NSO responds to snooping row query; gives point by point rebuttal to all charges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kpdH4efWhk Jul 19, 2021
Under the banner Snoopgate Bogey rises again, Times now says.. In breaking news coming it, the NSO has responded to a Times Now query and has given a point by point response to all the charges.
The 1st being about the bid to distract from the truth. the story has been built around 37 out of the 50,000 phone numbers. Even for the 37 the reporters failed to proved a definitive link between the numbers and NSO.
Secondly, the NSO denies any definitive link between NOs, NSO’s.
NSO says that the story has been flimsy from the beginning, the 50,00 list has no ties with NSO. Instead of admitting that there is no "massive" plot, the editors, and reporters are intentionally misleading, using twists and truns to distract from the "truth".
In addition, the NSO also states that the people who are investigating this case are intentionally misleading, citing that the story has been flimsy from the very beginning. This has been the most detailed response to the Pegasus snoop gate controversy so far. The organisation has declared all the claims as wrong assumptions and uncorroborated theories in the snooping row.
NSO says that it cannot disclose the identities of the customers of whom we have shut down systems, due to contractual and national security considerations,
NSO has helped prevent gun attacks, gun violence, car explosions, suicide bombings,
Shehzad Poonawala: Story is a recurjitation of the old story.. sotry is conjecture.. Where has the 50,000 list come from.. Report say that only India has misused it.. Why havent the persons concerned gone to the adjucating authority.
Sashi Tharoor: Hacking is illegal in our laws, so whether it was authorised or not, if it was done it was illegal. If it was not done by our Government then only a firegn government could have done it, then that is national Security issue
Ashwini Vaishnav, IT minister in Parliament today.. https://youtu.be/5kpdH4efWhk?t=149 OTT allegations made... as per the report itself. 50000 in the list.. whether it was infected/compromised or subject to attempt hack.. this cannot be determined without subjecting the phone to a technical analysis. So the presence of the number does not prove snooping..
Vaishnaw, who was making his first speech in Parliament as the new MeitY minister, said the “highly sensational story” has made several “over the top allegations” but there is “no substance behind them”.
“It is not a coincidence that the reports have been published a day before the monsoon session of Parliament,” he said. “In the past, similar allegations were made [about the use of Pegasus] on WhatsApp but there is no factual basis to these and have been categorically denied.” text from https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/illegal-surveillance-not-possible-minister-ashwini-vaishnaw-on-pegasus-project-101626693447152.html