Journalist reports intelligence services could target critics

[MilHojas]

Journalist reports intelligence services could target critics, sparking official denial — and alleged hack attempts - Buenos Aires Herald

A new intelligence plan reportedly focuses on those who ‘erode’ public trust or ‘manipulate’ public opinion, making no distinction between foreign spies and the media

buenosairesherald.com

 

[carride]

This is not very encouraging news

Investigative journalist Hugo Alconada Mon reported that the State Intelligence Secretariat (SIDE) has recently approved a National Intelligence Plan that could allow agents to gather intelligence on journalists, economists, academics and other critics of President Javier Milei and his government.

According to Alconada Mon’s La Nación story, the plan allows the intelligence services to gather information on anyone who “‘erodes’ the public opinion’s trust on public officials who are in charge of the nation’s security,” without distinguishing between activities by foreign intelligence agents and the press or regular citizens.

 

[aloevera]

Other focal points reportedly mentioned in the document are poverty, inequality and internal migration that “could constitute a risk” to the country’s development, although it doesn’t specify what this could entail.

Racist Mileistas don't want brown people from Tucuman and Jujuy moving to the Conurbano. What's new?

 

[cortazar]

Racist Mileistas don't want brown people from Tucuman and Jujuy moving to the Conurbano. What's new?

I don't think you'll win many Mileistas over with that comment.

But I did take a quick look at this journalist's career to look for any obvious ideological bias. Besides two novels, here is his bibliography from the last 15 years:

• Las coimas del gigante alemán: la historia secreta de Siemens, los DNI y los gobiernos argentinos hasta los Kirchner. Planeta (2011) . Planeta (2011)
• Boudou-Ciccone y la máquina de hacer billetes. Planeta (2013)
• La piñata. El ABC de la corrupción, de la burguesía nacional kirchnerista y del "capitalismo de amigos". Planeta (2015)
• La raíz (de todos los males). Cómo el poder montó un sistema para la corrupción y la impunidad en la Argentina. Planeta (2018)
  
  

Not exactly a koo-koo kukardo!

 

[Che1990]

Not exactly a koo-koo kukardo!

Anyone who criticises the libertarian regime is a Kuka.

 

[MilHojas]

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/americas/argentina-milei-intelligence-plan-alleged-surveillence-intl-latam

The office of Argentinian President Javier Milei denied a bombshell series of reports that alleged the country’s intelligence agency had approved a new plan that could enable the surveillance of journalists, politicians and economists.