Gaddafi offered Sarkozy $66 million to finance his 2007 campaign: report

[lai_choi_san]

The hard-charging investigative journalism website Mediapart says a letter shows that Gaddafi offered a boat-load of money to Sarkozy's first presidential campaign five years ago.

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[ladypolitik]

Hm, well. I reckon it's news in the sense that there's now purported proof of questionable dealings that most people figure are going on between notable governments (not just France!) and their questionable allies. But I think most people would already have the sense that -- in this case, ever since the Libyan disarmament commitment back in '03, and the subsequent mad dash among governments (that USED to vilify Gaddafi), tripping over themselves to be friends with Libya -- this otherwise isnt shocking information.

"Western Governments Selectively Cozy Up To Widely Vilified non-Western Regimes Because of Economic/Military/Political/Geopolitical Self-Interest, News @ 11", basically.

Good to know in any case, I guess.

[hinoema]

Oddly enough, my first thought was "Where is Putin in all this?"

[ladypolitik]

Mmmmm-hmmm.

[lai_choi_san]

What is exceptional here is not the facts that we already know, it's that journalists manage to find not only testimonies but also a new piece of evidence despite all the efforts to destroy the proofs.

[lai_choi_san]

Denying is the least Sarkozy can do after shutting somebody's mouth with bombs.