Telecom Data Renews Debate between Sehnaoui, March 14
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Telecommunications Minister Nicolas Sehnaoui slammed on Friday the March 14 forces’ accusations that he would be held responsible for preventing the security forces from obtaining the telecom data.
“The ministry will deal with the issue according to principles and will not back down on implementing the law,” Sehnaoui told As Safir newspaper.
He reiterated that the telecom data will only be given to security authorities if the competent judicial authorities ordered that.
The issue emerged to the surface again after Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea escaped an assassination attempt.
On Thursday, the March 14-led opposition held Sehnaoui and those who support him responsible for preventing the security forces and authorities from obtaining the telecom data in their probe into assassination attempts.
As Safir newspaper reported that a senior security source lashed out at Sehnaoui accusing him of being “irresponsible.”
“We are demanding to obtain a source of information that could have a valuable role in implementing preventive security measures and tracking down crimes,” the source said.
The source wondered why Hizbullah and some other security authorities can obtain the data while the Internal Security Forces are banned, saying that “the judicial authority only has an advisory role.”
For his part, Head of the Audit Bureau Judge Aouni Ramadan told the daily that the telecommunications minister has no role in blocking the telecom data from a security authority as the decision doesn’t go back to him.
Interior Minister Marwan Charbel stressed to As Safir that the cabinet’s decision regarding the issue “isn’t questionable.”
“Only the competent judicial authority is qualified to decide on exposing the telecom data (to a certain security authority) as it will not delay discussing the matter once an application is submitted,” Charbel said.
The data dispute had stirred political controversy over the legality of providing the Internal Security Forces Intelligence Branch with the telecommunications records.
The cabinet agreed in February on forming a judicial commission that would receive the records of some 3.4 million subscribers and decide whether to hand them over to the security agencies or not.
It also formed a ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Najib Miqati and comprising the ministers of justice, interior, defense and telecommunications, tasking it with following up the issue.
06 April 2012, 08:40
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giving the data to hizbushaitan and syrian agents is legal and giving it to the security forces when something like that happens is illegal?
what the heck? lame excuses to protect the murderors.
now it clearer than ever who the culprits are!
07 April 2012, 00:01
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mounting cameras to monitor the airport of the capital, is that legal?
06 April 2012, 09:04
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Double standards, serve your master well, soon you and your filthy gang will be ousted, peacefully or by force
06 April 2012, 10:18
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Bravo ( Flame Thrower ) or should we call Limited Thinker? Everything you said is true, but applies in an advanced country where freedom is respected, tell Mr ( No Brainer ) does Minister Sahnaoui who you are defending knows that Hizbullah can listen to any phone call made by Lebanese Citizens, dk you think that supplying the telecommunication data to the ISF ( who is a goverment sucurity force) would inetrfere with citizen's freedom more then having the same and all the data in Lebanon? Anyway if you only think of all the unmarked cars that can have tinted windows, and can kidnap inicent people is ok for a certain armed militia then I would say Bravo again, and thanks to Naharnet for making thinks clear, so let's leave people decide what's right or wrong
06 April 2012, 10:30
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yeah and in your twisted mind it is ok for him to provide that same data continuosly to hizbushaitan and syrian security service! what an hypocrit.
06 April 2012, 11:23
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Who is this "competent judicial authority qualified to decide on exposing the telecom data" ? let's cut to the chase, say who it is once and for all and let it do its job very quickly before the culprits get away, and to stop the speculation(it's hizballah , it's LF to gain sympathy, it's a third party ...). It's not acceptable that a serious matter like the telecom data is not resolved yet once and for all , according to the law w bala mouzeyadet !
06 April 2012, 14:25
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Speaking of meth...what's with all these drug dealers that are being arrested around the world dealing drugs and financing hizbollaat and its activities...
06 April 2012, 20:47
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This is the second time that the telecom Minister Sehnaoui is hiding and refusing handling the data from the investigators ,, wondering till when the Minister Mr. Sehnaoui and his political party will cover the crimes of their allies ...
07 April 2012, 00:03
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hizbulah can and did invade beirut with full arms without being militarily provoked, are you blind?? not to mention killing hana, and rest of the politicians, and you question if they were 'outlaw' ya retard zamanak, teslamli.
07 April 2012, 00:06
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what kbir, it is clear as day he is protecting the culprits, no rocket science, at least have the decency/bravery to admit that. "competent judicial authority " sounds like "dalwa 3adela qadera" taba3 hasoon, all bs. Israel is not your true enemy, fayez karam example is readily available, it is the rest of the lebanese who refuse the hizbustan hegemony.
