Daniel Santoro
05/06/2021 8:01 AM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 05/06/2021 12:29 PM
The deputy of Juntos por el Cambio José Cano
requested
that the AFI intervener Cristina Caamaño explain to Congress why the reports she produced on the vaccines against Covid-19
did not include the Pfizer project and the controversy
arose
.
On Twitter, the AFI intervener, Graciela Caamaño, replied that "
it fills me with satisfaction
that the deputy @JCanoOK recognizes that the current AFI produces reports on issues relevant to the president, as he did in this article in the Clarín newspaper."
But Caamano warned that "all the information related to the National Intelligence System sent to the Bicameral Commission
is" SECRET ",
in the terms of Law 25,520 and that it should not be discussed with journalists, since its dissemination is penalized."
Then, Cano replied that "it
is strange
that the AFI intervener mentions" violation of secrecy "when she published internal AFI minutes revealing the names of agents, endangering her life and that of their families", alluding to the greater leak of names of 2,000 spies that occurred last year.
"The limit of what is secret for you is marked by who makes the facts public. When you or the President of the Bicameral Commission do it, there is no violation of secrecy. The
double rod is
always present," Cano added in relation to the ultra deputy. K Leopold Moreau.
Cano recalled that his "request for a report is to know
the reasons
he had for
NOT carrying out a complete analysis of the existing vaccines
, the only solution to fight against this pandemic" in relation to the Pfizer case.
In addition, in a request prior to the controversy, Cano said that he seeks to determine the destination
of $ 624 million in reserved expenses
, without revealing - he clarified - names of agents or secret operations.
Cano told
Clarín
that he will ask the bicameral commission to ask Caamano to answer questions from the opposition about
the contribution of “strategic intelligence”
from the AFI so far in the pandemic and in the context of the geopolitics of vaccines.
So far, doses of the Russian Sputnik V and the Chinese Sinopharm have been obtained, but none of the Astrazeneca and Pfizer.
AFI reports
go directly to President Alberto Fernández
to make decisions on highly sensitive issues like this one.
Cano is a member of that bicameral commission.
For Cano, a good part of Alberto Fernández's decisions in health matters "were disastrous" and for that reason he wants to know if they were consequences of AFI reports "
biased from an ideological point of view
, which lead to biased decisions by the President, putting nothing less than the lives of Argentine citizens ”.
In addition, Cano asked why the AFI that heads the national intelligence system (SIN)
did not detect
at the beginning of the year that the Captain San Artemisso ship was transporting
23 tons of cocaine
from the waterway
in February 2021 to Germany and Belgium.
The legislator for Tucumán also wants to know
the results of the summary that he instructed to know those responsible within the AFI for the leak of names of more than two thousand spies
that occurred last year and is investigated by federal judge María Servini.
Cano advanced the first results of his analysis on the
"Annual Report on Intelligence Activities"
sent by Cristina Caamaño to that bicameral commission chaired by deputy Leopoldo Moreau.
According to the report, the AFI last year analyzed the “
information process on different projects of vaccines against Covid 19
, the start of the patenting of the first vaccine in China, processed and analyzed information on actions taken by governments against the second. wave.
He also said that he analyzed the information on the Astrazeneca vaccine from the University of Oxford and the Russian Sputnik V. "
But the report says nothing about Pfizer," Cano said.
Cano considered that the AFI
made a mistake
in that diagnosis and wants to know which agency of the agency was "in charge of executing the directive issued," the assigned budget and nature of the funds allocated, among other details.
And especially if for ideological reasons the situation of Pfizer was not addressed, which even tested its vaccine on hundreds of Argentines as part of an agreement.
Vice President Cristina Kirchner, from the beginning, supported Sputnik V's purchases from Russia.
In the chapter "constitutional order", the AFI reported that it studied "
foreign interference
in the emergence of" fake news "that tries to affect the constitutional order, the institutions and full validity and protection of human rights".
In this regard, Cano requested that "
the characteristics
of this study carried out and the conclusions reached
be explained in
all its dimensions
" and whether an analysis of ideological content of news published by Argentine journalists and media that could damage freedom of expression was carried out.
Another item in Caamaño's report was "institutional counterintelligence" which says that the AFI "developed and implemented technological tools in order to prevent, detect and eventually neutralize foreign intelligence activities."
On this point, the legislator wants to know "
what technological tools
have been developed in the body, and
what actions
are their use translated into for the purposes of preventing, detecting and neutralizing".
Regarding the budget for this year, Caamaño reported that it will spend
more than 2,100 million pesos
in personnel and another 624 million in reserved expenses of a different nature. Cano asked what report
was done with the more than 9 million dollars resulting from the sale of the property
where the so-called Billinghurst base in Palermo operated, among other details.