A bit of a circus, isn’t it?
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October 27, 2012 at 8:24pm
Silvio Zammit’s taken down his Facebook account. Not the one with the Koala profile pic, though.
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it seems to me that plonkers like the one above always seem to be very active users of Facebook.
Just saw Dallibaba minus his 40 thieves on Dissett.
Dalli actually called Reno ‘Silvio’ at one point. Fraudian er I mean Freudian slip.
He also said he recorded a telephone call made to him. I thought he said a couple of days back that people who record phone calls have ulterior motives.
I started watching Dalli too but then decided that Shrek, on Rai, would be more fun to watch.
I don’t see the point of a programme in which Dalli is the only guest. He simply keeps repeating himself and, in spite of Reno Bugeja’s efforts, this was no HARDtalk.
Reno Bugeja was a disappointment. He allowed Dalli to take over the programme. He might as well have left him alone.
At one point Reno asked him why he felt the need to phone Joseph Muscat.
Dalli dismissed the question by simply saying that he felt he should inform him since the prime minister already knew.
There was ample room for Bugeja to insist and corner Dalli about the timing of the phone call but he let it pass.
A very weird circus. Full of clowns, but no one is laughing.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
I really find it hard to understand why these clowns resort to the drastic action of taking down their Facebook account in the precise moment when they really need help from the hundreds or thousands of ‘friends’ they have collected on it.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Dalli-reveals-that-Maltese-civil-servant-personally-involved-in-OLAF-investigation-20121027
“Rita Schembri was part of the ongoing investigation. She knew of the investigation in detail. Do you really believe that she did not inform anyone of what was happening?”
If John Dalli believes that Rita Schembri informed someone here in Malta because she’s Maltese, then it goes without saying that no one should believe John Dalli when he states that he was not informed about the trading in influence by his bosom buddy Silvio Zammit.
John’s standards are abysmal.
Dear Gahan.
Your argument is abysmally fallacious because it goes against known facts.
Dalli said that he WAS informed about the Silvio Zammit-Swedish Match bribery negotiations and that is why he instructed his lawyer to warn Zammit that he would hold him responsible for any harm to his reputation.
Rita Schembri is not just another Maltese communicating with simple fellow Maltese here in Malta. She is actually a high official employed in the Prime Minister’s office.
Dear Francis Saliba,
1) Dalli first said that he resigned to clear his name; later he said that he was kicked out by Barroso.
2) Dalli said that he asked the police formally to investigate his hackers and mentioned that he knew who they may be. We later came to know that there was no such report.
Would you blame me if I say that this guy’s credibility is next to zilch?
3) Would you blame me if I tell you that I’m not so gullible and naive as to believe that Dalli did not have his finger in the pie from day one?
Someone here said that if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck then it’s a duck.
Dalli said that he resigned, and the story would better have stopped there for him.
Why does Dalli, an innocent man, so easily stoop to the level of accusing Kessler, Barroso, Gonzi and all and sundry of having ulterior motives, but is patently silent in regard to Zammit, the asshole who supposedly got him into this ruddy mess?
He is not saying anything about the July meeting he had with Zammit where he asked Zammit what the hell had he been up to. What was admitted to in this meeting? The whole thing was surprisingly reduced to a legal letter and ends there.
Why does Dalli make no distinction between smokes and smokeless snus when stating that tobacco kills 700,000 EU persons each year, but is supposedly quoted as having said that the 1995 snus ban is absurd. Was Dalli’s ambivalence on snus the opening gambit for Zammit’s attempts to scam Swedish Match?
Why did Dalli see nothing out of place in Silvio Zammit canvassing for the removal of the snus ban?
Everybody else who knew Zammit did, as soon as the story broke.
Why did Dalli describe the Maltese lawyer in a way which hides the fact that she was meeting him as one engaged by the snus lobby?
The first impression given was of a young lawyer possibly trying for an EU position. As Zammit was there, did he not tell Dalli anything about her?
Does Dalli agree to meet everyone without asking the what-for? If I asked for a meeting with him, wouldn’t I be asked who and why?
The meeting was an official one with a lawyer representing the interests of the snus industry and Commissioner Dalli chose not to diarise it.
Barroso offered him an honourable discharge and Dalli took it. And then had second thoughts and that is when Barroso reminded him to behave with integrity.