The news from Argentina today is that the case prepared by now dead prosecutor Alberto Nisman against President CFK and members of her government has been thrown out by a judge, who stated there wasn’t a shred of solid evidence worthy of bringing the case to court.
In light of today’s development, this humble corner of cyberspace, which has been respectfully quiet while all sorts of conspiracy theories have been bandied about the intewebs, repeats its “logical and cogent suicide thesis for Alberto Nisman” that dates from one month ago, Jan 25th:
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- There was some sort of emergency that got him to cut short his vacation with his daughter in Europe, hand over her charge to his ex-wife and bring him quickly back to Argentina in the days before his death.
- He was due to give evidence to support his accusations against the CFK government the day after his death, but his dossier had already been deposed and opened to authorities and judiciary (its contents are now being revealed, striptease-style, to the general public). As soon as it was available (three or four days before his death) there was immediate pushback from both pro-government and (relatively) neutral bodies who spotted false information and obvious contradictions in his version of events. One that’s been widely reported is how Nisman claimed he had been given key evidence about supposed intelligence officers, but in fact (and in proven fact now) those people are not and have never been members of the intelligence services.
- So, let us imagine you have a less than perfect personal life. Let’s also imagine you’ve been working under great pressure, in terms of workload and of psychological pressure from government enemies, for two years on a case you think shows major corruption in your current government (up to and including the President of your country). Let’s imagine that things come to a head, you complete your work, you’re satisfied with your job done, you hand in this national-level important case file…and then suddenly the whole thing blows up in your face because one of the most basic elements on which you based your argument is shown, with very little room for error, to be false. That, ladies and gentlemen, is years of work down the drain.
- And on top of that, in one day’s time you have to go to the nation’s Congress, stand up and defend your case and reiterate your accusations when you already know that the ground has been taken from under your feet and when the opponents ask you about the contradictions, you’re going to flounder and fail in front of them. And your personal life is a mess.
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I’m still not saying the above Is. What. Happened. But it still fits, which is a lot more than you can say about the vast majority of the evidence-free conspiracy theories around Nisman’s death.