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Date: July 7, 2007 1:13:46 PM PDT
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Subject: "Unitary Executive" Berlusconi's "Black Ops" vs Judiciary
& Legislative Branches
Italy's military spooks 'spied on magistrates to help Berlusconi'
Tom Kington in Rome
The Guardian (UK), July 7, 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2120963,00.html
Italy's judiciary has accused military intelligence of spying on
those judges it considered hostile to Silvio Berlusconi, and of
plotting to obstruct them.
The spying allegedly took place from 2001 until 2006, when the
media magnate was voted out and replaced as prime minister by
Romano Prodi. Judges in Spain and the UK were also spied on, said
the Superior Council of the Magistracy, which is chaired by Italy's
president, the leftwing Giorgio Napolitano.
While making no specific accusations, the council said intelligence
documents from 2001 seized in 2006 investigations were found to
discuss "the neutralisation of initiatives" by magistrates and
judges seen as opposing the centre-right government.
Justice minister Clemente Mastella said on Thursday that 250 judges
had been spied on; those considered most dangerous were described
by the documents as "the armed wing" of the judiciary. Mr
Berlusconi was constantly at odds with the judiciary, once claiming
that to be a judge one must be "mentally disturbed".
Nicolo Pollari, former chief of military intelligence service,
denied that any "illegal dossiers" existed; what the council said
were "files" was simply information collected from newspapers and
other public sources. He is standing trial for allegedly helping
the CIA kidnap a terror suspect in Milan in 2003.
The Prodi government said it had "full and total faith in the work
of the magistracy", and called for "necessary clarity" in the
affair. When details first emerged, the spying was attributed to a
shadowy unit inside the service, but the council says it now thinks
that it was top officials rather than "deviant sectors".
The council also said that a European group human rights group,
Magistrates for Democracy and Liberties, had also been spied on,
and its internal emails intercepted.
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