(by Andrea Pinto) In silence without informing our two intelligence agencies Aisi e Aise and not just them, the head of the Dis (Department that oversees the two agencies of the Italian 007s), prefect Gennaro Vecchione sent to Copasir - Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - a letter to present an unusual and untimely government initiative. A provision has been included in the budget law to establish, in the form of a foundation, theItalian cybersecurity institute. It has now become a custom insert as real Trojans in the various Dpcm and in the budget laws rules that have little to do with the matter of the legislative provision in progress. Inserting an important intelligence rule, in a hurry, in a budget law "stinks" a lot.
THEItalian cybersecurity institute, apparently, however, it is not an idea that came to the Prime Minister Tale in the middle of the night, but it is foreseen by the National Cyber Security Plan already launched by the premier Gentiloni in 2017. At the basis of the need to create the new institute, the Plan verbatim quotes: "The component linked to the academic and research world will have to find an adequate impulse through start-up financing and participation in the corporate capital of entrepreneurial realities of interest (venture capital) also through the establishment of a dedicated legal entity, such as a foundation " .
The Foundation will be supervised by the Dis on the technical-operational activity and will receive ten million euros, allocated with the residual budget of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The foundation will be able to stipulate contracts, conventions, agreements and understandings with public and private subjects. The Foundation, as described in the budget law, confers an operational role to Dis which by law is not its responsibility (Aisi and Aise are deputies for this role). The intelligence law 124 of 2017 also establishes that the functions attributed to Dis, Aise and Aisi they cannot be carried out by any other body.
The idea, the method used and the moment to create this foundation did not please Copasir who should express an opinion on decisions affecting our intelligence, especially if it is decided to radically change the operational policy.
Copasir, reshaping the commitments of its agenda, asked for an urgent hearing of the head of Dis, the prefect Vecchione.
During the hearing it emerged that the rule was removed from the budget law but not set aside because it will apparently be included in the maxi-amendment at the end of the year, doing so would allow the majority to find an agreement and Copasir to submit the project at the preliminary investigation.
Vecchione reiterated to Copasir the importance of the birth of the Institute with a view to contrasting the "foreign hostile interference"And to intercept the millions of Recovery Fund. Vecchione then announced that "in order to achieve the maximum degree of sharing among political forces, the Institute will not be provided for in the Budget Law ”.
Not only the Copasir but also the members of the Cisr - Interministerial Committee for the Security of the Republic - were thrilled by the initiative, not shared, quickly inserted into the budget law by Prime Minister Conte. We remember that the members of the CISR are elements of the government's weight being responsible for Foreign, Interior, Defense, Justice, Mef and Mise and that given the importance of the new rule they should have been heard before finding it in a budget law to be approved "quickly" by December, thus sterilizing the necessary parliamentary debate.
But December is also an important month for our 007s because the mandate of the director of Dis, Vecchione, expires. Therefore, the ballet of the new appointments or the reconfirmations so dear to the exponents of the majority will begin. Prime Minister Conte, according to some indiscretions learned from the press, reaches out in the reconfirmation of Vecchione al Dis, leaving the field free to the other majority political forces to appoint the deputy directors left vacant by Aise and Dis itself.
The most ill-thought-out argue that the Foundation's proposal, called Italian cybersecurity institute, right now to create a media diversion by disrupting the cards and thus have greater leverage on the future appointments of our intelligence leaders.
Let's talk about the intelligence leaders, however, and not the condominium administrators ... ... the games should leave room for different logics in full compliance with the internal and external security of our country.