Senator reveals Colombia peace talks hacker’s ‘diary’
Senator reveals Colombia peace talks hacker’s ‘diary’
Aug 28, 2014 posted by Steven Cohen
Colombian Senator Armando Benedetti broke new ground in the deepening peace talks hacker scandal Thursday morning, sharing previously undisclosed information from what he claims to be the “diary” of the chief suspect.
In a lengthy interview with Caracol Radio early Thursday, Senator Benedetti, a member of President Juan Manuel Santos’ ruling U Party (Partido de la U) coalition, revealed that he has gained access to copies of a record-keeping notebook alleged hacker Andres Sepulveda used to document political targets and the actions he took to discredit them and invade their privacy. “It’s a sort of database, filled with all sorts of damaging information,” he said.
Arrested by police in May and currently awaiting a number of charges related to illegal wiretapping and possibly espionage, Sepulveda is accused of conducting a political dirty war on behalf of the right-wing Democratic Center (Centro Democratico) party and attempting to sabotage ongoing peace talks between the Colombian government and the FARC rebel group, the country’s largest.
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What’s more, I have the names of certain people and even journalists who (the people involved in the scandal) believed to be ‘Chavistas’ and infiltrators in the country. The hackers had their emails,” said Benedetti.
The accusation brings to mind the DAS wiretapping scandal, in which the government of former President Alvaro Uribe, the founder of the Democratic Center party and one of its current senators, was found to be spying on human rights workers, journalists, opposition politicians, and other individuals deemed subversive by the administration. “Chavista” is a term often used by Uribe and Democratic Center supporters to connote leftists supposedly being manipulated by communist ideology from Venezuela.
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