Comments on: Looking behind the scenes

By: Nell

Nell — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:38:12 +0000

Pollari knew. Via Laura Rozen, who also links to this semi-overview from the NYTimes. Good thing Italy won the World Cup, eh? Otherwise an almost embarrassing amount of attention would be paid.

By: French Swede the Rootless Vegetable

French Swede the Rootless Vegetable — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:15:13 +0000

Has anyone determined the scope of Michael Ledeen’s involvement? There's quite a bit about him on this (long) piece of investigating reporting of the nigerien uranium affair in Vanity Fair by Craig Unger: http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/articles/060606fege02

By: vanya

vanya — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:07:34 +0000

Has anyone determined the scope of Michael Ledeen’s involvement? It would be nice if Prodi would blow the whistle on the neocon involvement with the fascist elements in Italy’s government.

By: Idiot/Savamt

Idiot/Savamt — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:34:51 +0000

The LA Times has a piece here.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:11:01 +0000

There’s a long tradition in Italy of “dietrologia” – of assuming that politics is a shadow play, where the really important things happen back stage among clandestine actors of one sort or another.

Those silly Italians. We’ll have to have David Broder explain things to them.

By: Filter

Filter — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:43:06 +0000

Probably Henry refers to the typical way D’Alema sneers at everybody he’s talking with.
A couple of personal impressions from Italy: the Italian public opinion seems very blasé about this scandal (also because of the impending World Cup final); Prodi won’t concentrate on political gains (there are no elections in sight) but he has already decided to use the scandal to rebuild intelligence services from zero.

By: Dick Durata

Dick Durata — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 06:04:56 +0000

henry, I’d be interested to know why you think that about D’Alema.
‘Less pleasant operators’ implies something, what?