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Since all the main players have denied their alleged involvement, the first one to turn will sink the holdouts.

Posted by Damian at July 8, 2007 02:00 PM

General Rondot finds himself without a believable lie. And turns.

CLEARSTREAM : M. DE VILLEPIN AURAIT AUTORISÉ
LE GÉNÉRAL RONDOT À DÉTRUIRE SES NOTES
[CLEARSTREAM: DOM MAY HAVE AUTHORIZED
GENERAL RONDOT TO DESTROY HIS NOTES]
10 Juillet 2007 (Le Monde)

LE GÉNÉRAL RONDOT MOUILLE DIRECTEMENT VILLEPIN
[GENERAL RONDOT DIRECTLY INVOLVES DOM]

10 Juillet 2007 (20minutes.fr) - Le général Philippe Rondot, personnage clef de l'affaire Clearstream dont des notes inédites impliquent Dominique de Villepin dans une machination politique, a affirmé aux juges avoir voulu détruire ses notes après avoir obtenu l'accord de l'ancien Premier ministre, selon le magazine «Paris-Match» à paraître jeudi.

... Interrogé sur la disparition de ces notes de son ordinateur, les 26 juin et 4 juillet, par les juges Jean-Marie d'Huy et Henri Pons, le général Rondot a directement mis en cause Dominique de Villepin dans la prise de décision. «Confirmez-vous être l'auteur de ces notes et celles-ci correspondent-elles aux quatre notes d'étapes internes que vous avez détruites, après que Dominique de Villepin vous a donné son accord pour une telle destruction?», commencent les magistrats, selon les extraits d'audition rapportés par «Paris-Match». L'ancien espion parcourt les textes. Puis sa réponse tombe: «Il s'agit bien des notes que j'ai détruites après en avoir obtenu l'accord de M. Dominique de Villepin».

[General Philippe Rondot, a key player in the Clearstream affair, whose hidden notes implicate Dominique de Villepin in a political frame-up, affirmed to the judges he intended to destroy his notes after having obtained the agreement of the former Prime Minister, according to Thursday's "Paris-Match" magazine.

... Questioned by judges Jean-Marie d' Huy and Henri Pons, about the disappearance of these June 26 and July 4 notes from his computer, General Rondot directly held Dominique de Villepin to blame. "Will you confirm you are the author of these notes and that they correspond to the four notes from internal stages {?} that you destroyed, after Dominique de Villepin gave you his agreement for such destruction?", the magistrates begin, according to hearing extracts reported by "Paris-Match". The former spy scans the texts. Then drops his answer: "It is many of the notes that I destroyed after having obtained the agreement of Mr. Dominique de Villepin".]

The first name to be named. The next name to be named. See previous post here.

FORMER FRENCH PREMIER FACES CHARGES

PARIS July 10, 2007 (MSNBC) - Investigating magistrates have summoned Mr de Villepin to be questioned on July 27 when he is expected to be placed under formal investigation.

If the judges follow through on their threat, which on Tuesday appeared almost certain, according to Mr de Villepin's own lawyers, it would be the first time magistrates have defied constitutional procedure by charging a former minister in the ordinary courts.

... To charge a minister in the ordinary courts, prosecutors must be certain that the actions being investigated were motivated for personal reasons.

It's a good thing that Dom has protested his innocent or this might be mistaken as serious. Ex-Jack, because he loves the Republic, would testify, would clear everything up, but he tells us he is encumbered by an inviolable immunity. It is, he tells us, his sad lot to sit outside the law.

Antepenultimate post has the back-links for background.

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