‘Special intelligence operations grant Asio officers immunity from prosecution if they crash the law; they are also protected by an impenetrable wall of secrecyThe attorney general,George Brandis, may gain approved at least one highly secretive “special intelligence operation” under which Australian Security Intelligence Organisation officers are granted sweeping immunity from prosecution in the spend of force – but he wont divulge you. Asio won’t divulge you. Even our intelligence watchdog won’t divulge you. And journalists quite simply can’t divulge you.This is not a review of an episode of the TV show Utopia (although it’s probably on their agenda for next season). This is the strange situation in which journalists now find themselves when reporting – just generally – on whether even one of these operations exists.
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Source: theguardian.com