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Hinds: Don’t blame me for SSA fiasco
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says while he is “constitutionally responsible” for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), he is not to be blamed for the ongoing fiasco at the spying agency.
Hinds said had he known all that was happening at the SSA, he would have acted much earlier than the Government did to rectify the issues with the agency.
Hinds made the comment at a media conference at his ministry’s Port-of-Spain headquarters yesterday.
Asked if he took responsibility for all that is now unfolding at the SSA, Hinds said: “Of course! I am responsible to the Cabinet. I’m responsible to the Parliament. I’m responsible to the people, which is why exactly I am here today. So responsibility under the Constitution is quite clear.”
However, he said he was not taking blame as that and responsibility are two different things, which he said he has tried to explain to the nation repeatedly.
“Blame is one thing, responsibility in the constitutional sense is another something I have tried to share with this nation on several occasions in the past. I can’t know. I could not have known who the SSA was hiring, whether it was members of one church or next, whether it was members of one family or next. I could not have known that. As a matter of fact, had I known that I’d have stopped it long before now.”
It falls under your Ministry and watch ...Idiot
National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds says while he is “constitutionally responsible” for the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), he is not to be blamed for the ongoing fiasco at the spying agency.
Hinds said had he known all that was happening at the SSA, he would have acted much earlier than the Government did to rectify the issues with the agency.
Hinds made the comment at a media conference at his ministry’s Port-of-Spain headquarters yesterday.
Asked if he took responsibility for all that is now unfolding at the SSA, Hinds said: “Of course! I am responsible to the Cabinet. I’m responsible to the Parliament. I’m responsible to the people, which is why exactly I am here today. So responsibility under the Constitution is quite clear.”
However, he said he was not taking blame as that and responsibility are two different things, which he said he has tried to explain to the nation repeatedly.
“Blame is one thing, responsibility in the constitutional sense is another something I have tried to share with this nation on several occasions in the past. I can’t know. I could not have known who the SSA was hiring, whether it was members of one church or next, whether it was members of one family or next. I could not have known that. As a matter of fact, had I known that I’d have stopped it long before now.”
It falls under your Ministry and watch ...Idiot
