Garda Ombudsman offices bugged

who_ru wrote: »

I'd say you could be right. Callinan will deny all knowledge of this, lying through his teeth of course, but the remit must have been to identify, intimidate, prevent whistleblowers from within the force.

I wouldn't totally rule out media involvement either at this stage. An episode of Panorama a few years ago detailed how during the phone-hacking days of the NOTW, faxes and 'leaks' were channelled through News Internationals Dublin office.

"Panorama obtained details of a fax sent to the office of Marunchak on 5 July 2006, apparently containing copies of emails which had been written by Ian Hurst, a former army intelligence officer. Marunchak was then based in the News of the World's Dublin office, editing the Irish edition. Hurst was believed to be involved in writing a book titled Stakeknife, eventually published under the pseudonym Martin Ingram, which details the alleged involvement of British intelligence in assassinations in Northern Ireland. Hurst had been the subject of court orders obtained by the Ministry of Defence.

Hurst then asked the hacker who had commissioned him to do this. The hacker replied: "The faxes would go to Dublin ... He was the editor of the News of the World for Ireland. A Slovak-type name. I can't remember his ****ing name. Alex, his name is. Marunchak." Marunchak declined to answer questions when the BBC confronted him."

Interesting that Hurst was writing a book about state collusion at this time. Would the GSOC be worth listening in on to garner some information regarding collusion on this side of the border?

tomwaterford wrote: »

If you believe that you'll believe anything :pac::pac:

Surly they would have to provide proof:rolleyes:

Some thing fairly serious afoot there....can't see how government can possibly try sweep this under the carpet...or how anyone can possibly justify a bugging operation on garda ombudsman office[/QUOTE]

oh watch them try , dont forget , them elections are a coming , IF they do and pay even lip service to it , no report will be even considered till after the elections , just like the side step on the pylons - cant be letting the people get in the way of an election.

Steppenwolfe wrote: »

This has the potential to be dynamite.

The Irish Times understands the three-person commission had always intended to conduct the same security sweep as its predecessors and in the second half of last year decided to act on that intention.

It is unclear what led to that action, though sources have suggested some senior staff in GSOC viewed with suspicion the level of detail that was emerging publicly about some of its ongoing cases.

Busted Flat. wrote: »

Why would anyone be surprised at this revelation, there is so many top guys that were promoted during the Donegal episode, the Abbeylara affair, the top men are concerned about what is going in the GSOC, this is nothing to do with justice it's about protecting reputations. We had that sort of thing in the Kerry babies time, the heavy gang and others. Some of the promoted and now retired still like to convince people that Joann Hayes had twins. Get a grip.

who_ru wrote: »

It's being speculated on other sites that the reason GSOC didn't inform shatter about this last year when they discovered their offices were bugged is because of shatter's connection to the Garda commissioner.

In other words the ombudsman simply does not trust the MOJ Alan Shatter.

Remember the Garda commissioner himself leaked information to shatter about independent TD Mick Wallace, which shatter then used to discredit Wallace in the dail.

If I were the ombudsman I wouldn't trust shatter either.

Rte's line of.....shure no evidence and nothing can be done about it anyway could have been written by shatter himself.

Come to think of it, it probably was.