Cfk Interviewed By The New Yorker "bad Information..."

[D.B. Cooper]

This is a long interview. You can jump to the 40:00 minute mark where the reporter asked about Argentina's role with Iran.
And latter what did she think happened to Mr. Nisman.
Instead of giving direct answers, CFK does a good job dancing around most questions.
This is very interesting since this president never takes questions from the press.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIZ39iEw80M

 

[ajoknoblauch]

This is a long interview. You can jump to the 40:00 minute mark where the reporter asked about Argentina's role with Iran.
And latter what did she think happened to Mr. Nisman.
Instead of giving direct answers, CFK does a good job dancing around most questions.
This is very interesting since this president never takes questions from the press.

https://www.youtube....h?v=jIZ39iEw80M

I'm guessing that Cristinita is less pleased with Filkins' final product: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/death-of-a-prosecutor

 

[Gringoboy]

I just read The New Yorker piece which was well written and coincidentally or not, Lanata's program last night showed a forensic opinion from Cyril Wecht, the US forensic pathologist.
http://www.eltrecetv.com.ar/periodismo-para-todos/nisman-la-tercera-pericia-el-analisis-del-prestigioso-patologo_078699
I don't believe the suicide theory, either way.
I'll try to watch the KFC interview once I've topped off the rivotril intake, although her resemblance to Droopy is more alarming by the day.

 

[sesamosinsal]

The New Yorker piece is OK. The issues:

Separated from his wife, he was a fixture at Buenos Aires’ night clubs and sometimes appeared in gossip magazines with various girlfriends.

Nisman was never married to Judge Arroyo Salgado. She said so on Mirtha Legrand: https://youtu.be/yZim7f-Dq7g?t=14m51s

In conversations recorded before the public pact was announced, some of the men in the transcripts seem to have inside knowledge of the negotiations. In December, 2012, a month before the announcement, Esteche told Khalil that Kirchner’s government intended to invent a culprit for the bombing. “They want to construct a new enemy of the AMIA, someone new to be responsible,” he said. “They aren’t going to be able to say it was the Israelis,” he continued. Instead, the blame would be placed on a “group of local fascists.”

There's an issue with the claim-warrant here. The government never changed gears on who was responsible. The Red Notices were never rescinded, nor did the government ever try, according to Secretary General Ronald Noble. Therefore, their comments about the government supposedly looking for "fachos locales" would indicate that they had no insider information whatsoever because the government never made such claims.

This lack of insider information is corroborated by Judge Rafecas in his dismissal. D'Elía and Khalil made erroneous conclusions based on erroneous information from Infobae.com (the mecca of piss poor journalism in Argentina):

Therefore, all the conversation between Khalil and D’Elia, where the former boasted about having privileged information, was about inaccurate information, and therefore shows the faint degree of reliability that the comments made by these two individuals had so as to be submitted as valid pieces of evidence in court.

CTRL-F that paragraph in Rafecas' dismissal if you wish to read the details. Remember, he's not exactly a K-friendly judge.

In January, 2007, according to a former senior official in Chávez’s government, Ahmadinejad visited Caracas and asked Chávez to intercede with the Kirchners. The official, who attended the meeting, said that Ahmadinejad wanted access to Argentine nuclear technology. (The official is one of several who are coöperating with American investigators, building a case against Venezuela for helping smuggle drugs for Iran and Hezbollah.) Ahmadinejad didn’t specify what sort of technology he wanted. But the Iranian reactor in Arak, still under construction, uses similar technology to an Argentine reactor at Atucha. Both are heavy-water reactors capable of producing plutonium, which can be used in nuclear weapons. “Brother, I need a favor,” Ahmadinejad told Chávez, according to the official. “What it costs in terms of money, we will cover.”

This is based on information from the Brazilian magazine Veja, which is the the Brazilian equivalent of the New York Post or The National Enquirer. The information is based on anonymous sources. This is the same outlet that reported that Máximo Kirchner and Nilda Garré shared a bank account in the U.S., which was deemed false when the U.S. bank published a letter confirming that no such account ever existed. They are famous for publishing false information.

 

[sergio]

Have only listened to a little of the interview. Will watch it to the end when I have time. What I noted was the interviewer's obsequious style. I hope he gets a bit tougher with her.

 

[camberiu]

This is based on information from the Brazilian magazine Veja, which is the the Brazilian equivalent of the New York Post or The National Enquirer. The information is based on anonymous sources. This is the same outlet that reported that Máximo Kirchner and Nilda Garré shared a bank account in the U.S., which was deemed false when the U.S. bank published a letter confirming that no such account ever existed. They are famous for publishing false information.

They are the equivalent of time magazine or Newsweek actually. And they have very good investigative journalism. President Collor's impeachment process got started by their investigation. They also uncovered many aspects of the current Petrobras scandal and world cup stadium corruption.

 

[sesamosinsal]

They are the equivalent of time magazine or Newsweek actually. And they have very good investigative journalism. President Collor's impeachment process got started by their investigation. They also uncovered many aspects of the current Petrobras scandal and world cup stadium corruption.

I am referring to present-day reporting, not stuff from the 90s or prior to that. Indeed, they may have been a serious publication back then, but they cannot be considered one now, and much less on the Argentine political reality. They have no credibility.

 

[ajoknoblauch]

I am referring to present-day reporting, not stuff from the 90s or prior to that. Indeed, they may have been a serious publication back then, but they cannot be considered one now, and much less on the Argentine political reality. They have no credibility.

The Petrobras and soccer tournament corruption stories do not date from the nineties or earlier.

 

[sesamosinsal]

Have only listened to a little of the interview. Will watch it to the end when I have time. What I noted was the interviewer's obsequious style. I hope he gets a bit tougher with her.

It's because of the translation, I think. She's also so used to preaching in front of an audience. You can see this throughout the interview when she appears to be speaking to people off camera, rather than the interviewer.

The interview at the end - specifically the part on Nisman - was painful. She spoke rather vaguely on such a serious issue. This was abundantly clear through the journalist's line of questioning -- I think he asked her three times what she thought happened to Nisman, and she just rambled on and on about how she doesn't believe in coincidence and yadda, yadda, yadda.

It's unfortunate because she forces anyone watching that interview to read between the lines and make assumptions about what she's saying. This is rather odd because she got angry at the media for making incorrect assumptions about her position in this case, i.e. do you believe it was a suicide or not? In her position, clarity is everything, and I don't understand what she gets out of being so ambiguous about what she thinks happened to him.

That said, I don't believe she or her government had anything to do with his death, and I've stated why many times on this forum.

 

[camberiu]

The Petrobras and soccer tournament corruption stories do not date from the nineties or earlier.

But since it implicated the current regime, they must be a tabloid.