Australia complicit in torture too…..Australian officials at risk of trial by the International Criminal Court (ICC): Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib won a confidential settlement with the Australian government after presenting credible evidence of ASIO complicity in his torture.

ASIO oversight ineffective – Australia’s captive regulators described as paper tigers: The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (IGIS).

Now is the time to contest the rightful bounds of authority and punish those responsible for egregious violations of our laws. Ensure the mechanisms of separating and sharing power are not pulped into meaninglessness: It is time for a federal ICAC and standing royal commission into ASIO/Australian intelligence community that looks at the role of all our agencies and IGIS in these abuses.

Ian Barker, QC a prominent Australian lawyer proclaimed his frustration with the abuses of ASIO, and by corollary, the lack of credible oversight, commented:

“Any defence lawyer having anything to do with a case involving ASIO will know that its agents habitually act outside their powers and routinely abuse them, always in secret. It is rare indeed for their conduct to be exposed.”

IGIS is the oversight body mandated to expose ASIO abuses. The public relies on it for protection, justice and enforcement of the law against ASIO abuses. But it consistently fails to do so. Evidently, it can’t see any of it, can’t find it, doesn’t ask about it and doesn’t report it.

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FBI (and ASIO) targets Wall Street analyst (and girlfriend) after publishing report that touched on the killing of indigenous protestors at the US listed Freeport McMoran Grasberg mine in West Papua, Indonesia.

What is little known and not reported is the role the FBI played during this time to lower the profile of Freeport’s controversial Grasberg operation and silence discussion that included targeting Wall Street analysts.

The use of FBI power in this way is all the more disturbing given the agency’s dual role in helping to identify and interview eyewitnesses to the alleged Freeport human rights abuses on location in West Papua in 1995. (Alleged human rights abuses were never proven in relation to Freeport in U.S. courts.)

The brutality seemed to be spiralling out of control with seven indigenous protestors shot and killed in and around the Grasberg mine in a short period around Christmas day 1994. Some of the protestors were reportedly killed at point blank range, inside steel shipping containers on Freeport property. For a sensitive topic it received unusually wide publicity and the US State Department had taken the unusual step of launching a formal investigation.

Freeport’s public relations machine went into overdrive. It paid for a full page ad in the New York Times, made an infomercial, threatened to sue journalists and academics covering the matter and withdraw university funding.
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