Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar made her rev­e­la­tion about "PNM" wire­tap­ping be­cause pres­sures from var­i­ous is­sues had been build­ing up against the Gov­ern­ment, PNM Sen­a­tor Ter­rence Deyals­ingh said yes­ter­day.

Speak­ing in the Sen­ate on the In­ter­cep­tion of Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Bill, Deyals­ingh said he shared the Gov­ern­ment's in­dig­na­tion that the is­sue had raised its head.He said he al­so shared PNM leader Kei­th Row­ley's view that the PNM would not de­fend the in­de­fen­si­ble. But he said sev­er­al things had pre­ced­ed the PP's rev­e­la­tions. Deyals­ingh said these in­clud­ed state­ments that T&T was "not an ATM ma­chine, air­port au­thor­i­ty con­tracts, "run­away MPs" speak­ing out of turn, the un­re­solved Cli­co is­sue.

He al­so cit­ed debts owed to con­trac­tors, PSA pay­ments, aid to storm-hit Caribbean is­lands and the Fazeer Mo­hammed furore.

Not­ing a 1997 mo­tion in which for­mer UNC prime min­is­ter Bas­deo Pan­day spoke about in­fil­trat­ing the Op­po­si­tion via se­cu­ri­ty mech­a­nism, Deyals­ingh said:"We're all in this, there's enough blame to go around, we are all cul­pa­ble–the days for point­ing fin­gers say­ing 'you shouldn't do it' are over."