At last, a bit of fight-back
On timesofmalta.com earlier today:
Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi said this morning that he could not understand how Joseph Muscat had asked the Speaker, not the police, to investigate his claims of hacking which led to the publication of e-mails between him and an RTK journalist.
Speaking in a Radio 101 interview, Dr Gonzi said that more than running the PL, Dr Muscat appeared to want to run a national newsroom.
This episode, Dr Gonzi said, showed a lack of ethics and was revealing in the way the PL acted.
If Dr Muscat really believed that the law was broken and hacking had taken place, then he should have gone to the police and not to the Speaker, who did not have the tools to investigate such matters. Indeed, this issue had nothing to do with Parliament and the role of the Speaker was to run the House and rule on the basis of the Standing Orders.
Dr Muscat was clearly playing a game. He knew that his e-mails were being circulated and he had tried to get his foot in before having to defend himself, Dr Gonzi said.
But Dr Muscat had acted in an obscene way. Not only had he sought to involve the Speaker instead of the police, but he had tried to blame the government and its IT agency, Mita, when neither Dr Muscat nor journalist Sabrina Agius had used the government’s computer domain for their e-mail exchanges.
This episode, Dr Gonzi said, showed two weights and two measures by the Labour Party. One could remember how in the past Labour had quoted from other people’s e-mails.
And while it appeared okay for Dr Muscat to exchange some 90 e-mails with an RTK journalist, any journalist who dared to speak against or criticise the Labour Party came in for all sort of criticism and even threats. One only needed to see the Joe (Peppi) Azzopardi case.
Dr Gonzi observed that on September 18, the day when Libya’s new leaders were visiting Malta, Dr Muscat was exchanging e-mails with Ms Agius. Was this how the leader of the opposition spent his days?
It was wrong if these e-mails were leaked in an illegal manner, Dr Gonzi said, but the content had national interest. Should the leader of the opposition involve himself in the placement of journalists in the various media houses? Should he have effectively encouraged the journalist to betray her own employer?
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‘Dr. Gonzi said he could not understand how Joseph Muscat had asked the Speaker and not the police.’
He’s willing to disrupt the agenda set by the electorate, why should he care? He believes he can do without one himself.
‘Was this how the leader of the opposition spent his days?’
Is this how the future prime minister will spend his days?
This is not looking good, he’s nowhere near leadership material and can’t handle the pressure. The fibbing has become more pronounced and the absence from his duties now a matter of serious consideration.
The more I learn who Joseph Muscat is the more I realize that he is not mature enough to lead a political party.
Maybe those of my generation (60+) are right to prefer a more mature person as PM.
Even people of my generation, believe me, (I’m 34) want somebody more mature than Joseph Muscat.
Meta officjal gholi fil-PL waqt riceviment privat gie mistoqsi ghaliex ghamlu lil Muscat leader u mhux lil George Abela, dlonk ir-risposta tieghu kienet li b’Joseph Muscat nikkmandaw ahna u b’George Abela jikkmanda hu u ma nkunux nistaw naghmlu li rridu.
Pure invention.
A very astute observation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvUzPKIJEtg&feature=share
Dr. Gonzi has seen through Joseph Muscat’s story and cut it in half, making Muscat look like a fool once again.
Joseph Muscat didn’t go to the police because this means he would then have to handover his email and password, to help in the investigations. The police would visit his office at Mile End and use his computer for their investigations.
Or is he afraid of the police finding out even more of what he has been up to? What else resides on his computer that he doesnt want anyone to see?
He thought he was some master-schemer, but in reality, as soon as ‘stuff’ hit the fan, he isnt looking so smug anymore.
I think the real problem here is that Muscat is worried about what else might have been copied from Sabrina Agius’s Gmail account.
PL were unlucky from the start – the smart guys selected Joseph in preference to George Abela. With Abela at the helm dawn ic-cucati qatt maj siru
Perhaps Joseph thinks that the G in Gmail stands for government.
“on September 18, the day when Libya’s new leaders were visiting Malta, Dr Muscat was exchanging e-mails with Ms Agius”
Keeping up his fine tradition.
Remember his ‘warriors of courage march on the 90th anniversary of armistice day’? It wasn’t about the war dead. It was a bunch of moaners complaining about their electricity bills.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111025/local/sabrina-agius-seeks-police-investigation-on-e-mails-leak.390768#.TqbqPz0XTuI.facebook
Now Ms. Agius is requesting that an investigation be held by the Commissioner of Police. It might be garbled reporting, but the computer from which the emails were supposedly taken is referred to as “her computer”.
It was not “her” computer but rather RTK’s, unless she was using a personal laptop, which in the circumstances, given how disrespectful she had been to her employer, I would very much doubt it.
I don’t know how many remember Mintoff in parliament in the sixties, but I recall reading debates where Mr Mintoff, as opposition leader, quoted official confidential government documents during the parliamentary debates.
When challenged about their provenance by the government side, his stock reply was always:“Sibthom fil-landa taz-zibel” (I found them in the rubbish bin).
He had moles in every ministry.
It could also be that Sabrina mistakenly printed the correspondence with Joseph herself and did not pick up the incriminating evidence.