ROME - Under his feet, people talk about the “Heart of the European cybersecurity” at the summit organized by Enisa, the European Network and Information Security Agency. Above his feet, the academic who is said to have offered to Donald Trump’s aides, during the electoral campaign, thousands of Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails, kindly smiles: “Sorry, I cannot comment”, he replies while his phone is receiving calls from all over the world. “And I have decided to get hide in my office”, he will smile again one hour after this interview he didn’t want to give.
Joseph Mifsud is the Maltese professor who, according to the rumors and anticipations of the Russiagate investigation, has approached George Papadopoulos, an aide of Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, to help him to contact Russian authorities in the Kremlin, even for organizing a meeting between Trump and Putin. Mr. Mifsud is said to have given to the aide “dirty information” on Mrs. Clinton collected by the Russian. “This is nonsense”, Mifsud comments, “friendship is friendship but Papadopoulos doesn’t tell the truth. The only thing I did was to facilitate contacts between official and unofficial sources to resolve a crisis. It is usual business everywhere. I put think tanks in contact, groups of experts with other groups of experts”, he states. --
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