[zzeeman]

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” — John Adams

[Steven W.]

LeMonde: Libyan financing of the 2007 campaign: Nicolas Sarkozy in custody - The former President of the Republic is currently held on the premises of the judicial police in Nanterre on the suspicion of illicit financing that weighs on his successful campaign of 2007.

In November 2016, in the middle of the party Republicans , the intermediary Ziad Takieddine claimed to have transported 5 million euros in cash from Tripoli in Paris between late 2006 and early 2007 before handing them to Claude Gueant and Nicolas Sarkozy , then Minister of the Interior. Indicted since for "complicity in bribery of foreign public official" and "complicity in misappropriation of public funds in Libya", these remarks confirmed those held on September 20, 2012 by Abdallah Senoussi, the former director of military intelligence of the country. Libyan regime before the Prosecutor General of the Libyan National Transitional Council.

But that's not all. The books of former Libyan oil minister Choukri Ghanem, who died in 2012 in still-troubled circumstances, recovered by French justice , also mention the existence of payments to Nicolas Sarkozy. Bechir Saleh, the former grand financier of Gaddafi and a man of relations with France , recently wounded by gunfire during an attack in Johannesburg, had also told Le Monde : "Gaddafi said he had financed Sarkozy. Sarkozy said he had not been funded. I believe more Gaddafi than Sarkozy. "

[Billyv]

The great thing is there are more of us Adams citizens than the others. The sad thing is we have kept our noses to the grindstone for 50+ years and allowed this situation to develop on our watch and our grandparents watch. They thought winning WWII would settle things. Look away and they’ll steal your freedom.

[greeneyes]

Thanks for that link. So much better and more concise than I could ever have said it.