By MrLefty
Supporters of the courageously over-the-top approach the former government and its overly enthusiastic AFP took regarding the always flimsy case against Dr Haneef, had their credibility on the subject further rocked this week by the revelation that the AFP incompetently or deliberately concealed a crucial email suggesting his innocence. Given the enthusiasm of Andrew Bolt for the story at the time, you’d think he might, were he an honest or principled man, now express anger and frustration at having been played like a fool. He might, were he a journalist, express some kind of concern that the AFP hadn’t bothered following up that clearly important lead, and ask questions as to how it was that they didn’t.
You won’t, of course, be surprised to find that Bolt has done nothing of the sort.
What he has done is report the email and tried to turn it into an attack on the case for climate change:
The Glasgow bomber tells his brother in an email his apocalyptic cause was slightly different from the one he pretended:
It was a confession and plea for forgiveness with Kafeel revealing he was not busy on climate change but engaged in jihad.
He’s quick on his feet, you’ve got to give him that.
11 Comments
14 April, 2008 at 6:34 pm
I don’t see why a court should give much weight to the email (I see why they would, if they are eager to believe it). There are plenty of books and movies out there where a murderer/criminal provides an alibi for themselves or attempts to make themselves look like a potential victim in this manner.
If (when) I came across this situation in an Agatha Christie, I’d be immediately suspicious of the person apparently made innocent by it.
14 April, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Imagine the carbon footprint of the six full time AFP officers who are still working on the Haneef case!!!!!1!!11!
14 April, 2008 at 11:48 pm
If it were an Agatha Christie story, Dr Haneef would be trapped in Australia, “Ain’t nobody goin nowhere tonight, the case is hogwashed out”
If there are six AFP officers still working on this case, we have more pressing matters to be concerned about.
Bolta’s a champ though, sticking to your guns long after everyones signed the armistice and agreed it all be their bad is the sign of true zealotry. I salute your dedication.
15 April, 2008 at 8:13 am
Methinks Andy’s a tad green over Piers A’s recent nomination for the Agincourt Award, so is trying to draw an even longer bow!
He may still be peeved because Piers’ efforts on disinterring the Heiner affair won 2007’s Yorrick Award for the Most Recycled Dead Plot, and this is Andy’s contribution for 2008’s.
Or it may simply be that the Rat**g Right is looking for a new conspiracy theory.
15 April, 2008 at 2:27 pm
It seems odd that responsibility for revealing this document rests with the prosecution.
Did Haneef not read his own emails? Did his defence team not investigate the email correspondence in Haneefs possession? Did either Haneef or his defence team think this might be the magic “innocence” clause?
15 April, 2008 at 5:37 pm
“It seems odd that responsibility for revealing this document rests with the prosecution.”
It’s called “disclosure”, an important facet of our system of justice.
And the email was received by a cousin, not Haneef himself.
15 April, 2008 at 11:32 pm
I see the selective censorship of comments has begun.
Stay true to your leftist principles.
Good for you.
15 April, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Get stuffed, PJ. Snide attacks on what I do for a living are off-topic and will simply be deleted. Just like they would be if someone did the same to you.
16 April, 2008 at 12:15 am
Ah, ‘play the man, not the ball’…credo of the Right…
16 April, 2008 at 3:46 pm
“Did Haneef not read his own emails? ”
Don’t know but it seems to me that Haneef wasn’t the recipient, rather it was an email for Kafeel, Ahmed’s brother, Haneef’s cousin.
Edit – I just posted this comment, or tried and I got an error stating that i was posting too quickly and needed to slow down????????
17 April, 2008 at 12:26 am
Edit – I just posted this comment, or tried and I got an error stating that i was posting too quickly and needed to slow down????????
As a built-in feature, WordPress slows down any comments that are ‘reasonable’, ‘intelligent’, or ‘leftist’. When the software is completed we’ll be able to ban them altogether.
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