Have the eyes and ears of American Big Brother reached Italy? After France, doubts about the Datagate case also arrive in Rome. The Privacy Guarantor, Antonello Soro, has asked Prime Minister Enrico Letta to ascertain with all the useful tools whether the collection, use and storage of information relating to telephone and telematic communications carried out from the United States has also involved Italian citizens.
Copasir, the parliamentary committee for control over the secret services, also intervened: "In all the meetings with the US delegations we have had confirmation that our intelligence and our Government did not know", said the president Giacomo Stucchi, who today he will ask the undersecretary to the presidency of the council with responsibility for intelligence, Pinniti, for guidance.
“Italy has never allowed the US to intercept Italian citizens – confirmed Massimo D'Alema, former president of Copasir -. We are a sovereign country and here, for example, interceptions of Italian citizens cannot be carried out without the authorization of the judiciary".
Meanwhile, the US secretary of state, John Kerry, arrived in Rome today and is expected to discuss Israeli-Palestinian negotiations with Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu. The European trip of the head of American diplomacy is however dominated by the scandal of the interceptions of the American NSA in France and other countries of the Old Continent, a case opened after the revelations of the newspaper Le Monde.
