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Conservatives who came to power after the elections reestablished the establishment of the Intelligence Ombudsman Institute. However, behind the scenes we hear the discontent of the Department of State Security and President G. Nausėda.
According to the president, the proposals to expand the control of the intelligence system should, first of all, strengthen and not weaken the efficiency of the intelligence system, since this is the only way to guarantee the security of the Lithuanian state. The new proposals should also be based not only on the principles of transparent appointment of the Ombudsman, his political neutrality, operational independence, balance of responsibilities, but also on good governance and the reduction of bureaucracy, ”said the Communication Group of the President.
At the end of 2019, G. Nausėda, in turn, registered amendments in favor of the SSD, which, among other things, proposed to the intelligence services to legalize the possibility of summoning people to a preventive interview. In addition, intelligence agencies would have the right to inspect personal documents and make administrative arrests. The amendments would also grant SSD the right to receive information that constitutes bank secrecy without judicial sanction. The biggest storm of dissatisfaction was sparked by preventive talks, to which scouts could call Lithuanian residents.
These amendments were initiated by the head of state and prepared by the intelligence institutions themselves: the State Security Department (SSD) and the Second Department of Operational Services (AOTD) of the Ministry of National Defense.
D. Grybauskaitė criticized the idea, TS-LKD proposed to introduce “additional fuses”
Critics have pointed out that some of the new tools available for intelligence are redundant and distort the essence of intelligence.
Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the opposition Union of the Lithuanian Homeland-Lithuanian Christian Democrats at the time, said that “with the continued threats of various kinds from Russia and Belarus and increasing Chinese activity,” Lithuania needs to strengthen its intelligence, but expand his intelligence. powers.institution.
“While we support the president’s approach to strengthening national security institutions, we would like to see democratic safeguards such as the Intelligence Ombudsman included in the law,
so that the public can have confidence that possible additional instruments will be used strictly for their intended purpose, ”said the Conservative leader while working in the opposition in 2020.
In January 2020, outgoing President Dalia Grybauskaitė also voiced her disapproval of the amendments proposed by G. Nausėda related to preventive talks. He confirmed that preventive conversations with scouts had already been discussed in his leadership status.
times, but she disagreed. “Some elements of this law have been discussed before, and especially the so-called preventive talks. At that time and now, I believe that this is an excessive measure and really violates human rights, without a special institutional intelligence control, such a measure cannot really be introduced, ”said D. Grybauskaitė.
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