Original sentence: According to Revista Semana, revelations about the infiltration of paramilitaries affected the entity under former DAS chief Jorge Noguera in 2007 and further accusations have continued to surface.El Tiempo has criticized these explanations, raising questions about the President's knowledge of these activities.Former DAS counterintelligence director Jorge Alberto Lagos has told investigators that information on the country's Supreme Court judges was provided to Bernardo Moreno and José Obdulio Gaviria, two of Uribe's aides.Gaviria has claimed that criminals have tried to damage the government's image as part of a "political war" against the administration.In May of 2009 Colombian prosecutors officially began an investigation on a series of illegal wiretapping and spying activities carried out against opposition politicians, judges, journalists and others by the Department of Administrative Security (DAS).Previously, former DAS computer systems chief Rafael García had claimed that the Department and Colombian paramilitaries were involved in a plan to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.The DAS, an "intelligence service that answers to the president" as described by the Washington Post, has been the subject of earlier controversies during the Uribe administration.The magazine reported that information gathered by the DAS has been allegedly forwarded to paramilitaries, narcotraffickers and guerrillas.The probe has involved several of President's Uribe top aides and former high-ranking personnel withing the Department.Uribe himself has denied ordering any illegal wiretapping and claims that those responsible are part of "a mafia group that hurts the Colombian Democracy, freedom, the country and the government itself
Edited sentence: According to the former DAS-chief, Jorge Noruega, Uribe was aware of and approved the electronical surveillance of opponents and journalists.In May 2009 Colombian prosecutors exposed that the Department of Administrative Security, or DAS, described by the Washington Post as "the intelligence service that answers to the president", has been used to spy on Uribe's political opponents, trade union activists and journalists.Jorge Noruega also claims that the DAS has been working together with various paramilitary groups in attempts to assasinate Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.The information that the DAS gathered has also been forwarded to illegal paramilitary groups.Uribe denies these allegations and claims the DAS has been infiltrated by "a mafia"