The watchdog for the Security Service has said it is time to look into amending the law regulating Malta’s intelligence agency.

“The law needs revisiting in quite a few areas but it’s a delicate task because we’re talking about national security. It’s a sensitive question that should be at the fore of any such discussion about the law. But yes, I believe the law needs a bit of touching up,” Judge Frank Camilleri told The Sunday Times of Malta.

The former judge, who has been Commissioner of the Security Service (re-appointed every two years) since 2000, was reluctant to give specific examples.

“I cannot really be interacting much with the press in the sense that the law is quite clear that I am only answerable to the Prime Minister,” he said.

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