‘Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime,’ secret police chief Lavrentiy Beria assured the equally loathsome mass-murderer Joseph Stalin.
Politicians demanding a federal version of the notorious NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) should ponder these words.
Have they forgotten that ICAC devoured its creator, Premier Nick Greiner, who was later cleared by the Court of Appeal? Have they forgotten ICAC had not only brought down another premier, it has damaged forever the reputation of a string of innocent victims, their lives and the lives of their families?
It was only when ICAC took on a target who would not...
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