Monday, 3 June 2013

US Government tries to  protect atrocious corruption/Julian Assange Bradley Manning

Bradley Manning built close ties to Julian Assange, prosecutors claim

Government lawyers use first day of trial to claim records show 'familiarity between Manning and Assange' over WikiLeaks dump
Bradley Manning trial: artist's impression
Bradley Manning trial: the accusation was hotly disputed by Manning's defence lawyer, David Coombs. Photograph: Reuters
The US government used the first day of the Bradley Manning trial to allege that the soldier had a much closer relationship with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, than has previously been claimed.
Prosecution lawyers peppered the government's opening statement at the trial with references to Assange, suggesting that he built up close ties to the army private over a six-month period in 2009 and 2010.
The government alleged – sometimes directly, on others through insinuation – that Assange guided Manning as to which classified documents to leak, advised him on how to avoid detection and even involved the soldier in the WikiLeaks editing process.
Manning has already admitted to leaking a large cache of diplomatic secrets to WikiLeaks, including a video of a July 2007 helicopter attack in Baghdad in which civilians, including two Reuters journalists, were killed; war logs from Afghanistan and Iraq, and 250,000 diplomatic cables from US embassies around the world.
Captain Joe Morrow, presenting the government's opening statement, cited extracts of a web chat between the soldier and an individual that the prosecution claims was the WikiLeaks founder. The chats showed, he alleged, that there was a "familiarity between Manning and Julian Assange".
As early as 29 November 2009, just two weeks after he began working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning obtained the personal telephone number of Assange in his base in Iceland. Between then and his arrest in May 2009, Manning searched for the term "WikiLeaks" more than 100 times on the secure intelligence databases that he was authorised to use at Forward Operating Base Hammer outside Baghdad.
Morrow alleged that examinations of Manning's computers revealed an email exchange between him and WikiLeaks in which the soldier took part directly in the editing process of a video showing a US Apache helicopter attack on a group of civilians in Baghdad in 2007 in which two Reuters journalists were killed. The video was released by WikiLeaks with sensational worldwide impact in April 2010 under the title Collateral Murder.
The prosecution case that Assange and Manning were actively acting together has widespread ramifications, not just for the trial of Manning, who faces 21 counts relating to the leaks that carry a possible life in military custody. The claim also has potentially serious implications for Assange himself, who has been, and may still remain, the subject of a grand jury investigation in Virginia exploring the possibility of a federal criminal prosecution against him.
Assange, who remains holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London attempting to fight extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations, has long insisted that the US government is preparing to hold him responsible for the WikiLeaks disclosures of hundreds of thousands of state secrets including embassy cables, war logs and videos. Assange believes the US government will press for his extradition to face charges should he be forced to go to Sweden.
In legal argument before the trial began, the US government alleged that WikiLeaks guided the selection of documents leaked by Manning through its 2009 "most wanted list", which provided the soldier with a "menu" from which he would do his searches. Prosecutors claimed that Manning sought intelligence using precisely the same file names as contained on the WikiLeaks itinerary.
The accusation was hotly disputed by Manning's defence lawyer, David Coombs. "There is no evidence to support that Manning took direction from WikiLeaks or that he used this list as a guide to what he would give to WikiLeaks. Mr Manning was not taking his direction from WikiLeaks," Coombs told the court.
The prosecution's allegations of a direct interplay between the soldier and Assange extended to the assessment reports on detainees in Guantánamo Bay, which were among the WikiLeaks disclosures. Morrow said that Manning initially downloaded about 400 detainee assessments, but then he went back to the secure intelligence database on which they were stored and downloaded a total of more than 750.
Morrow added that in the chat logs with Assange, Manning had asked the WikiLeaks founder about how "valuable" the assessments were. In other communications, Assange was alleged to have advised the soldier on "finding ways to browse Siprnet [a secure database] anonymously".
On 10 May 2010 WikiLeaks put out a tweet asking for as "many .mil email addresses as possible … please submit". The next day, the government alleged, Manning downloaded form a classified database the email addresses and names, ranks and positions of more than 74,000 service members on the Iraq global address list.
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Tony Abbott uses Federal Police to jail Pauline Hanson!!!

So who can forget when  Tony Abbott then  Federal Health Minister and now the Federal Opposition Leader used the Federal Police to set up Pauline Hanson.
 Just another case where a politician has  usesd the Federal Police to intimidate and  bring false charges against her!!!!!!
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Futher Intimidation

So again today I was  intimidated by Federal Police and was threatened with being thrown into police cells and handcuffs.
I was warned not to expose  the corrupt conduct of Public Servants , Government Officials or police.
I was told that I had upset a lot of people.
By failing to arrest me I clearly draw 2 conclusions.
1/ either they have insufficient evidence to charge me or
2/ the people I have exposed realize that if I am charged they will then be subpoenaed to court and cross examination  will expose  the corrupt conduct of these government agencies where they work or infact Government ministries.
Clearly anyone reading this blog will realize I have done the appropriate work and  received the appropriate information  through FOI.
There- for as I was intimidated today that I should not expose any further corrupt conduct regardless that it is freedom of speech and it is in the Public Interest and warned not to put up any more blogs on this subject as of 10.20 today .
So... the Federal Police can put this blog before  a Magistrate and let him or her decide whether the police have a responsibility to protect corrupt conduct. Clearly a corrupt one would be best!
Furthermore ,if the people I have exposed are stressed now, I clearly would assume these  people  will be  further stressed when they implicate themselves in corrupt conduct in court.

From: fionabrown01@hotmail.com
To: foi@afp.gov.au
Subject: RE: Freedom of Information request - CRM 2013/448 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2013 17:17:02 +1000


Thank you for your email.
Unfortunately I now need to make another Freedom of Information request.
This morning  3 Federal Police came to my work to again try and intimidate me from exposing  corrupt conduct in Government Departments and by Labor Government Ministers.
Clearly  they were not able to arrest me but they did threaten to handcuff me and throw me in the Police cells.
I would like to be given  documents , either by Email or by Fax or indeed   to notified  of any phone calls  received   by these Federal police from any Government Minister, Police officer or any Public servant  requesting that I be intimidated further. This request is specificately for the  30th May 2013 to the 3rd June 2013 .
I understand you want a copy of my identification to process this request..
Thanking you Kindly
Fiona Brown
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Saturday, 1 June 2013

Canberra  Government Corruption/The Canberra Mafia. How and why the Australian Federal Government conceal corruption.

canberra - parliament house - australia

The Canberra Mafia. How and why the Australian Federal Government conceal corruption.

Corruption in the Australian Federal Government is rife. That can not be disputed. The list of examples is a mile long and I have written about numerous incidents previously and will continue to do so.
Over the last couple of weeks Linton Besser of Fairfax Media has done a number of articles on the subject in the Sydney Morning Herald and I will focus on them in this post. The reason being is that I have written about corruption in the Federal Government is most of my posts to some degree or another but have never really gotten into how and why which Linton Besser covers. He also covers my pet hate, that being the Attorney General’s Department which covers the courts (judges and magistrates and Federal Police).
The first article Linton Besser wrote was on the 24/9/11 titled “Public service keeps fraud cases private”. The title says it all. It starts off: “A code of silence surrounds graft accusations in Canberra”
It goes on to say “It was later revealed 110 Chinese migrants whose applications Moon had approved should never have been granted citizenship. Moon had been taking thousands of dollars in kickbacks and luxury overseas holidays to illegally fast-track them through the system. In 2008, the 69-year-old was jailed.”
“Now, a Herald investigation has found evidence to suggest there may be hundreds of similar cases lying in wait. Confidential files obtained using freedom of information show thousands of allegations of graft and abuse of office are being levelled against government staff each year – but only a handful are properly investigated.”
“But for the rest of the Commonwealth, no one is watching.”
“In the past six years, no fewer than 919 fraud investigations into Commonwealth public servants were prematurely terminated because they resigned.”
“They say where cases of serious corruption emerge – Moon is an example, as is Nick Petroulias, the former assistant tax commissioner jailed in 2008 for selling classified information – the AFP has the powers needed to investigate. But there are several problems with this position.”
”They have a conflict of interest,” John McMillan, the former Commonwealth Ombudsman, says. ”They do not want to expose a weakness in their own procedures or have the public questioning the integrity of their process. By and large the interest of an agency is to avoid any publicity questioning … its efficiency or integrity.” It is a must read article: (Click here to read the full article)
Just on John McMillan, who gets mentioned in my previous post “Pigs On The Run – The Australian Federal Police”, openly stated in an ABC Four Corners interview (October 2008) when he was the Commonwealth Ombudsman that the Australian Federal Police do not want to know about corruption in their own department. He said he was told this directly by senior Australian Federal Police. (Click here to read the post)
Linton Besser did another article on the 24/9/11 titled “Corruption claims dog foreign bureaucrats” It says in relation to corruption allegations”Although these cases were treated seriously by DFAT officers, many or all would have qualified for independent investigation if the Commonwealth had a standing royal commission against corruption, such as exists in NSW, Western Australia and Queensland.”
“The Greens have introduced a bill to install a national integrity commission, but the Home Affairs Minister, Brendan O’Connor, said this week he had yet to see a ”compelling argument” to support it.” (Click here to read the full article)
Then on the 26 September 2011 Linton Besser wrote an article titled “High-security public servants caught rorting their overtime.” It starts off “SENIOR staff in the federal Attorney-General’s Department with high-level security clearances have been investigated internally for rorting their overtime claims and obtaining financial benefits by deception, according to internal government files.”
“In April last year an investigation was conducted into allegations that a catering supplier to the department was also supplying a departmental official with cut-price Christmas food.”
“The person who lodged the complaint claimed the management group in this area of the department had a culture of corruption and that this incident was just ”the tip of the iceberg”, the investigation file said”.
“In August last year, a former staff member in the Attorney-General’s Department, Keiran Temple, was given a suspended sentence in the ACT Magistrates Court for fraud”
“The internal file said his five-month sentence was suspended ”for his guilty pleas and his willingness to help police investigate what Mr Temple believed was a culture of dishonesty within AGD”.” How many other people were ever charged? None! The probable reality is the Federal Police helped him get a suspended sentence to make sure he kept his mouth shut. Another must read article (Click here to read the full article)
On the 4th October 2011 Linton Besser wrote an article titled “Federal agencies lack firepower to deal with fraud”. They do not want the firepower as the politicians would also be held to account for their corruption as well.
It says in the article “In many cases where an employee resigns, whilst the subject of an investigation of criminal behaviour, the matter is generally not pursued by the department following the employee’s resignation, except of course in cases of serious corruption or bribery matters.” (Click here to read the full article)
That’s right, just resign and away you go with the loot. Hardly a deterrent for corruption.
A prime example of the corruption in full flight would have to be the National Broadband Network (NBN) which is currently being built. It would have to be regarded as a massive slush fund for the Labor Party cronies. I am not debating whether the NBN is a good or bad thing, just the amount of rorting that would be going on there is very suspicious and needs a full investigation.
Mike Kaiser is a well-known labor party crony and criminal and now works at the NBN. This is what it says about him in a Courier Mail article back in December 2007, ”Mr Kaiser was a Queensland Labor MP but resigned in 2001 after admitting to involvement in vote-rigging in party ballots in the 1980s.”
“He had told a Criminal Justice Commission inquiry that he signed a false declaration in 1986 when taking part in Labor Party branch stacking.”
“Although not charged with any offence, Mr Kaiser quit as the MP for the safe Labor seat of Woodridge and was stripped of his ALP membership.” (Click here to read the full article)
But he went on to work for Premiers Morris Imma (NSW) and Anna Bligh (QLD)
In 2009 he quite his job as adviser to Anna Bligh and started in his new role with the NBN on a lazy $450,000 per year as head of government relations and external affairs for the NBN. It has been written about in the media such as in the SMH titled ”How to get a $450,000 job: no ads required – just a nice word from the minister” (Click here to read) and Crikey.com.au titled “Mike Kaiser sails away with $450k as Bligh’s office implodes” (Click here to read)
The position was not advertised, Kaiser got the job after being recommended by his friend the communications Minister Stephen Conroy. And where did the $450,00 come from which is more than the Prime Minister. He just told them that is what he wanted and they had no choice given that Senator Conroy had in effect told them to employ him. I wonder how much of that $450,000 ended up back in the labor party coffers, maybe $5,000 or $10,000 as a thank you for the graft.
NBN’s chief executive Mike Quigley said “NBN Co had relied on similar referrals to find more than 40 per cent of its staff because it was growing rapidly.” So are 40% of the staff Labor Party cronies. I have no doubt that quite a few more are and the rort would be a multi-million dollar fraud or embezzlement or whatever you want to call it. But the bottom line is, it is straight out theft of the tax payer.
It must be noted that Mike Quigley himself has been caught out lying about his history in relation to the massive bribery that was going on at Alcatel when he worked there a few years ago. The old fox guarding the henhouse routine. (Click here to read an article in the Australian)
And that is why nothing is done about corruption in the Federal Government because it can lead straight back to the Minister and that allows others in the department to commit crimes of fraud. Because if they are caught the minister and department will hush it up otherwise they might blow the whistle on the lot of them. This is what is happening in a lot of the federal government departments without a doubt.
This post is important not just for itself but for other posts in the future and past. Knowing how and why the corruption game is played.
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Protection for systemic corrupt Public Servants and Government Officials
Clearly the Government Agencies and ITSA are attempting to protect themselves as the amount of compensation that would need to be paid for covering-up systemic corrupt conduct would be overwelming....
the only way to prevent this is to have anyone charged with a crime who exposes it.......
How funny.......

474.17 Using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence

(1) A person is guilty of an offence if:

(a) the person uses a carriage service; and

(b) the person does so in a way (whether by the method of use or the content of a communication, or both) that reasonable persons would regard as being, in all the circumstances, menacing, harassing or offensive.

Penalty: Imprisonment for 3 years.

(2) Without limiting subsection (1), that subsection applies to menacing, harassing or causing offence to:

(a) an employee of an NRS provider; or

(b) an emergency call person; or

(c) an employee of an emergency service organisation; or

(d) an APS employee in the Attorney-General's Department acting as a National Security Hotline call taker.
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Whistleblowers in NEW York

Whistleblower Protection

Whistleblower Protection
The City’s Whistleblower Law protects City employees, including employees of City entities headed by elected officials such as Borough Presidents, the City Comptroller and members of the City Council, from retaliation for reporting misconduct, corruption, criminal activity, conflicts of interest, gross mismanagement and abuse of authority. To be protected by the Law, the City employees must make these complaints to DOI or to a member of the City Council, the Public Advocate or the Comptroller, each of whom must refer the complaints to DOI. In 2007, the City Council amended the Whistleblower Law to further protect City employees who report certain conduct which presents "a substantial and specific risk of harm to the health, safety or educational welfare of a child by another city officer or employee." City employees will be protected under these amendments so long as such reports are made to DOI, the City Council, the Public Advocate, the Comptroller, the Mayor, or to an agency head, a deputy agency head or to a "superior officer" who has been designated by the head of the agency to receive such a report. The City Council amended the Whistleblower Law again in 2012 to protect officers and employees of contractors with a City contract valued at $100,000 or more. Any such officers or employees who are retaliated against by their employer for reporting corruption or other misconduct to DOI, a City Council member, the public advocate, the comptroller, or the agency chief contracting officer, are entitled to bring a cause of action against the employer seeking relief.
In 2002, DOI began the most comprehensive "Corruption Prevention/Whistleblower Protection" campaign for City employees in the agency’s history. The campaign included lectures and the distribution of printed materials, such as brochures and posters, to all City employees so they could learn how to recognize and report corruption. The campaign also taught City employees how to avoid conflicts of interest and educated them about their right to be protected from retaliation for reporting misconduct. Since this campaign began, DOI has given more than 4,600 lectures to City employees and individuals who do business with the City. The efforts have resulted in an increased number of complaints from City employees about alleged wrongdoing. These efforts remind City employees that they must report corruption, as well as reassure them they will be protected when they do.
Read the Whistleblower Law
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Freedom of Information/ Australian Federal Police/ AFP disclosure log





From: fionabrown01@hotmail.com
To: foi@afp.gov.au
Subject: FOI
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 12:44:32 +1000

To whom it may concern,
          On the 29th May 20131 I was   issued with  a search   warrant and my unit was searched by 7 Federal Police Officers.
As I was told by the Police Officer they were only doing their job and I realize someone of higher authority had obtained the  warrant  I am not complaining about their behaviour  though I do find it peculiar  that I would be asked if I was considering slitting my wrists after they had left!
I understand the complaint made against me was by Adam Toma Enforcement Manager at ITSA which is a  Federal Government Agency.
From the warrant ,the complaint was made on the 10th February 2013  though the warrant was not issued until 27th May 2013 which three and a half months latter.
This allows me to believe the Federal Police originally assessed the matter and was unconcerned with any REAL offence.
Under Freedom of Information please provide me with any documentation made to or from the AFP on this matter after receiving this complaint  on the 10th February 2013.
I am particularly interested  if the Federal Police received further complaints from Adam Toma  Enforcement Manager at ITSA or any Australian Public Servants, or  Member of the Australian Parliament that they considered  that this warrant was needed to try and intimidate me from exposing systemic corrupt conduct in Federal Government Agencies and by the Australian Public Service.
Thanking you kindly
Fiona Brown
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