Fetch, Fido

How do you trust the ACA when it is not honest even in small matters? Correspondingly, can you blame an informant for being wary about entrusting his/her safety on such an agency? All that hogwash about being independent, fair, and blablabla... everything points to it being a pathetic running dog.

Your ever-faithful propaganda pipe (Bernama) reports:

October 26, 2007 01.28 am

Anwar Failed To Meet Video Clip Deadline, Says ACA

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Bernama) -- The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) said Thursday that Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim failed to meet the deadline given to him to surrender the original recording of a video clip purportedly showing a prominent lawyer trying to broker the appointment of judges in 2002.

In a statement issued here shortly before midnight Thursday night, it said the original recording was to be submitted by him to the ACA by Thursday (Oct 25), failing which he is liable to court action Under Section 59 of the Anti-Corruption Act 1997.

The statement added that the onus lay with Anwar to deliver the clip at the ACA's headquarters in Putrajaya and not ask ACA officers to come to his office to get it.

According to the ACA, the clip Anwar wanted to hand over was only a copy in the form of a 'pen drive' of the missing eight minutes of the original, which is 14 minutes long.

Anwar had earlier provided the ACA with a copy of a video clip lasting six minutes allegedly showing the lawyer having a conversation with a senior judge regarding judicial appointments. He claimed to have left out the eight minutes to protect the sources who had given the recording to him.

The ACA also denied that its action to get the original recording was politically motivated as alleged by Anwar. It is assisting a three-man independent panel set up by the government to verify the authenticity of the video clip.

Umm, didn't you agree to come over to Anwar's office in the first place? And didn't you call up Anwar at the last minute telling him the trip's cancelled (dibatalkan) and that he should hang on to the clip for the time being? At least that's what Anwar told the people present at his office yesterday; heard that with my own ears. Unedited. If he was the one lying, well then, charge him. Charge him like now, and send him to the slammer.

Otherwise the ACA is nothing but chickenshit. Independent my boney ass.