Email, sms, conversazioni: intercettata anche l’Italia. Il Copasir vuole chiarezza - Corriere.it
Email, sms, conversazioni: intercettata anche l’Italia. Il Copasir vuole chiarezza - Corriere.it
Email, text messages, conversations: intercepted
even Italy. The Copasir wants clarity
Tomorrow the Parliamentary Committee on the services will meet the Secretary with services Minniti
ROME - The controls on phone calls and telecommunication services also cover Italy. Calls, email, sms: behind the veil of national security the United States have gained millions of data that concern our fellow citizens. The confirmation came about three weeks ago, when a delegation of the Committee on Intelligence was on a mission in the United States. In those days, during the meetings with the director of intelligence agencies and the chairmen of congressional committees, there was the certainty of a broad-spectrum monitoring. And now the summit of Copasir asks for clarification to the government. The opportunity is already scheduled for Wednesday afternoon when at Palazzo San Macuto will Undersecretary CEO Marco Minniti.
The information acquired by the Committee relate to the operation of the surveillance system Prism, but more in general relate to a real monitoring began for years and are still active. A collection of sensitive data at this point that even our most secret services can not deny, though reiterating how they faced both acquisitions that "the sole object of the activity of anti-terrorism." So much so that an intelligence source insists: "We never had any evidence that this type of control has been able to relate to the political espionage against Italian authorities or personalities. All of our audits of such an eventuality were negative. "
It is a position that is perplexing MPs Copasir. He says bluntly Claudio Fava, Sel, included in the "mission" of the United States, when he recalls the words of the Deputy Director of the National Secutiyi Agency (NSA) on the need for "a comprehensive overview of the communications to and from the United States." He adds: "It is a system for collecting trawl based on some sensors. The vertices of Use Services they explained that their main qualms was to comply with U.S. laws on privacy and take steps to protect the security of the country. That all this in harmony with the national laws of allied countries is a point of view that they do not have, but that we should have. "
In recent months there had been talk also of espionage and the Italian Embassy in Washington, albeit on a more informal, the 007 Italian deny that it ever happened. But not enough, because - as points out the component of the Democratic Party of Copasir, Felice Casson - "the responses we have had from the top of our facilities are not at all reassuring and the hearing of the Secretary Minniti will serve just to demand more clarity on the position of our government. It is clear that the United States has acquired information about people and authorities throughout Europe. What concrete evidence exists to rule out that this did not happen even against politicians and authorities of our country? ".
From the direction of the Democratic Party is Ettore Rosato to seek clarification from the government, "since a few months ago, when they reached the first revelations on the" Datagate "both President Enrico Letta, both Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, showed amazement at what had transpired ". The feeling is that in reality, especially in the years of close cooperation between Italian and U.S. 007 in the area of terrorism, with the common pursuit of the Western hostages in war zones such as Iraq and Afghanistan, and the sharing of communications through the interception system Sigint, Italy has been informed of this data collection. And then it was taken for granted the continuation of this activity, without raising specific questions about the nature of the acquired data.
A practice, a practice that after what is happening in France, it seems difficult to sustain further. In fact, have already been informal contacts between the various intelligence agencies just to verify the existence of particularly sensitive cases and then on possible further implications of the story across Europe.
