Witless Conroy's Shameful Attack

[silverfaun]

This witless little incompetent should be sacked, removed from the Labor party and Shorten should distance the party from this pathetic union hack.

This, on the day Labor was shown up for their shameful defence of Craig Thomson,  now we are subjected to this appalling insulting  of an honourable serving Officer on national TV and not having the intestinal integrity to apologise for his attack:

THE government has demanded Bill Shorten discipline frontbencher Stephen Conroy for breaking with convention in a “cowardly”, “unprovoked” and “outrageous” attack on a senior serving army officer.

Coalition senator Ian Macdonald shut down a Senate estimates hearing after Senator Conroy, Labor’s defence spokesman, launched an extraordinary attack on the head of the government’s border protection operation, Lieutenant General Angus Campbell, accusing him of being involved in a political cover-up.

Senator Conroy likened General Campbell to the fictitious Colonel Nathan Jessup from the movie A Few Good Men for his approach to restricting the flow of information on the interception of asylum-seeker boats.

“That is called a political cover-up, a political cover-up, you are engaged in a political cover-up,” Senator Conroy yelled from the bench.

The most bitter exchange began after General Campbell said it was necessary to keep details of Operation Sovereign Borders secret to avoid damaging Australia’s relations with its neighbours and to prevent people-smugglers from gaining an advantage.

Senator Conroy retorted: “Can’t we handle the truth?”

General Campbell responded: “It kind of sounds like a movie, senator.”

Senator Conroy: “It is a movie, and we are living it, Colonel Jessup. I mean seriously, you can’t tell us the truth, you can’t tell the Australian public the truth because you might upset an international neighbour. That is called a political cover-up.”

General Campbell remained calm during the incident but said he wanted to put on the public record that he took “extreme offence at that statement”.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/hearing-shut-down-over-stephen-conroys-attack-on-campbell/story-fn59niix-1226837720898

[izabsmiling]

there are far too many search results to add ....just search Scott Morrison admits and that will show the level of this so called transparency our Government promised us and the cover ups 

[freakiness]

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@silverfaun wrote:

Hypocrisy always comes back to bite and the hypocrisy we are seeing beggars belief.

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It sure does. 

All the outrage about Labor after the last 4 years is hilarious  :D:D:D

as is the colourful name calling rants about name calling   

[izabsmiling]

here is just one of them

Morrison admits he gave wrong information on Manus death

Bianca Hall 23rd Feb 2014 8:31 AM »

 Read more at the Brisbanetimes.com.au

definitionof Admit

confess to be true or to be the case.

"the Home Office finally admitted that several prisoners had been injured"

synonyms:

acknowledge, confess, reveal, make known, disclose, divulge, make public, avow, declare, profess, own up to, make a clean breast of, bring into the open, bring to light, give away, blurt out, leak; More

[izabsmiling]

admitted freely or because there was no choice in the end ?

and what else could he potentially not have admitted to ?

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maybe he should say it agaian.........this time outside the safety of parliment

[izabsmiling]

maybe he does and has already done that. 

The greater the level of secrecy the less people may have to admit to ...

[izabsmiling]

Silverfaun, do we have 50.000 illegal immigrants in on our hands.

Have their Asylum seeker applications been assessed and those 50 000 found not to be in need of genuine Asylum ?

If that is so....why does our Government not return them to their home Country ?

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@izabsmiling wrote:

maybe he does and has already done that. 

The greater the level of secrecy the less people may have to admit to ...

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no he is hiding behind parliamentary privilege, where he is protected from being sued for slander

if he believes he is right and has the proof to back it up, call a press conference outside of the house and repeat it.

a lady in western australia commited suiside after being slandered in our parliment. name was Penny Eason from memory

[donnashuggy]

Did you hear the BBC interview Julia Gillard this morning?

The guy who interviewed her could not believe the things she had to endure being said to her, he really didn't believe it!

[donnashuggy]

Here you go, have a listen

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26338412