{"id":105461,"date":"2020-08-14T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105461"},"modified":"2020-08-14T13:49:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T20:49:49","slug":"testimony-given-today-by-the-former-director-of-the-state-intelligence-service-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/14\/testimony-given-today-by-the-former-director-of-the-state-intelligence-service-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimony given today by the former Director of the State Intelligence Service (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News <\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p> Former Director of the State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardena today admitted that when he received information through a foreign intelligence service that a suicide attack was being carried out in the country, he knew that Saharan had the physical and mental capacity to carry out such an attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0db6\u0dd4\u0daf\u0dca\u0db0\u0dd2 \u0d85\u0d82\u0dc1 \u0dc4\u0dd2\u0da7\u0db4\u0dd4 \u0dbd\u0ddc\u0d9a\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dcf\u0d9c\u0dda \u0db4\u0dcf\u0dc3\u0dca\u0d9a\u0dd4 \u0d9a\u0ddc\u0db8\u0dd2\u0dc3\u0db8\u0dda 11 \u0dc0\u0db1 \u0daf\u0dd2\u0db1 \u0dc3\u0d9a\u0dca\u0dc2\u0dd2\u0dba - Hiru News\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wdOjV6aYWHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>He was testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into the Easter attack for the 11th day today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former DIG Nilantha Jayawardena, the former Director of the State Intelligence Service, was summoned to testify before the Commission today for the 11th time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Additional Solicitor General, representing the Attorney General, questioned whether the State Intelligence Service already had information on the names of persons named in the foreign intelligence service. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Former Director of the State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardena today admitted that when he received information through a foreign intelligence service that a suicide attack was being carried out in the country, he knew that Saharan had the physical and mental capacity to carry out such an attack. He was testifying before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}