More worrying is not the BS they (Sarkozy and Berlusconi) have done, but who is the arbiter of "truth" who makes the recordings and the leaks.
Perhaps some foreign power or some large interest group, that seeks to replace them with some equally scum candidates, but who will be more willing to cater to them, and who will not have leaks on him...
Leaks are not providing transparency, but the illusion of it. You only have transparency if you either have leaks for everybody and all their ill actions (which you don't have a way to check if is the case) or if you also know who makes the leaks and why.
You have a point here. The recordings in France were made by the police as part of the investigation, as for the leaks, it's not clear. Other tapes, this time recorded by a former advisor, were leaked to right-wing newspapers and websites, possibly as a symptom of internal struggle. The police recordings being leaked may be due to the work of the Mediapart website, leaked by the current government before the upcoming elections, leaked by left-wing sympathizers in the police/justice, leaked by right-wing opponents of Sarkozy... your choice. I doubt any foreign state plays a role there.
The situation in Turkey is much more worrying though. That's different competing conspiracies.
Perhaps some foreign power or some large interest group, that seeks to replace them with some equally scum candidates, but who will be more willing to cater to them, and who will not have leaks on him...
Leaks are not providing transparency, but the illusion of it. You only have transparency if you either have leaks for everybody and all their ill actions (which you don't have a way to check if is the case) or if you also know who makes the leaks and why.