{"id":1879,"date":"2014-11-20T17:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1879"},"modified":"2014-11-20T17:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T22:00:47","slug":"dutch-government-refuses-to-reveal-secret-deal-into-mh17-crash-probe-rt-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1879","title":{"rendered":"Dutch government refuses to reveal \u2018secret deal\u2019 into MH17 crash probe \u2014 RT News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/207243-netherlands-mh17-investigation-documents\/\">Dutch government refuses to reveal \u2018secret deal\u2019 into MH17 crash probe \u2014 RT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">The Dutch government has refused to reveal details of a secret pact between members of the Joint Investigation Team examining the downed Flight MH17. If the participants, including Ukraine, don\u2019t want information to be released, it will be kept secret.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">The respected Dutch publication Elsevier made a request to the Dutch Ministry of Security and Justice under the Freedom of Information Act to disclose the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) agreement, along with 16 other documents. The JIT consists of four countries &#8211; the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia and<a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/194324-ukraine-mh17-prefabricated-crash-version\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; who are carrying out an investigation into the MH17 disaster, but not Malaysia. Malaysian Airlines, who operated the flight, has been criticized for flying through a war zone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">Part of the agreement between the four countries and the Dutch Public Prosecution Service, ensures that all these parties have the right to secrecy. This means that if any of the countries involved believe that some of the evidence may be\u00a0<a style=\"vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition-property: color, text-decoration; -webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s, 0.5s; -webkit-transition-timing-function: initial, initial; -webkit-transition-delay: initial, initial; color: #044faa; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; outline-color: initial; font-weight: normal; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\" href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/news\/195128-mh17-crash-cyberberkut-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\">damaging<\/a>\u00a0to them, they have the right to keep this secret.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\"><em style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-style: italic; padding: 0px; margin: 0px;\">\u201cOf course [it is] an incredible situation: how can Ukraine, one of the two suspected parties, ever be offered such an agreement?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Dutch citizen Jan Fluitketel wrote in the newspaper Malaysia Today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 15px 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch government refuses to reveal \u2018secret deal\u2019 into MH17 crash probe \u2014 RT News. The Dutch government has refused to reveal details of a secret pact between members of the Joint Investigation Team examining the downed Flight MH17. If the participants, including Ukraine, don\u2019t want information to be released, it will be kept secret. 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