Abdullah Defends Police Report By PM Dept - Bernama

KUALA LUMPUR, May 17 (Bernama) -- Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today defended the police report lodged by the Prime Minister's Department against several newspapers for publishing the contents of the findings by the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Datuk V.K. Lingam video clip.

Describing the move as "something which is neither right nor appropriate", the prime minister said the report should have been submitted to the government first.

He said the question whether to make the report public or to keep it confidential was for the government to decide.

It was therefore not proper for any quarters to be ahead of the government in revealing the contents, he said.

"This is important. Before the government makes any decision, it was not proper for any party to beat the government to it and reveal the contents of the report," he said.

Abdullah said: "This is not a proper thing to do. Those who have prepared the report may feel something is wrong, something that may be against the law. That is why a police report is made," he said.

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