YOURSAY ‘The regime is on an all-out effort to neutralise the damage done.’
MACC and AGC arrests linked to info leak
Kim Quek: Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar, you said the officers were arrested for leaking government information, pursuant to a police report made against Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown. You further claimed that consequent to that leakage, the information has been “misused”.
So, Khalid, what you said confirms that the documents exposed in Sarawak Report are genuine. As to whether such information has been “misused” depends on the nature of the information and the conclusion drawn by Sarawak Report .
So, we have settled the first issue: the facts are correct. The next issue is whether the conclusion drawn by Sarawak Report is correct. But that is none of the police business; it is for relevant party to rebut.
Khalid, your job is to catch the culprit, for which you seem to have done nothing. Instead you are busy catching people who leaked evidence of crime, and now worse, catching even the law enforcers who catch the thieves.
Khalid, this is high treason - your action is against king, country and the constitution. Stop it before you cause further tragedies all round.
Odin Tajué: Yes, simple logic tells us that if you arrest people supposedly for having leaked information or documents, then the matter leaked must be factual or contains facts. (Facts are things that are true or correct.)
If the matter contains false information, there is no need to arrest the supposed distributors/disseminators.
Since the police have arrested the particular parties supposedly for having leaked information or documents, then the information disseminated is factual or the documents given out contain facts.
But we don't suppose the IGP is able to follow this logic. It is simply beyond him. Since the leaked matter is factual, he should have arrested the parties implied to have committed wrongdoings, but he has not; therefore, he is party to a cover-up and to maltreating the individuals arrested.
Malaysia Ku: First, they want to arrest people who are producing "tampered" documents. Now the people who "leaked" documents are being harassed.
Indeed, if the documents are forgeries, why called them "leaked" documents. Is it a crime to "leak" false documents? The more you try to justify a lie, the more you get entangled by your lies.
Basically: Here's what I don’t understand. I am pretty stupid, you see. There is nothing wrong with having party money in private accounts, The Wall Street Journal lied, all with 1MDB is hunky-dory. So what is there to leak? Where's the crime?
Lim Chong Leong: So what is the information that was leaked, besides that which was recently published that former AG Abdul Gani Patail had drafted a charge sheet against PM Najib Razak?
But that has been denied by new AG Mohamed Apandi Ali. This does not add up. Why arrest these individuals for a leak that did not happen?
Iiiizzzziiii: Something is very wrong with the present regime. The whistleblowers are being hunted and investigated and to be charged for their actions. The regime is on an all-out effort to neutralise the damage done.
Did the regime for one moment ask a simple question, "Why would these people in high positions and hold great responsibilities choose to reveal such sensitive information to the public?"
Is it because they know that those who were involved in the scandal are the untouchables in this country? And these people who have a conscience wanted to expose the wrongdoings of the untouchables?
Perhaps they also know that going through the proper channel to bring these untouchables to justice will never happen in the first place. So, the only option is to expose their wrongdoings to the world by discrediting the untouchables’ credibility and integrity.
Oh Ya?: Whistleblowers and protesters against the scandal-ridden ruling elite are deemed as committing activities detrimental to parliamentary democracy? In any democratic country, the ruling elite would have bowed out honourably and the perpetrators jailed.
Only in Kangkung land - the world's best democracy - the reverse is happening.
Ferdtan: The previous speculation that some top officers from the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) were involved in activities ‘detrimental’ to the government must be true as it can be seen with the arrests of the trio - former MACC adviser Rashpal Singh Jeswant Singh, MACC deputy public prosecutor Ahmad Sazilee Abdul Khairi and 1MDB special task force's secretariat head of administration and finance Jessica Gurmeet Kaur Nashattar Singh.
We cannot be faulted if we start to believe in such speculation: the action by the police tended to point it in that direction. The next question to ask is, “Will the former AG be arrested, too?”
These wanton arrests of not only government officers but protesters calling for action against PM Najib Razak show how desperate the government is in trying to silence the people.
Mushiro: The IGP is on the special task force investigating the 1MDB scandal and the US$700 million allegedly banked into Najib's personal bank accounts.
But the IGP has not arrested a single person involved in these cases but is busy arresting people suspected of leaking information.
So is the IGP trying to protect the criminals involved in this scandal. Isn't this a crime?
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