Persad-Bissessar has questioned the purpose of the wiretapping and said that Congress of the People leader Winston Dookeran and PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley were among those being spied on even after the polls.
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says there will be more probes into other agencies following the shocking discovery that the State’s Special Intelligence Agency (SIA) had been spying on private citizens and politicians, including her, for several years.
She confirmed a newspaper report yesterday that the little-known unit had been illegally wiretapping cell phones and landlines and intercepting text messages and emails for several years but she was never informed, as chairman of the National Security Council, about the spying operations.
Persad-Bissessar said the situation was “frightening”, noting that those whose privacy was invaded in this unlawful way included parliamentarians from all parties, media persons and members of the judiciary.
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