McGonigal's prosecutors closed the argument

2024-01-10 13:23:00, Opinione Andi Bushati

McGonigal's prosecutors closed the argument

Andi Bushati

The claim of Columbia prosecutors about the McGonigal scandal, beyond what we knew, serves a debate that transcends the fate of today's Albanian prime minister. Until now we are convinced that this affair has cost Edi Rama to hit the local opposition. That in order to achieve this goal, he and the people around him, bribed the most senior FBI agent in history to ever betray this institution. We have learned that in August 2017, Charles McGonigal asked Argon Neza for money, that in September he brought her to meet Rama and immediately after that, in a parking lot, he took a full 225 thousand USD in cash. Regardless of what the propaganda in Tirana says, the prestigious American daily New York Times summed up this story well when it concluded that the corrupt agent "took steps to benefit the politician Rama". Here the discussion is closed. And at this point reading the 17 pages of Columbia prosecutors doesn't bring anything new. Nor any detail that strengthens the suspicion, such as that, "The FBI was not convinced of the evidence against Basha's lobbyist, Nik Muzin, but it opened the investigation under McGonigal's pressure and immediately closed it as soon as the latter left office." , again nothing changes in the general belief.

But on the contrary, there between the lines, it reads black on white, a conclusion that serves as a gem of our internal debate. Prosecutors conclude that by taking the money, Charles McGonigal served the purposes of those who bribed him, not those of the United States. And this former agent managed, thanks to his power and the money received, to open an investigation against the Albanian opposition. This investigation "leaked in the media" as an American concern about Russian money financing the DP. And in Tirana there was a rumor about the lynching of Rama's opponents, which was inspired "by the American evidence". Once again in our ears were heard the slogans that our strategic ally should be trusted black, that the partnership with America is inviolable, that the authenticity of the empire's decrees is indisputable. In the game, all those who work for the USA appeared once again, even when he declares Berisha a "statesman" and when he labels him as a "minor of democracy", even when he seeks stability during the abusive government of Prime Minister Meta , even when he does not let the same person demonstrate as president with an American flag, those who turn a blind eye to America even when Chris Hill gives the green light to the imprisonment of Fatos Nano even when the latter is received with honors in the White House.

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In this controversy, between those who repeat with an almost religious idiocy that America is infallible, that it is incorruptible, that it must be blindly trusted, and others who insist that each case must be examined according to logic, conviction and the facts we have hand, without extreme prejudice, the conclusion of the McGonigal case prosecutors hold a lot. Because he tells us how a corrupt person managed to distort our perception of an infallible America. He managed to impose on the FBI an investigation against the local opposition in which its specialists did not believe, through him this news was taken as true by the media across the Atlantic. And thanks to all these together, a corrupt message was conveyed to the Albanians, which according to the prosecutors was not the one that interested the USA, but simply the one that McGonigal's paymasters wanted.

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Precisely for this, for the fact that it opens our eyes to the fact that even messages bought with cash can arrive from the empire, the last claim is a document that must be remembered. It is even more important than the debate of the day about the involvement of the next prime minister with the McGonigal case. Because unfortunately, those who have speculated with fanatical belief in what comes across the ocean existed before Rama, multiplied during his reign, and will continue to do so against him when he is no more. Therefore, we must be vigilant against those who sell us the smell of money as well as the smell of truth.