So, is there going to actually be a Witness/Whistleblower Protection Act? Rather inconclusive, based on what Nazri said. "What I meant is that we have no intention to amend any existing Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act is not even an Act yet," he said. However when met later at the Parliament lobby, Mohd Nazri said he was misconstrued over his reply in the House. Siti Mariah had asked Nazri whether the government would enact the Whistleblower Protection Act and the Freedom of Information Act. "We have no plan to enact any of these acts because although we have the Official Secrets Act, the cabinet can decide on anything that need to be declassified at anytime," he said in replying to a supplementary question from Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud (PAS-Kota Raja) during the question session. In Parliament this past week: Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Abdul Aziz told the house this morning that the government had no plan to enact the Act, as well as the Freedom of Information Act. He also announced other reforms today to boost the fight against corruption, including passing new laws to protect whistleblowers and witnesses. Are they still lies? Or political expediency not amounting to a lie? Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today continued with his bold reform agendaīy announcing that the Anti-Corruption Agency will be made a fully independent What if it's your friends in Government that make statements that are either blatant lies, or half-truths, trying to obscure the whole-truth. (many versions of the truth, and more, in the full post) How 'bout when it's you and your cohorts that make promises you can't - or won't - keep? Are they still lies?
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