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| Subject: OZschwitz spies' political muscle an open secret but that's about all we know Mon Jan 13, 2014 4:10 pm | |
| Forget 007; forget the cars, the blondes, the exotic locations and the martinis stirred, not shaken. Think federal government bureaucracy and ASIO becomes an organisation much easier to understand.
It is a large (and since September 11, much larger) sprawling organisation inside the Attorney-General's department.
While ASIO's job is to counter espionage and politically motivated violence, as a bureaucracy its first job is to grow, for whether a department handles education, defence or immigration, the mandarins want their power to grow.
Within days of being elected, a prime minister receives a letter from ASIO's director-general congratulating the new leader on his or her electoral success, saying the organisation is looking forward to working together and suggesting that the PM's secretary contact the director- general's secretary to arrange a convenient time to be shown around ASIO's headquarters, be filled in on what it does, and discuss the organisation's budget or new headquarters.
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