[LINK] Even MORE secrecy

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm .... and hypocrisy ...

It's what politicians, government bureucracies and intelligence agencies specialise in.

They'll argue that the secrecy keeps the information valuable and useful, but it's also a cloak that lets truly execrable and mendacious behaviour escape public view, and hence one of the most effective controls to prevent it ever happening again.

As for Timor, yeah .... Brandis is a litigant wearing two hats, and very uncomfortably if I may say so. I'd be surprised is the courts were as a sanguine as he is about how this is panning out. It could be argued (big-time) that what we have here is an unmitigated abuse of process.

Just my 2 cents worth ...
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On 27 Jan 2014, at 7:25 pm, Jan Whitaker <jwhit at janwhitaker.com> wrote:

> Check this out:
> http://www.theage.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/brandis-moves-to-protect-what-australia-knew-of-indonesian-war-crimes-20140127-31igo.html
> 
> Especially the last two paragraphs of who the Director of the 
> Archives is and his former job.
> Disgusting. I think that's called conflict of interest???
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
> Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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