Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has accused the Pentagon of spying on Mexico‘s government.
During his daily press briefing on Tuesday, Obrador claimed the Pentagon targeted Mexico in the days after leaked information exposed alleged tensions between Mexico’s Navy and the Army. While delivering remarks on the situation, Obrador vowed to safeguard classified military information to protect its national security after a spate of documents leaked in U.S. media.
“We are going to take care of the information from [Mexican Secretary of the Navy] Semar and SEDENA [Secretariat of National Defense] because we are being spied on by the Pentagon, and many media outlets are leaking information that the [Drug Enforcement Agency] gives them,” Obrador said without providing evidence.
Obrador added, according to Bloomberg, that Mexico would guard information “for security because we feel that they are trying to violate our sovereignty in an interventionist plan.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Biden administration diplomats have attempted to reassure allies about the security of U.S. intelligence despite hundreds of pages of leaked intelligence.
“We have engaged with our allies and partners since these leaks came out, and we have done so at high levels, and we have made clear our commitment to safeguarding intelligence and our commitment to our security partnerships,” said Blinken Saturday when asked about concerns he may have heard from U.S. allies over the leaks.
Obrador said on Monday that the U.S. intelligence in the leaks was an “abusive, overbearing intrusion that should not be accepted under any circumstance,” adding that he did not plan to rebuke the U.S., but would at some point discuss “conditions for collaborative work,” Reuters reported. Last week, federal authorities arrested Massachusetts Air National Guardsman Jack Teixeira and charged him with violating the Espionage Act for posting dozens of transcriptions and photos of classified documents. (RELATED: FBI Arrests National Guardsman After Biggest Security Breach In 10 Years)
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