Thursday, January 22, 2015

CFK doubts suicide: They used Nisman while he was alive, then they needed him dead

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner took to social media once again to express her thoughts on the death of AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman this morning, making reference to “the suicide which -I am sure- was not a suicide.” She also praised yesterday’s cover of the Herald for its “accuracy” on the content of Nisman’s complaint against the government.

In another long letter — the second she has written since Nisman’s death —, the president said that the “real operation against the government was the prosecutor’s death” and she added: “They used him while he was alive and then they needed him dead. It is that sad and terrible.”

The head of state posted a photo of the front page of yesterday’s Buenos Aires Herald, which featured the first page of Nisman’s complaint against the government for allegedly covering up the attack against the AMIA Jewish centre, which was released on Tuesday by Federal Judge Ariel Lijo. She praised the “surgical or maybe linguistic- accuracy” of the Herald’s headline: “Nothing new. Nisman’s report fails to fan flames of conspiracy.”

Fernández de Kirchner said that the writ has turned “certain questions” into “certainties.”

“The Buenos Aires Herald was right. ‘Nothing new.’ But also for other reasons: Nisman’s report ‘was planted’ with false information,” she added.

“Nisman’s accusation not only collapses, but it becomes a real political and legal scandal,” the president wrote. “Prosecutor Nisman did not know that the intelligence agents that he listed as such, were in fact not. Least of all that one of them had been accused by (ex intelligence chief “Jaime”) Stiusso himself.”

Antonio “Jaime” Stiusso, a former operations chief for the Intelligence Secretariat (SI), was fired in a December shake-up of the agency. One of his responsibilities was to help Nisman with the investigation into the 1994 bombing.

The Intelligence Secretariat (SI) has recently denied that the two supposed intelligence agents listed in late Alberto Nisman’s complaint — Héctor Yrimia and Ramón Allan Héctor Bogado — were members of that agency.

“If Stiusso was the one feeding Nisman with all the information, it is more than evident that it was Stiusso himself who told him (or wrote to him?) that Bogado and Yrimia were intelligence agents,” the president added.”

She pointed to the statements made by the judge presiding over the AMIA investigation, Rodolfo Canicoba Corral. “(He) has criticised the involvement of Stiusso, saying that instead of helping with the investigation, he ended up leading it. I personally believe that he did more than that. The facts speak for themselves.”

“The scandal sparked by the complaint ... full of ‘planted’ information, was covered by the death of the prosecutor. That is, an apparent suicide. A resource that has already been used in many sadly renowned cases,” she stated.