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Two months before the Seoul mayor and by-elections, the suspicion of the Democratic Party government’s National Intelligence Service and Lee Myung-bak (MB) of inspecting a member of the National Assembly is up for discussion.
On the 9th, a spokesperson for the Shin Young-dae Democratic Party argued: “It is necessary to reveal the truth about the MB government’s National Intelligence Service inspectors and punish those involved.” He mentioned the recent report that the MB government’s NIS inspected the 18 members of the National Intelligence Service in the briefing on the pending issue.
Previously, SBS reported the day before (8) a comment by a senior NIS official that said: “The specific personal information of the 299 members of the 18th opposition legislators is kept in the NIS in document form, and the existence del The document was directly confirmed. ”
According to SBS, this senior official said: “The time of writing the document is estimated to be after September 2009, when the MB government, Kwon Jae-jin, was in the Blue House. Said.
Dong-A Ilbo also reported on the 9th: “It was confirmed that MB’s National Intelligence Service has prepared a document to identify the trends of about 1,000 people, including legislators, media and civil society personnel.”
The NIS also responded to such reports on the 9th, “The NIS has not confirmed the full list and content of the documents to identify trends reported in the media.” If there are any, we are also considering reporting them. ”This means that while documents or lists have not yet been confirmed, in some cases they may inform the parties or report to the National Assembly.
In fact, there is a movement among Democratic Party lawmakers belonging to the intelligence committee to push for a resolution at the intelligence committee level, urging the NIS to reveal the relevant details.
A related passport official said in a call with JoongAng Ilbo: “I know a discussion is taking place between key officials within the passport about the level at which the disclosure of related documents is required.”
The people’s power did not show an official response on this day. However, some officials of the people’s power do not hide their doubts: “Does the passport not reveal the intention of creating an advantageous phase for them by revealing the publicity of the MB government before the April elections?”
In this regard, even opposition officials who are bright with the situation on the HM side said in a call with the JoongAng Ilbo: “It is not known what kind of inspection was specifically called for, but from the point of view that an election Ahead, there are doubts that political intent is on the subject of the issue. It cannot be erased. ”He was also concerned that“ there may be attempts to transfer all the information gathering activities that the NIS of all governments have been performing at the responsibility of MB NIS “.
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