[사설] The issue of’MB NIS temple’ is unclear

Lee Nak-yeon, together with Democratic Party representative, argued yesterday, “It was revealed that there were data on the trends of over 1,000 people, including all 299 members of the 18th National Assembly during the Lee Myung-bak administration, and personnel from legal professionals, celebrities, and civil society organizations.” A member of the Democratic Party proposed a’special resolution to urge national intelligence agencies to disclose information on inspection properties and to investigate the truth and prevent recurrence.’ 52 Democratic Party lawmakers, including Representative Lee, were present.

If there is any inspection by the National Intelligence Service, it is a mistake and must be corrected. It is a necessary process to be reborn as a proper intelligence agency.

However, the current passport-sitting drive is not a few of the things that aren’t easy to sympathize with. The temple has been running for a long time, as the expression ’60 years of illegal temple black history in the National Intelligence Service’ that appeared on the National Assembly’s intelligence committee yesterday shows. In fact, it was only a while ago that re-education of domestic intelligence personnel, saying, “It will remove the room for political involvement,” and legally “collecting domestic information” has not been allowed from this year. In the past, they produced hundreds of reports every day, but most of them were personal information. DJ (Kim Dae-jung)’s file was more than one truck with the so-called’John An File’. Despite these circumstances, the passport took issue with the notification that the Blue House Civil Affairs Office in December 2009 told the National Intelligence Service to’manage identity data’.

The NIS is also in charge of background checks. Although the number of targets has declined from this year, we investigated the targets for the appointment of public officials, executives of affiliated organizations, and once overseas travelers. Even if it contains information that is difficult to say from rumors, it is necessary to consider whether it is illegal. However, the statute of prosecution (10 years of abuse of authority) is more likely to flow into a political battle rather than obscuring the truth.

In addition, the Moon Jae-in regime dig deeply into the NIS, saying that it was “clearing the redemption” with the inauguration. The NIS reform and development committee, composed of civilians, even searched the main server. This is why former director Won Se-hoon and others are currently being tried. At the time, the reform committee did not take this into account, saying, “The Blue House instructed politicians to collect information on character ratings and trends.” What is the reason why passports who know all of these complex and subtle circumstances are now a problem.

In the opposition, it is considered a passport strategy ahead of the by-election of Seoul and Busan mayors in April. In particular, the question is whether it was aimed at candidate Park Hyeong-joon, who served as chief political officer of the Blue House at the time. There is also a doubt that “when the NIS lights a fire and sees the ruling party’s head as an affair, there is some great political work in progress” (Rep. Jeong Jin-seok).

Incidentally, NIS Chief Park Ji-won said yesterday at the intelligence committee that “there was no illegal inspections under the DJ and Roh Moo-hyun administrations,” and said, “If the intelligence committee votes by two-thirds, you can report to the intelligence committee.” Eight out of 12 members belong to the Democratic Party, so it sounds like they’re actually going to release it. As a result, the passport that was supposed to return the NIS is pushing the NIS back into politics. It’s unfortunate.