(by Andrea Pinto) The decree extending the emergency until October 15 also contains a substantial modification to the 2007 law on our Secret Services. With the decree "changing four little words"The government has guaranteed the top of Italian intelligence the possibility of renewing the post for another four years. Bewilderment was recorded among the oppositions, as was expressed disbelief by some members of the CoPasir (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic), who claim that they were not consulted, in time, on the delicate matter. To raise the barricades on this new rule about 50 grillini who sit in the Chamber of Deputies that yesterday forced the executive to ask for confidence in the emergency extension decree.
The majority passed the test but not with flying colors. Last night the vote in the House, 276 yes and 194 no, the parliamentary experts speak of a number that seems to be the lowest among those obtained by the majority. Twenty-eight would be the grillini who did not participate in the vote of confidence. From the Movement they specify, however, that there are only 7 unjustified absentees in the vote of confidence on the Covid dl.
In this way the director of the Dis of the AISI and Aise will be able to obtain the renewal of the assignment and remain for another four years. As foreseen by the law, before inserting the new norm, the Cisr - Interministerial Security Committee of the Republic - was also heard, a body composed of the ministers of Defense, Interior, Economy, Justice and Economic Development. Apparently the minister Lamorgese would have highlighted the danger of further infiltration of the mafia into the social fabric for subversive purposes in view of the hot autumn that promises to be in Italy.
The first signatory of the amendment proposal, Federica Dieni, is the M5S group leader at Copasir, followed by Emilio Carelli to Marta Grande. Dieni and Grande voted for confidence while Carelli was justified absent. Corriere della Sera reveals that someone whispers that he is the Undersecretary of State for Defense, Angelo Tofalo the hand that set in motion the amendment to cancel the extension of the leaders of the secret services. Tofalo is among the few to have been confirmed in the Conte 2 government, always in defense and everyone knows he is very close to Luigi Di Maio. If only because they come from the same region and both entered Parliament in 2013. But Di Maio has nothing to do with it and has repeatedly denied having a link with the process that led to the birth of that amendment: "Fanciful background that would attribute the paternity of the amendment to me: it is absolutely false ".
The leaders of the Italian secret services are today led by Gennaro Vecchione (Dis, Department of Information for the Security of the Republic), Mario Parente (Aisi, Information and Internal Security Agency) and Gianni Caravelli (Aise, Information and External Security Agency). Vecchione has been director of Dis since 2018, Parente has been leading Aisi since 2016 with reconfirmation by the Conte government in 2018, Caravelli was chosen for the Aise last May.
The trust just voted today locks the director of the AISI, expiring, until the middle of next year. A demonstration of the disagreements within the majority is the question of the appointment of the deputy directors of the External Information and Security Agency - AISE, vacant since May. But in December it will also be necessary to decide on the number one of the Information and Security Department - Dis, the body that oversees AISI and AISE.
Law 124 of 2007 regulates the "Information system for the security of the Republic and a new discipline of secrecy"And with regard to the appointments of the Directors of the Services established that - the general direction of the Dis is entrusted to a senior or equivalent manager of the state administration, whose appointment and revocation are the exclusive responsibility of the president of the Council of Ministers, after consulting the Cisr. However, the assignment has a maximum duration of four years and is renewable for one time only". The reason for the change that is read in the decree appears to be the "supercazzola" of the famous Italian film: "In order to ensure, also in the context of the current state of epidemiological emergency from Covid-19, full continuity in the operational management of the Information System for the security of the Republic, pursuant to law no. 3, the following modifications are made: the words “for one time only” are replaced by the following; "With subsequent measures for a maximum total duration of a further four years". As if to say, we only trust these leaders, better not risk it with other appointments.