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Former intelligence chief Kontoleon said the prime minister and his office were never briefed in any case on the lifting of the constitutionally guaranteed privacy of communications.

The committee hearings are separate from the decision of Parliament’s plenary on Monday to set up a special investigating committee

The committee hearings are separate from the decision of Parliament's plenary on Monday to set up a special investigating committee

The committee hearings are separate from the decision of Parliament’s plenary on Monday to set up a special investigating committee

ATHENS - Greece’s New Democracy government, under fire for the use of phone tapping and possibly spyware, wants a parliamentary panel’s review, including of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) confidential. The hearing will be held behind closed doors and the government, said Kathimerini, is

The fallout has prompted calls from within the EU parliament and Greece’s parliament for an inquiry probe into the spying allegations. Probes in such sensitive issues are typically set up in order to pacify public anger and conclude with no real light shone, under the pretext of “national security.”

“If you believe that I do not enjoy the trust of my parliamentary group, table a no-confidence motion right now. Now! If you do not do so, you will demonstrate yet again that you are cowardly,” Mitsotakis declared.

A SYRIZA no-confidence motion would rally behind the PM all of the MPs of New Democracy, certain factions of which privately have expressed intense consternation over the affair.

New Democracy wants a special parliamentary inquiry to probe not only the current scandal, but the last 10 years of EYP’s operations, in order to identify and remedy as it said chronic dysfunctions.

Parties are already in battle formation, with all opposition parties prepared to lay the blame for the wiretapping of a party leader squarely on the shoulders of the PM.