The public assumption is that listening to conversations was involved.Was it that or monitoring received and sent calls?Which apparently can or does happen to all of us.Yet when I wanted to trace phone calls I received and had the number blocked my telephone company required me to request my phone to be monitored and then for me to write down times I received the problem calls. At first when I read about his wife phone I didn't consider that she too is quite political in her own right.
When you look into it is a tricky situation..like most things political open to manipulation and public interpretation if desired.
Election time soon in Indonesia also?
Did the issue become public one around the same time that there were stand offs on returning boats?
Also relevant perhaps is that we aren't the only Country who is part of the 5eyes.Do we need to consult the other Countries in any way?
Very High level diplomacy required imo.
people like the one below and their offensive tweets wouldn't help matters
Abusive tweets from top Liberal Party pollster
As the government sought to limit damage from the phone-tapping affair, a Liberal Party senior adviser issued a series of racially-loaded remarks about top Indonesian government figures, which have been reported prominently in the Indonesian press.
The Liberal Party pollster, who is a close counsel to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, made the front page of one of Indonesia's most prominent media outlets, the Indonesian-language Kompas newspaper for his series of abusive comments, with one likening Indonesian Foreign Affairs Minister Marty Natalegawa to a ''1970s Pilipino [sic] porn star''.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abusive-tweets-from-top-liberal-party-pollster...
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