It's clear that the JIT investigators from Australia and the Netherlands have fallen into routines from their long stints in Kiev, as the "e-zine" report describes in its golly-gee-whiz style:
"Every morning, a minibus brings investigating officers from the hotel to the Field Office and back again in the evening after their long days. In the meantime, the investigating officers make various interesting discoveries. Every time persons or locations are identified, they experience a eureka moment, especially if after several checks all data prove to be correct.
"'This is the most complex and difficult investigation I have ever been involved with in my police career,' says Donoghoe, 'but we are all extremely motivated to do the best investigation possible. We won't stop before the perpetrators of this tragedy can be brought to court.'"
President Barack Obama talks with President Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker following a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, Sept. 18, 2014.
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But the question is whether the investigation has been so tainted by its reliance on the SBU, an intelligence service which is controlled by a chief suspect (the Ukrainian government) and whose responsibilities include shielding the state secrets of that suspect. The SBU is also directly engaged in warfare against the other chief suspect (the ethnic Russian rebels).
That obvious conflict of interest should have prompted the JIT to establish clear parameters that guaranteed the independence of the investigation. But the new report makes clear that no such lines were drawn or observed.
[For more background on this controversy, see Consortiumnews.com's "More Game-Playing on MH-17."]
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