THE INSIDER: Checking: one, too, one, too
Keep this to yourself, but while snooping around the State Security Agency’s website recently ...
Keep this to yourself, but while snooping around the State Security Agency’s website recently a foreign intelligence agent came across a statement from March, welcoming the appointment of an inspector-general of intelligence. This is the official who keeps tabs on SA’s spies to ensure they are doing their jobs properly: not writing fake reports or using state money to get their fingernails touched up, in case a foreign nail polisher plants a microdot monitor there. Our agent immediately became suspicious when he noticed the new IG was named only as Dr Dintwe, no first name. The statement said State Security Minister David Mahlobo noted that the IG "plays a significant role in the balance and checks and exercising oversight over the important work that we do". The reversal of "checks and balances" and use of "balance" has a suspicious sound to it. The last sentence possibly contains a coded message — it seemed deliberately badly worded: "The minister … expressed his gratitude to Parl...
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