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Read the submission - links below.

What's it all about?...
John Kite blew the whistle on alleged activities within the NSW National
Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS). For his trouble, he is now being
investigated himself, with the ICAC using smears and innuendo against
him, instead of investigating the original allegations.

The ICAC appears to have focussed on its allegation of Kite's alleged
involvement in authorship of the "smoking gun" memo, and ignored the
original issues.

In addition, the ICAC is essentially investigating itself (re the
alleged internal "contact"), leaving its  independance in doubt. The
ICAC's investigation techniques including the way in which it uses
telephone tapping also bring its accountability into question and throw
legal privilege out the door.

Excessive Use of In-Camera Meetings: Whistleblowers Australia notes the
large blocks of time allocated to in-camera (private, not in open court)
meetings.  The ICAC was caught out 'adjusting' its evidence as a result
of an in-camera hearing.  It turned out that Mr Gregory Lloyd Egan, a
computer repairer trading as Shoalhaven Data World, Ulladulla, altered
his testimony after an in-camera meeting with ICAC before the start of
the public hearing.

WBA considers there is an argument to be made that the computer forensic
evidence underpinning ICAC�s case, indeed the core of its inquisition
against John Kite, is of the most highly questionable origin and can by
no means be demonstrated clean and untainted, by accepted standards of
proof.  Certainly the ICAC has no evidence conclusively tying Kite
physically to computer input.

The submission: (Please pass on these links to others who may be
interested or concerned.)

Submission: http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/PJC_ICACsubmission.html

Appendix 1: Forensic Analysis of Computer Data
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/PJC_ICACsubAppendix1.html

Appendix 2: The Public's Unawareness that Client-Solicitor Privilege is
No Bar to an ICAC Investigation:  A Case History:
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/PJC_ICACsubAppendix2.html

The covering letter:
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au/PJC_ICACsubCovLett.html

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Posted by Geoff Turner
For Whistleblowers Australia NSW Branch
wba AT whistleblowers DOT org DOT au  (NO SPAM)
http://www.whistleblowers.org.au