tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post7625254485332261166..comments2023-10-03T23:58:17.279+11:00Comments on Middle East Reality Check: Prisoner X 4MERChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14500573372528287733noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-30746350341476752672013-02-17T09:15:21.971+11:002013-02-17T09:15:21.971+11:00How does my suggestion of a 'plausible explana...How does my suggestion of a 'plausible explanation' translate into believing everything in Fairfax is true? Please explain.MERCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-45479683993896927312013-02-17T08:32:53.629+11:002013-02-17T08:32:53.629+11:00After all that you have written, you are now quoti...After all that you have written, you are now quoting the Fairfax press on an article concerning Israeli misconduct as though suddenly, now you believe everything they say on the matter to be true. Quite perplexing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-47219202700955460662013-02-16T10:47:41.197+11:002013-02-16T10:47:41.197+11:00Could ASIO or ASIS have considered it to be in the...Could ASIO or ASIS have considered it to be in their ultimate interests to simply dob in the hapless Zygier to their "friends" at Mossad?<br /><br />Merely confirming the well known facts regarding the criminal actions of the bandit state is hardly new information, just another public relations problem to be swept under the carpet.<br /><br />There is a long tradition of cooperation between "western" spooks and Mossad. Just one quote from Spycatcher by Peter Wright says it all "Angleton [head of the CIA] always jealously protected his relations with the Israeli secret service, Mossad." p.347.<br /><br />A potential, albeit naive, whistle blower and defector would prove to be an embarrassment to the comfortable business as usual servile relationship.<br /><br />The Royal Commission report of Mr Justice Hope found that among the foreign intelligence agencies with whom ASIO liaised a number do not "sufficiently respect civil rights and freedoms" <br /><br />Former Prime Minister Whitlam gave evidence in the Spycatcher Trial before Mr Justice Philip Powell of the Supreme Court in 1986.<br /><br /> "If it was so important that Australia should preserve the secrets of M15 and Britain the secrets of ASIO, why had there not been a convention or treaty between the two countries? Such a convention would be debated in both Parliaments and if accepted would become law."<br />The Spycatcher Trial, Malcolm Turnbull, 1989, p.150<br /><br />It is for precisely this reason that the position of Inspector General of intelligence services was created.<br /><br />It is now time to revisit the option of a Royal Commission as the performance of the Inspector General in respect to the treatment and the "civil rights and freedoms" of an Australian citizen appear to have been trampled on in the in the dubious interests of 'relations' with a band of recalcitrant international murderers and criminals who have no qualms about flouting Australian or international laws and utter contempt for Australian sovereignty. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6844367946876032905.post-13508166527917383662013-02-16T10:05:57.293+11:002013-02-16T10:05:57.293+11:00...cold-shouldered him "or worse"...
I a......cold-shouldered him "or worse"...<br />I am afraid that it is rather worse. Complicity. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com