John Miller, a former senior intelligence officer, asks: how can our police and security services combat terrorism properly when they are forever the target of suspicion and execration?Ever since its creation in 1949, ASIO has never been given proper credit for its operational successes. Although ASIO was originally set up by Ben Chifley’s Labor Government, Australia’s left-wing public intelligentsia and opinion-formers came to view it as a pliant tool of the Menzies Coalition Government, hell-b…
