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Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
Sat May 14, 2016, 08:00 PM May 2016

WikiLeaks: Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer Is US Diplomatic Informant

WikiLeaks: Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer Is US Diplomatic Informant

The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald noted that Temer will 'faithfully serve the interests of Brazil’s richest' along with the interests of Goldman Sachs and the International Monetary Fund.

By Kit O'Connell @KitOConnell | May 13, 2016


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Brazil’s acting President Michel Temer arrives to speak, at Planalto presidential palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, May 12, 2016
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SAO PAULO — Brazil’s new acting president is a known U.S. informant who has provided Washington with insider information about the Brazilian government on multiple occasions.

Michel Temer’s ties to the U.S. government, as revealed by WikiLeaks’ Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy, add to the growing body of evidence that the parliamentary impeachment of Brazil’s democratically-elected president, Dilma Rousseff, was supported by allies in Washington.

Temer, who has served as Brazil’s vice president since 2011, took power Thursday after Brazil’s parliament suspended Rousseff pending the results of impeachment proceedings.

Via Twitter, WikiLeaks highlighted two diplomatic cables from the U.S. Embassy in São Paulo that document Temer’s history of sharing insider information with Washington from his position as the leader of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party, or PMDB, Brazil’s largest political party.

More:
https://www.mintpressnews.com/wikileaks-brazils-acting-president-michel-temer-us-diplomatic-informant/216425/

Good Reads:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016156382

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WikiLeaks: Brazil’s Acting President Michel Temer Is US Diplomatic Informant (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2016 OP
Wow. Feathery Scout May 2016 #1
Not going to happen, Wellstone ruled May 2016 #2
Doubtful he's bright enough to keep things straight as a double agent! Judi Lynn May 2016 #4
Thanks!!! Feathery Scout May 2016 #5
and this is why DonCoquixote May 2016 #3

Feathery Scout

(218 posts)
1. Wow.
Sat May 14, 2016, 08:19 PM
May 2016

If that is even close to being true......he needs to leave office *now*.

Unless he was working at the behest of the Brazilian govt, I guess. (Double agent)

But, jesus.

This is the thing coups are made of.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. Not going to happen,
Sat May 14, 2016, 08:47 PM
May 2016

we are seeing the Empire(Wall Street Bankers)taking over South America. This our new Frontier. Watch for Argentina to go pro Wall Street shortly. It is all about the Extraction Industries. China wants it and we are not going to let that happen.

Judi Lynn

(160,545 posts)
4. Doubtful he's bright enough to keep things straight as a double agent!
Sun May 15, 2016, 12:01 AM
May 2016

Welcome to D.U., Feathery Scout.



DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
3. and this is why
Sat May 14, 2016, 09:03 PM
May 2016

All the clever centrists who think they can keep their right wing friend "at bay" are fools. Let's face it, Dilma, open;lgy gay, former rebel, makes a better story of break glass clings than Hillary, yet, bee though she could control these fools, has no been indisposed.

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