Reply #3: This is one great article, rooboy! Sorry to say, you've been infected by [View All]

some corruption which appears to have had its birth here. Bad news. Good article.

From the story:

Mr Wilkie did confirm that Australia was also "party to the organised use of UN agencies as a cover for covert activities".

The Howard Government had placed the US high on its official "National Foreign Intelligence Assessment Priorities" list guiding spy agencies, he said. "Mr Howard and Alexander Downer knew exactly why the US was going to war and that terrorism and WMD was not the most important part of the reason," Mr Wilkie said.

The US wanted to gain control of oil reserves, reinforce its global power ascendancy, respond to domestic political considerations after the September 11 attacks and influence the shape of the Middle East, he said. Confidential US Administration information was obtained from sources and contacts, then communicated back to Australia in diplomatic cables, he said.
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The Government manipulated the flow of intelligence information to the Opposition, Mr Wilkie said, ensuring only material supporting its policies was conveyed.
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The fact this information has been released is one giant step forward.