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[Link] The Classified Document Scandal Is Even Dumber Than You Think

Read: 29/1/2023 www.vice.com

It’s hard to imagine a dumber way to protect our national intelligence. President Biden is facing a Justice Department special counsel investigation that’s already included an FBI search of his home after his team found classified documents at his house and private office.

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[Link] Defence allowed to vet evidence presented to inquiry into bushfire accidentally sparked by its own helicopter

Read: 30/11/2021 www.abc.net.au

The Department of Defence will be allowed to vet evidence presented to a coronial inquiry into the ACT's Orroral Valley bushfire, ahead of formal court hearings in July next year.

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[Link] Russell Broadbent quits committee after leak of Christian Porter donation report

Read: 30/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Liberal MP Russell Broadbent has announced he will resign as chair of the privileges committee and has called for an investigation into an alleged breach of confidentiality revealing its deliberations on Christian Porter.

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[Link] UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Cabinet Office has been accused of “delay and deception” over its blocking of the release of files dating back more than three decades that reveal the inside story of the intelligence agent Peter Wright and the Spycatcher affair.

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