She still doesn't understand the difference!
Dilma Rousseff continues to rant and rave about a telephone conversation she had with Lula the content of which made it to the TV.
She keeps saying that the authorities cannot tap the telephone of the President without a Supreme Court order and expresses her indignation loudly and aggressively.
What she has yet to understand is that it is not her telephone that is being tapped. She called Lula and his phone is being tapped - legally!
Now I know we are in the age of "smart phones" but they are not yet smart enough to know to stop listening when someone calls the phone being monitored.. The conversation is recorded because the telephone being monitored was the one called.. Full stop!
Seasoned politician Tancredo Neves was notorious for his comment that no politician should use a telephone for anything other than setting up a luncheon meeting and even then at the "wrong" place.
Meanwhile, Lula has again lost his job - this time after 3 hours following his nomination. His case has been returned to Federal Judge Sergio Moro whose courtroom Lula was trying to avoid. In short, the whole shabby affair of rushing to nominate him so he would not be arrested (on the basis of a poorly written opinion from the São Paulo Public Prosecutor) was simply much ado about nothing. He's right back where he started!
As for Dilma, she now has 9 remaining sessions of the Special Lower Chamber Committee on Impeachment to write up her defense. If impeachment proceedings are approved, Vice President Michel Temer will assume the Presidency (for 6 months) during her trial. Temer is miffed and smells blood in the water. Neither Dilma nor Lula could come off well if Temer takes over.
The next 30 to 45 days could prove "interesting".
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