PM’s office denies e-mails leak claim
The Office of the Prime Minister denied claims by Maltatoday that it had leaked a private e-mail exchange between Opposition Leader Joseph Muscat and an RTK journalist to The Times or Net TV.
“It is absolutely untrue that ‘It was The Times who were regaled with the information from an Office of the Prime Minister source’,” the government said yesterday.
In a front page item yesterday, Maltatoday said Dr Muscat’s e-mails were “originally leaked” to a journalist of The Times. The OPM denied the claim, adding that “the reference to the Office of the Prime Minister in the statement ‘It is unclear whether the leak to Net originated from The Times or Castille’ is also absolutely untrue”.
Dr Muscat complained in Parliament last week that the private e-mail exchange landed in the hands of the PN media as a result of computer hacking since neither he nor RTK journalist Sabrina Agius released the correspondence. In the e-mails, Dr Muscat urges Ms Agius to keep her job at the Church-owned radio because the party “needs” her there, though he also expressed the wish that she joins The Times or the state broadcaster, PBS.
The journalist was suspended the morning after the exchange became public and is facing disciplinary proceedings.
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mario gellel
Oct 24th 2011, 16:31
FEJNA IL-LIGI TA 'DATA PROTECTION', GHAND IS-SERVIZZ SIGRIET TAL-PN ??????
Alfred Hili
Oct 24th 2011, 11:25
Big brother is watching !
Mrs Joe Felice-Pace
Oct 24th 2011, 10:45
the journalism we are having is continually reaching abysmal levels. It used to be anathema to publish material which had not been checked. Today there is more speculation written by somebody behind a desk and hiding behind "informed sources" than factual reporting on the spot, as used to be the rule.
Joe Felice Pace
Steve M. Engerer
Oct 24th 2011, 09:28
What is important is the content of the emails, not whether it was leaked or not!!!!
Mr Terry Gosden
Oct 24th 2011, 11:42
Steve you have the cart before the Horse, Privacy once breached is a crime, how would you feel if you knew big brother was searching your emails, and private post?
James Tyrrell
Oct 24th 2011, 13:03
You are totally wrong Steve. The crime here is a breech of privacy under the Data Protection Act.
Angus Black
Oct 24th 2011, 15:37
What is the greater crime here? A breach of the privacy law, or the skewing of information and the relaying of confidential information to the leader of the Opposition who hopes to be the next prime minister?
Does it not bother Terry and James that the leader of the Opposition is planting moles at every paper and electronic media to use them as part of his propaganda machine? So if he was not discovered, would it have been OK ?
It was all right for the Labour Party to disclose private e-mails when it suited them, but if someone else happens to come across some naughty e-mails by Joseph, then it suddenly becomes 'espionage' and a breach of privacy!
Then again, who expects any better from the Labour Party?
Mario Camilleri
Oct 24th 2011, 16:11
Remember one thing Steve, this could have been you, or worse your privacy can be exposed for ridicule. Would you want that?
Unless otherwise defined, the term privacy means no intrusion allowed, permissible!!
The quality or condition of being secluded from the presence or view of others;
The state of being concealed; secrecy.