The integrity of the State

spia The "supreme interests to defend with state secrecy" are "the integrity of the Republic, also in relation to international agreements, and the defense of the Institutions founded on the Constitution, the independence of the State from other states and the relations with them, the preparation and the military defense of the state". But we cannot understand what this has got to do with the decision to hide with state secret the activities of SISMI (italian secret services) director Nicolo Pollari between 2001 and 2006.

Yet this was the decision of Berlusconi. Investigations of the judiciary have brought to light, at least in part, certain activities of intelligence services, with the support of italian telephone companies, during the second Berlusconi government: helping the CIA in the illegal rendition of Abu Omar, on which also the Prodi government decided the state secret, spying on Italian and European judges, journalists, non-aligned parties and political opposition. All illegal actions of the same Berlusconi government that had a solid alliance with the Bush administration and that during the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 left a free hand to the worst police abuse ever seen in a democratic state since the II World War (in the words of Amnesty International).
Investigations of the judiciary, however, cannot go forward. State secret. Even the judges of the Constitutional Court have washed their hands, and decided not to be competent to decide, because the House should do it. Pity that the representatives elected by the people have never dared to challenge these questionable choices of the government. Nor the majority, and neither the opposition, and it is not clear why, except that maybe the secret services have been so successful in their spying to found sufficient evidences to blackmail a large part of Italian politics . On the other side there is little to wonder in a country where the secret services were involved in the worst massacres and always left unpunished.
Ordinary citizens know nothing of all this, TV and newspapers have spoken very little of it, and the few citizens who know often don't understand the gravity of what happened. A government that uses the secret services against the judiciary, free press and opposition politicians. We are at the levels of the Stasi, the secret service of Communist East Germany that spied everybody. And the premier that drives this government had the courage to attack judiciary wiretapping, which he would like to eliminate with serious damage to justice. His government, however, can spy on everyone with impunity, even more now because he knows that no one will ever call him to account.
It's the same prime minister who has fiercely attacked Gioacchino Genchi, a servant of the state that does not wiretapped anyone, but looked, on orders by the judiciary, the telephone contacts of known mobsters, besides finding many phone numbers of known politicians, including some of the party of Berlusconi.
It's the usual media dictatorship, shouting baseless accusations against opponents and meanwhile committing abuses much more serious than those attributed to others. But since Berlusconi controls information, few people know that. And so every day Italy loses some vital piece of its civil and political freedoms, and those trying to raise the alarm are ignored by underhand agreements between political parties and overwhelmed by the noise of the ignorant and unaware crowd that applauds its Supreme Leader.