Controverse autour d’une lettre à Iatseniouk attribuée au chef adjoint du groupe des démocrates au Sénat…
Dick Durbin letter to Ukraine PM may be Russian forgery - NY Daily News
▻http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/dick-durbin-letter-ukraine-pm-russian-forgery-article-1.2283423
The letter, on realistic-looking letterhead, uses stilted language.
“It is necessary to invest every effort to keep Olseksiy Pavlenko in his office of Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food,” the letter says. “His discharge will create additional obstacles on the way of widening cooperation between the U.S. and Ukrainian agricultural companies.”
… attribuée à la propagande russe, avec des arguments du genre, jamais un sénateur n’écrit dans une telle langue de bois…
ou encore
Critics of Ukraine’s government get propaganda mileage out of hoax letter
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/critics-of-ukraines-government-get-propaganda-mileage-out-of-hoax-letter-3
Marter [the senator’s spokesman] also noted that the forged letterhead states Durbin’s position as “assistant minority leader” while authentic letterhead has “assistant Democratic leader.”
Sachant que WP[en] présente ainsi la fonction en question :
Party leaders of the United States Senate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
▻https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_leaders_of_the_United_States_Senate
The Assistant Majority and Minority Leaders of the United States Senate (commonly called Senate Majority and Minority Whips) are the second-ranking members of the party leadership of the United States Senate. The main function of the Majority and Minority Whips is to gather votes on major issues. Because he or she is the second ranking member of the Senate, if there is no floor leader present, the whip may become acting floor leader. Before 1969, the official titles were Majority Whip and Minority Whip.
On pourrait ajouter que ce n’est pas du tout le genre des sénateurs états-uniens d’agir en intermédiaire entre les sociétés états-uniennes et les membres d’un gouvernement étranger…
D’ailleurs, la preuve que c’est de la propagande, c’est que ces sordides individus ressortent le célèbre coup de téléphone de Victoria Nuland dictant le futur gouvernement ukrainien à l’ambassadeur é.-u. à Kiev.