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May 21st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda A key document that enabled a sweeping internal police surveillance operation, targeting more than 100 officers, appears to have gone missing.
The operation put 114 people, mostly officers but a few civilians, under surveillance.
Some of those officers, and some officers involved in the surveillance, have ended up in the top ranks of the police force, while others met unfavourable outcomes.
Questions have been raised about the propriety of the operation and why no report was released after the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) in 2002 reviewed the work of Strikeforce Emblems, set up to investigate the surveillance.
Two weeks ago Police Minister Michael Gallacher asked PIC inspector David Levine QC to find out if the Emblems report could be made public.
Mr Levine appeared before a parliamentary committee on the Ombudsman’s Office and the PIC on Monday.
He said the sworn affidavit which had been needed to obtain the surveillance warrant from the Supreme Court was not among a 7cm-thick bundle of information he had received from the Ministry of Police and Emergency Services.
“I can say to you that my perusal of that bundle indicates that no such affidavits are included in it,” Mr Levine told the committee.
Surveillance targets on the original warrant have long asked for the affidavit to be made public.
Mr Levine could not say why the affidavit had not come to light.
“I’m not sure whether I can answer that. The interest might be political,” Mr Levine said.
A spokesman for Mr Gallacher told AAP on Monday that his office had previously reviewed the Emblems report, found it contained sensitive information and referred it to Mr Levine for a recommendation.
Neither the minister’s office nor the department had a copy of the affidavit, the spokesman said.
Mr Gallacher sought the release of the Emblems report while he was in opposition, and the NSW Police Association recently demanded it be released.
Comment was being sought from the NSW Crime Commission, which is believed to have a copy of the document.
Mr Levine could not give the committee a date for when he would finish his review.
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