Overview
- With the DNU now in force, the SIDE becomes the lead authority over the National Intelligence System, with control of budgets including reserved funds and the power to require information from national, provincial and Buenos Aires City agencies.
- The decree declares all intelligence activities covert and authorizes organs to protect facilities and repel attacks, while allowing intelligence personnel to apprehend individuals in flagrancy or by judicial request with immediate notice to security forces.
- The reform renames and reshapes agencies: the National Security Agency becomes the National Counterintelligence Agency, the Federal Cybersecurity Agency becomes the Federal Cyberintelligence Agency, Internal Affairs becomes the Inspectorate General of Intelligence, and the military strategic intelligence directorate is dissolved with that function moved to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
- Cyber functions are split as a new National Cybersecurity Center is created under the Cabinet Chief, while cyberintelligence remains within the SIDE through the reconverted federal agency.
- Two coordination frameworks are established for intelligence and government data sharing, and opposition parties publicly reject the DNU’s scope as the congressional bicameral commission prepares its review.