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Il s’av\u00e8re que l’administration GW Bush, dont on sait qu’elle fonctionnait sur le mode faith-based (d\u00e9fini par Ron Suskind), \u00e9quivalent en plus chic de notre virtualisme, avait obtenu l’ardente coop\u00e9ration des services diplomatiques des Etats-Unis. Et la pratique, bien entendu, continue. 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