The president said, answering a question on the declaration by the vice-president of the parliamentary committee, Ilie Sarbu who said that the Service had already informed that there is no candidate in the presidential elections working as an undercover officer that Ilie Sarbu’s answers " only covers half the truth" related to the topic.
"I think it would be great to know exactly what I told you, for the answer of Mr. Sarbu covers only half of what I’ve stated. I said that there is a former undercover officer or an undercover officer, because when you know about someone that they have been an undercover officer, you do not know and when his mission ceased to and this is one thing you must know before being a candidate in the presidential elections. The citizen should know they have a president who has nothing to hide President Traian Basescu said on Wednesday on TVR 1, according to Mediafax.
He argued that "Ilie Sârbu has lied by omission".
"Mr. Sarbu has lied by omission today and not just today. He has been in a lasting campaign, since I made this statement to a TV channel, he never ceases to remind us that there is no undercover officer. In his family, he means to say. But Basescu’s file ... Brother, you have been looking for my file for 25 years. It does not exist. What I’ve told you is what was found at SRI, travel reports, nothing else, " Basescu said.
Asked if he could add more to that statement on the undercover officer, Basescu said he would not do so now.
"I would not come to this point, I have some planning of my own, I want it to be at a time when all media can have access, when I say one thing or another," Basescu said.
The head of state stressed that what is certain, for he had seen many speculations, is "that nobody should expect that there will l be a document by the intelligence services."
"That cannot be, if I had received the written briefing from SIE, for example, who told Mr. Sarbu that there is no undercover officer among candidates (...) The problem that I raised is if there was an undercover officer. I am convinced that such a statement does not harm anyone, such a recognition, if there were. The problem is different, a former undercover officer cannot be peaceful, no matter what other position he has got ", Basescu explained.
Train Basescu was keen to repeat that he did not receive "such a document, with name and forename from any Romanian intelligence service ", in which to be told that there was an undercover officer or is a member of government.
"If this had happened, I should have shut up. I am a head of state and I know what state secret means" Basescu said.