Cristian Troncota, dean of the National Intelligence Academy, says Traian Basescu likes to make jokes and asserts that Ponta could not have been an undercover officer, but a collaborator of SIE at the most and that the legislation in 1997 would not have forbidden him such a collaboration.
"From what he stated ( Traian Basescu), it appears that either he does not know what an undercover officer is or he likes to play pranks . An undercover officer means an officer who has a false identity with a biography he has to learn.
If he was an undercover officer his name would not have been Ponta anymore, he would have changed his name and nobody would have ever known about him. (...) If you read the existing laws, then in ‘97, he was allowed, because he was not used in the internal space to provide information about his fellow prosecutors. He was used in a diplomatic mission outside the country, "said Tuesday Cristian Troncota, dean of the National Intelligence Academy, according to jurnalul.ro.