JLP Government Needs Plumber

When troops seized Mr Coke’s headquarters at Tivoli Gardens they discovered a CCTV system that enabled him to monitor all the entrances. They also found large amounts of local and foreign currency and copies of the extradition documents filed by the US Government, which Mr Coke appeared to have obtained illicitly.

Source: Times Online - How Dudus Stayed Ahead of the Police.

 Minister Lightbourne's response:

Lightbourne said she received a call from "someone in the army" who advised her that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had the request and that it would have been submitted to her.
"I called my office. Have you got this yet? No, we don't know anything about it. Has Foreign Affairs got it? Foreign Affairs was called, they knew nothing about it. I then had to call back and say what is this. This thing has not gone through its processes and I was told: 'We are trying to speed it up so we make copies that everybody will get it all at the same time'," Lightbourne asserted.

Source : Jamaica Gleaner - Nicholson Wants Probe into Lewin's Allegations

Manatt Commission of Enquiry Surprise.

There was a surprising development at Wednesday afternoon's sitting of the Manatt/Dudus Commission of Enquiry at the Jamaica Conference Centre, when it emerged that the secret Memorandums of Understandings(MOUs), which was being guarded closely by the Commissioners, was already in the hands of at least one senior attorney at the hearing..........................The revelation that Queens Counsel (Q. C.) Frank Phipps, who is representing the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), already had copies of the MOUs sparked an intense debate among attorneys including K. D. Knight, counsel for the Opposition People's National Party, who brought the issue to the attention of the Commissioners.

Source: RJR  -  JLP Attorney Already Had Secret MOUs Before Manatt Commissioners

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Code Secret

One of the highest classifications used by the Ministry of National Security to indicate the level of confidentiality of highly sensitive documents is SECRET! This is normally placed at strategic points throughout the document. Sometimes it may be in red. 

 Nevertheless the classification indicates that only authorized individuals should have access to such documents and under no circumstances should there have cause for its publication to unauthorized individuals. This is essential for the effectiveness of national security operations especially those involving transnational organized crime.

Indeed it is well known that there are foreign law enforcement agents operating in Jamaica. Frequently they provide technical and logistic assistance to their Jamaican counterparts. For example, they may be involved in "sting operations", fugitive apprehension and counter narco-terrorism activities. It has been a feature of small independent countries to enter into "secret" arrangements between the more powerful and technologically superior states. Indeed there is even the arrangement where the captured bounty is shared. 

It is of paramount importance that the confidentiality of such arrangements is not compromised by unauthorized publication of the details of such bi-lateral relationships.  The classification has to be respected by both countries and forms the context in which future relationships are struck in the area of national security.

In most countries, there are criminal sanctions for those found guilty of unauthorized possession of classified documents. 

• Will the Manatt COE investigate the presence of highly confidential information at the headquarters of the Presidential Click?
• Will the Manatt COE investigate the persons within the JLP who facilitated the unauthorized sharing of information with journalists in a certain media house?
• Will the persons be held accountable for what must be regarded as a criminal act?

Don't hold your breath!

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