Rome – Berlusconi spied on by the American National Security Agency, especially at that 2011 marked the end of his premiership in the days of the spread to the stars, the break with Minister Tremonti and letters-diktat sent to his address by the ECB. The revelations of Republic and Espresso on the basis of yet another file stream emerged from the Wikileaks case, could not trigger the outrage and the immediate reaction of Forza Italy.
The first to break the inertia of the former Cav party is the President of the blues senators, Paolo Romani. “It seems to me a very serious what happened. And ‘severe that NSA has taken the liberty to intercept the Italian territory, the highest level, and this has in no way informed the Italian government that, in the face of some of our questions, has always said that it was made not true (he was the Prime Minister Enrico Letta to report to national security and privacy of Italian citizens not compromised, editor’s note). Now it seems to me imperative that the government give a clear answer. “
“on the other hand – continues Romani – what happened in Germany (where it was found that the same treatment was reserved for Chancellor Angela Merkel, editor’s note) only serves to reinforce what Assange had anticipated. There is also to remember that often in the past, to the theaters of war, the so-called five eyes (that is, America, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, namely the English-speaking countries) had a share of information in the fight against terrorism never shared with allies, even with countries like Italy that still participating in hostilities. They had a global intelligence system in which some countries had a much more advanced and legal role, with regard to friendly countries. Now then it is worth clarifying. We do not expect a rispostina like, yes, we knew it was not so serious. Why such a complex system deserves a very clear answer. “
The documents analyzed by Republic and L’Espresso , that the NSA has dedicated a his elite unit, the Special Collection Service, commissioning feet between 2008 and 2011 an authentic encirclement spy: together with Berlusconi were intercepted on mobile and fixed users some key employees of the then prime minister, as the personal advisor for relations International Valentino Valentini, the adviser for national security Bruno Archi, the Italian representative to NATO Stefano Stefanini and then the palazzo Chigi diplomatic adviser, Marco Carnelos.
Particularly “sensitive” the report that the spies Americans have an interception classified as “top secret”, where Valentini offers his account of the confrontation between Berlusconi, Merkel and French President Sarkozy of October 22, 2011, in the margins of the Brussels European Council. The day before had staged the famous joint press conference during which, to a question about Berlusconi, the leaders of Germany and France had offered as an accomplice response and ironic smile.
The meeting in three , report the NSA agents, it is described by Valentini in the following days as “tense and very hard with the government of Rome” with Merkel and Sarkozy that “not tolerate excuses on the current difficult situation in Italy” and “did pressures on the prime Minister to announce strong and concrete measures and that could affix to demonstrate that his government is serious about the debt problem (Italian) “. Berlusconi will resign on November 12 2011.
That even Italy had assumed the lens of the NSA had admitted the same agency in October of 2013, in Nsagate now fully exploded after the material stolen and taken outside by Edward Snowden consultant. A delegation of Copasir, to Washington to seek clarification on the activities of “monitoring” carried out in Italy, had been received by the Agency by the Deputy Director of Intelligence, General John Inglis.
While admitting that the Italian authorities were not been warned, Inglis had ruled that the program Prism had raked indiscriminately notices of Italian citizens. Rather, he stressed that the NSA was acting for the purposes of “prevention” – citing an alleged assassination attempt foiled in Naples – and that the collection did not occur by operating within the Italian borders: the subject of the interception were conversations and data traffic generated in Italy but passed on “carrier” in the US or American full availability.
But already in 2013, thanks again to the Snowden files, L’Espresso had revealed as Italy, according to a top document secret NSA dated 2010, was the only European country with Germany to have on your two teams of special collection service area: one in Rome and one in Milan. And how the NSA spying on the Italian embassy in Washington and communications would operate the massive collection of Italian metadata.
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