Costly veil of secrecy descends over PS - Local News - News - General - The Canberra Times

"The shift has also forced ASIO to devote more resources than ever to vetting bureaucrats and government contractors."

Spy chief deems terror list 'fallible'

"ONE of the front lines in the fight against terrorism - the Immigration Department's list of people who present a possible security risk to Australia - has been labelled ''very fallible'' by the head of the country's chief intelligence agency, ASIO."

Director-General of Security David Irvine, seemed to express dissatisfaction with the list people who present a possible security risk to Australia. Photo: Andrew Taylor

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Turning a blind eye to espionage | The Australian

"This was the period in which, as he later wrote, 'I had no misgivings about our society in Australia being swept into the dustbin of human history by the communists', and in which he saw ASIO and its head, Charles Spry, as presumptive men with bourgeois values attempting to 'decide what we should read, think and do'."

Did Simon Overland misuse his powers? | The Australian

"Despite the early advice of ASIO, which had concluded that the so-called evidence was silly and that Haneef was a harmless doctor doing his best with cancer patients at a Gold Coast hospital, police and the Howard government immigration minister, Kevin Andrews, pressed on."