COPASIR’s Ban Lists: the Backlash of the Deep Italian State

ER Editor: COPASIR, the Comitato parlamentare per la sicurezza della Repubblica (Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic) is a ‘body of the Italian Parliament deputed to survey and oversee the activities of the Italian intelligence agencies.’

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COPASIR’s ban lists: the backlash of the deep Italian state

CESARE SACCHETTI

This morning I open the Corriere and I learn that COPASIR, chaired by Adolfo Urso FDI, has compiled a sort of banned list of journalists considered “agents of Moscow”. Among the names indicated in the report is mine and I am represented as a “well-known journalist and disseminator of disinformation”. There are now some serious facts to point out regarding this relationship.

The first, and the most sensational, is that COPASIR has expressly violated the mandate assigned to it. COPASIR’s task is not to establish who, according to their reverse standards, gives correct information and who does not. COPASIR’s task is to supervise the activity of the Italian secret services as required by the law with which this committee was established, the 124 of 2007.

If, for example, the committee had done its job, it should have shed light on the role played by the services in Spygate in October 2016 and Italiagate in November 2020. It does not appear that COPASIR is dedicating itself to what it should do since the current president, Urso, has authorized this report which violates the prerogatives of the committee.

The second fact, no less serious than the first, is that a parliamentary body targets free and independent journalists accusing them of “being Russian agents”, not only without having a minimum of proof in this regard but in fact launching a very serious attack on the free press, not the mainstream one of course.

One wonders where in all this is the order of journalists that says nothing in the face of this unprecedented and serious violation that COPASIR has just committed against various journalists, put on the proscription lists by this parliamentary body. Obviously, one also wonders where the Head of State, the Prime Minister and the Parliament itself are, who should be vigilant to prevent COPASIR from going beyond the limits of its mandate.

Then, when you take a look at the composition of COPASIR, you notice that they are all there. The controllers are the controlled and vice versa. I consider this act of COPASIR as the rear end of a political system which has reached its last stage. The legislature is coming to an end. It’s not even known if the Draghi government will survive the summer.

There will be an opportunity in the future to investigate the numerous violations of the laws and of the Constitution that have been made over the last two years, including this latest order by COPASIR.

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