The director of the National Secretariat of Strategic Intelligence of the State, Álvaro Garcé, affirmed this Friday that he has no doubt that the document disclosed by the journalist Eduardo Preve and the one received by the legislators who participated in the session of Parliament where information was allegedly leaked Intelligence of the country.
The sayings took place after The Observer published that the leaked document is not the same one handled in Parliament. “I have no doubt that the document that the journalist has and the document that was delivered to those who participated in the session is identical and is the same,” he said.
At a press conference, he said that only “a simple comparison of the content, word for word, between the journalist’s document and that of the legislators is missing. A comparison is enough to determine if the document is the same”.
A right and a duty
Garcé recognized the journalist’s right not to reveal his source, but assured that he also has an obligation. “He has the right not to reveal his source, but there is also a correlative obligation to it, which is to collaborate with the Justice,” he said.
In this regard, he said that the presentation of the document “should happen today or tomorrow. We are, if there is good will, 24 hours away from definitively clarifying and proving that the origin of the leak was in the secret session of the Commission”.
On the other hand, the director of Intelligence affirmed that the document that was handled in State agencies is not the same as that of Parliament.
He also added that each agency has a different document that makes it distinguishable. “Documents can have successive versions: a watermarked version arrived at the agencies and another was delivered to Parliament,” he said.
In this sense, once again he unchecked the filtration of the agencies, which he assured that they have “nothing to do with it”.
