Ok, the Department of Home Affairs is up parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom. This includes secretary Michael Pezzullo.
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Dreyfus is having a long spat with Pezzullo and national security assistant secretary Hamish Hansford about to Home Affairs' responses to questions on notice, which included not quantifying how many journos were currently subject to warrant.https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/20/home-affairs-refuses-to-divulge-how-many-warrants-sought-to-investigate-journalists …
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Now they're doing a line by line break down of Annika Smethurst's story on the proposal for Australia's cyber intelligence agency to spy on Australians without a warrant, which Mr Pezzullo says is wrong.
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The argument against the story seems more about how the technical capabilities to spy en masse don't exist, not so much that proposal was never raised.
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They are now discussing my erroneous tweet. Keneally has asked Pezzullo to clarify whether he was referring to the ABC. Pezzullo: "Most definitely not."
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Pezzullo: "Is that seriously running on social media?"
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