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Aussie Govt. Whitewashes FBI Assassination Rendition Try For Former Spy
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Posted October 9, 2012
http://www.degaray.com/?p=2591
RealTime Gordon Duff
Aussie Govt. Whitewashes FBI Assassination Rendition Try For Former Spy Gwyneth Todd…
Former NSC Desk Chief Angered At Cover-Up
By Gordon Duff, Senior Editor
Today, the Sydney Morning Herald reported that the government of Australia found FBI agent Bill Spenser, who calls himself “William Phelps” and identifies himself as a US passport official “not guilty of serious wrongdoing” in his attempt to enter the home of Gwyneth Todd, wife of a senior Australian defense official and associate editor of America’s military and intelligence publication, Veterans Today.
”I can’t imagine why America allowed him to get away with it, and even further I can’t imagine how Australia would allow an American to run roughshod over them,” Ms Todd, who lives in Canberra, told The Age yesterday.
The Age revealed the FBI intrusion days after it occurred and earlier this month received a copy of the Defence Security Agency investigation into the matter, via freedom of information laws.
The investigation relied solely on the evidence of the US embassy and the federal police, and found that: ”The visit to [Ms Todd's] home by Mr Spencer was legitimate and within his authority in Australia.”
That is a view disputed by Saskia Hufnagel from Griffith University’s Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security, who said Mr Spencer’s actions might have breached Australian sovereignty. ”
If there was an ongoing American investigation and they were questioning this lady as part of the American investigation and they didn’t ask the Australian police … then they breached Australian sovereignty,” she said.
Mr Spencer’s actions, while not illegal, were questionable, she said. ”He is, in some way, exerting US powers in a country which is not a US jurisdiction.”
The AFP has also been forced to reject claims by Defence that they cleared Mr Spencer’s improper visit.
The government failed to consult Todd as to the nature of the occurrence and simply accepted a blanket denial from the US government. Spenser or “Phelps” as he calls himself is not authorized to work in a law enforcement capacity in Australia. Representatives of the US embassy had claimed that the Australian Federal Police had authorized “Phelps” or “Spenser,” we aren’t sure if that is his real name either, to question Todd.
2012-10-18 07:03:34
Source: http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2012/10/aussie-govt-whitewashes-fbi.html
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