August 05, 2009

UnAustralian

Murdoch's "Australian" newspaper ran two major stories yesterday. The shocking admission by Grech that he faked an email to bring down the government, and another story which very conveniently stole the headlines from that one...

Terrorism raids 'brought forward after leak'
New South Wales assistant police Commissioner, Peter Dein, said the operation was expedited because the Australian had the story.

"Yes it was pulled forward because of that and these things happen and we had no control over that," he said.

"I'm not sure exactly how long [The Australian] had it... I think it was a few days, but I was aware because of my involvement with the inter agency relationships.

"There was no set date...but certainly we needed to execute it yesterday because of certain knowledge of the media."


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