Sydney Hostage Siege Unfolding

[Michael Barwell]

and some of it has clearly had the protection of the police and possibly others.

Slightly off-thread, but of protections and obfuscations by the weilders of powers, the single thing about the 'phone hacking scandal book Hack Attack, that shocks me, is the 'RIPAbollocks' - the interpretation of the law, given by the DPP to the Met, on hacking voicemail - they'd told the police to interpret the law as being legal to have unauthorised access to ppl's voicemails, after the recipient had heard the message. When the author had read that interpretation, he'd immediately said [that's-] "Bollocks!" The DPP took a long time to refute that guidance to the Met, but then did so strongly. So, at an immediate and fundamental level, everything becomes murky.