By Edward Jay Epstein
Right here investigative reporter Edward Jay Epstein casts clean doubt at the occasions surrounding a now-infamous sexual come upon among Dominique Strauss-Kahn — greater recognized via his initials, 'DSK' — and a maid at New York's Sofitel hotel.
Epstein indicates that DSK, then dealing with director on the IMF and a number one contender to unseat Nicolas Sarkozy as president of France, used to be below shut surveillance either prior to and after the incident. simply days sooner than, French experts intercepted a delicate mobilephone dialog with DSK in Washington, DC. It seems like he was once wearing his personal malicious program: a wise phone.
The surveillance additionally endured to ny: as Epstein discovers, the workers of the Sofitel will be visible gazing DSK all through his stay.
additionally tested is DSK's BlackBerry cellphone, which was once most likely compromised by means of French intelligence. earlier than DSK left the Sofitel, the telephone went lacking, and it hasn't ever been found.
The publication additionally features a choice of crucial files with regards to the case, together with key-card files (tracking who entered DSK's suite) and never-before-released CCTV surveillance pictures. DSK additionally is going at the list in regards to the case for the 1st time with an American journalist.
Epstein indicates that if there has been a conspiracy opposed to DSK, as many now think, it used to be an after-the-fact one within which DSK's political competitors discovered of the sexual incident on the Sofitel via surveillance and formed it right into a significant scandal that modified the process French politics.
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The payoff is how all these communications combine to produce decisions, laws, and policies. ) The second major element of a working political system concerns the processes that identify “the people” whose interests are (or are not) being promoted. ” On a theoretical level, the concept is constantly being reformulated in the literature. The debate is inconclusive in part because the term has both a legal and a theoretical reality. The legal status of “citizen” varies from system to system, and the relationship of the legal status of “citizen” to other characteristics of individuals is not agreed on.
Although the channels are not “normal,” the influences of these groups are shaped by various norms and laws and arrangements. In other words, there are institutions that shape their representation, for good or ill. An extreme nationalist position might be that no representation of noncitizens is better than any at all, so the dominant institution would be negative: 42 ✯ THE PEOPLE prohibition. But far more rational would be an effort to regulate the links, even if it was done exclusively for the benefit of the core citizenry.
16 Overcoming the possibility of mutual delusion is as important as avoiding selfish behavior on the part of decision makers or ungrounded anti-elite actions by masses of people. The links are complex for another reason, too. We are speaking of democracy, which requires that decisions be made in the public interest. If there is any tendency for decision makers not to rule in the people’s interest—to reward themselves or simply to be incompetent—the links must go beyond conveying information to include the means for keeping them in line.