"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
There's a new hangout coming to my neigbbourhood soon - it's called Medellin Cafe. After that ad I'll be hoping to share a table with Mickey and Donald.
Alexander Downer - I think they find it convenient to hang all this on him, 'It wasn't us, it was a trusted foreign source' knowing he will lay low in Adelaide (sort of like Tasmania on the mainland - remote and quaint) and keep quiet.
But his and Papad's stories don't seem to tally - Downer says it was a minor comment he reported weeks later. Maybe they do tally if Downer was doing some freelance backroom liaison for his UK govt friends, which he thought was routine. He's pretty naive, the kind of guy makes a convenient patsy.
I wrote to him about Iraq 15 or so years ago and got a nice long reply from his secretary when he was Howard's FA minister. Despite what people think there's nothing sinister about him personally.
Bruce, I agree with your assessment of Downer. Perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed, but not a manipulator or a game player. Definitely not another Turnbull or Chris Pyne. A convenient patsy is probably about right.
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There's a new hangout coming to my neigbbourhood soon - it's called Medellin Cafe. After that ad I'll be hoping to share a table with Mickey and Donald.
Alexander Downer - I think they find it convenient to hang all this on him, 'It wasn't us, it was a trusted foreign source' knowing he will lay low in Adelaide (sort of like Tasmania on the mainland - remote and quaint) and keep quiet.
But his and Papad's stories don't seem to tally - Downer says it was a minor comment he reported weeks later. Maybe they do tally if Downer was doing some freelance backroom liaison for his UK govt friends, which he thought was routine. He's pretty naive, the kind of guy makes a convenient patsy.
I wrote to him about Iraq 15 or so years ago and got a nice long reply from his secretary when he was Howard's FA minister. Despite what people think there's nothing sinister about him personally.
What do you think Gregory?
Which should point the finger back at the CIA, FBI and maybe 'MI5' (if that's what they call it) calling in favours and setting traps.
Downer made no secret he blamed the US for the Asian economic crisis (1997 under Clinton?). He's old school British Empire stock I'd say.
Bruce, I agree with your assessment of Downer. Perhaps not the sharpest tool in the shed, but not a manipulator or a game player. Definitely not another Turnbull or Chris Pyne.
A convenient patsy is probably about right.
Stephen Halper is the manipulating "villain" in the "Spygate" affair, by all appearances.
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