“Mr. Dokos is the weak link in national security,” says Kostas Tsoukalas in a statement, emphasizing that “it is the Prime Minister’s duty to remove him so that the impression that the country’s security systems are vulnerable does not take hold internationally.”
The spokesperson for PASOK-Movement for Change notes specifically that “in other countries with a responsible government, such a serious security incident would prompt an immediate order for an investigation, leading to a conclusion,” but “instead, the Prime Minister’s Office issued an ‘informal briefing,’ in which the ‘high-level’ government even states with certainty that there was no leak of confidential or classified information.” “How do they know this, since no investigation was conducted and no report was drafted?” asks Mr. Tsoukalas.
He further asks: “For the New Democracy government, which invoked ‘high-level national security secrecy’ to cover up the illegal wiretapping scandal, to hide the stench emanating from the Maximos Mansion, and to prevent the formation of an investigative committee, is it acceptable for the Prime Minister’s close advisor to reveal to Russian pranksters which country the head of the EYP is traveling to and with whom he is speaking, or when the Prime Minister of a country plans to hold elections, or how our country will handle the issue of the Ukrainian drone and at what level of talks we are with Ukraine?”
The PASOK spokesperson notes that “in serious governments and international organizations, strict identity verification procedures are implemented prior to high-level talks.”
“On the contrary,” he emphasizes, “very serious questions arise regarding the Maximos Mansion when the pranksters stated in a new post that they contacted the office of the Secretary-General of National Security via a simple email, to which they received an immediate reply.” “Did Mr. Dokos subsequently inform the Prime Minister and, internally, the Maximos Mansion, about the conversations he had with alleged Ukrainian officials, who were in fact Russian pranksters?” he asks.
In conclusion, Mr. Tsoukalas argues that “Mr. Dokos is the weak link in national security” and that “it is the Prime Minister’s duty to remove him so that the impression that the country’s security systems are vulnerable does not take hold internationally, and so that he himself does not once again become the target of more sophisticated intelligence-gathering operations.”