US expert says email fake, Opposition Leader reiterates call for independent probe

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – A United states information technology expert says the emails purporting to show that members of the Trinidad and Tobago government, including Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar, were engaged in efforts to undermine the judiciary, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) and the media, are false.
But Opposition Leader Dr. Keith Rowley, who presented the emails to Parliament during a debate on a motion of no confidence against the government last month, has dismissed the findings of the expert, hired by Senior Counsel Israel Khan, the attorney for Prime Minister Persad Bissessar.
“I could come with an expert now to say that the e-mails are proof. That is why the investigation must be independent,” Rowley told reporters after 11 page report by Jon Berryhill was made public here on Sunday.