As journalists in Mexico search through the enormous hack, the information revealed in news articles so far has illuminated the military’s growing hold over civilian institutions and its close relationship with President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.Despite warnings from politicians and analysts that the military is becoming too powerful under Mr. López Obrador, the senate voted this week to renew the military’s role as Mexico’s lead institution in charge of public security.The leaked emails reveal that the military was using Pegasus, an Israeli spyware, to infect the phones of journalists and an activist, despite Mr. López Obrador’s promises that his government would not use the malware to spy on Mexican citizens.In the hacked emails, Defense Ministry officials accuse the current Interior Minister, Adán Augusto López, of giving top security positions to officials linked to organized crime when he served as the governor of Tabasco state.“What the emails have made obvious is the military’s deliberate actions to avoid civilian oversight, even for a low-ranking captain,” said Cecilia Farfán Méndez, a Mexico security researcher at the University of California, San Diego."