washingtonexaminer Associated Press
06/20/09 8:30 PM EDT
BOGOTA — Colombia's domestic intelligence agency has fired another 11 people in a scandal over illegal eavesdropping of judges, journalists and politicians.
That brings to 33 the total number of people dismissed from the Department of Administrative Security since the scandal broke in February.
DAS director Felipe Munoz did not name the ousted officials in a Tuesday news conference. Nor did he elaborate on their transgressions.
The agency reports directly to President Alvaro Uribe. Uribe's office denies the president or any of his top advisers ordered the illegal interception of phone calls and e-mail.
The chief prosecutor's office has been investigating the case but says it has no information so far on who ordered the interceptions or why.
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