THE NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest Clare Rewcastle Brown's strange attempt at a sorry excuse for a media spin to dig herself out of the hole she is digging herself ever deeper into.
Below, we will reproduce her response to the recent news concerning her alleged failure to submit her defence before the 4.00 pm deadline on August 30, 2017.
The NINE QUESTIONS Panel will interject the article with comments shown in grey.
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SARAWAK REPORT EDITOR TIGHT-LIPPED ON DEFENCE AGAINST HADI'S SUIT
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“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter.” However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.
REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI via MALAYSIA CHRONICLE
Whistleblower site Sarawak Report’s editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown is tight-lipped regarding her defence against PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang’s defamation suit against her.“I will not reply in detail at this point, as my lawyers are handling this matter,” she told Malaysiakini today via email when queried on the matter, following reports purporting that she failed to file her defence on time. [The NINE QUESTIONS Panel notes with interest the contradictory nature of this statement of reservation from commenting, which is immediately followed by the comment she supposedly wasn't intending to make. This is typical of the forked nature of any conversations involving Clare Brown.]On August 31, New Straits Times (NST) quoted a blog claiming that Rewcastle-Brown had failed to file her defence by 4pm on August 30 (UK time) and that this is supposedly a violation of an August 2 court order.The blog reportedly claimed that Rewcastle-Brown’s lawyers would likely file for an extension in October, but the failure would cause alarm to Pakatan Harapan politicians who had demonised Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak based on her reports.However, Rewcastle-Brown said the blog post was a “malicious and highly inaccurate” spin and NST should not have republished its claims as though the blog is an accurate or reliable source of information.“There are very real concerns about the release and then deliberate distortion of information relating to the standard management of this case for political propaganda purposes in Malaysia, with the clear purpose of giving false impressions, even before the response to Mr Hadi’s claims have been laid before the court,” she added.
She also noted that NST had quoted the blog claiming that US sources had purportedly confirmed that Pakatan Harapan chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad had been channelling “millions” into her bank account to topple Najib.“This is an extremely serious, libellous and wholly untrue accusation of the sort that I have become used to from various anonymous and unattributed fringe blogs, but rarely from an authored article in a mainstream newspaper. Frankly, I am shocked,” she said of the allegation. [Better to be at the fringe than to be a fraud. At this point in the article, we wonder why aren't these statements made through Clare Rewcastle Brown's lawyers, just as she said that they will be handling "this matter" - whether that means in terms of making public statements, or the case matter itself. Either way, it is even stranger still why does Clare Brown refuse to confirm - whether through Sarawak Report, her media friends, or even through her lawyers - that her defence was entered within the stipulated time? A simple statement to that effect would dispel and avoid any unnecessary doubt without actually revealing the contents of the defence. But we are seeing nothing of the sort. We are inclined to believe that Raggie Jessy/The Third Force is telling the truth concerning Clare's alleged failure to provide her defence to the court until she or her lawyer can issue an unequivocal confirmation of the timely submission of her defence. Until that happens, she sounds like she is diverting the matter into another conspiracy theory to preoccupy whatever fanbase she may have left so that they will remain loyal to the end, and perhaps not demand that she return the donation money she gleefully fleeced from her supporters knowing full well that she is fraudulent - Clare Rewcastle Brown is welcome to sue us over this statement - if she dares.]
('Sarawak Report Editor Tight-Lipped on Defence Against Hadi.' – Malaysiakini via Malaysia Chronicle, September 2, 2017)Hadi is suing Rewcastle-Brown over her allegations that he had received RM90 million.
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CONCLUSION
Clare Rewcastle Brown knows that she is making this public response out of desperation to convince the public that Sarawak Report truly is telling the truth, when the opposite is true.
As the clock ticks, this erratic and contradictory statement made without going through her lawyers shows that there is a severe disconnect between what she knows she should and shouldn't do, and what she ends up doing - and wrongly at that - out of desperation and panic.
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