C. Rajagopal, widely regarded as one of the world's foremost photographic experts told me that the 'evidence' of the tapes would be thrown of any court in five minutes. To begin with, the 'evidence' was obtained illegally. Even the police need a court order to tape secretly. When the tapes were shown on TV, most people could not make head or tail out of it, but depended entirely on the comments gratuitously provided by the broadcaster. So the tactic becomes clear.
Attack is often the best form of defense.
Accuse the NDA- including Fernandes and Vajpayee of being security threats to forestall any possible exposure of her own record, including possible links to the KGB and the Vatican secret agency Opus Dei. This remains shrouded in mystery, but it is worth looking at the little that is available. When a history is written of the last twenty years of Indian politics, Sonia Gandhi's name is likely to be associated above all with the Bofors scandal. This could of course be overtaken by Subramanian Swamy's sensational revelations, if they prove to be true. But this is only one episode in a long pattern, which had a single goal - acquisition of money for herself and her Italian family.