Release Cabinet details on bridge plan

Today's New Straits Times also quoted Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar as reiterating that the Cabinet "unanimously decided" to scrap the project of building the "crooked" or "scenic" bridge "only after much deliberation, including on legal implications".

As the absolute majority of people whom I have met and talked to in the last three days now have serious questions and doubts on Syed Hamid's political credibility, I think it is worthwhile to also reiterate my call to declassify and release the Cabinet minutes relating to the deliberation and decision-making process on the "crooked" or "scenic" bridge. In my earlier entry on 14 April under the headline Who supported the bridge in Cabinet? I also observed: " Tun (Dr.Mahathir) may be the one who first conceived the idea and advocated it in the Cabinet but the final decision to go ahead and make public the plan still needed the collective approval of the Cabinet. So the questions now are who supported the idea in Cabinet in 2003? Who opposed it? Who first advised against it but backed down later to support it? Who did not take a stand at all ? "

I make and reiterate the call for Syed Hamid's own good because if somehow Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad reveals with solid proof (without necessarily breaching the letters of the Official Secret Act) that ministerial opinions were actually divided on the subject in the Cabinet, Syed Hamid and even the entire Pak Lah administration would be dealt a politically fatal blow in terms of its trustworthiness and credibility.

It seems that the core belief or value-system of his politics, namely national honour, dignity, sovereignty and independence, have been challenged. Tun has always been a fighter for causes he truly believes in and, like him or otherwise, he still has many faithful followers and supporters both inside and outside the government and high society as well as friends all over the world.

The Scribe A Kadir Jasin
http://kadirjasin.blogspot.com/

Dr M's ex-aide tells Syed Hamid to quit
http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/49885