CCC attacks McCusker the messenger - not the message

McGinty "put the telescope to the blind eye".

The Corruption and Crime Commission first argued Parliamentary Inspector Malcolm McCusker QC was acting outside his powers and should not be allowed to examine the evidence of the CCC. No one bought that claptrap except Carpenter and McGinty who conveniently sat on the fence. When the CCC could not or would not argue the facts, they argued the law!

Now we read in The West Australian that the CCC have ‘another problem with McCusker” but they won’t air it in public!

It appears the CCC are now playing the man rather than pointing out where Petrice Judge and then Parliamentary Inspector Malcolm McCusker QC possibly got it wrong in both their devastating critiques.

What is this new secret evidence? Have the CCC been tapping Malcom McCusker's phone or listening to his conversations on the electronically intercepted phones of aggrieved witnesses? The Desert Rat thought those coversations would be covered by legal professional privilege.

Certainly Jim McGinty should not be signing warrants that infringe on McCusker's ability to do his job, without the prying eyes and ears of the CCC. Still, there is no apology to any of the witnesses in the Smith’s Beach Inquiry. Paul Frewer, Dr Wally Cox and probably Dr Mike Allen (whose report is yet to be released), their good names smeared and soiled by these reckless amateurs, are still waiting for the apology that McCusker said they deserved.

All we have had is barefaced dissimulation from Dad's Army. The arrogance of the CCC is astonishing, as is the silence of their patron Emperor Jim McGinty.

Why doesn’t the CCC publish a dissection of the Petrice Judge and McCusker reports and make their case? Instead, they argue a weak, nebulous legal argument that McCusker should not look at the CCC evidence and now they hint at some malfeasance by McCusker.

The CCC has given Western Australian taxpayers no value for the $90 million they have wasted. Who needs a tabloid press, when we have the CCC to make up stories, air quotes out of contexts to pruriently sensationalise "evidence", destroy people reputations, livelihoods, businesses and family lives.