Fausto Carioti
The fight against the Mafia is undoubtedly important, but for the United States that terrorism is even more. And this is first thought yesterday that Lanny A. Breuer, undersecretary of the Department of American criminal, when, speaking at a press conference at the embassy in Via Veneto, said: "we never want something to happen that would prevent the Italian magistrates to do the excellent work done so far. Interceptions are an essential tool for the investigation. " A stop is not clear that more can the law projects initiated by the Berlusconi government, to which little or no way detracts from the precision of ritual in the evening made by the same Breuer: "It is not for me going into the merits of policy decisions or judgments concerning Italy."
Just differences of opinion about this policy between the government of Washington and Rome are strengthening relations that tie Barack Obama to Giorgio Napolitano. Moreover, not today, the White House believes the President of the Republic, a party more in tune with the desires of Americans than it is the Knight. Reason that led Obama to call a meeting, organized in record time: May 17, immediately after accepting the invitation of the President American Napolitano has announced that he will visit Washington on May 25, for a lightning visit. What makes the practice even more unusual is the fact that the American president is pretty park to grant visits to European leaders, but Napolitano, of course, is the exception. On behalf of the executive, in any event, he will be with the Foreign Minister, Franco Frattini.
So even though the eyes of the Berlusconi government and of many Italians that made yesterday by Breuer is a straight leg intervention in the internal affairs of a country allied to the Americans once again almost everything is explained by the fight terrorism, which Washington considers to be bargain their jurisdiction more or less exclusively. Appeals such as the one launched in recent days by the Milan prosecutor Armando Spataro, according to which "if it passed the law on wiretapping would be at risk include investigations on international terrorism," because often they begin by "minor offenses such as illegal immigration and falsification of documents "did not go unnoticed. Species in those areas that American intelligence they need in the country at the center of the Mediterranean telephone controls continue to be made widely and with great discretion. And the Obama administration, like that which preceded it, is quick to translate these alarms a political issue in the. The fact that yesterday
Breuer has preferred to talk about fighting the mafia, instead of combating terrorism, can also be explained by the desire to avoid embarrassing memories: the last time that the United States have been involved in counter-terrorism in Italy was when CIA agents kidnapped the Egyptian imam Abu Omar, and we know how it ended.
The request to change the law on wiretapping, before it became public, was made by the U.S. in a confidential manner. For example, during lunch last week that the ambassador in Rome, David H. Thorne, had with the Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni. Or in the many interviews that the diplomatic representatives in Washington have had with members of the executive and the PDL, including the Secretary to the Prime Minister, Gianni Letta. But missing in the eyes of the State Department and the White House itself, a reliable partner, able to ensure that certain operations are to succeed in, or at least be able to give a clear and definitive answer. The same Gianfranco Fini, who loves to paint her as the new object of lust for Washington, always looking for leaders "emerging" to bet on, in fact overseas is not seen as a winner.
Napolitano, however, combines the authority of a great feeling with Obama. The law to regulate the interception is complete identity of views at various times president of the Italian Republic has intervened in the debate to ask, "shared rules" and "sense of proportion." Appeal to all sides, but primarily in government and majority. And on a personal level to his relationship with Obama is idyllic. Not today, last July, the Times of London, in the chronicles of the G8 Abruzzo, reported that "Barack Obama has launched a copious praise for a great national leader who has the admiration of the whole Italian people. Obama did not talk to Silvio Berlusconi, but the head of state Giorgio Napolitano. " Normal
that Knight is not excited about this special relationship. And the news of the flight across the ocean of the President of the Republic has not improved his mood. Sherpas diplomats have explained the reasons of protocol, first of all that the U.S. president is the head of state and is therefore preferable to have meetings with their counterparts, as Napolitano. But, as they say, are arguments that have convinced Mr Berlusconi.
© Free . Posted May 22, 2010.
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