Timor-Leste: Top Lawyer Says Australia Has Criminal Case to Answer over East Timor Spying Scandal

Nov 27, 2015 | Steve Cannane, Sashka Koloff, and Brigid Andersen, ABC News
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One of Australia's most senior lawyers believes there is a criminal case to answer over an Australian spying operation in East Timor and that senior intelligence officers, even a former cabinet minister, could face prosecution. Former New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions Nicholas Cowdery QC told Lateline it is his legal opinion that the bugging of an East Timorese cabinet office by Australia's foreign intelligence service (ASIS) was a crime under Australian law.