It's OK for Mr Invisible Mike Silverstone to change his evidence - even when prepared
Wouldn't it be nice if witnesses who were cross examined by the Corruption and Crime Commission on subjects they were not able to prepare for and review information, could fiddle with their evidence or restate it more accurately!
The invisible man, Mike "Children Overboard" Silverstone the Executive Director of the CCC appears to have been quite prepared to extend that privilege to himself according to the Children Overboard enquiry transcripts.
Was this fiddling with the record, just fixing an omission or something more nefarious?
Read this ABC Online report of proceeding of the Senate Inquiry in 2002:
"Wednesday, March 27, 2002 . Posted: 19:35:13 (AEDT)
Brigadier admits adding 'child' to notes
The Brigadier who first reported asylum seekers threw their children overboard has revealed he added the word "child" to his notes after he first received information about the incident.
Brigadier Mike Silverstone has given a written submission to the Senate committee investigating the affair.
The Commander of HMAS Adelaide, Norman Banks, has repeatedly denied ever reporting that children had been thrown overboard.
But the man on the other end of that first phone call, Brigadier Silverstone, insists he said it.
The Brigadier says that is supported by his notes of the conversation, even though he has now revealed that the words he recorded during the conversation were "men thrown over side".
He says he added the word child immediately after the conversation and just before he passed the message on to the head of strategic command, Air Vice Marshall Alan Titheridge.
The Senate committee continues its hearings next week."
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