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The secret jailing of an Australian spy

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What's the Secret Case?

Allan johns ends up in jail in a process that's completely while he's in jail, police raid his cell, looking for a memoir that he's written. He complains about that and then through doing that, it becomes clear that he is the man that was part of this secret case involving guards at the door and journalists. And so how unusual is it for a case to be run completely in secret like this? Well, it's unprecedented. It hasn' pened in this country before. The key here is that it was a case that was about secrecy. Whereas other cases, like terrorism cases, have elements about them that are protecting secrets,. This whole case was about secrets and

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