Premier's Department gets down and dirty as the NSW March 2011 election draws nearer?

At 12am on 12 November 2010 Andrew Clennell of The Daily Telegraph reported online:

BARRY O'Farrell lobbied the State Government in defence of an alleged Serbian war criminal accused of torturing and murdering civilians and prisoners of war.

A letter from the Opposition Leader to Corrective Services Minister Phil Costa, leaked to The Daily Telegraph, lists complaints about the treatment of Dragan Vasiljkovic in Silverwater jail.

The Australian High Court recently decided there was a case for Vasiljkovic, otherwise known as Daniel Snedden, to be extradited to face war crime charges.

No prize for guessing the ‘leaker’ when, less than twelve hours before the article was published, a computer in the NSW Premier’s Department was clocked on the Internet doing a Google search using the search term “dragan vasiljkovic nsw liberals”.

Presumably this eager beaver was looking for additional material to feed the Premier and perhaps the media.

Those who have followed the Vasiljkovic story will remember that he was apprehended earlier this year at Harwood in the Clarence Valley on the NSW North Coast.