00:00former national security minister and commissioner of police gary griffith says the alleged leak of
00:06intercepted communications raises troubling questions about the country's intelligence
00:10and law enforcement systems speaking on tv6's morning edition griffith argued that if the
00:17recordings were obtained through intercepted communications someone may have acted outside
00:22the law so a law has been broken somebody broke the law to hear the state try to state well
00:28maybe
00:29somebody intercepted the interception come for god's sake let's not be ridiculous this thing
00:34comes straight from the service provider did you still be mobile griffith also questioned the motive
00:39behind the release of the recordings suggesting the leak may have been an attempt to shift public
00:44attention he further referenced the hadith matter saying the government was aware of the legal
00:50implications of following the court of appeals ruling somebody in the government figured look we
00:55under real pressure so let's just leave this to try to get us to do some damage control it has
01:00totally
01:01backfired because unless you are the most brainless blind political supporter of the government you must
01:08see cv wonder and richards can see that there's no way a recording like that could ever be deemed something
01:14that is justifiable to arrest to um totally for evidence sorry to be accumulated to lead charges which
01:21is why we had these were released based on the appeal court which is why the decision of the government
01:27knew the minister knew that if this had gone to the privy council they would have been embarrassed
01:31griffith believes the responsibility also extends to senior law enforcement officials
01:37he says the available information did not justify the actions are taken and argues that that key
01:42decision makers failed in their duties before it lies with the commissioner of police him being the
01:48primary person for law enforcement should have looked at that what was the data done to advise the minister
01:54what is here is not enough to justify incarcerated someone the commissioner did not do it so he has
02:00the act to justify where was your input to tell the minister you were wrong the director of the ssc
02:06and likewise whatever was an intelligence report that is not intelligence that is a lack of intelligence
02:11to actually believe that that could be something to justify incarcerated someone that's two and three
02:17the minister himself who has some degree of police training must have seen that to know there's
02:21absolutely nothing that could turn this into into evidence later on and and because of that all three
02:29have dropped the ball miserably because there's others nothing to have justified arresting someone
02:35based on you being prejudiced in some way griffith maintains that any interception of private
02:40communications must be carried out within the law and says those responsible for any unlawful actions
02:47should be identified and held accountable charlotte kisto tv6 news
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