The Commission on the Intelligence and Security services, says not informed about the role of the Dutch intelligence services have played in the taking of 1,8 million metadata. The NRC reported earlier today that this had been done.
The CIVD responds with his statement on earlier reports in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad. This newspaper reported on Tuesday that the commission-Secretly at the end of last year and told him that the Dutch intelligence services the metadata of 1.8 million telephone calls were registered, and not the NSA, as earlier still held.
During the meetings of the CIVD, also called commission-Secretly, the leaders of the parties in the Second Chamber, in confidence, informed about the activities of the intelligence services. The commission is so secret that the leaders, not even with their fellow Members of parliament may discuss about what is discussed. This makes the issued statement, which was made after a long meeting, even more remarkable.
The CIVD denies in a statement in official language commission-Secretly informed about the Dutch role in the origin of the 1.8 million metadata. “The CIVD considers itself in the light of earlier statements in the public domain by the minister of the Interior and kingdom relations not informed about the role and working methods of the Dutch intelligence and security services in the collection of 1.8 million metadata”, in the statement.
Tuesday published NRC an article in which it was stated that minister Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the Second Room in the secret indeed had informed about the origin of the metadata of Dutch phone calls in documents of whistleblower Edward Snowden.
According to the NRC denies the commission with the statement is not that the case at the end of last year in the commission have been addressed. The newspaper says that minister of Defence Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (VVD) and one of its officers on 12 december the commission have told that the dialing information by the own intelligence services were collected and the NSA shared. This would be related to the 1,8 million metadata, however, not well have come to the fore.
Minister Plasterk, who, at the meeting of the commission-Secretly was, had last week in the Second Room to justify because he would not have informed about the origin of the metadata of 1.8 million telephone calls; he survived a motion of censure.