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Article: COLOMBIA: FROM ESPIONAGE TO SABOTAGE - AND THE DIRTY WAR (3)
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- August 25, 2009
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Analysis by Constanza Vieira*
Inter Press Service English News Wire
08-25-2009
BOGOTA, Aug. 25, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - For decades now, the right to
privacy in personal electronic communications existed only on
paper. An espionage scandal that broke this year in Colombia offers
the strongest confirmation so far of this fact.
Early this year, it was reported that the Administrative
Security Department (DAS), Colombia's main intelligence agency
which answers to the president's office, had for years been
carrying out illegal wiretap activities against opposition
politicians, human rights defenders, journalists and even Supreme
Court judges, who were described as "targets."
The position taken by the ...