ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - Tuesday evening's "Forum" talk-show on Croatian Television saw a heated debate about police wiretapping and tailing of journalists whose files have recently been opened after it was established they do not pose
a threat to national security. The tapping and surveillance of journalists was legally founded, claimed Ivan Jarnjak, former interior minister and former head of the National Security Office (UNS), Markica Rebic, former head of the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS), and Smiljan Reljic, former head of the Constitutional Order Protection Service (SZUP) and incumbent adviser at the UNS. The three asserted journalists were not tailed and tapped because they were journalists but because they had contacts with people of interest to intelligence services and for publishing documents marked as state secrets. On the other hand, Jasna Babic, a journalist with Nacion
ZAGREB, Nov 14 (Hina) - Tuesday evening's "Forum" talk-show on
Croatian Television saw a heated debate about police wiretapping
and tailing of journalists whose files have recently been opened
after it was established they do not pose a threat to national
security.
The tapping and surveillance of journalists was legally founded,
claimed Ivan Jarnjak, former interior minister and former head of
the National Security Office (UNS), Markica Rebic, former head of
the Security and Intelligence Service (SIS), and Smiljan Reljic,
former head of the Constitutional Order Protection Service (SZUP)
and incumbent adviser at the UNS.
The three asserted journalists were not tailed and tapped because
they were journalists but because they had contacts with people of
interest to intelligence services and for publishing documents
marked as state secrets.
On the other hand, Jasna Babic, a journalist with Nacional weekly,
Zagreb attorney Slobodan Budak, Krunoslav Olujic, and Forum
anchorman Tihomir Ladisic tried to point to the immorality of
wiretapping and shadowing journalists. They demanded the former
intelligence leaders say who was responsible for the abuse of the
intelligence services.
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