Stupid spy game

The stupid spy game we are suffering in Spain is also indecent. It is stupid because it demonstrates the mediocrity and low status of those who have not been able to respond firmly and solvency to the crude manoeuvre of the pro-independence supporters to regain a prominence that has been deflated in recent months because the Catalan public is aware of the falsity of their proposals and the serious and negative consequences they have caused in recent years. 

It is indecent because it has caused serious damage to a key state institution for the stability and defence of democracy in Spain, the National Intelligence Centre. This damage has been done before the appearance of the recently dismissed director of the CNI, Paz Esteban, because, incredibly, the Government announces that the mobile phones of the President and the Minister of Defence have been listened to a year ago by the Pegasus method. 

Many leaders around the world have been spied on, but none of them admit it, only the Spanish government to cover up the serious mistakes made in setting up the Official Secrets Commission after an obscure manoeuvre in Congress, giving a place to pro-independence, pro-ETA, anti-system and other opportunists who, unfortunately, achieve electoral support with their populism and who should not be considered as such by a state that should defend itself with its institutions.

Spain has been blinded by cutting off the flow of information exchange with the services of other countries. As soon as they left the commission, the pro-independence supporters violated the rules and commented on what had been discussed at the meeting where the ex-director of the CNI exposed the government by demonstrating that the eavesdropping on 18 pro-independence supporters had been carried out with the corresponding judicial authorisation. 

The height of absurdity has been the dismissal of the director of the CNI by the Council of Ministers. An unacceptable transfer.  

Another inadmissible issue is to leak without evidence, well, this whole delirious case runs with the only evidence provided by the now ex-director of the CNI, that Morocco may be the one who has spied on Pedro Sánchez and Margarita Robles. And yet the strategic relations with the southern neighbour have just been channelled with great controversy in order to cloud them once again. Logically, there is no response or comment. Nobody acknowledges or comments on these issues except Moncloa, but it could have been Russia or China or some multinational or who knows, because Pegasus goes to those who have the money to pay for it. 

Beyond wanting to save face at all costs, it should be remembered that the largest CNI antenna is in Morocco, that in all embassies there are intelligence service officials accredited to the local government and that everyone has always been spying on each other, or at least trying to. That is why there is a Telegraphic Cabinet that always accompanies the president, even on his trips to Brussels, which is where there are more attempts at espionage among partners, allies and supposed friends.