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Judi Lynn

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Mon Jun 8, 2020, 01:01 AM Jun 2020

AFI conducted illegal espionage on more than 400 journalists during Macri era

TODAY 00:12

Cristina Caamaño, government-appointed trustee of AFI federal intelligence agency, files complaint alleging officials conducted illegal espionage on 500 journalists, academics and business leaders, including two Buenos Aires Times staffers, during the Mauricio Macri administration's time in office.



Allegations of illegal espionage carried out by the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) during the Mauricio Macri administration escalated over the weekend, after extraordinary claims emerged that officials had spied on more than 500 journalists, academics, politicians and business leaders.

More than 400 journalists – including two Buenos Aires Times staffers and numerous foreign reporters – appeared on a list of people to be investigated in relation to the G20 and World Trade Organisation (WTO) summits held in Buenos Aires in recent years.

In total, 403 journalists, 28 academics, 58 businesspeople and prominent figures from civil society were allegedly subject to illegal espionage, as well as socialist party leaders. The names, which can be accessed in full here, were filed in an Excel spreadsheet that was presented to courts on Friday and were under embargo until they were made public on Sunday.

The documents relating to the case were found in three dossiers named "2017", "G20 Journalists" and "Miscellaneous," discovered in a safe in the office of the AFI's former director of counterintelligence. Each file contains brief references to the political or social stances of some of the journalists, many gleaned from social media posts, though some had no comment at all, or merely noted that the person worked for a news outlet.

More:
https://www.batimes.com.ar/news/argentina/complaint-claims-intelligence-services-spied-on-403-journalists-during-macri-era.phtml

This article is superb!

DU'ers who've watched this forum's own always accurate poster on Argentina's events, policy, history in depth already learned long ago about what Macri had done, was doing regarding these atrocious invasions of personal information of his imagined enemies.

Hooray for D.U.'s super interesting expert! Naming that poster would attract the right-wing trolls who lurk here, hoping for a scuffle, so I won't, but we all know who the poster is.

Proven right in information shared YEARS ago!

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AFI conducted illegal espionage on more than 400 journalists during Macri era (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jun 2020 OP
Macri's paranoia really got the best of him sandensea Jun 2020 #1

sandensea

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1. Macri's paranoia really got the best of him
Mon Jun 8, 2020, 01:49 AM
Jun 2020

What surprised many in Argentina (though it shouldn't), is that he apparently had at least as many allies and supporters spied on as critics and opponents.

Some have gotten downright panicky - presumably because they know those files include marital infidelity, and God-only-knows what else.

My favorite of these cases is probably Luis Majul - Argentina's Tucker Carlson.

In his Friday night show, he looked straight into the camera and pleaded (in that high-pitched little voice of his): "All I ask is that the authorities not leak any personal or financial information of mine - not that I have a guilty conscience or anything like that!"

(of course, he used a much more colorful phrase)

This is the same Luis Majul that, during the 2017 midterms, giddily aired leaked private phone calls between Cristina Kirchner and her longtime friend and adviser Oscar Parrilli (now a senator).

There was nothing scandalous, except that in one of them he picked up and asked "Yes?Who is it?" and she said: "It's me, dummy!"

Macri and his "pocket" judges were driving her crazy that year, you'll recall.

To all this, I might add that one of the people Macri kept dirt on, most likely, was none other than Donald Trump - whom Macri hosted in Argentina a number of times in the '80s and '90s.

I'm 99% sure of that.

That said, Mille Grazie, Judi, for the very generous and heartfelt compliment.

Likewise!

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