David Johnston’s position is barely tenable. Can his investigation be salvaged?
As always, multiple things can be true at the same time.
David Johnston can be both a flawed choice to investigate the government’s response to intelligence on foreign interference — and the target of unfair treatment since taking on that task. The prime minister could have been better off asking someone else to be special rapporteur — and Johnston’s reception from his critics may have diminished the number of people willing and able to do the job.
Multiple things can be true simultaneously but this isn’t one of them.
Junior and Special Crony are closer than they are pretending to be, proven by their own statements.
Johnson is a sinophile of the first order with a vested interest in minimizing his own activity as a member of the China Class.
Nothing else explains his report’s exclusion of O’Toole’s evidence.
