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June 18th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda AAP
ASIO’s controversial security vetting of potential refugees has been endorsed by a parliamentary committee.
The Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security, in a report tabled on Monday, said it was satisfied the “current regime for visa security assessments is the correct one”.
The report came as the Greens prepared to introduce a bill in the Senate to “restore procedural fairness” to security assessments.
The bill would allow people who received adverse security assessments to read and respond to ASIO’s reasons and allow the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) to review the agency’s decisions.
The committee, while not responding directly to the Greens’ proposed bill, dealt with similar issues raised with it by refugee and asylum-seeker advocacy groups.
They included lack of transparency in ASIO’s assessment processes and the lack of a right to appeal.
The bipartisan report into Australia’s six intelligence services said ASIO had told it there would be “considerable resource implications” if people given adverse assessments were given the right to appeal to the AAT.
The committee said making ASIO’s assessment criteria public, as some advocacy groups wanted, “could have an adverse effect on national security”.
The committee also said some assessments took longer than was desirable but ASIO was streamlining its processes.
Its deputy chair, former senior Liberal minister Philip Ruddock, said he’d always found Australia’s intelligence agencies acted with great probity.
“The Australian public might find that difficult to understand because of the nature of the work these agencies have to undertake,” Mr Ruddock said.
“The work is often covert and it is extremely difficult for a committee to comment on matters that might compromise their operations but which it would be helpful for the government to be aware of. These are matters of potential concern.”
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