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sandensea

(21,529 posts)
Wed May 27, 2020, 03:00 PM May 2020

Complaint filed against Argentina's Macri for wide-reaching illegal surveillance

A complaint filed in an Argentine federal court on Tuesday against former President Mauricio Macri, his head of intelligence and former business partner, Gustavo Arribas, and Arribas' deputy, Silvia Majdalani, after files were discovered in the Federal Intelligence Agency (AFI) pointing to extensive warrantless surveillance during Macri's tenure.

In what current AFI Director Cristina Caamaño called a "systemic process of illegal intelligence," the surveillance operation involved warrantless hacking of e-mail accounts of at least 87 individuals - many of them prominent figures in Argentine politics, journalism, labor, law enforcement, and the legal profession.

At least four police departments and one governor were also under surveillance in the program, which files show to have begun no later than June 2, 2016 - six months after Macri took office.

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The complaint, submitted to Federal Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi and prosecutor Jorge di Lello, has rocked Argentine politics not only for the scope of the operation - but for the fact that it included numerous staunch supporters of the former president.

Macri, 61, who was defeated for re-election last October amid the worst recession in two decades, has been the focus of numerous scandals involving alleged warrantless wiretapping of both public figures and relatives - including his own sister, the late Sandra Macri.

Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, currently Minister of Gender and Diversity, today announced her intention to become the first formal plaintiff in this case. Gómez Alcorta, 47, represented jailed indigenous activist Milagro Sala - a staunch opponent of Macri.

"In my law firm I suffered a rather peculiar robbery, on January 10, 2018," she noted. "They took nothing but my computer."

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Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri; his head of intelligence and former business partner, Gustavo Arribas; and Arribas' deputy (and operational head of intelligence), Silvia Majdalani.

All three are now the focus of a complaint stemming from Federal Intelligence (AFI) files showing extensive (and warrantless) surveillance against both opponents and supporters alike during Macri's 2015-19 tenure.

Macri has been the focus of numerous prior espionage scandals (see https://www.democraticunderground.com/110869037).
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Complaint filed against Argentina's Macri for wide-reaching illegal surveillance (Original Post) sandensea May 2020 OP
Macri's hench-associates look like pros, don't they? Like Boris and Natasha! Judi Lynn May 2020 #1
Small wonder Macri's daughter & best friend (Nicky Caputo) hightailed it out of the country recently sandensea May 2020 #2
If only we will be so lucky! What a vision.... Judi Lynn May 2020 #3

Judi Lynn

(160,217 posts)
1. Macri's hench-associates look like pros, don't they? Like Boris and Natasha!
Wed May 27, 2020, 09:04 PM
May 2020

So strange Macri used the people's tax dollars to spy upon his late sister!



The Macri father attended Sandra's wedding. Her husband looks so overjoyed to see him!

What Macri did to that human rights activist, Milagro Sala was unforgivable.



It's good to know Pope Francis probably has been aware of every single move Macri has made against this heroic indigenous woman.

Hoping to learn she is doing so much better now Macri was mercifully sent packing.

If only the investigation of this surveillance will be continued until the whole rancid mess is completely revealed and assigned to history's trash heap, gotta hope somehow there will be a penalty involved for the twisted criminals who did it.

Thank you, sandensea. ⛱ ⚓️ ⛵️

sandensea

(21,529 posts)
2. Small wonder Macri's daughter & best friend (Nicky Caputo) hightailed it out of the country recently
Wed May 27, 2020, 09:42 PM
May 2020

When Macri and Alberto Fernández met shortly after the latter's election victory in October, Macri reportedly asked Fernández for assurances of impunity.

To which Fernández reportedly replied: "You have my guarantee that I won't pressure the judiciary against you, or anyone else."

Macri, in very Trumpian fashion, took it to mean Fernández would "protect" him from prosecution.

When all it meant is what it should mean: that the new president wouldn't use the judiciary either for or against anyone - including Signore Macrì.

It doesn't mean impunity, when hard evidence of wrongdoing emerges - as it has.

I can see Joe Biden having to explain the same thing to His Orangeness in November (God willing).

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