Exposed: CCC’s “House of Cards” Inquiry into Smith’s Beach

The person, who undertook the investigation and report recommended by the Corruption and Crime Commission into public servants Paul Frewer and Mike Allen involvement in the Smith’s Beach development applications, is both brave and honest. His or her findings that neither public servant had a case to answer did not surprise the Desert Rat or any other impartial person who had read the CCC report. However, the Desert Rat would have thought the two men would stand little chance of a fair hearing in this situation by politicised public servants!

Honest because the case against the two public servants Paul Frewer and Mike Allen by McGinty’s CCC was without any real basis or merit and that finding, would not be surprising if done by an independent person outside the public service. Neither Carpenter nor McGinty will be pleased by the findings which exculpated the two men. It’s the Desert Rat’s view that both are spitting chips.

Very brave also, because we are told in today’s The West Australian that the inquirer is a public servant, who the Desert Rat believes will be very vulnerable to retribution by those who are deeply embarrassed by the exoneration of Frewer and Allen. There is too much political capital involved here.

Will the knives will be out for the person’s scalp? Will there be a price to pay for telling the truth? The Desert Rat suspects so, because the person who did the inquiry, has, by finding they have no case to answer, completely undermined the “House of Cards” case that the CCC built in the Smith’s Beach Inquiry.

It is a pity McGinty and Carpenter did not release this secret report and identify the investigator. That way the media and the public could find out more about the flimsy case against these men and analyse the reasons and findings as to why these men were vindicated and the role and actions of Brigadier Silverstone’s goon platoon at the CCC.

Are Carpenter and McGinty conveniently hiding behind the secret Public Sector Inquiry report? The last thing they would want is to hear that the Smith Beach development inquiry did not involve anything that would warrant the millions of dollars of investigation, camera surveillance, tailing, phone tapping, email and fax interception, house breaking and bedroom bugging. All undertaken by the CCC goon platoon led by our erstwhile Brigadier Silverstone fresh from his central role in the “Children Overboard” scandal and the cocked-up and incorrect evidence given to the State Parliamentary CCC committee.

Mr Allen’s comment on hearing he was exonerated was “I never had any doubt that this would be the outcome.” Well Mr Mike Allen, don’t assume the CCC have finished with you yet. The Desert Rat is aware of other friends and family members of victims on the CCC “villains list” who have been targeted and harassed.

The CCC has managed to destroy many people’s reputation, people’s businesses and untold legal expenses in the process of getting the political scalps of Burke and Grill. The cost to the taxpayer of the CCC now exceeds $70 million.