Silvio Berlusconi's Forza
Italia party demanded answers on Tuesday after Italian media
reported on new Wikileaks files that suggest a special unit of
the United States National Security Agency (NSA) listened in on
the telephone conversations of the former premier during his
last term as the head of government. "What happened seems to be
an extremely serious thing," said Forza Italia Senate whip Paolo
Romani after daily newspaper La Repubblica and weekly magazine
Espresso carried the reports. "It's serious that the NSA took
the liberty to take wiretaps at the highest level on Italian
territory and did not inform the Italian government which, when
faced with our questions, has always said that this is not true.
It seems to me that the executive must now give a clear
response". Berlusconi has frequently said there was plot to
cause his third government to collapse late in 2011, when Italy
risked a Greek-style financial meltdown.
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