“Mr. Dokos is the weak link in National Security,” Kostas Tsoukalas says in his statement and stresses that “it is the Prime Minister’s duty to remove him so that the impression is not established internationally that the country’s security systems are vulnerable.”
The spokesperson of PASOK-Movement for Change states more specifically that “in other countries with a serious government, for such a serious security incident, an investigation would immediately be ordered, which would lead to a finding,” but “instead, the Prime Minister’s Office issued an ‘informal briefing,’ in which the ‘executive’ 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 finding was drawn up?” Mr. Tsoukalas asks.
He further asks: “For the New Democracy government, which invoked ‘high national security secrecy’ to cover up the scandal of illegal wiretappings, to hide the stench of the Maximos court and to prevent the formation of the investigative committee, is it acceptable for the Prime Minister’s close adviser to reveal to Russian pranksters which country the EYP chief is traveling to and with whom he is speaking, or when a state’s Prime Minister is planning elections, or how our country will handle diplomatically the issue of the Ukrainian drone and at what level of talks it is with Ukraine?”
The PASOK spokesperson notes that “in serious governments and international organizations, strict identity verification procedures are applied before high-level conversations.”
“On the contrary,” he stresses, “very serious questions arise for the Maximos Mansion, when the pranksters in a new post of theirs stated that they contacted the office of the Secretary General for National Security via a simple email, which was answered immediately.” “Did Mr. Dokos then inform the Prime Minister and internally the Maximos Mansion about the conversations he had with supposed Ukrainian officials, who in reality were 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 is not established internationally that the country’s security systems are vulnerable and so that he himself does not again become the target of more complex information-extraction operations.”