His ‘contribution’ included going on television to publicly alert the PN that “Labour would be releasing information to implicate a Nationalist Party candidate in corruption”.

This was already too much information and if JM was willing to give it out in public, it is reasonable to assume that he’d be even more ‘helpful’ and open in private.

Tal-Bord tal Vigilanza ser jinvesigawha din jew?

Apart from that when he was a journalist he was the instrument AS used most to leak things to the PN to destabilise his underlings who were getting too serious for his liking.

I concur that it takes a lot of brains and stategy (of the Machiavellian type too) to win an election, and the PN has plenty of that among its ranks, JS probably being one of its brigthest assets.

Indeed, until the Malta Labour Party manages in some way or another to attract people with characteristics and talents similar to Joe Saliba’s, its’ years in opposition are bound to increase linearly. In the election defeat report, it is evident that a bunch of short sighted idiots were leading its campaign. Strategy was practically nonexistant.

Undoubtedly, JM has a mammoth task ahead. Maybe Angelo Farrugia may wish to lend him the elephant – it may not be a mammoth, but it helps.

“Indirect hints given by Joseph Muscat during the election campaign enabled the Nationalist Party to deduce that the MLP was about to launch an attack on Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, PN general secretary Joe Saliba tells The Sunday Times in an interview published today.
Dr Muscat never actually mentioned Dr Pullicino Orlando, but comments he made at different activities were enough for the PN to send Dr Pullicino Orlando to Dr Sant’s activities as the attack was about to be launched“.

This is, however, what Dr Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando stated the day before this Saliba interview was published:

“In the final days of February, I was informed by sources within the Malta Labour Party who were appalled by the negative campaigning which typified Dr. Alfred Sant’s approach to the 2008 Elections, that I was to be the focus of a concerted attack in the last week before the General Elections. I was also told that this attack was going to be planned and based around a project which was planned for a piece of land I own in Mistra which was rented out to third parties.“

While JPO clearly indicates he had internal sources WITHIN the MLP, who provided him with SPECIFIC AND PRECISE details, Joe Saliba claims that the PN simply made intelligent guesswork, as it where, which led it to identify JPO as Sant’s possible “victim”, and so the party decided “to send JPO to Dr Sant’s activities”.

Who are we expected to believe? So is that how the Nationalist Party (not the “independent” columnists) plan to undermine Joseph Muscat? But telling outward lies? Or was JPO lying? Yet again? Which is it? I would be grateful for any sensible explanation.

And yes, my language is very precise. Neither Joe Saliba nor I, here, said that Joseph Muscat leaked the name, but that he gave the game away through blabbing unwisely in the wrong company. Which figures.