Swedish Official: Country Has Tapped Citizens' Phones 'For Decades'
Deputy prime minister Maud Olofsson has added a new twist to Sweden's divisive surveillance debate. The Centre Party leader claims that defence minister Mikael Odenberg's proposed legislation would merely codify practices that have already been in operation for decades. Previously, at a time when all telecommunications were state-operated, Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (F�rsvarets Radioanstalt - FRA) regularly tapped telephone lines in and out of the country, says Olofsson.
Olofsson claims Sweden has tapped phones 'for decades', The Local, March 9, 2007.
