The sound is approaching

"It’s not good to eavesdrop, I have learned this since the time of work in the KGB, then I started this business." Such a valuable message recently was made by Vladimir Putin - presumably, to the great resentment of his former colleagues, enthusiastically engaged in "this business."

US politicians firmly learned this useful moralizing after Watergate. The assistants of President Nixon only tried to establish wiretap in the office of his political opponents - and the president eventually lost his post. Nixon himself did not admit his guilt and did not reconcile his defeat. In an interview, which he five years after the forced resignation gave British journalist David Frost, there is a striking confession :

I do not wear the thought that I was overthrown as a result of a coup, conspiracy, and so on. I myself overtake. I gave them a sword, and they stuck it and turned the blade inside the wound with pleasure. And I suppose in their place I would do the same.

39 years have passed since then - and today in America they talk about Watergate -2. Apparently, the vaccination action ends. In addition, now you do not need to mess with the secret installation of "bugs". Modern gadgets extremely facilitated the recording by stealthily.

The thunder among the clear sky erupted in the early morning of April 9, when a detailed report on the meeting of the election team of Senator Mitch Makkonnella, the leader of the Republicans in the upper house of Congress and, accordingly, one of the bosses of the party, appeared on the website of the magazine Mother Jones.

Next year, Macaconell has expired a six -year term of office, and he intends to fight for a re -election for a new, sixth for a row. Currently, MacConnella’s positions are especially vulnerable: according to the latest survey, only 36 percent of voters approve of his activities, and 54 percent estimates it negatively. And then the Hollywood star Ashley Jadd, which I personally love for the film " Particularly serious crimes ", where she plays in a duet with Morgan Freeman, gathered to put his candidacy from the Democratic Party.

There was every reason to fear such a competitor. And McConnell called on February 2 at his election headquarters in Louisville advisers to discuss the campaign strategy. The recording of this meeting was published by Mother Jones - both in the form of audio files and in the form of decryption .

The duration of the sound is 12 minutes. The trophy was obtained by the chief of the Washington Bureau of the magazine David Korn, who became famous for a similar creative achievement last year: seven weeks before the election day, he brought to the editorial office a record of Mitt Romny’s performance in a narrow circle of the largest sponsors. The candidate of the Republicans said then that he was not worried about 47 percent of voters, who in any case will vote for Obama, because they "depend on the government, they consider themselves victims, they are sure that the government is obliged to take care of them, they are convinced that they are supposed to medical care, food, housing and all the more."

Today it is no longer a secret that Romny’s performance was recorded by the bartender that served the event. Who was made from the headquarters of MacConnella is still unknown. The editors accompanied the publication with a statement that the source wished to remain unnamed, that the magazine in no way participated in the manufacture of the record and that, according to the editorial staff, the appearance of the recording was not the result of secret listening. Given the obvious public interest in the content of the recording, the editors considers its publication quite legal and protected by the first amendment to the US Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of printing.

What is McConnell are talking about with his advisers? First of all, about the non -traditional religious views of Ashley Jadd. The McConnella team is listening to an excerpt from an interview in which the actress says that her faith in the god is akin to the nursery, that she looks like Francis of an Assisian, who spiritualized nature and called the birds his "sisters", and his mortal body - "brother of a donkey." In this place, one of MacConnell's advisers giggled rather stupidly, giving out his own religious ignorance. Secondly, we are talking about the emotional imbalance of Ashley Jadd. One of the participants in the meeting refers to her autobiography, where she admits that she survived severe depression and was on the verge of suicide. As an illustration, the speaker gives you to listen to another fragment of an interview in which Jadd says that, returning from abroad, she every time feels violence against her senses: America seems to her too bright, screaming and awesome, and she never knows that she would get her out of herself, for example, “furry pink socks” enraged her.

The material of this variety, the speaker assures, you can dig in pretty, it is only necessary to delve properly.

The advisers of McConnell are almost not talking about the political views of Jadd. One of them only mentions that she approves the same -sex marriages and “against the traditional American family” - on the grounds that she considers the “Patriarchate Cross” the wedding ceremony, during which the father passes her daughter to the groom.

The producing press immediately inflated the news to universal proportions. McConnella and his advisers were portrayed by "conspirators against Ashley Jadd." The senator began to demand public apologies.

Ashley Jadd last month has already abandoned the idea of ​​being elected to the Senate. Nevertheless, her spokesman considered it necessary to comment on the publication of Mother Jones. "This is nothing more than another example of a personal attack policy that Mitch MacConnell who personifies and which is so common in Washington," his statement said.

In fact, nothing particularly outrageous in MacConnell’s headquarters was said. His advisers do not obscure, do not insult Jadd. The search for vulnerable places of a competitor is the usual work of political strategists. All of the Compromat voiced at the meeting was taken from his own public statements of the Kinodiva, and there is nothing compromising in them.

The fact of the publication of wiretapping, obtained in a dubious way, was lost behind all this hype. It is like Russia, where, according to the general opinion of an oppositional public, break the mailbox Christina Pobetchik correctly and commendably, and to do the same with a drawer of Nikita Belykh illegally and immorally. Or take the last loud story with an interview with Konstantin Ernst. Of course, the act of the interviewer Evgeny Levkovich, "in his own words" who announced the said off the record, does not fit into the framework of ordinary human decency. But I am amazed by the teachings of numerous specialists in "professional ethics", who themselves are not shy about publishing wiretaps in their publications, which Levkovich quite rightly reminds .

Mitch McConnell, being a grated kalach, did not make excuses for a single word. On the contrary, he himself went on the offensive. Not Ashley Jadd, but he himself is subjected to personal attacks, said McConnell. And he demanded an investigation that the FBI is now conducting.

The democratic party denies its involvement in this story. They suspected that the record made a “mole” at the headquarters of MacConnella. After a short search, two liberal activists took responsibility. According to them, they recorded part of the meeting standing in the corridor.

According to Kentuccian laws, the illegal wiretapping is a serious crime, but it is unlikely that the record from the corridor falls under this concept: it implies penetration into the room.

However, regardless of the results of the investigation, the question of the admissibility of the publication of records received in this way remains. Smartphones relieve technical problems, but do they cancel ordinary decency?