Law commentator and former head of the National Crime Authority Peter Faris QC has told ABC 2 News Breakfast there is no doubt his decision to step down is linked to the case.

“Absolutely. I think he’s just waited for a reasonable time after the [Haneef] inquiry before resigning.”

“My analysis of it was that he was the prime mover in it all and it went terribly terribly wrong as we all know and he should have accepted responsibility and resigned and he didn’t.”

Aside from the Haneef affair, Keelty’s time at the AFP has another very serious stain through the case of the Bali Nine. Furthermore, as noted in this post on a 4 corners story on Keelty’s tenure, there’s some evidence to suggest that Keelty’s AFP became far too focussed on terrorism at the expense of less exciting, but far more common crimes. Not to mention his very strange ideas about freedom of speech – him leaking to the press is fine, bloggers expressing our views not so great.

Good riddance.