Parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom is on again today, with reps from the Australian Federal Police up first.
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AFP confirms a copy of their written responses to questions from the committee went to Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton before they went to the committee. No changes requested. It's kosher / standard to run responses past the responsible minister apparently.
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Acting commissioner Karl Kent has said an unauthorised disclosure is considered as corruption by AFP.
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Also, shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus and Liberal senator Eric Abetz have had a bit of a blow up, because Abetz keeps interjecting on Dreyfus' line of questioning. Dreyfus jokes Abetz is giving evidence now.
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AFP has said they've changed their procedure since they were "probed" by a parliamentary privileges committee for contacting Dutton's office three times before they investigated the source of the au pair leaks.
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This is why they didn't contact Dutton's office before they raided Annika Smethurst's home or the ABC.
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Shadow Home Affairs minister Kristina Keneally is asking why a journo was raided when they wrote a story based off leaked info the govt "didn't like", but the docs leaked to the Australian for a story on the medivac bill didn't even warrant a phone call to the journo.
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At the time the ASIO boss Duncan Lewis was critical of the leak behind this yarn:https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/immigration/phelps-medivac-bill-a-national-security-risk-asio-warns/news-story/87f684a1b3d38b2f08797abb3c47dce2 …
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AFP has just gotten into a semantic argument about "raids". They don't raid homes, they execute search warrants.
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AFP said they decided not to investigate the leak behind Simon Benson's story on the medivac bill, so didn't conduct any interviews.
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