Alexander Alfie
10/14/2020 18:30
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 10/14/2020 6:30 PM
Four opposition deputies asked the Justice to analyze "the responsibility" of three journalists from the El Uncover news portal, who disseminated information from the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), without protecting the identity of the spies.
The legislators of Juntos por el Cambio denounced the AFI intervener, Cristina Caamaño, federal judge Juan Pablo Augé and prosecutors Cecilia Incardona and Santiago Eyherabide, for revealing "state secrets" that compromise national security, by filtering 3,850 Resolutions of the AFI.
Fernando Iglesias, Waldo Wolff, Jorge Enríquez and Alvaro de Lamadrid asked that, beyond investigating “who were the material authors of the leak
, it is necessary to analyze the responsibility” of journalists Ari Lijalad and Franco Mizrahi
, for disseminating information from the AFI in the news portal El Uncover, without protecting the identity of the intelligence agents.
They also asked the Justice to analyze the responsibility of the journalistic director of that ultra K medium,
Roberto Navarro, "for granting public dissemination
to data that they accessed based on their profession and whose secret they were obliged to keep," the deputies stated in their 48-page judicial complaint, to which
Clarín
had access
.
Is that the intervener
Cristina Caamaño, very close to the journalists of El Uncover,
generated the largest data leak of Argentine intelligence in democracy, by sending 272 pages of the Protocol Book of Resolutions of the macrista administration, in a document that she sent to the federal court of Lomas de Zamora, without taking any precaution for the sensitive information and international impact it contained.
There, six secret international agreements with the United States, Spain, Bolivia and Paraguay were disseminated, without consultation with those countries.
Also the organic structure of the AFI, with the name and identification of each of the hierarchical commands in recent years, as well as
the names of more than 2,000 spies and former agents
, of which 181 are even listed with their DNI number. .
Part of that information was first published in El Uncover,
with photos of some of the records, "without testing. Then the journalistic note was republished, with the data that appeared in the tested photographs. However, the damage had already been produced from irremediable way ", denounced the opposition deputies.
And they added: "The El Uncover Web portal itself continued to publish notes in which more secret data such as names of agents and legal entities of coverage were exposed."
The deputies referred to the provisions of the National Intelligence Law, which establishes penalties of up to six years in prison for those who reveal secrets concerning the security of the Nation, while it establishes
penalties of up to one year for those who "for recklessness or Negligence will disclose the secrets
, of which they are in possession by virtue of their employment or trade. "
Cristina Caamaño, auditor of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI).
The inspector Caamano was also denounced for "breach of the duties of a public official", because she was "responsible for the custody of secret information," the deputies stressed.
The judicial complaint
was added to the one already investigated by federal judge María Servini
, with the intervention of the prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, for a previous complaint by four former AFI agents, against the intervener Caamaño;
to which was later added another complaint from the AFI intervener herself, who asks for an investigation into how that secret information was leaked.
From the AFI they assured that they sent this information at the request of the prosecutors of Lomas de Zamora, where the illegal espionage of 24 political leaders, journalists, union members and relatives of former president Mauricio Macri is being investigated.
And that they
asked that the secrecy
of that information that was not of interest to the court case
be reserved
.
However, the opposition deputies stated that "if what was required was a list of resolutions, it is not understood the reason why copies of complete sheets were sent without testament of the registry book in which
all the resolutions of the AFI for three and a half years,
that is, the place where all the most important acts of the organization are based. "
In the same vein, the legislators added that they also do not understand why prosecutors Incardona and Eyherabide uploaded that information to the computer system to which more than 80 plaintiffs and defendants had access.
The deputies accused Caamano, Augé, Incardona and Eyherabide.
And they assured that "
journalists Mizrahi, Lijalad and Navarro
also acted with full will
and
, having accessed documentation and information whose secret nature was evident, they published it and made it freely available to the public on the Internet."
Beyond the newspaper articles published in El Uncover, which legislators mention, the news portal that made the 3,850 AFI Resolutions freely available on the web was
Realpolitik, which for two days had all the minutes
of the Protocol Book online of Resolutions sent by Caamaño to the Lomas de Zamora court.
But that portal does not appear in the complaint of Iglesias, Wolff, Enríquez and De Lamadrid.
Those four deputies, along with six other legislators from Together for Change, also filed another complaint last week, to investigate the leak of Macri's private data, which occurred in the same court in Lomas de Zamora, from the information contained in a cell phone of Darío Nieto, private secretary of the former president of the Nation.