Now the Special Branch is saying the Attorney General is a crook
And this is what begs answers. Is Gani actually embroiled in scandals, as Hamid says, and was he being blackmailed into joining the conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister because of it? Was Gani told that if he does not join the conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister then they would expose all his wrongdoings and transgressions?
THE CORRIDORS OF POWER
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The ex-number two of the Special Branch, Abdul Hamid Bador, has asked the ex-Attorney General, Gani Patail, to come out and sing like a canary. In the same breath Hamid has suggested that Gani is involved in some sort of scandal but then that should not stop the latter from singing his heart out. After all, said Hamid, Gani’s scandal is not as serious as allowing RM42 billion to disappear into thin air, as how Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad would describe it.
It is quite interesting that the second highest man in the Special Branch is acting like Tony Pua and Rafizi Ramli considering their age difference. I mean greenhorn and wet-behind-the-ears politicians can be forgiven for having what the Malays would call ‘mulut laser’ or verbal diarrhoea. But for a seasoned and mature person like Hamid this definitely comes as a surprise.
In the past not many people other than those in the ‘industry’ would know who the top guns of the Special Branch are. They are usually what in the UK we would call spooks (meaning ghosts). Ghosts are normally never seen although you may suspect that they exist and are there hiding somewhere in the shadows. But now Malaysian spooks seem to be no longer ghosts but flesh and blood and very visible and loud.
History has proven that civil servants, police officers, military personnel, etc., (especially those who have just retired or are about to retire) who suddenly start acting like Lim Kit Siang are ‘lobbying’ for a seat in the general election.
Can we assume that Hamid is about to join PAN (or maybe even DAP) and will be contesting the next general election? I am sure with the way he is ‘scoring points’ Hamid could win whatever seat he contests hands down. Sigh…everyone wants to become a Yang Berhormat. We might need to create more seats. The current 800 or so parliament/state seats are just not enough with so many aspirants ‘fighting hard’ to make their mark in politics.
Anyway, according to Hamid, Gani is plagued with scandals and that is why he is keeping mum and refuses to talk about 1MDB. I am sure the Special Branch would know since it is their job to keep tabs on scandals involving VIPs.
But what is most puzzling is if the Special Branch is aware of the Attorney General’s wrongdoings and transgressions why was it not revealed earlier? Should an Attorney General not be above scandals? If an Attorney General is infested with scandals would this not open him to the danger of being blackmailed?
And this is what begs answers. Is Gani actually embroiled in scandals, as Hamid says, and was he being blackmailed into joining the conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister because of it? Was Gani told that if he does not join the conspiracy to oust the Prime Minister then they would expose all his wrongdoings and transgressions?
Yes, that is most interesting indeed. So Gani is scandal-infested. And he is being blackmailed because of it. And Hamid says he is being blackmailed into keeping quiet and to not talk about 1MDB. But could it have been the other way around? Was it instead he was being blackmailed into joining the conspiracy or else he would be exposed?
And one very important point that should not be overlooked is that the Special Branch knows about Gani’s wrongdoings and transgressions and yet he was protected all this while and allowed to continue as the Attorney General.
Hmm…did not Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi say that Malaysia is a country with first-world infrastructure but third-world mentality? Only a country with a third-world mentality would allow a scandal-infested Attorney General to continue in office under the protection of the Special Branch.
I was told that Gani is not the only scandal-infested senior man in government who was protected and allowed to continue. It seems there is another very senior scandal-infested man in the MACC who had sex with one of his staff right there in his office. Talking about turning the boardroom into a bedroom.
It makes one wonder whether the allegation of all the other scandals involving all the other conspirators is true after all. Anyway, that is another story for another time and we shall come to those stories in due course. After all, that is what Malaysia Today is for, is it not, to reveal the untold stories?
