In the murky arena of a government intent on devouring its own, already tarnished, reputation, certain details fail to register. Some of them become mere wisps in the wind.
Such is the case today of the news that important wiretapped conversations between re-elected President Napolitano and a former minister Mancino were ordered destroyed.
Some see this action as merely praxis, ordered by no less than the costitutional court. But the wiretap conversation were never made public, nor has anyone evinced whether any criminal activity was contained in the evidence the tapes provided. If there is no criminal implication of the President and other officials, why not reveal at least portions of the conversation to allay fears of a coverup? And why exactly now?
What
people might be missing however, is that the timing is not fortuitous
because it coincides with his re-appointment, but because it was ordered
right before the president would lose his immunity.
These wiretaps however, were no incidental recordings. They were effected within the scope of an investigation into alleged secret negotiations between the state and the mafia in the early 1990s. The wiretaps were put in place following a series of mafia attacks and the killing of judges Falcone and Borsellino, which remains to date the most grievous attack by the organized criminal group.
In fact the costitutional court ordered the conversations destroyed not because of a lack of findings, but because the president himself complained formally to that court due to his full immunity at the time of complaint last year.
Source: France 24/ 4.23.13
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