Jumblat Accuses Bassil of Allowing Illegal Bugging
Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat on Monday accused Minister of Communications Gibran Bassil of illegally allowing bugging of communications.
Jumblat, in an article to be published by the PSP”s weekly al-Anbaa, said Bassil is hosting a colonel from the General Security Directorate at the ministry where he runs a network of employees "specialized in bugging calls."
The alleged colonel, whose name was not disclosed, mans an office near Bassil”s, Jumblat said.
The officer is interested in information related to the 2005 assassination of ex-primer Rafik Hariri, Jumblat said, explaining that such information "had already been relayed to the international commission" probing the Hariri crime.