Secrets Commission, the CNI appears to clear up political espionage with Pegasus May 5, 2022

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The Commission on Official Secrets has begun appearing in Congress with the appearance of the director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, to clear up political espionage and with doubts from pro-independence parties like ERC and EH Bildu, who want to know who ordered it. although she did not file any “high expectations” during the session.

The Commission for the Control of Reserved Expenses, chaired by Congress President Meritxell Batet, began at 9:00 a.m. behind closed doors, under strict security measures and with great media expectation to resolve the controversy over political espionage, which has affected it, to clear up the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, the defense minister, Margarita Robles, and dozens of Basque and Catalan independence leaders.

The spokesmen of the ten political groups have had to leave their mobile phones in locked lockers, because of the strict secrecy they have to keep about the papers that the director of the CNI, who did not want to make statements to the press on arrival, for the question or he feared for his position.

Fifty journalists, including photographers and editors, have waited at the entrance to the Mariana Pineda room, where the Board of Spokespersons of Congress usually meets after it meets for the first time in two years to cover classified information and state secrets derived from the Pegasus. case.

The spokesperson for CKD, Gabriel Rufianhas said on his arrival at the commission that he expects “nothing” as he finds it “absurd” that it is being held without cameras and then “nothing can be said about what happened inside”.

“As a politician, as a public representative, I cannot be happy with something that brings this opacity,” added Rufián, who revealed that the main question he will ask is whether the espionage with the Pegasus system started from ” Morocco or the CNI.”

Along the same lines, the spokesperson for EH Picture Mertxe Aizpuruahas said that in principle they have no “great hope” in the committee as everything that is said there is “secret”.

“It is the first time we go, we will go, we will listen to what they tell us and based on that we will assess the situation,” he said.

Regarding the questions, he noted that “a lot of things need to be clarified”, such as “who investigated, how they were investigated”.

JxCat spokeswoman Miriam Nogueras also expects ‘little’ from the committee: ‘We’ll see what they explain to us’, she limited herself to saying when she arrived.

For his part, the socialist spokesman, Héctor Gómez, hopes that the statements of the director of the CNI “shed light” in order to clarify the espionage of politicians as soon as possible.

Edmundo Bal, from Ciudadanos, has once again urged to defend that “the enemies of the state” should not be represented on this committee because they could use the secrets being revealed to “promote instability”, even though “he does not has the slightest doubt” that Esteban will not talk about anything that could jeopardize this security for EH Bildu, ERC, the CUP or Junts.

What the Vox spokesperson, Iván Espinosa de los Monteros, expects from this committee is that the director of the CNI be supported and that everything the intelligence services do “according to the drafts of the law” and beyond, he has indicated, he doesn’t believe he should take any responsibility for what happened.