"It was aprotectionracket just like those run 40 years ago in London's nightclubs, " says Michael Deats, detective superintendent of the U.K.'s National Hi-Tech Crime Unit.
Under their influence, the U.N. has morphed into aprotectionracket for the world's despots and, effectively, an abettor of those who would supplant liberty with corrupt authoritarianism, or worse.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott accused Ms Gillard, who initially stood by Mr Thomson, of running a"protection racket" for him, says the BBC's Nick Bryant in Sydney.