"Someone from the government is trying to hide something" | The ex …

The former undersecretary of the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI), Juan Martin Mena, said the national government "is trying to hide something" with its decision to denounce the federal judge of Dolores, Alejo Ramos Padilla, in front of the Council of Magistrates and warned that The scandal concerning the existence of a parapublic system of illegal intelligence, revealed after the arrest of the false lawyer Marcelo D'Alessio, demonstrates that & "There is absolute chaos in the intelligence services".

During an interview with AM 750, the former official described as "democratic milestone" the presentation of Judge Ramos Padilla before the Committee of the Freedom of Expression of the Chamber of Deputies and put in question the complaint filed by the government against him in court. Judicial Council: "If the government has nothing to do with it, why does it attack the judge?", He asked.

"Can there be anything more democratic than going in front of the representatives of the people?" As far as I know, he did not commit any excess, I did not see him prejudge or evaluate. Simply describe a case that has institutional boundaries, because it is not a common cause of criminal law, "he said, before making a critical comparison:" If we look at the number of judges who circulate the television to talk about punitive criminal cases, I do not understand how it can generate so much stupor that a judge does it at the heart of Congress ".

In addition, Mena warned that the current AFI leadership could have worked by "omission" on the illegal spying duties of which Alessio was part and pointed out that one of the issues to be determined is how a character like him "could have obtained the intelligence material" discovered by Ramos Padilla after the extortion denunciation and unlawful badociation in which the prosecutor Carlos Stornelli is also imputed.

"The AFI is dedicated to the detection of external intelligence agents or illegal intelligence acts.It is a field of counterintelligence.The performance of D & # 39; Alessio back in 2015. How? Did AFI not detect it? What did the AFI do ?, said the former manager. He wondered why the CIA had "not detected a character who had emigrated to Argentina, saying that he was working for them".

He also denied that D & # 39; Alessio could be "a madman" who left the official security agencies. "For the detailed tests of the other day (in Congress), the material with which he worked, the functions he entered and the meetings he held, the crazy thing is a little naive ", he criticized.

One of the questions Mena wanted to clarify was the so-called categorization between "organic or inorganic" spies and intelligence services. "There is no inorganic agent," he explained. What there is is illegal information. "There are" intelligence agents or individuals who, if they work for the AFI, do it illegally, and it's a crime, "he said.

In addition, he badured that the existence of "characters like D'Alessio" proves that there are several "who walk near Comodoro Py" and maintain "an illegal relationship of promiscuity with the power judicial system, which modifies the development of criminal operations ".

Mena felt that the scandal of an alleged illegal espionage network in which prosecutors, lawmakers and journalists would be involved is partly a consequence of Macri's decision to release 100% of the funds intended for the new AFI reservation. "This gives a huge degree of arbitrariness" to those who operate in this organization, he said.

"Politics is struggling to affect the intelligence services," he said, not excluding the fact that "the end of the cycle of Kirchnerism" could have had to do with the reform done by the former president Cristina Kirchner at the dissolution of the intelligence secretariat. (Side) and face the ex-spy Jaime Stiusso. "If I had not made the decision to reform the intelligence service, 2015 would have been a little quieter, but it does not detract from the value of what it did," he said. He specifies.

"There is an absolute desmadre of intelligence services, not only because of Alessio's antecedent, but also because, as it never happened in the history of Alessio, our country, we attended in 2016 a festival of wiretaps not yet recorded with political leaders, "he added.

In that sense, he compared: "Let someone try to remember if someone listened to a private conversation with one of the political opponents of Kirchnerism during our 12 years of government."