AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
Andrew Bolt
Herald Sun
LAST week I called the witch hunt against Cardinal George Pell vicious and shameful. I thought it could not possibly get worse.
On Saturday, it did.
Now the campaign to destroy Pell has become sinister as well, after it was joined by — in my view — elements of Victoria Police.
VICTORIA POLICE INVESTIGATING CARDINAL PELL
Sources which to me clearly seem to be well-informed police leaked to the Herald Sun unverified and even improbable claims that Pell sexually abused as many as 10 boys between 1978 and 2001.
These sources gave intimate details of the police Sano Taskforce now investigating those claims, including what its members now want from their bosses to go after Pell. Yet Pell himself had not been told of these allegations, which the Sano Taskforce has investigated for a year without senior police approving any charges, or even any questioning of the cardinal.
This leak is clearly timed to hurt Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic.
It seems to me a scandalous injustice and abuse of state power to leak information that the leaker must have known any newspaper would feel compelled to report, if not endorse.
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