The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) is turning to five ministers and the public prosecutor, requesting answers on the purchase of Pegasus, and whether the spy software was used to wiretap Hungarian journalists and businessmen.
DK deputy leader Ágnes Vadai told an online press conference on Friday that Israeli company NSO’s software had been developed to harvest data from mobile phones. The software was
used to surveille Hungarian investigative journalists, businessmen and their acquaintances,
as well as “at least one mayor”, Vadai said.
In the “biggest scandal of modern Hungarian democracy”, indirect evidence has come to light that the Hungarian government was behind the surveillance, she said. DK is now turning to Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, Finance Minister Mihály Varga, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás, Justice Minister Judit Varga and Public Prosecutor Péter Polt to ask
In the “biggest scandal of modern Hungarian democracy”, indirect evidence has come to light that the Hungarian government was behind the surveillance, she said. DK is now turning to Interior Minister Sándor Pintér, Finance Minister Mihály Varga, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Head of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás, Justice Minister Judit Varga and Public Prosecutor Péter Polt to ask
which institution purchased the software and to request explanation on the use it was put to.
“Such actions cannot remain without consequences, investigative journalists are wiretapped only in the darkest dictatorships,” Vadai said. Surveilling Hungarians with foreign software is “treason”, she said.
Meanwhile, all parties of
Meanwhile, all parties of
the parliamentary opposition called on majority members of parliament’s national security committee “not to thwart” a Monday meeting on Pegasus.
“If governing party members of the committee fail to turn up for Monday’s session the opposition will take that as an admission,” DK, Jobbik, LMP, Momentum, the Socialist Party, and Párbeszéd said in a joint statement.
Signatories to the statement also said that government ministers had recently made “contradictory, wishy-washy statements” and “did not deny” application of the contested spyware. They noted that János Stummer, the Jobbik-delegated head of the parliamentary committee, had convened a meeting for Monday, to hear the interior and foreign ministers behind closed doors.
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Source: MTI
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“Only the darkest of dictatorships”
In the US this is normal left wing tactic.
Remember BO picking up angies phone calls.
The biggest conservative news host had his text and email taken by the NSA and released it to the right wing media- this happened only last week- of coarse they denied it- but he proved they were lying.
Before trump even became president ,17 of the top people in the FBI, DOJ and the CIA were out to destroy him. The head of the NSA warned him he was being spied on. The left and media went nuts when he revealed it and had to be lying. They all new the Russia story was untrue and a setup before they started a 3 year 48 million investigation. Most are no longer in the goverment but I one had been charged.
These are same people who sent a 12 member swat team to arrest a 70 year old campaign worker for fibbing to Congress, when top people in intelligence
Agency lied to Congress in televised hearings and now work for CNN. The left wing media is mostly responsible destroying the country with 24 -7 lies.