DID YOU KNOW …
🔵 It was Ben Roberts Smith’s job to test and intimidate new SAS recruits and recommend whether they pass or fail. Ben Roberts Smith recommended that Andrew Hastie fail the SAS course.
🔵 Former SAS captain and federal LNP MP Andrew Hastie identified himself as a source/whistleblower regarding allegations against Ben Roberts-Smith, stating he suspected by 2013 that the decorated soldier was involved in executing Afghan prisoners. Hastie gave evidence in the defamation case and testified that Roberts-Smith was a bully.
🔵 The former SAS captain and Liberal candidate for the West Australian federal seat of Canning, Andrew Hastie, says he was cleared of blame at the time of the accidental killing of two Afghan boys by a US helicopter crew.
Hastie was on the ground during the 2013 engagement and soldiers under his command were in contact with the US Apache helicopter, he said in a statement on Tuesday.
tragic consequence of war.
“It’s an incident that I know all involved hold deep regret, including myself,” he said.
Last month it was reported a member of a unit commanded by Hastie in Afghanistan had cut off the hands of a dead insurgent to secure his fingerprints.
Hastie has been cleared of any wrongdoing in that incident by the ADF. He has said he was not at the scene when it happened and when he learned of it reported it to his superior officers.
After the Australian reported the second incident on Tuesday, Hastie said in a statement: “Out of respect for the Australians I led overseas I took a position going into this election that I was not going to talk about operational matters … As I have said previously, not everything goes to plan in any aspect of life, let alone in a high-pressure war zone where people are trying to kill you.
🔵 Mr. Hastie was a key witness for Nine Newspapers in the defamation case brought against them by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts Smith. It can now be revealed Nine Entertainment paid $700,000 hush money to silence a key witness in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, after she threatened to go public against one of Nine’s star journalists. Nine paid BRS’s ex mistress $700,000 to protect their star reporter Nick McKenzie’s reputation >
https://bit.ly/4bYZqOG🔵 2025: BRS’s Mother, Sue Roberts-Smith sent a 39-page dossier to two dozen Liberal and National MPs after fresh speculation about Hastie’s possible leadership tilt.
In her email, Sue Roberts-Smith accuses Andrew Hastie of doing “everything he can to assist” the two Nine journalists, Nick McKenzie and Chris Masters, who broke the story in 2018 and extensively covered the fallout.
She also stated that Andrew Hastie was “not fit” to lead the Liberal party.
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https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15781405/BRS-Andrew-hastie-camp.html