Only ten MPs will be able to listen to explanations offered by Spanish National Intelligence Centre (CNI) director Paz Esteban (Madrid, 1958) on the Catalangate. The law forbids them to make what they hear public. Not much is known about the head of the Spanish secret services – probably a good thing in a spy – whose continuity is in question as a result of the Pegasus case. Even the Minister of Defence, Margarita Robles, chose not to answer journalists questions this morning on whether Esteban should resign.