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forest444

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Wed Jan 21, 2015, 06:08 PM
Jan 2015

This death and its exact timing is the best thing that could have happened as far as those trying to tar the administration are concerned.

The unholy alliance of dictatorship apologists, free-marketeers, and the fascist Opus Dei are still very much alive and kicking in high society, the Argentine military and, above all, the SIDE (State Intelligence). The disgraced former SIDE counterintelligence director Jaime Stiusso is one such character, and he was not only the source for Nisman's illegal, cherry-picked wiretaps (which as the article noted, contributed nothing), Señor Stiusso was also a frequent guest at Nisman's home.

Nisman himself, discredited as he was by both the judge on the case, Interpol, and victims' rights groups for spending 10 years blocking and distracting any real investigation, was fond of flouting orders by the presiding judge and openly presenting baseless "complaints" to right-wing television. He knew how to use the media, and knew that what he lacked in proof, he could always make up for by theatrics on cable news (particularly those of the Fox-like persuasion).

His perfectly-timed death is just another chapter in ongoing efforts of killing two birds with one stone: shift public opinion in an election year (upon which some "business-friendly" party could take over), and of course preclude any investigation of the two terrorist attacks (the 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing, and the AMIA bombing - both detonated from inside the buildings) - just as Nisman did for 10 years.

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