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70,000 missing rounds of SSA ammo.
Hinds: "Things happen."
“Things happen.”
That was the response of National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds in the Senate yesterday when asked how the types of breaches in the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) could have occurred under the watchful eye of the Government.
Hinds also said that the Government had not yet sought the assistance of its foreign allies in helping to track the 70,000 rounds of ammunition purchased by the SSA and still unaccounted for. He said the police were actively looking for it.
Hinds was faced with many questions arising out of the Prime Minister’s statement on the SSA in the House of Representatives on Wednesday in which he (the PM) disclosed that there was an accumulation of high-grade military guns and ammunition by the agency with members, many of whom belonged to cult, aiming to replace the country’s political leadership.
Independent Senator Paul Richards asked whether, given the Prime Minister’s statement on the audit of the SSA’s operation, Hinds could indicate what additional oversight mechanisms had been initiated to prevent the recurrence of this type of breach in the national security apparatus.
Hinds responded, “When the Prime Minister of a nation, this nation, issues a statement as he did only yesterday and as comprehensively and illuminatingly as he did there is precious more useful that his minister can add on the matter . ...Suffice to say that since the 3rd of March, 2024, the director of the SSA reports bimonthly to the chair of the National Security Council (PM Rowley), attends meetings as often as requested, so to do, by the National Security Council and meets monthly with the Minister of National Security in accordance with Section four five of the Strategic Services Act of Trinidad and Tobago. Altogether, Mr President, oversight remains with the National Security Council.”
Deepest national interest
Richards asked how despite these meetings and despite the minister’s indications of these oversight mechanisms, how the types of breaches that the Prime Minister outlined could actually have occurred, compromising the country’s top intelligence agency. Hinds said: “In the way of the world, things happen. As one writer previously wrote, ‘there is no art to find the mind’s construction in the face’. What I can say is that once these matters came to the attention of the National Security Council, when they did, we acted promptly in the national interest and the records will show what we had done.”
Asked by Richards how promptly the information came to the National Security Council since given the document that was released on Wednesday referred to an exponential increase in the purchase of ammunition from 2020 to 2021, almost doubling in 2022, seemingly without the knowledge of the National Security Council by the SSA, Hinds said: “I don’t want to chance a date, but it was a few months ago when information came to the National Security Council- the Prime Minister addressed this country on that some time ago and did so even more comprehensively yesterday- and as soon as that information came to hand, and of course the Government and through the National Security Council cannot act precipitously or whimsically, the Government acted responsibly and promptly in the widest and deepest national interest.”
Review and assessment
Asked by Richards to indicate what urgent measures the Government intends to pursue to prevent any potential compromise of national security agencies that routinely interface with the SSA, Hinds said a full and thorough audit of all aspects of the operations of the SSA had been put in place. Noting that it was ongoing, Hinds said the Prime Minister’s statement was punctuated by the assurance that, while these were taking place, the core business of the SSA continued apace. “And I am in a position as Minister of National Security to say so. In addition to that, a draft national security inter-agency concept of operation has been drafted and it is now for revision by the National Inter-agency Committee, for review and assessment and hence a subsequent submission to the National Security Council for its consideration,” he said.
Richards asked Hinds to indicate if the Government had examined previous reports from the SSA to identify if those reports are compromised and/or misleading. Hinds said, as the Prime Minister stated, there were audits taking place into every aspect of the operations and the work of the SSA “and I have no doubt matters such as that would be contemplated in those audits.”
Hinds was asked by Richards to indicate what strategies had been implemented to mitigate the potential carnage that can result from the 70,000 rounds of missing ammunition that were purchased by the SSA potentially ending up in the hands of criminals.
Hinds responded that every single round of ammunition that finds itself in unlawful hands with the prospects for misuse posed a very serious threat. “Given the Prime Minister’s observations that 70,000 rounds of ammunition are yet unrecorded and unaccounted for, this obviously poses a grave and a very serious threat to the citizens and visitors of Trinidad and Tobago and of course to national security and that’s the reason why accountability in the business of firearms and ammunition with respect to their movement and their use is so critical. The police, as the Prime Minister indicated, are pursuing this particular matter meticulously and, hopefully, to a very successful end,” Hinds said.
Asked whether there had been an examination of the possible infiltration of similar rogue elements in other national security agencies, Hinds said he wanted “for the moment” to confine himself to the statement of the Prime Minister. He said there were very thorough audits into every aspect of the operations, and this and other relevant matters would be pursued and taken into account.
Asked by Opposition Senator Wade Mark if the Government had sought the assistance of its foreign counterparts to aid in the retrieval of the 70,000 rounds of ammunition which remain unaccounted for, Hinds said the Government had not done so as yet “purely because at this juncture, it has not been deemed to be necessary since the sources of this failure in the controlled equipment and supplies inventory management at the SSA does not exceed the investigative and corrective expertise and capacity in Trinidad and Tobago, particularly as it resides in the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. But for completion, in answer to my friend, Senator Mark, we cooperate with our foreign partners, every one of them, and this cooperation transpires on an ongoing basis.”.
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FrankChag wrote:Independent Senator Paul Richards asked whether, given the Prime Minister’s statement on the audit of the SSA’s operation, Hinds could indicate what additional oversight mechanisms had been initiated to prevent the recurrence of this type of breach in the national security apparatus.
Hinds responded, “When the Prime Minister of a nation, this nation, issues a statement as he did only yesterday and as comprehensively and illuminatingly as he did there is precious more useful that his minister can add on the matter . ...
FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
PNM16 cycles wrote:who appointed the head of SSA when this happened?
alfa wrote:Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
He meant the policies or lack thereof of said individual is what makes him responsible. Of course a bright guy like you already knew that. But your modus operandi is well known by now. Do donuts around a topic until you raise enough dust to sufficiently cover for the PNM
Rowlee stood up and said the buck for crimes stops by him.Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
Think alfa likes you tbh. Weirdly obsessedHabit7 wrote:alfa wrote:Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
He meant the policies or lack thereof of said individual is what makes him responsible. Of course a bright guy like you already knew that. But your modus operandi is well known by now. Do donuts around a topic until you raise enough dust to sufficiently cover for the PNM
Why are you wrongly answering for him? What policy by Hinds caused somebody to be stabbed or beaten to death? Stop trying to white knight, you are not doing a good job.
Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
mero wrote:Think alfa likes you tbh. Weirdly obsessedHabit7 wrote:alfa wrote:Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
He meant the policies or lack thereof of said individual is what makes him responsible. Of course a bright guy like you already knew that. But your modus operandi is well known by now. Do donuts around a topic until you raise enough dust to sufficiently cover for the PNM
Why are you wrongly answering for him? What policy by Hinds caused somebody to be stabbed or beaten to death? Stop trying to white knight, you are not doing a good job.
Yes u can, cause hes the head of Crime, but lays blame on lazy Hindz.FrankChag wrote:Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
Can we try that?
I'm willing to try that.
protest ?one eye wrote:I want to see you all do a better job than Hinds.
Rather you choose to sit here and complain.
You're part of the problem and it's shocking how you all can't see it.
Go out to protest!
Oh check out 'Zoom's friday typing from the rum shop' post.
FrankChag wrote:Habit7 wrote:FrankChag wrote:Every murder and every home invasion is this man's fault, and so by extension, the PM who has him there, and anyone who supports them. They should fear the God that will take them to account one day.
If that is true, that it is all his fault. Then we should arrest him and murders and home invasion should stop right?
Can we try that?
I'm willing to try that.
sMASH wrote:The missing ammo was intentional .
Generating a problem cause they have a solution they need to implement .
Every citizen will be assumed guilty of something and searched like criminals i.The name of safety .
Need to erase the first line of the anthem
....Through the lawsuit, Barnes is seeking a declaration that the decision to withhold his FUL was illegal, irrational, and unreasonable....
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