Overview
- DNU 941/2025 restructures the intelligence system, declares activities covert by default, and authorizes SIDE agents to aprehend people in limited scenarios such as flagrancy or judicial assistance.
- CELS filed an amparo in federal administrative court seeking to nullify the decree and requested an immediate injunction, joining suits by opposition lawmakers and ex-officials assigned to judges Martín Cormick and Rita Alián.
- More than 20 human-rights and civil-society groups warned of risks to constitutional guarantees, citing mass data-sharing from over 15 agencies, expanded secrecy, potential political espionage, and military involvement in internal intelligence, and they called for congressional rejection.
- Procedurally, the chief of staff must send the decree to Congress by Friday, the DNU commission then has ten business days to report, and absolute majorities in both chambers would be required to overturn it once sessions resume.
- The government defends the reform as an urgent national-security modernization, saying any aprehension is solely to safeguard operations with immediate police involvement and framing the restructure as a rationalization focused on counterintelligence.