Selective approach to security of State

Anyone who watches enough Hollywood films knows that the government agent who claims to be defending “national security” is always the baddie.

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?