Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Sarkozy accused of using Watergate-style tricks to muzzle the French press


'Le Monde' launches legal action against President, claiming he used security services to find insider who leaked information to paper

By John Lichfield in Paris
The Independent

"In a scandal having many parallels with the Watergate affair, President Nicolas Sarkozy was accused by France's most prestigious newspaper yesterday of illegally using the counter-intelligence service to muzzle the press.

Le Monde said that the President's office had deployed France's equivalent of MI5 like a "cabinet noir", or dirty-tricks operation, to uncover the source of leaks in the L'Oréal family feud and political financing scandal....."

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