CURRENT / IN THE LATEST SALVO BY RAGGIE JESSY/THE THIRD FORCE, CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S ALREADY SEMI-EXPOSED SKIRT IS LIFTED EVER HIGHER FOR ALL AND SUNDRY TO SEE

IN what seems to be developing into a very public and acidic spat between two giants of electronic media, Raggie Jessy or The Third Force fires another blow to the Sarawak Report camp with the revelation of Clare Rewcastle Brown's murky, yet suppressed past.

For those who have sighted this aspect of her past life, it is worth a revisit. For those who hasn't, enjoy the revelation, in the well-crafted flowing style that The Third Force is known for by now. 

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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2. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
3. RELATED: MP'S EXPENSES: GORDON BROWN'S HOUSE SWAP THAT LET HIM CLAIM THOUSANDS
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EVIDENCE SURFACES THAT CLARE BROWN AND HUBBY STOLE TAXPAYERS' MONEY

The scandal was deemed by the British House of Commons as a deliberate act of criminal malfeasance on Gordon’s part and an abuse of position by a public official to receive gratification. Ms. Rewcastle took the heat off herself and her husband by gallantly defending Gordon, saying, “He definitely needed a cleaner when in London, and it was part of his expenses entitlement”.

REPORTED BY THE THIRD FORCE via MALAYSIA TODAY

The Third Force (TTF) is a propaganda blog, says Clare Rewcastle Brown.

According to the Chief Editor of Sarawak Report, TTF “is not a news portal, but a habitually libellous propaganda blog that shouldn’t have been cited by any newspaper.” Ironically, this lady chose to air her fury via Free Malaysia Today (FMT), a Nelson Fernandez run portal that received RM12 million from John Soh between the years 2009 and 2014.

Even more ironical is the fact that the article was written by a Nawar Firdaws, an FMT columnist who was seen intimately dancing with the DAP’s Zairil Christopher in several photos at a drinking hole in the Hartamas area. Despite repeated claims by bloggers and freelance writers of the illicit love affair, FMT and the DAP remained tight lipped about the whole thing and went so far as to censor reports that even so much as mentioned Zairil’s name for several days.

'Apparently, the hand holding incident involving Zairil Christopher of DAP and FMT's Nawar Firdaws took place in Kuching - SeaDemon.' 

– TTF

Now, doesn’t this go a long way to show just how credibly and morally unsound FMT is? And is it just a coincidence that Nawar, having been accused of flirting with someone known to be a Lim Kit Siang apologist and stooge, was Ms. Rewcastle’s choice of a ‘journalist’ to take pot-shots at TTF? 

But then, it is not as if the FMT editorial came as a ‘huge surprise’ to me. 

After all, it takes one fake news portal to know another, which explains just why FMT religiously features claims made by Sarawak Report, including the infamous one where Ms. Rewcastle ‘mocked’ PAS president Dato’ Seri Abdul Hadi Awang for failing to sue her. 

The said article, published by FMT on the 8^th of April 2017, quoted the disgraced British journalist as saying that PAS failed to sue her despite threatening to do so. The Sarawak Report chief editor was referring to a letter of demand that Hadi’s United Kingdom (UK) lawyers issued her portal on the 13^th of December 2016. 

“They threatened to sue me within a week if I didn’t do lots of things in mid-December… but didn’t,” she said. 

But she may have spoken too soon. 

Nineteen days after that cocky and sarcastic jibe, Hadi got his lawyers to file a defamation suit against her and Sarawak Report at a High Court in London. The suit pertained allegations made by Sarawak Report that the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak, had solicited political favours from Hadi by offering the latter a RM90 million bribe. 

Ideally, the suit should have been the ‘chance of a lifetime’ for Ms. Rewcastle to prove what she had been saying all along, that the Prime Minister of Malaysia was criminally perverse and morally corrupt, enough to offer bribes just to tighten his grip on government. Instead, she failed to offer the London Court even a shred of the “smoking gun evidence” she claimed to possess despite being given months to do so. 

And that’s not all. 

This lady, who “personifies herself to be the defender of truth and justice,” even had the cheek to tell the presiding judge that she ignored past letters sent by Hadi’s lawyers as none of the others she received ended in court battles. She made that bold yet reckless claim during a Case Management hearing on the 6th of August 2017 that was called to decide the amount Hadi needed to deposit with the court as security. 

Now isn’t that tantamount to telling the judge that you’re a habitual delinquent?

And yet, she labelled my portal a “habitually libellous propaganda blog” that the mainstream media should keep a ten-foot pole distance from. Tell me, who is this white piece of trash to dictate terms to the Malaysian mainstream media? How can anyone trust a lady who conspired with her own husband to defraud British taxpayers of their hard-earned money between the years 2004 and 2006? 

'You read right - Ms. Rewcastle and her husband, Andrew Brown, were accused of receiving thousands in taxpayer money between the years 2004 and 2006 just to 'clean' the then British premier's Westminster flat.' 

– TTF

And that, my friends, is not fake news, but the legitimate findings of the British House of Commons as reported by The Telegraph on 8^th of May 2009 (screen capture below). The British daily implied that the then Prime Minister of the UK, Gordon Brown, had abused his position in power by “paying his brother” using taxpayer money “for cleaning services at his private flat at Westminter.”

MP'S EXPENSES: HOW BROWN AND HIS CABINET EXPLOIT EXPENSES SYSTEM
Gordon Brown and his most senior ministers are facing questions over their use of parliamentary expenses after the Daily Telegraph revealed details their claims. – The Daily Telegraph, May 8, 2009 

And just in case you are wondering who Gordon’s brother is, think no further – he is none other than Andrew Brown, Ms. Rewcastle’s partner in wedlock. According to the daily, receipts submitted by Gordon to the Parliamentary authorities disclosed that between 2004 and 2006, he paid Andrew £6,577 (worth some £21,000 by today’s standards) over 26 months just to clean his flat!

And if that isn’t enough evidence to convince you just how corrupt the Browns are, following is the cut-and-dry proof (also reproduced below) that will tell you the kind of trash this white spin-master of a journalist is: 

FOCUS / REVISITING HADI AWANG'S COURTROOM VICTORY AGAINST THE MIGHTY DAILY MIRROR; HADI IS CURRENTLY SUING CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN AND SARAWAK REPORT

MANY commenters had forgotten that YB Abdul Hadi Awang, MP is no stranger to the British legal system, and in fact have had a successful outing in the UK, using the same lawyer he is currently retaining. 

A good general always knows to stick to the same dark horse that wins the race, and YB Abdul Hadi Awang is looking ever the confident commander after winning his case in 2007.

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2. RELATED: ABDUL HADI AWANG - AN APOLOGY

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LEADING MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN WINS LIBEL COMPLAINT AGAINST DAILY MIRROR OVER FALSE TERRORISM ALLEGATIONS

The Defendant has explained that the photograph was published in error by the newspaper, and that it was intended to refer to a completely different person, the suspected Al-Qaeda terrorist Mr Abdul Hadi Al Iraqi. Mr Hadi Awang has no connection whatsoever with that person. The article has caused Mr Hadi Awang great embarrassment and distress.

CARTER-RUCK PRESS RELEASE

19 October 2007 

The Daily Mirror today apologised in the High Court to Mr Abdul Hadi Awang, a well-known Malaysian politician and an eminent Muslim scholar, over false allegations that he was, among other things, the Al Qaeda “number 3” and that he was being held in Guantanamo Bay.

FOCUS / CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN'S INABILITY TO SHOW PROOF TO COURT BRINGS INTO QUESTION SHOULD SHE RETURN THE MONEY COLLECTED TO DEFEND HER CASE

Sarawak Report's Clare Rewcastle Brown had famously collected £33, 513 to fund her defence in the London High Court. 

The legal suit initiated by PAS President YB Abdul Hadi Awang is revealing that Clare is having problems providing the necessary evidence to back her allegations, famously regaled through her aforementioned notoriously fake news mouthpiece. 

With this latest development in light, let's revisit what was written by Sarawak Report in order to solicit money through the portal Crowd Justice, and the NINE QUESTIONS Blog will let the readers decide whether such monies were well-spent, justified and whether those monies should be returned to the donors should Clare Rewcastle Brown be found guilty.

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DEFEND SARAWAK REPORT

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Sarawak Report is being sued by PAS, the Islamic Party of Malaysia. We believe we have a strong case and need to stand up to the big money that appears to be flowing into their action.

BY SARAWAK REPORT

For the past seven years Sarawak Report has detailed the consequences of politcal (sic) corruption in Malaysia on the environment, civil liberties and the prosperity of the nation.  We have worked on this project as a voluntary not for profit commitment.   

It was our work that exposed what has become the world's largest kleptocracy scandal, involving up to $7 billion dollars stolen from the development fund 1MDB. 

Numerous banks have been already held to account and 15th June the US Dept of Justice issued a third court order for the sequestration of over $1.5 billion in assets bought with money stolen by 1MDB.   

The Prime Minister of Malaysia, Najib Razak, has admitted he used much of this money to buy political support and to win the last election - although he claims that the $681 million that went into his own accounts came from a mystery Saudi Royal donor and not 1MDB as detailed by the joint US, Swiss, Singapore, Abu Dhabi, UK, Hong Kong and Luxembourg investigations into the scandal.Sarawak Report has led on this massive international scandal all the way, revealing story after story both on the crime itself and the distribution of all the proceeds.   

There have been numerous legal threats by various players, but so far none have sued us in the face of overwhelming evidence. [{SR} didn’t {respond to the letters} because the extremely recalcitrant and preponderant Ms. Rewcastle ignored the letters and told the judge that she received dozens of such letters, none of which ended in court battles. Earlier today, she asked the judge to grant her an extension to submit her case against Hadi but it was refused." – The Third Force] However,  Malaysia's Islamic party PAS has now taken exception to being caught up in the scandal, having broken with the opposition alliance in order to collaborate with the Prime Minister's own BN alliance at the very height of the exposures of theft from the development fund. 

Sarawak Report pointed out that the PM distributes money to gain political support and that considerable largesse was noted to have been passing from his administration for the first time into PAS during this very period of intense scandal, at which point a section of the leadership chose to rupture its links with the opposition and later work with Najib instead - splitting the party's own leadership and following in the process. PAS's President Hadi has said he views our comments as a personal attack on his reputation in the UK, yet he is seeking to avoid placing security of costs in the UK court before we file our defence. 

This forces us to pay for expensive legal support to file that defence, money we have little hope of retrieving, whether or not he continues with his case. We believe this is a politically motivated attack and that the people involved are hoping we will settle the action rather than place a defence.  They will then use that outcome, backed by BN's powerful propaganda machine to seek to discredit us.  Please help us fight this case in order to counter this the latest of so many attempts to discredit our work.

('Defend Sarawak Report.' – June 2017)

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One more question: Is this type of donation taxable, and were there any declarations made to honour it by Clare Rewcastle Brown?

– The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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The NINE QUESTIONS Blog will return with more facts.

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BREAKING / THE "WOLVES" ARE BITING BACK AS THE DOJ BALKS ON PROCEEDING WITH 1MDB CASE

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2. RELATED: RED GRANITE OPPOSES DELAY IN DOJ SUITS OVER 1MDB-LINKED ASSETS
3. RELATED: RED GRANITE OPPOSES DOJ'S PROPOSED PAUSE ON 1MDB SUITS

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FEDS FACE RESISTANCE IN BID TO DELAY 1MDB FORFEITURE CASES FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION

Schwartz adds that the government's request is "without precedent" and a violation of his clients' due process rights. 

REPORTED BY THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

The financier of Wolf of Wall Street and others whose assets have been tied up as part of a U.S. government crackdown on foreign corruption are slamming a proposed delay in the 1MDB forfeiture cases.

Earlier this month, federal prosecutors explained the need to pause civil litigation. With claims being made on assets including Hollywood films, a catalogue of EMI songs, a Picasso painting once given to Leonardo DiCaprio, real estate in Beverly Hills, London and New York, and more, the feds sought permission to prioritize their ongoing criminal investigation into an alleged conspiracy to launder money misappropriated from a Malaysian public fund.

Prosecutors wrote that a stay is warranted "because proceeding with civil discovery will have an obvious adverse effect on the related criminal investigation.... Any disclosures by the government beyond those in the complaint will reveal details of the underlying investigation to which the potential targets and subjects are not entitled."

CURRENT / SHR, MZB FROM THE NINE QUESTIONS PANEL AND OTHER MATTERS SURROUNDING THE PECULIAR CLARE REWCASTLE BROWN

Dear esteemed readers,

Firstly, the NINE QUESTIONS Panel would like to extend our sincerest apologies for any shortcomings in our endeavours.

SALAM AIDIL FITRI, MAAF ZAHIR DAN BATIN

We are sorry for every typographical, grammatical, punctuation, and even factual errors we may have committed in the past in our quest at providing you with the fullest picture that this bewilderingly adventurous saga deserves - and at NINE QUESTIONS FOR SARAWAK REPORT, we focus on the activities and motivations of Sarawak Report and its founder, Clare Rewcastle Brown.

To our knowledge, all facts stated by the panelists check out and should there be legitimate dispute that proves us in error, we are more than happy to respond whether by way of explanation or retraction, whichever action being the correct one to take upon reasonable consideration.

In the true spirit of the month of Syawal, we also extend our heartfelt apologies to Madam Clare Rewcastle and her team of loyalists for our efforts in exposing the truth about their organisation, and insofar that they have failed to achieve their ultimate quests, we - alongside countless others - feel complicit in making that a reality. While we apologise for what may strike you as harsh and stinging facts, we make no apologies for performing our duties of presenting these potentially damaging truths as clearly and unaltered as possible - a fact shown in all our writings, and more importantly unrefuted by Clare Rewcastle Brown herself to this day even as she is in full knowledge of our activities.

On that note, we thank the new and returning readers and seekers of truth who have surged in their visit during the weekend.

Let us be clear that it is not our intention to specify the penalties deserving for these clearly rogue actors, but rather to inform all and sundry that there are certain predetermined consequences that these actions may invite, and those are all dependent on the passage of time, and the specific legal conditions being met.

Their fates should ultimately be decided by more learned and legally-sanctioned bodies.

As an example, let's suppose that Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is indeed guilty beyond any reasonable doubt. Although that is not the case, everyone who have made up their minds untinged by even an iota of uncertainty (well before any investigation had been completed, it must be mentioned) are now left wondering why isn't the man yet in jail or facing some sort of justice or another.

The answers lie, as above, in "the passage of time, and the specific legal conditions being met" - succinctly speaking, of course.

Having said that, given the irrefutable information about the crookedness of Sarawak Report's activities - it trying to mask itself as the purveyor of undiluted and non-partisan truth working in Malaysia's best interest as opposed to being an Opposition lackey that is bent on marketing them as the unsullied Godsent to usher in their rule of the  Federation - we make no apologies for each and every unrecanted word, phrase and quotation that have been incorporated into the articles written by the NINE QUESTIONS Panel.

The words, phrases and quotations serve as the facts that form the baseline of understanding of the bigger picture than what is being painted and composited by Sarawak Report and company simply because they would rather the mirror only be directed towards the 'away' position.

THE 2016 SARAWAK STATE ELECTION AFTERMATH

Heralding Sarawak Report's growing irrelevance is the recently-concluded Sarawak State Election (SSE2016), held on May 7, 2016.

As the readers may have well noticed, we provided no covering of the SSE2016 due to the simple fact that the State of Sarawak itself bears no relevance to Sarawak Report, which by now is clearly only hijacking the name of Sarawak to serve the personal glory of one single person - Clare Rewcastle Brown. A fraudulent and failed journalist of the past; a whistle-tooting Bandit Queen of the present - 'exposing' everybody else except for herself and her friends.

Aside from spending too much time and effort on things other than Sarawak to maximise her readership and reach, two further simple facts demonstrate this assertion:

1. The parties endorsed by Sarawak Report, namely the repeatedly-defunct alliance of the Democratic Action Party (DAP), Parti KeAdilan Rakyat (PKR) and Parti Amanah Rakyat (PAN) were trounced in the Sarawak State Election and the BN candidate successor to Governor Tun Taib, Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem won by a jaw-dropping landslide, but hardly to the surprise of many. 

In case anyone is wondering whether we had made a typographical error where the acronym PAS (which stands for Parti Islam se-Malaysia) should be instead of PAN, then they are not alone because PAS was abruptly dropped by the DAP in an acrimonious, self-dectructing divorce that took place at the height of the 1MDB debacle before the year 2015 sighed its breath of last relief. 

To put it simply, PAN is the multi-million ringgit love child between DAP and PKR after PAS had to leave in a huff. 

While the losers from the Opposition were quick to point to vote buying - amongst other sinister BN-induced factors in their arsenal of 'Standard Excuses for Losing Elections' - as the main reason, they eventually conceded an honourable defeat because in order to maintain that face-saving but thoughtless excuse, they would then have had to answer how then did they manage to 'buy their votes' during the last election. The said election saw a slight, but dramatic uptick in support for the Opposition, thereby slapping their own faces on the backhand. 

2. During the run-up to the SSE2016, we barely noticed more than a few articles playing sideshow to the local coverage of what is happening on the ground. Sarawak Report halfheartedly waffles between semi-discharged poison pen mode to insincere feigned praisefulness of the current Chief Minister of Sarawak Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Adenan Satem with the purpose to denigrate the previous CM, whom the former succeeds in one of the smoothest power transfers by a long-serving incumbent Head of Government witnessed in the country by far. 

Unlike the previous elections, Sarawak Report went on a more cautious coverage and this is obviously due to it realising that the over-the-top, blatantly tabloid-media-trash gossip-mongering-without-legitimate-factual-backing approach truly do take their long-term toll. The only thing that their reader needs to realise that they are being scammed by Clare Brown and Co., is time to digest the contradicting facts surrounding CB&Co.'s true colours. And time is what it took. 

As far as the namesake of the now-satirical Sarawak Report blog is concerned, Sarawak Report has failed, and will continue to fail their ultimate goal: to see to it that their friends in the Opposition take power - if not Sarawak, then just Malaysia would do.

THE SELECTIVE, FAUX 'WHISTLE-BLOWER'

While the 1MDB issue raged on, the excuse we often hear from Sarawak Report for being neck-deep in the muckracking and distortion of information that they received, stole, illegally bought, and swindled - then packaged and primed for worldwide dissemination - was that they are looking out for the interest of the country that is beset in corrupt practices, and that members of the Opposition are frequently targeted for political persecution. So, Sarawak Report flies in for the rescue.

It seems that Clare Brown is more interested in using the interim window between the start and finish of the investigations taking place simultaneously in various Western countries to make up whatever conclusion that can be made so that her version of the truth gets to the people first, and subsequent findings by the investigative bodies - whatever it may be in the end - would then be called into question should it contradict the conclusions made by Sarawak Report. Thus, Sarawak Report scores another cheap shot into the basket of the court of world opinion.

But this crass, belligerent and reckless approach becomes absurd when one of the high-ranking politicians highly regarded by Clare becomes under investigation for allegedly purchasing his current RM6.5 million house in exchange for government favours.

Strangely though, we don't see Clare Rewcastle Brown making even a single peep about the case, whether for or against. Not even to say that he is a victim of political persecution.

This puts them in a dilemma: Sarawak Report is potentially stuck with having made endorsement of the DAP - the party in which embattled Chief Minister of Penang, Yang Amat Berhormat (literally, His Most Respectable) Lim Guan Eng of Melaka is Secretary-General.

1. If he is found to be crooked beyond doubt, then she would be further exposed of another fraudulent claim on top of the other fraudulent claims she had made in the past on different occasions - too countless to recount them all here, but they can be found in our past articles. 

It is bad enough for one to endorse another by genuine mistake and good faith after an honest apology, but it is infinitely worse for one to know that someone has been crooked, but keeps quiet about it until one is no longer able to. 

That would indeed be a classic case of holding in one's own scream after shooting oneself in the foot. 

2. If he is found to be clean, however, then it would be even more obvious that someone who is on a conclusion-jumping-spree would be the first to jump to the rescue of someone so embattled as our unfortunate Chief Minister of Penang. 

Though, startling fact remains that Sarawak Report is deathly silent on the presumed innocence of YAB Lim Guan Eng and this leaves the observer to wonder if there is something concrete that Clare Brown knows of, but would rather not reveal perhaps due to the reason stated in dilemma breakdown #1.

The bottom line remains, however, that Clare Rewcastle Brown is Rita Skeeter for all intents and purposes, selective and very partial in her so-called reporting - a trait invariably associated with false marketing strategies of all colours and shapes.

THE LATEST BANK NEGARA LEAKS AND OTHER SIDESHOW ANTICS

As with anybody interested in the logical, proper and legal conclusion of the 1MDB saga, the NINE QUESTIONS Blog isn't impressed with the continued harassment and unlawful publication of materials during the course of investigations.

If their intention was to pressure the Government to initiate proper investigations into the 1MDB scandal, then why are they still producing leaks from officially-protected documents even long after investigation papers have been opened up by various lawful bodies around the world, potentially upsetting the findings of professional investigators (of which Clare Rewcastle Brown is not in fellowship*) who are working diligently to conclude their investigations?

[*The inclusion of over 200 investigative journalists and news organisations (with 22 from the UK alone) involved in the Panama Papers investigation totally ignored Sarawak Report and Clare Rewcastle Brown - a show of how obscure and disreputable both SR and CRB actually are in the world of investigative journalism. Due to the high number of Malaysians and even the fact that one of PM Najib Razak's own sons is found to be on the list of persons of interest, it becomes a terribly huge question as to why didn't someone so prominently associated with 'fighting corruption in Malaysia' such as Clare Rewcastle Brown get the invitation to participate in such a relevant and groundbreaking investigative endeavour. The simple explanation seems to be that Clare Brown in actual, cruel fact, simply isn't a journalist to those who are actual journalists capable of carrying out impartial, professional and clinical investigations without the prospect of abuse to serve a self-important goal.]

In a genuine investigation, a person with information would entrust leaks to the investigative bodies. This is simply due to the need for the various different leaks to be compiled alongside with other leaks obtained or will continue to be obtained through various sources of varying reliability. 

It would be the job of the investigative bodies - not the journalist - to ascertain the veracity and genuineness of every datum available in order to determine where they fit into a complex puzzle in order to find specific, irrefutable, provable and accurate answers surrounding any given case.

Suppose we put ourselves into Sarawak Report's shoes, and one day we come into possession of a classified, leaked document that is integral to an ongoing investigation into a matter of public interest. The ethical thing for a proper investigative journalist to do is to hand the classified documents over to the authorities with the intention that the latest leak be included into the investigation.

If the need arises, the proper journalist can, with the agreement of the investigators make a joint public announcement to gazette the fact that the said information had been handed over, and that the responsibility now rests in the hands of the sanctioned and lawful body that is involved in the investigation. Or, the proper journalist can also choose to release a general statement on her news portal, should the investigators refuse to make any joint statement - understandable given the sensitivity of their position. But at no time whatsoever, should the proper investigative journalist take the liberty to score preemptive points at speculations while at the same time jeopardising the fidelity and impartiality of the case being looked into.

This trait is glaringly lacking in Sarawak Report and Clare Rewcastle Brown, and it is this very trait that sets the proper investigative journalists at ICIJ apart from the likes of Clare Rewcastle Brown. Watching them is like watching Slytherin and Gryffindor practice the same magic, but with different intentions and purposes. Maybe 'alohamora' to steal documents and things like that.

Thus, leaking documents and making own conclusions based on (a) one's own biases, and (b) partial information often kept separate from discussions about other data, shows that the actual intention of the leaker-publisher-speculator is not in helping to speed along any investigations that are currently already underway, but simply to preempt any conclusions that may contradict their premature conclusions.

But then if the investigators would happen to conclude in agreement with them, they can then say, "Well, we were correct all along..."

Yes. That would be such a Slytherin thing to do - to do the wrong thing on the off-chance that it may turn out the right one all along.

1MDB 'CRIMES' VS 'CHILCOT' CRIMES

Once again, we had recently crossed an important threshold in world history with the release of the much-awaited Iraq Inquiry Report*, or more popularly referred to as the Chilcot Report, after its Commissioner, Sir John Chilcot, Privy Councillor of Britain.

[*While we commend the British Government for publicly releasing such a self-damning report that is potentially damaging to the reputation of one of its former Prime Ministers, and that we are also hopeful that the Malaysian Government would eventually keep to its promise of putting the 1MDB Report out for public view, we are certainly disagreeable with the manner in which such a document that carries within it a matter of high national and public importance is being treated by Sarawak Report as simply another cheap trinket to be hacked into bits and time-released for whatever nefarious purposes they have planned. The release of such a significant document can only be done in whole, and not in parts. This also makes one wonder why would Sarawak Report not have released the report in whole, if such a document is indeed in their possession. Such an act of disrespect to the nation is simply unbecoming, yet baffling still with regards that Clare Rewcastle Brown had previously declared how much she loves Malaysia and how much she wants to save it from corruption. Well, she can start by not releasing the 1MDB Report in bits - littered with her preemptive conclusions, and not giving the chance for the public to decide for themselves, and if Sarawak Report wants to release it, why not release the whole thing, without truncations. Until that happens, SR's intentions remain suspect to put it mildly.]

Even on the cursory level, it is easy to conclude that the report points out mainly to one thing: That Britain went to war with Iraq under false pretexes and in that as the loyal seeing-eye dog of the United States - that adorable fuzzy little thing that everybody trusts (the dog, not the United States).

Thus, as the report had pointed out, the once-great coloniser of the planet is now reduced to being simply a man's best friend under its former Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair.

Pundits may absolve themselves of any responsibility, but just like any other nation in the world, any decision made by an elected Prime Minister should be a responsibility borne by all. And being such a reckless action committed by none other than one of the loudest proponents of the so-called 'free world', the illegal invasion of Iraq has put a permanent black stain onto each and every citizen of the nation of Great Britain.

Having said that, as Mr Tony Blair was their Prime Minister, at this current juncture, it is they who need to take action against him, and no one else should have that say, unless the matter manages to be heard at an international tribunal - a scenario that is highly unlikely, unless one is named Slobodan Milosevic or Saddam Hussein (both of whom were also responsible of at least thousands of deaths).

The same thing can be said of 1MDB and the after-effects of the bad management decisions that it had committed that prompted such a massive scandal to hit the country. In the end, it is all Malaysians who will be bearing the brunt of any proven guilt to borne by the actual responsible parties. As it stands, there still is nothing yet that serves as concrete proof of PM Najib having masterminded and personally benefitted in the lost fortunes of 1MDB. Not even after all the leaked documents, there is still nothing.

Nothing that warrants stunts such as the bogus waran tangkap or 'arrest warrant' issued by some poor crud at Sarawak Report who can hardly tell that one actually needs an investigation to actually conclude to actually issue any convincing arrest document.

International investigations? Still nothing as yet. We recommend letting them take as long as they need, but even in that case, the Swiss investigators had also helpfully clarified that PM Najib is not a subject of their investigation. That certainly punched out most of the air from all but the biggest of hotheads, and out of those, it seems that Clare Rewcastle Brown is leading the pack to fashion anything and everything into something that can incriminate, and thus bring down the Prime Minister of Malaysia.

It's like, "Look, a rabbit! That surely means 'Jibby' stole all that money, killed the Mongolian and shot the plane with the submarine he bought." And it's becoming more and more like that as the day goes by and they can't seem to get into another mindset other than their by-now fringed and debunked theories about the Prime Minister's supposed guilt.

But suppose that he is 100% guilty of whatever it is that Sarawak Report wants him to be guilty of. Let's say he did kill the unfortunate Mongolian supermodel. Let's say he did take all that money and then some. Say he did all of those things. Must be a bad man and he must be punished. So what punishment do we give him? In order to determine that, we should at least compare his case with similar ones from elsewhere.

Oh conveniently, we also have the Chilcot Report. Let's see what happened in Iraq and compare it with the 1MDB scandal, as both of them are reports that could potentially break a Prime Minister's career and legacy.

To keep it simple, let's compare the very basics: the costs of war in terms of human and material tolls. To date, the now pointless war in Iraq (2003-2006) cost the UK £8.4 billion (yes that is the pound before Brexit rates). With that money, it manages - together with the USA - to cause around 251,000 violent deaths, according to website IraqBodyCount.org. Out of that were about 179,000 civilians. That is the basic cost breakdown for the "I'm with you, whatever" War in Iraq.

Compare that to the alleged 1MDB losses and put that into perspective.

Mr Tony Blair is still a man-at-large, living in complete freedom at home in the UK, and is expected not to be recriminated for his actions.

At the risk of being insensitive - not our intention - we question the overwhelming sense of priority that some people of influence has about the world around them. Here we have a Briton, daughter of a former colonial officer demanding for the stepping down of the democratically-elected Prime Minister of the sovereign country of Malaysia, a former British colony. She unilaterally charges, along with her local cohort of Opposition politicians, the leaders from the ruling Government as inconsolably corrupted and thus require immediate removal from office in order to save the country from certain destruction. It is a huge relief that she is not in command of a standing army, otherwise - as history would show - she may have sent some liberation our way in the very Blair sense of the word. And how about Mr Blair? Still Scott-free while Clare is busy chasing the ant across the tanjung.

And to Clare Rewcastle Brown's hard-core supporters, we ask, "What the hell are you zombies thinking? Whatever it is, you're the last people we should be listening to."

CONCLUSION

At the very end, the bottom line is this: Whatever leaks that have been partially exposed to the public and possibly doctored by Sarawak Report, the truth remains that other than causing a commotion amongst bored readers catatonically awaiting some sort of determinable conclusion to this long-winding and draggy operatta, none of these individual leaks actually contain any smoking gun that actually points out to the Prime Minister Najib having actually committed whatever crimes that they had initially accused of him doing - most famously amongst the myriad array of accusations were the "disappearance" of RM42 billion (false: it was a RM42 billion debt incurred by 1MDB. It seems that their target audience in this case is people who can't tell the difference between "missing" and "debt") and RM2.6 billion were siphoned out from 1MDB to PM Najib's personal accounts (false: PM Najib admitted that it was a donation from a Saudi royalty, whom was later determined to be the late King Abdullah himself and this was later corroborated by the Saudi Foreign Minister).

In fact, instead of smoking guns, we get a smoky hall full of mirrors - the perfect premise for Clare Brown to conjure more rabbits out of her old hat of tricks. Unfortunately for her, we have all seen that the rabbit was actually a hare, and only her most die-hard fans are still going, "WOW! Another rabbit, please!" while clapping away with gnashing teeth.

Many are just sticking around to see how the whole show would end. Would the circus tent come crashing down on the one-trick pony? That is not for us to determine, and we are glad for it.

As recent events have shown us, the cracks are showing in the once-shining knight's armour that a saviour from the fair land of England has been wearing in order to fulfil her manifest destiny over the poor, mistreated and naked brown people of Borneo. 

Unlike in the glory days when the sun never set on the British empire, when her father used to be a colonial 'knight' of his own, Clare Rewcastle Brown is faced with the embarrassing reality that her once-Great country is but a shadow of its former imperial self.

Save for a few misguided individuals, no citizen of a former colony would look too kindly upon someone from the former 'mother country' coming along to show the once-subjugated populace how things should be done. Because, "Look at my country and gaze at Her Greatness."

And as we can see in the events culminating into what transpired in 2003 with the start of the US-UK Iraqi War (Operation Iraqi Liberation, as it was originally coined before someone realised that it bore a Freudian slip of an acronym), can we trust any Briton (a politically entrenched and rooted at that) who comes along into one of their former colonies and says, "I am here to save you"?

Only the lunatics with ulterior motives would welcome such 'saviours' with open arms. In the Malaysian terminology, those elements are often referred by their callsign: "tali barut".

No wonder then, we see Sarawak Report cleanly avoiding such potentially disrobing topics such as British military dalliances in countries other than Britain for example, out of fear that her actual relevance would seep away faster than it is eroding as we speak.

Thus, we can see why the sudden urge for Clare Rewcastle Brown to put her neck further and further on the line to keep up the appearance of the caring saviour to Malaysians, when in fact her ultimate function is merely to look after her own interests as a British citizen pining for the reenactment of the glorious colonial days of her late father whom she admittedly adores.

Britain is well-known for having propped up crooked regimes in the past. Who is to say that the same won't happen if Agent Clare Brown succeeds in planting her candidate of choice to rule over Malaysia, forever indebted to her significant contributions toward their installment?

Thus, from this point forth, further leaks and speculations from Sarawak Report can safely be regarded as ultimately self-serving and a means for an end that will benefit only Clare Rewcastle Brown with the help of some Malaysian talis barut and her followers abroad.

As far as the NINE QUESTIONS FOR SARAWAK REPORT is concerned, her case has been made, and her true colours have been painted widely across a giant canvas. Any further revelations are surely to repeat another cycle of speculations, but the fact remains: "If you had a smoking gun, wouldn't you have used it much earlier to shoot your target with and send him to oblivion once and for all?"

Evidently, that gun doesn't exist.

The Panel may or may not make comments about each and every cyclical actions that Sarawak Report decides to commit, but we may post an entry or two should we find anything worth commenting on in future.

As it stands, the case against Clare Rewcastle Brown has been made for this court of public opinion, and given the passage of time, more and more readers would be more wizened to this unprincipled chameleon.

The NINE QUESTIONS FOR SARAWAK REPORT Blog is glad to have told you at least a part of their story, and we are also glad for your readership and patience in understanding the materials provided.

Until we meet again, let as many people as you can know the real undisputed facts behind Sarawak Report and CRB by sharing our articles.

Thank you for reading and following us, and may justice prevail.

–The NINE QUESTIONS Panel

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BREAKING / SR V RPK: RPK CONCEDES TO SR; CLARE'S FANS CHEER

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RAJA PETRA'S BLOG RETRACTS ANTI-CLARE ARTICLE, EXPRESSES REGRET

REPORTED BY MALAYSIAKINI

Malaysia-Today.net, a blog owned by blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin, has retracted an article discrediting Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown, who had written extensively about the multi-billion ringgit deposits received by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and 1MDB.

The article, titled 'A Record of Untrue Stories - The Case of Clare Rewcastle', also carried a picture of Rewcastle-Brown with the caption, 'A fraudulent journalist'.

In Malaysia Today's statement of regret published on its website yesterday, the portal noted that the article made a number of allegations against Rewcastle-Brown, who had complained that they were untrue.

"We did not write the article and were not involved in its writing and we do not have any relationship with its authors.

FOCUS / SR V RPK: SEDDONS LETTER REVEALS MORE THAN REWCASTLE INTENDED

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2. RELATED: THE SEDDONS-RPK CORRESPONDENCE
3. RELATED: KES SRC INTERNATIONAL DAN DANA RM2.6 BILLION: SPRM AKAN RESPONS ARAHAN PEGUAM NEGARA DALAM WAKTU TERDEKAT
4. RELATED: IS RETURN OF THE PRODIGAL SON COINCIDENTAL?
5. RELATED:  MALAYSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION SNUBS REWCASTLE BROWN
6. RELATED: A RECORD OF UNTRUE STORIES - THE CASE OF CLARE REWCASTLE

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DECONSTRUCTING THE SEDDONS CORRESPONDENCE

Underneath the strongly-worded, yet sloppy semi-confession and preemptive defence jumps out damaging details and admissions that Clare Rewcastle Brown can no longer deny.

BY CASSIUS PEREIRA

In a surprising development, Sarawak Report is confirmed to have served London-based blogger-in-exile Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) a letter of demand through their attorney, Seddons on April 7, 2016.

Contained within the correspondence are basically accusations of erroneous reporting on the part of RPK, demanding - amongst others - for the removal of specific articles that points directly to her murky, hidden past.

1. WHAT "DAMAGING MATERIAL" IS CLARE REWCASTLE TRYING TO KEEP BURIED?

"At the foot of the Malaysia Today article you have provided a hyperlink labelled "READ MORE HERE", inviting readers to click on the link and thereby visit and read what appears at http://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/malaysia/a-record-of-untrue-stories-the-case-of-clare-rewcastle/, a page on a website operated in the name Open Source Investigations ("the OSI article") ... As has obviously been your intention, by so doing you will have caused and will continue to cause readers of the Malaysia Today article also to visit and read the OSI article." – Seddons

Also, the letter continues, "The Articles assert that Ms Rewcastle Brown was a dishonest journalist who was not able to get a job at the BBC or ITV as she was known to publish stories that were known by her to be untrue ... It is your allegation that is deliberately untrue, designed as it is to undermine the corruption that our client has exposed and which you seek to hide. Ms Rewcastle Brown has never run a story that she knew to be untrue."

The article in question (see #6 below) actually features a short, but highly damaging report by the reputable Private Eye Magazine, in its 958th issue of September 4, 1998.

CURRENT / JUSTO V TONG & CO.: SET TO REVEAL THE BROWN CONNECTION; REWCASTLE BUYS TIME

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3. RELATED: MEDIA TYCOON TONG KOOI ONG SEEKS TO STRIKE OUT JUSTO'S REPLY TO DEFENCE PAPERS

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TRIAL LOOMS OVER 'STOLEN DATA DEAL' BETWEEN JUSTO AND TONG

Singapore High Court case may reveal how Edge owner and Sarawak Report came to possess PetroSaudi and 1MDB data.

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

KUALA LUMPUR, April 12, 2016– 

Details of secret dealings between convicted extortioner Javier Andre Justo and Edge media group owner Tong Kooi Ong may surface if an on-going civil action goes to trial in Singapore, reports Singapore’s Straits Times, with a pre-trial conference slated to be held later this week. 

According to the report, Swiss national, Justo, 48, who was PetroSaudi International (UK)’s IT manager until April 2011, is suing Tong for damages in the island nation’s High Court. 

Justo says that he was owed US$2 million after handing over two data storage drives at Fullerton Hotel to Tong in February last year. 

CURRENT / JUSTO V TONG & CO.: PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE HELD

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PRE-TRIAL CONFERENCE HELD BETWEEN JUSTO'S AND TONG'S LAWYERS

Justo is suing Tong and Group Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Edge Ho Kay Tat and founder-editor of the Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown for damages.

REPORTED BY BERNAMA

SINGAPORE, April 13, 2016– 

A pre-trial conference between lawyers representing Xavier Andre Justo and Datuk Tong Kooi Ong was held in chambers at the Singapore Supreme Court this morning.

Damodara Hazra LLP appeared for the Swiss national Justo while David Lim & Partners LLP represented Tong, owner of The Edge Media Group, at the conference before

Assistant Registrar Ho Yee Tien Delphine.

Suresh Damodara, lawyer for the 48-year-old former employee of PetroSaudi International, and Tong's counsel Doris Chia declined to comment.

Justo is suing Tong and Group Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Edge Ho Kay Tat and founder-editor of the Sarawak Report Clare Rewcastle Brown for damages.

Ho and Rewcastle Brown were unrepresented.

BREAKING / JUSTO LAUNCHES HIS SINGAPORE ASSAULT

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1MDB LEAK DEAL: EX-PETROSAUDI EXEC SUES THE EDGE OWNER IN SINGAPORE COURT

He also cited WhatsApp exchanges between Mr Tong, two other people and himself as evidence, as well as meetings in Bangkok and Singapore between himself and Mr Tong and/or others. These allegedly included two meetings with Ms Clare Rewcastle-Brown, the owner and editor of The Sarawak Report, in a Bangkok hotel in 2014.

REPORTED BY THE STRAITS TIMES OF SINGAPORE

Details of the alleged deal behind the leaks that spawned claims about the misappropriation of billions at a Malaysian state investment firm linked to Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak may well unravel in the High Court in Singapore.

Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo, the man allegedly behind the leaks, is suing the owner of Malaysia's The Edge media group Tong Kooi Ong and two others for damages.

Justo claims that he handed over two data storage drives in Mr Tong's presence at a Fullerton Hotel meeting in February last year in return for US$2 million (S$2.7 million) - money which he never received. 

He wants the items - which contain data about global oil services firm PetroSaudi and its business partner 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) - to be returned and for any copies to be destroyed, according to court documents filed last November.

BREAKING / SR VS RPK?

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RAJA PETRA: MAHATHIR AND SARAWAK REPORT TRYING TO SILENCE ME
He vowed not to back down, and defiantly wrote: “Do your worst”. 

REPORTED BY FREE MALAYSIA TODAY

Raja Petra Kamarudin has accused Sarawak Report editor Clare Rewcastle-Brown and the anti-Najib forces around former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad of attempting to silence him for life through a court order and, at worst, commit him to jail. 

He wrote today that he had been sent a legal notice from Sarawak Report to take down all articles about Clare Rewcastle-Brown and Sarawak Report published at Malaysia Today and to publish an apology drafted by them. 

BREAKING / MALAYSIAN POLICE RECORDED JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK

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2. RELATED:IGP: JUSTO'S STATEMENT ON 1MDB RECORDED

3. RELATED:MALAYSIAN COPS RECORD JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK

4. RELATED: IGP: JUSTO'S STATEMENT ON 1MDB RECORDED 

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POLICE RECORDED JUSTO'S STATEMENT IN BANGKOK: IGP KHALID

REPORTED BY THE NEW STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR, (BERNAMA) December 15, 2015–

Malaysian police’s plan to record Swiss national Xavier Andre Justo’s statement in connection with 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) proceeded today as scheduled in Bangkok, Thailand. 

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar confirmed this to Bernama when asked about the move to record the statement of the PetroSaudi former employer who is currently being detained in Bangkok.