Selective approach to security of State
If Justice Minister Michael McDowell is so concerned with ‘national security,’ why did the Government of which he is a member nearly release the killers of Garda Jerry McCabe as part of a secret deal with SF/IRA?
Why did the Government of which he is a member allow SF/IRA to get rid of its terror arsenal without publishing the manifest of what was destroyed or a single photograph of the decommissioning?
And why is the Government of which he is a member going to allow terrorists get a presidential pardon absolving them of their crimes without so much as an expression of regret?
If Mr McDowell was so concerned about ‘national security,’ why did he hide behind Dáil privilege and the sneakiness of a written reply?
Why did he leak the bogus passport application to a journalist mate when he could have held a press conference for all media?
Mr McDowell likes crowing to the media, so surely he would have been delighted to have his photo taken while showing the bogus passport application and grinning at having exposed a massive conspiracy to undermine the institutions of the State.
But he chose subterfuge. Why?
Mr McDowell claims he had a constitutional obligation to do what he did. If so, then surely he has the same constitutional obligation to release to the public every scrap of Garda intelligence that he has on SF/IRA. To do less would be to assist the enemy.
Jason FitzHarris
Rivervalley
Swords
Co Dublin
