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Re: ASIS
Reply #60 - Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 7:04am

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 19^th, 2012 at 3:28pm:

Nick Warner gave a speech on ABC24 about ASIS and how secret they are.

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He is the ONLY person who works in that agency that can be named publicly. In 60 years, not one action of this agency has been made public knowledge beyond the vague info given in Warner's speech. How else are they to recruit people if no one knows even a little about them? Look at the CIA!

But apart from that, think about this. Warner said his aggency had made big progress in disrupting people smuggling operations. That makes me laugh when we get 2 or 3 boats a day most weeks. I have to wonder how bad it'd be if, as he claims, ASIS wasn't doing its job particularly well. The timing is also more than a little coincidental, with Gillard floundering like a dying fish on this issue. Clearly he was ordered to do this in the hope that it would give Gillard some kind of bump in the polls. As if!

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Re: ASIS
Reply #61 - Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 7:25am

Armchair_Politician wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2012 at 7:04am:

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 19^th, 2012 at 3:28pm:

Nick Warner gave a speech on ABC24 about ASIS and how secret they are.

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He is the ONLY person who works in that agency that can be named publicly. In 60 years, not one action of this agency has been made public knowledge beyond the vague info given in Warner's speech. How else are they to recruit people if no one knows even a little about them? Look at the CIA!

But apart from that, think about this. Warner said his aggency had made big progress in disrupting people smuggling operations. That makes me laugh when we get 2 or 3 boats a day most weeks. I have to wonder how bad it'd be if, as he claims, ASIS wasn't doing its job particularly well. The timing is also more than a little coincidental, with Gillard floundering like a dying fish on this issue. Clearly he was ordered to do this in the hope that it would give Gillard some kind of bump in the polls. As if!

Perhaps it was meant to be reassuring in that they actually know who the refugees are

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Soren Gold Member Offline Posts: 25654 Gender:	Re: ASIS Reply #62 - Jul 23^rd, 2012 at 10:47am Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 19^th, 2012 at 3:28pm: Nick Warner gave a speech on ABC24 about ASIS and how secret they are. SOB That's almost as good as the cone of silence. Only a very secretive organisation would give speeches on ABC24.
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Re: ASIS
Reply #63 - Jul 23^rd, 2012 at 11:28am

Soren wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2012 at 10:47am:

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 19^th, 2012 at 3:28pm:

Nick Warner gave a speech on ABC24 about ASIS and how secret they are.

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That's almost as good as the cone of silence. Only a very secretive organisation would give speeches on ABC24.

Uhhh mate i think you just agreed with me . .. was it an accident? Or was that not sarcasm?

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