AFP counter-terrorism tsar Steve Lancaster has told a court that he undertook a “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours” process with The Australian’s Cameron Stewart to negotiate the terms of an anti-terror drop.
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Stewart points finger at Overland for ‘police politics’ that nabbed Artz
The Australian’s Cameron Stewart claims ex-police chief Simon Overland presided over the “police politics” that in his view was behind the OPI’s decision to pursue criminal charges against a junior source.
The Oz editor bargained over lives in AFP raid
Former editor of The Australian, Paul Whittaker, bargained with police over how many lives would be lost if the newspaper published its scoop on the anti-terrorism operation before raids took place.
Jetstar to sue over airport
evacuation
Sydney Airport did its best to gloss over the security fiasco at its T2 domestic terminal yesterday.
Another Qantas hiccup pushes back terror attack news
A cabin decompression on Qantas flight QF670 between Adelaide and Melbourne this morning pushed the terrorist attack at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport off the top of this morning’s radio bulletins.
The Oz semi settles its police leaks case
ACLEI is investigating the way Federal Police dealt with The Oz over Cameron Stewart’s anti-terror raid leaks. Despite a court settlement yesterday, there are many more questions to answer.
The CIA plot to depict Saddam and bin Laden as pedophiles
The CIA created a fake video showing Osama bin Laden and his crew sitting around a campfire drinking and bragging about their “conquests with boys” — and had plans to “flood Iraq” with fake videos of Saddam Hussein having sex with a teenage boy, the Washington Post reveals.
The dodgy reporting fuelling Islamic tension
False claims made in the media about the Dr Haneef case were never corrected and have fuelled racial tension as his legal case continues.
Why we shouldn’t destroy Al Qaeda
As tempting as it is to pull the trigger on the world’s most notorious terrorist network, keeping Al Qaeda intact may be in the world’s best interests: by funnelling extremists into one “social network”, it’s easier to spot, track and contain them.
The FBI’s 400,000-strong terrorist watch list
Recently released FBI data shows 1600 new names are nominated every day for the agency’s terrorist watch list, which contains more than 400,000 unique names and over a million entries.
Airport security madness could get a whole lot crazier
So you think airport security screening is bad now? asks Ben Sandilands: a new report about terrorists smuggling bombs in their anal cavities (no, really) could see cabin-security fever reach new levels.
Read the full CIA torture report
Read the full 2004 inspector general’s report that has revealed shocking allegations of CIA interrogators using techniques such as “mock executions”, and threatening to kill and rape terror suspects’ family members to get them talking.
CIA hired Blackwater for Al Qaeda hitsquad
The CIA ‘death squad’ plot thickens: the intelligence agency reportedly hired outside security contractor Blackwater — recently marred by allegations of murder, gun-running and child prostitution — to help with its plan to assassinate key members of Al Qaeda.
Guy Rundle: McClelland’s new terror bill is soft totalitarian nonsense
Robert McClelland’s new terror bill is based on the notion that people are simply psychological crash-test dummies, rather than robust and resilient citizens in a free society.
At last, an Australian terrorism law watchdog
The Rudd government’s new office to review the impact of anti-terrorism laws, the National Security Legislation Monitor, may sound pedestrian — but its role couldn’t be more important, write Andrew Lynch and Nicola McGarrity.
Bush lawyer: Why we endorsed warrantless wiretaps
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, former Bush-administration lawyer John Yoo defends the former President’s warrantless wiretapping program instituted after the September 11.
