I want to think about something that happened in the last few hours. This is also a scandalous change, as Jorge Liotti posted Nation: Change one head from side to side. The only thing they have in common is that they both answer to the chief advisor to President Javier Miley, Santiago Caputo.
I don’t know much about this world of espionage, it’s a state sewer that I’ve always hated being around. But I’m interested in talking about SIDE’s general issues. What to do, what to do, and what not to do.
SIDE should have a very important, almost decisive, role in Argentine politics and in the public life of the country. As stipulated in the law, it must warn the government if there is any danger to Argentina’s security; It must find out, before this happens, whether there is a risk to the safety of the community.
Let us not forget that this country was subjected to two attacks that were, according to some, the most serious even the attack on the Twin Towers in New York. He was one in 1992Where, according to investigations by the Argentine judiciary, HezbollahWith financial and intellectual support from the Iranian government, they bombed – and this is not a metaphor – the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires.
Two years later, in 1994Hezbollah itself and the Iranian government – this has already been proven – blew up the party’s headquarters AMIAIt is the common fund of the Jewish community to assist its members. Again, not a metaphor: They blew it up, not even leaving the foundations.
No one ever said that any Argentine intelligence service had warned the national government about the possibility of this happening, because they were certainly learning about the public and private lives of opponents of the current government, and of critics of the ruling party. This is what all official bodies do.
It has become a habit to intrude into the public and private lives of people not close to the executive authority This is a habit that is repugnant to the Argentine intelligence services. They went so far as to record phone conversations of Argentines who were distrusted by the government.
There appears to be a violation of the law and right. The law prohibits intelligence services from interfering in the country’s internal political life. On the other hand, telephone conversations belong to the right to privacy. Something they violated too.
In addition, the entity has sums of money that no one knows how much.. The current government has just given it two additional increases. It seems that there is “no money” for everyone, except for the intelligence services.
It is the only government agency that can spend its money without being accountable to anyone. There is a bicameral congressional committee made up of senators and representatives that monitors the intelligence services. But the bilateral council asks the intelligence chief – who has the duty to leave -: “What was the money spent on?” He replied: “State secret, it does not apply.” The discussion is over. They are millions of dollars and pesos.
During the Kirchner years, the intelligence services were used and abused to learn about the lives and doings of opposition politicians, businessmen, judges, journalists…
In 2018 Judge Claudius Bonadio I raided a house Christina Kirchner Because of corruption. She found a folder containing SIDE reports from when she was president. There he faced persecution by many opposition leaders and businessmen. There was a recording of a board meeting of one of the largest companies in Argentina. But since that was not the reason for the raid, he dismissed it, created a new case, and sent it to a draw. It fell into the hands of the judge in 2019 Marcelo Martinez De Giorgi. In six years he did nothing. So I ask the judge: Are you going to do something or are you going to let the crime end?
If we have an intelligence service devoted to investigating the private and public lives of Argentines who have committed no crime, it is better that we don’t have it.
The function of the side is very important if it is to take care of the security of Argentines. If you only troll government critics, there will be no point and you will be spending a lot of money.