Argentina Congress Vote On Bill Replacing Intelligence Agency
Alex Brown
2/27/15
Comparative Criminal Justice
Dr. Kilgallon
Article Summary The article I chose to summarize is entitled, “Argentina Congress Vote on Bill Replacing Intelligence Agency”. This discusses how the lower house of Argentina’s Congress is due to vote on a bill to get rid of the country’s intelligence agency. Doing this will replace the old Intelligence Secretariat with a federal agency that will be accountable to Congress. President Kirchner said a reform of Argentina’s intelligence services was overdue. The proposal was drafted by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, following the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman after he was allegedly fed misleading information by a rogue agent that President Kirchner accused. The senate has voted on the proposal and it I expected to be approved. Manuel Garrido, an opposition congressman, says that this legislation won’t prevent the new agency from committing serious irregularities. He says this is because there hasn’t been and there won’t be proper control.
Mr. Nisman was found dead in his flat with a gunshot wound to his head hours before he was due to testify in Congress. He had been investigation the bombing of the Amia Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires in 1994 that left 85 people dead. He had also accused President Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of involvement in a plot to cover up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing. President Fernandez rejected these allegations and accused a former secret agent of misleading Mr. Nisman in order to discredit the government.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31633782
2/27/15
Comparative Criminal Justice
Dr. Kilgallon
Article Summary The article I chose to summarize is entitled, “Argentina Congress Vote on Bill Replacing Intelligence Agency”. This discusses how the lower house of Argentina’s Congress is due to vote on a bill to get rid of the country’s intelligence agency. Doing this will replace the old Intelligence Secretariat with a federal agency that will be accountable to Congress. President Kirchner said a reform of Argentina’s intelligence services was overdue. The proposal was drafted by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, following the death of special prosecutor Alberto Nisman after he was allegedly fed misleading information by a rogue agent that President Kirchner accused. The senate has voted on the proposal and it I expected to be approved. Manuel Garrido, an opposition congressman, says that this legislation won’t prevent the new agency from committing serious irregularities. He says this is because there hasn’t been and there won’t be proper control.
Mr. Nisman was found dead in his flat with a gunshot wound to his head hours before he was due to testify in Congress. He had been investigation the bombing of the Amia Jewish Centre in Buenos Aires in 1994 that left 85 people dead. He had also accused President Fernandez and Foreign Minister Hector Timerman of involvement in a plot to cover up Iran’s alleged role in the bombing. President Fernandez rejected these allegations and accused a former secret agent of misleading Mr. Nisman in order to discredit the government.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-31633782