Comments on: Haneef blame cage match continues…

By: wizofaus

wizofaus — Thu, 01 May 2008 01:24:16 +0000

“The australian public sacked the hapless and hopeless Andrews”

Actually his (and sadly my) electorate comfortably voted him back in.

P.S. Anyone else have problems with undo/redo in the comments submission box here?

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 01 May 2008 00:26:21 +0000

Even scarier than the scary terrorists is that this bunch of self-serving, mendacious halfwits was in charge of this country for 11.5 years and that they still have a loud-mouthed cheer squad like Albrechtson, Ackerman, Bolt and co spruiking for them!

By: Rayedish

Rayedish — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:53:31 +0000

Keelty’s got to go. Send a firm message to the AFP and hopefully put someone in the position who can do the job with the competence and apolitical stance required in such a job.

By: Tony D

Tony D — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:42:56 +0000

I love it!

Either Andrews is incompetent for not ensuring ministerial responsibility over his department (the blame Kealty defense) or… he’s a biased politico playing power games for the bigger fish…

Either way he looses! WooHoo!

That said, the AFPs reputation internationally has never been that flash and after Haneef it was shot completely… time for some reform eh?

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:00:00 +0000

Everyone:

What worries me is the secrecy surrounding all parts of the inquiry.

Yes, there must. of necessity, be closed sessions where current secret operations, state-of-the-art techniques, current officers and persons who are currently “of interest” can be freely and robustly discussed. That’s reasonable.

But, in a parliamentary democracy, to lock the public out of the whole inquiry …. that’s questionable.

By: amphibious

amphibious — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:35:57 +0000

The AFP has been shopping low level mules to Thai, Viet and other SE Asian source nations for years, at least since 1994 to certain knowledge.
During the trial of the Sydney airport whistleblower last year it came out that the AFP had downloaded the suppressed data & reports into their intelligence (sic!) system long before Corby was even busted, so he knew that he was lying in his many sub judice comments during her trial.
Never mind sack, charge him with gross dereliction of duty or at least culpable incompetence.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:58:06 +0000

The presumption I guess would be that the presumption of innocence has no relevance whatsoever in the minds of Andrews and the AFP.

By: Mug Punter

Mug Punter — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:50:23 +0000

“Powerful evidence of innocence”? I thought the state [AFP and Andrews] needed powerful evidence of guilt!

By: zorronsky

zorronsky — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:28:59 +0000

Wasn’t it just the other day that Keelty confirmed that 50 Feds are still working on Haneef’s case?

By: silkworm

silkworm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:56:15 +0000

It’ll be no great loss, this is the same idiot who allowed drug traffickers into Indonesia in the full knowledge of what would happen to them, despite having plenty of evidence to arrest them here.

This wasn’t an act of idiocy. It was an act of bastardry.

Ditto for Keelty’s repeated pronouncements during the Corby trial.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:16:16 +0000

David Rubie (4):

It all seems pretty simple to me. The australian public sacked the hapless and hopeless Andrews, now Rudd must ditch Keelty. It’ll be no great loss, this is the same idiot who allowed drug traffickers into Indonesia in the full knowledge of what would happen to them, despite having plenty of evidence to arrest them here. The despicable act of off-shoring and co-opting an Indonesian death penalty was far worse than the whole Haneef thing. He was little more than an extension of the Howard regime, is useless, and should be sacked.

Agree totally. I’d also add Keelty’s repeated pronouncements during the Corby trial that her evidence was flimsy. Doesn’t matter whether he was right or not. I don’t want an Australian facing a potential death sentence to have her defence sabotaged by our Chief Cop.

By: Paul Burns

Paul Burns — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:15:39 +0000

Yep. Sack Keelty.

By: David Rubie

David Rubie — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:59:04 +0000

It all seems pretty simple to me. The australian public sacked the hapless and hopeless Andrews, now Rudd must ditch Keelty. It’ll be no great loss, this is the same idiot who allowed drug traffickers into Indonesia in the full knowledge of what would happen to them, despite having plenty of evidence to arrest them here. The despicable act of off-shoring and co-opting an Indonesian death penalty was far worse than the whole Haneef thing. He was little more than an extension of the Howard regime, is useless, and should be sacked.

By: Robert Merkel

Robert Merkel — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:55:13 +0000

Incidentally, Greg Barns had a piece in Crikey today saying that the “source”’s claims were contradicted by emails obtained by Haneef’s lawyers under FOI.

By: silkworm

silkworm — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:54:17 +0000

There are two problems here.

1. The failure of the AFP/Keelty to provide (existing) evidence of innocence.

2. The failure of DIMIA/Andrews to provide (non-existing) evidence of guilt.

By: Graham Bell

Graham Bell — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:35:34 +0000

Robert Merkel and all:

“These guys were supposed to be in charge of protecting us from Scary Terryrists”

These blokes - and several more whose Teflon(TM)coating is still working superbly well.

Now you can see why I am alert …. alarmed …. and very frightened.