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P2 above - "[his]  US counterpart, Transport Secretary Anthony Foxx, who visited Melbourne yesterday, would comment on whether the FBI data should be released. “I have learned very well to let the FBI speak for the FBI and I have learned very well not to get in the middle of what the investigators have found and let them speak for themselves,’’ said Mr Foxx.

In even a friendly ambush, or church dance, it is important to be quick on your feet. Dazaa caught out again, flat footed, off the beat and with no ‘script’ to lean on got to dance with the wall flower.  Foxx, from the US of A, smarter and quicker waltzed out with the Belle of the ball.  Far too clever and savvy by half to invoke the FBI, who only hold a brief for, what?

The FBI.
is further vested by law and by Presidential directives with the primary role in carrying out investigations within the United States of threats to the national security. This includes the lead domestic role in investigating international terrorist threats to the United States, and in conducting counter intelligence activities to meet foreign entities' espionage and intelligence efforts directed against the United States.

Someone tackle Darren; or, tie his feet together to prevent him changing the foot in his mouth, for the other, every time he forgets his lines. And yet we still wonder why the world at large has trouble taking Australia seriously.  Please keep this muppet off stage; at least till it learns it's lines, properly.

P2 comment - In the following pic of Federal, State & Territory Transport and Infrastructure Ministers with Transport Secretary Foxx, spot the doer from the PF...



Please PM & Barnacle can we have the doer rather than the PF Muppet - pretty please?? 

Further update to our double foot in the mouth, DDDD miniscule on MH370, where it seems that Murky & Hoody have given the miniscule some new lines...

SKY AM Agenda—interview with David Speers

David Speers: Yeah, that is a real worry. We'll keep an eye on that one. I just want to get your thoughts too on MH370. You're under pressure, the Australian Government's under pressure to keep the search going, you and China and Malaysia recently announced that it will conclude after the current zone is searched. But we are seeing further signs pointing towards the pilot being responsible for bringing down the plane deliberately. What is your view on this theory, some say it's more than a theory now? Was the pilot responsible?

Darren Chester: Well, David, we need to keep in mind how the tripartite approach to this incident has been carried out. So, there is Malaysia, China and Australia all working very closely together. The Malaysians as the flag state for MH370 have responsibility for the investigation into the events leading up to the disappearance of MH370. Australia's role has been very much focused on the search. First of all, we're involved in the aircraft search- sorry, for the aerial search where we had our defence personnel doing a great job more than two years ago now and then we've moved on to the underwater search aspect of it now, relying on the best available analysis of the evidence where we had the last satellite handshake of MH370 indicated it was somewhere about 2600 kilometres west of Perth when it went into the ocean.

And we've targeted an area of 120,000 square kilometres for a very detailed underwater search. Now, we're about 90 per cent of our way through that search area, so about 10,000 square kilometres still to be searched and we're hopeful that we'll have some success in those remaining weeks and months out in the ocean but if we don't find the aircraft after that 120,000 square kilometres, the agreement between China, Malaysia and Australia is we will suspend the search awaiting any further credible evidence which would lead to a specific location so, we're not abandoning the search…

David Speers: [Interrupts] Well, the credible evidence is that the system you talk about, the satellite, the tracking systems were shut down. Now, there's of course evidence, apparently, about the pilot's home flight simulator tracking a very similar plot just a month before this and a flaperon that's been found, it was part of MH370, it was in a lowered position and the experts say that does indicate it was a controlled ditch by the pilot.

Darren Chester: So, David, this is what people need to understand here: our last factual bit of evidence was the satellite handshake which indicated the aircraft was descending rapidly in an area they call the seventh arc which has been the highest priority area, the focus area of the search. That doesn't change whether a simulated flight from weeks or months previously indicated something else, the actual fact is this is where we last had contact with the aircraft and I'm not in a position to second guess our experts. We've had world leading experts from Australia, from the ATSB, but also from Boeing and from around the world looking at the data we have and coming up with our highest priority search area. This is not guesswork—this is the best they can do with the evidence they have.

They are desperate to find this aircraft. We are talking about people who have dedicated the last 2.5 years of their life to it. They are working very hard on this, the crews on the ground- the search vessel crews out there, they are dealing with some of the most inhospitable conditions in the world, they are desperate to find this aircraft. They're talking about days out there, sometimes there's 20 metre seas. They are working very hard; they remain hopeful they're going to have success. We haven't had success at this stage but that doesn't mean we've given up hope and we're going to keep working through that last 10,000 square kilometres of the high priority search area. Then there'll be more analysis, if there's more credible evidence coming through which gives us a specific location where we can focus our efforts, then we'll look at it then.

But the Malaysian, Chinese and Australian Governments between them have put $200 million into this underwater search, $60 million of that has come from Australia. It's been the biggest search in aviation history, so it is of historic proportion but it's also been quite a heroic effort in terms of pushing the edge of human endurance out there in the ocean and pushing the envelope in terms of scientific understanding of the whole range of aspects that have to be considered as they analyse the data from MH370.

David Speers: Alright, Transport Minister, Darren Chester, we'll have to leave it there.

Thanks very much for joining us this morning.

Darren Chester: Thanks David.

MTF...P2