Overview
- Cadena SER journalist Miguel Ángel Campos told the Supreme Court the Attorney General was not his source for the defense email and he refused to identify who was, citing source protection.
- Campos testified he saw the email shortly after 15:00 on February 13, 2024, and only reported its key phrase on air at 23:25 after his source later authorized publication.
- Call records cited in court show Campos placed a 21:38 call to the Attorney General that went to voicemail, while the Attorney General received the email’s text at 21:59 that night.
- Former El País deputy editor José Manuel Romero testified he never had the literal February 2 email, said he knew plea talks were offered, and confirmed he notarized phone messages that support the Attorney General’s defense.
- Romero acknowledged El País published an incorrect claim on March 13, 2024, about negotiations, and the UCO’s attribution of a preeminent role in the leak to the Attorney General remains in the investigatory record as proceedings continue.