'CIA classified documents as cover-up': McBride
Former IPID head Robert McBride has told the state capture commission the Crime Intelligence Agency classified documents during his time, in order to avoid investigations.
He's testifying today - as the commission seeks to find out whether law enforcement agencies were manipulated and weakened deliberately to protect high profile individuals.
McBride says there is a litany of cases related to corruption including the looting of funds from the Crime Intelligence Unit account - which IPID couldn't investigate - because officials wouldn't co-operate.
"Any request for information from Crime Intelligence except for a brief period - is generally met with resistance. And very often, crime intelligence will resort to specious classification of documents in contravention of the policy on minimum information security standards which forbids the use of classification to cover up maladministration for criminal conduct ," McBride said.
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