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| 2003-07-30 | |
| PUBLIC servants were not brow-beaten into holding back intelligence information on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program before the Iraq war, public service chief Peter Shergold said today. Before the war, Prime Minister John Howard said in a speech that Iraq had sought to import uranium from Niger. It has since emerged a key government intelligence agency, the Office of National Assessments (ONA), had received information before the speech that the claims were false, but did not tell the Prime Minister. i guess they had to weigh up those claims against counter claims and non-related evidence that actually supported the thesis and was valid and verified Dr Shergold, the head of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, said government agencies, including the ONA, had been consulted by the Prime Minister’s department before Mr Howard gave his speech on Iraq’s weapons capacity. "There was this very strong flow of information," Dr Shergold told ABC radio. "And yet the media have been writing as if that is not the case, as if what you see is a cowed public service not being able to get its advice across – it’s just wrong." NO! our media isn’t BIASED or anything is it? I mean, it seems so fair when SBS and the ABC persistently blame America for all their terrible genocidal capitalist globalisation world-domination policies... While not wanting to comment on why the ONA did not tell Mr Howard the Niger uranium claims had been discredited, Dr Shergold said it was often difficult for government agencies to verify the credibility of intelligence reports.
so you mean just because the intelligence agencies didn’t tell us 100% certainty about 911 and the Bali Bombing ahead of time, it doesn’t mean it is all a conspiracy and that the US and Israel and ASIO really planned it all along as an excuse to wage war on the Arabs???? Dr Shergold said some people believed public servants were too scared to give ministers advice they might not want to hear. "I’ve got to say it’s absolute balderdash and poppycock," Dr Shergold said. And I’ve got to agree with you. Thankyou Dr Shergold. Unfortunately, though, as the WHISTLEBLOWER, he will now likely be ostracised and forced out of the public service | |
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