The "Surveillance Bulletin" of the National Intelligence Service for "Target 5046c, Kostis Hadjidakis" comes to light causing a bulletin to be issued for the political scene with ping pong announcements, but also a bulletin of dangerous phenomena for democracy and society, which now, even if it is downgraded as a fact in the polls, reflects on the issue of wiretapping, the functioning of institutions, the protection of rights, but also the political practices that prevail, the ethics and intentions of some of those who already have the mandate or claim to represent the people and work in their interests.
Evidence proving that the NSA had been monitoring Labour Minister Costis Hadjidakis since November 2020 and for at least a year is published by the newspaper Documento. The reason it was decided that the minister should be monitored, according to the article, is the fact of his frequent and close contacts with businessmen.
Target 5046c, Kostis Hadjidakis
Hence the monitoring bulletin, the information note prepared by the NIS for those who are monitored, of "Target 5046c" the code name of Labour Minister Kostis Hadjidakis for the NIS, details conversations of the minister with well-known businessmen and executives of important companies, as well as with journalists.
The newspaper relies on their testimonies to prove the validity of what it reports. "The authenticity of the documents shown to us was verified in two ways. By the insignia and codes they bore, which undoubtedly belong to the NIS, and by the victims of indirect surveillance. Businessmen, political figures and two journalists confirm the communications recorded with the minister."
Perhaps more significantly, the other person on the phone line, the minister himself, Kostis Hatzidakis, neither denied the conversations nor ruled out the possibility that he was being monitored by the NSS.
What he was quick to make clear is that he did not believe he was being monitored by the prime minister.
Announcement war and a society in the middle
These facts come to light just a few hours after the fierce debate in Parliament on the issue of wiretapping, during which the issue of surveillance specifically of Kostis Hatzidakis and the Chief of the General Staff Konstantinos Floros took on great dimensions, with Alexis Tsipras urgently demanding answers from the Prime Minister and political head of the National Security Service, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who angrily slammed the opposition, accusing it of lack of shame and lies.
Pervasive in the atmosphere from the government's side was the questioning of the revealing data published by the press about the surveillance, about the target names, about the Predator malware.
A stance that was maintained, despite the revelation, on the same day as the debate in Parliament, by the NYT that Intellexa had been licensed by the government to export Predator to foreign countries.
In fact, despite the revelation, on the same day as the debate in Parliament, by the NYT that Intellexa had been licensed by the government to export Predator to foreign countries.
The government insisted on the choice of questioning and underestimating the evidence that emerges, rather than investigating it thoroughly and directly, as it probably should, so new evidence of the scandal that has plunged the country into a dangerous maelstrom is coming to light.
The government spokesman spoke of "dirty networks that collaborate with specific media, channeling them material that remains to be proven their degree of truth" and going a step further he added that "the purpose of these circuits is the transformation of public life into a morass and the return to times of long memory, when politics in Greece moved at the pace of 'cassettes'".
"Greece will not return politically to the previous century," government spokesman Yannis Economou stressed. Hadjidakis threatened national security or was he threatening the selfish interests of Maximos with his handling of business projects in the energy sector?"
At the same time that excerpts from conversations of ministers with businessmen, with other ministers, with journalists are coming to light, with every citizen drawing his own conclusions and forming his own scenarios about what might be going on, the relationships that exist, routes and interests that are involved.
At the same time, those who, with the calmness and rigor that such issues require, spoke of the urgent need to shed a lot of light on the case, with immediate and substantial action by the judiciary, whose handling of the case so far is not lacking.
Otherwise, not returning to a time of bad memories may remain a wishful thinking.
Source: in.gr
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