Hey Joe ! Panique à bord

Hey Joe ! Panique à bord

Cablegate, Assange et toute cette sorte de choses n’apportent guère de sérénité aux appointés du Système. Glenn Greenwald, de Salon.com, est une excellente sentinelle des impairs du Système dans cette affaire, et sa chronique du 18 décembre 2010 est un modèle du genre. Il a réussi à prendre Joe Biden, – ce cher “Hey Joe !”, dit aussi Big Mouth, – dans un extraordinaire exercice, à 24 heures d’intervalle, d’affirmations noir-blanc sur les dommages causés à la diplomatie US par les fuites massives de WikiLeaks

«…But this new example from Joe Biden is extraordinary, and reveals how government officials are willing to say absolutely anything – even things they know are false – to demonize WikiLeaks. First, here's Biden with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell – on Thursday, December 16 – happily insisting that the leak of the diplomatic cables has done no damage to U.S. relations:

»MITCHELL: This is Vice President Joe Biden, who told me that the leaked cables created no substantive damage – only embarrassment…

»BIDEN: And I came in [to the U.N.] almost all to embraces – it wasn't just shaking hands – I know these guys, I know these women – they still trust the United States – there's all kinds of…

»MITCHELL: So there's no damage?

»BIDEN: I don't think there's any damage. I don't think there's any substantive damage, no. Look, some of the cables are embarrassing… but nothing that I'm aware of that goes to the essence of the relationship that would allow another nation to say: “they lied to me, we don't trust them, they really are not dealing fairly with us.”

»But here's the very same Joe Biden, in a preview of an interview with David Gregory – taped the following day, Thursday, December 17 – to air this Sunday on Meet the Press, gravely lamenting that Julian Assange has harmed American foreign relations:

»“This guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of other parts of the world. He's made it more difficult for us to conduct our business with our allies and our friends. For example, in my meetings – you know I meet with most of these world leaders – there is a desire to meet with me alone, rather than have staff in the room: it makes things more cumbersome – so it has done damage…”

»In one day, Biden went from giddily declaring that “I don't think there's any damage” to gravely warning that “it has done damage.” I have no idea whether Biden was told that his Thursday no-damage admission would severely harm the Government's efforts to prosecute Assange, but what is clear is that he was perfectly willing to march into Meet the Press the following day and say things that he knew were false in order to depict the WikiLeaks diplomatic cable disclosures as harming U.S. national security. It's true that in the first clip, he was asked specifically about diplomatic cables, while the second interview may have encompassed all the releases, but in that second interview, he clearly claimed that the disclosures harmed relations with other countries: exactly the opposite of what he said the day before. Even his demeanor completely changed, from breezy, fun dismissiveness into serious, concerned leader talking about a True Threat.»

“Panique à bord”, effectivement, car l’hypothèse évoquée par Greenwald doit être affirmée comme une évidence. Le 16 décembre, Biden passe devant la TV instruit par la préoccupation angoissée d’Hillary Clinton sur les conséquences extérieures pour le prestige des USA, et il en remet plusieurs couches pour nous convaiuncre que tout va bien ; il a même été à l’ONU, où partout on l’embrasse pour ce cadeau superbe, révélé par les câbles, de diplomate US faisant à l’ONU le travail des femmes de ménage pour le compte de la CIA en examinant tous les indices, des fragments de cheveux à l’inspection des toilettes, et obtenir des indications sur les divers secrets des diplomates des autres pays. Le lendemain, instruit par le département de la justice qu’on est en train de fabriquer un dossier pour l’extradition vers les USA d’Assange, et qu’il n’est pas temps de dire que le susdit Assange n’a causé aucun dommage, “Hey Joe” en remet quelques couches exactement dans le sens inverse, exactement sur le même sujet.

“Panique à bord”, parce que le Système réagit dans tous les sens, y compris les plus antagonistes, pour satisfaire tous les centres de pouvoir qui ont chacun des exigences contradictoires. Il en résulte une cacophonie où, effectivement, Joe Biden excelle par sa nature même. C’est en cela que l’“affaire WikiLeaks” est réellement une crise nommée Cablegate, parce qu’elle affole le Système, et que cela se voit et s’entend.

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