Peace Estebandirector of the National Intelligence Center (CNI), will appear on next thursday at nine in the morning in the reserved expenses commission of Congress, which has not met since 2019. The Government has considered that the best place to give explanations about the alleged espionage of some sixty Catalan and Basque independence leaders is that commission. This body, in which EH Bildu will participate for the first time, is in charge of exercising the parliamentary control required by law over the activities of the CNI.
The pro-independence parties placed Esteban in the pillory two weeks ago, when a study by Citizen Lab denounced the puncture of the sovereignist’s terminals with the Pegasus program and those affected pointed directly to the CNI. These days, through several leaks, the Spanish espionage service has denied that it was done on a massive scale and has insisted that it has always been done with the obligatory court control.
But to Stephen more pressure has been added in the last few hourssince the body he directs has also been pointed out as being responsible for the serious security breach suffered by Pedro’s cell phones Sanchez and the Defense Minister, Margarita Oak treeswhich were also infected in 2021 by Pegasus, according to information from the Executive itself.
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Regarding this matter, sources from the CNI environment point out that the intelligence service (to which the National Cryptologic Center depends, which detected the security breach) is not the only one responsible for the cell phones of the president and the rest of the Government. As Defense sources did the day before, the ministry to which the CNI reports, they recall that in Moncloa there is also a Department of Homeland Security and another Department of Security, which “are also responsible for the cyber security of the chief executive.” Heading National Security is General Miguel Ángel Ballesteros.
The Cryptologic Center “received” Sánchez’s phone last Friday and a “forensic” was performed, in the jargon of experts, an in-depth analysis of the device to detect possible interference. The CNI does not want to detail how regularly it performs this examination on the mobile of the chief executive, although it emphasizes that “to do so” they must take the terminal to the Cryptologic.