The party recalled that the National Security Council was presided at the time, as it is today, by the prime minister and the president of the state, who countersigned Turek's appointment. This, it said, bound Mesic and Racan to state their position on the case.
Recalling that Mesic had recently rightfully defended the human rights of reporter Helena Puljiz, the party called on Mesic to stand in the defence of the human and professional rights of journalists who were under surveillance by POA in 2003.
The DC called on Mesic and Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to call a session of the National Security Council to investigate and establish how and why POA had the journalists under surveillance and to whom it submitted its reports.
The party believes that the Council should respond to the case also because of the fact that a presentation by POA officials on the surveillance of the journalists was held at the President's Office.
Five Croatian journalists on Monday sent a request to the Croatian Journalists Association, parliamentary committees on national security and human rights, and the Council for the Civilian Supervision of Security Services, urging them to investigate claims by the Globus weekly that POA had them under surveillance in 2003 and 2004 during the term of former POA chief Franjo Turek.