Operation Blast mystery to unfold
Saturday 27th June 2009, 2:59PM BST.
Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur
CHIEF Minister Terry Le Sueur faces questions on Tuesday about whether States chief executive Bill Ogley is the ‘second individual’ named as being behind Operation Blast.
The Order Paper for Tuesday’s States sitting includes five oral questions about the secret police dossiers on States Members – codenamed ‘Operation Blast’ – the existence of which was revealed last week.
A leaked memo from suspended Police chief Graham Power alleged that a conversation with former Chief Minister Frank Walker and a second individual had instigated the collection of files on all States Members.
Mr Walker denied the allegations, and the second individual threatened legal action against the JEP if their identity was published. But anything said during a States sitting is legally covered by parliamentary privilege – meaning it cannot be the basis of a defamation or libel action – so Members will be free to name the individual.
Chief Minister Terry Le Sueur, Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand, Privileges and Procedures chairman Juliette Gallichan and Attorney General William Bailhache will all be asked questions on the files.
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name and shame. we have the right to know. let’s see how transparent this government really is.
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Well, That ought to make an interesting little conversation…let’s see if the truth escapes on this little hummer.
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Transparency ? are you kidding? Not a dig at Bruce by the way.. did our government even realise that people are a lot more educated nowadays… the monopolists and glorified thieves we have on this rock are on a karmic tidal wave.. no longer do people live in fear anymore take heed you fools..
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There appears to be some diversionary opinion about the reasons for Operation Blast, but why the name, which alludes to blowing something apart?
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Where did the name “Blast” come from?
Isn’t it a polite form of “S.d it”?
That must be what all those involved are saying now it’s all out in the open.
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Operational names in the police are computer generated in alphabetical order. So the computer will generate a computer name starting with “A”, then the next time an operational name is needed, it will produce one starting with “B”. I’m sorry, I realise that’s not helpful to the conspiracy buffs…
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Was Operation Blast put together by certain senior civil servants so they had the leverage and power to keep the “elected government” in line by power of information? And if so, we should be looking for the data that has been kept out of the public domain as to who is in which companies pockets.
But then to view what most believe exists would prove what few have claimed does not. The truth that Jersey has become a corrupt despotic regime in need of change.
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