And I'm wondering what you think about officials in that office bypassing traditional intelligence channels.

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"I'm advised in the form of an interim report that the Australian government was informed in February 2010, though intelligence channels, that the Israeli authorities had detained a dual Australian-Israeli citizen, and they provided the name of the citizen, in relation to serious offenses under Israeli national security legislation, " Carr told a Senate committee Thursday.

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It, it keeps intelligence and information very narrow channels for very good reasons.

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We need to enable direct sales channels that we control, so that we get the benefit of all the data and intelligence that produces.

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