Sun2surf - [...] Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today alleged that the report of the Royal Commission into the Lingam tape affair, was aimed at incriminating him.
"Every attempt is made in order to incriminate me," said Mahathir who claimed he had read extracts of the report.
"Somehow or other, they are trying to suggest that the appointment of judges was influenced by a lot of other people, and although there is no direct connection with me, if you read between the lines, it suggests that the Prime Minister is biased and things like that," he said.
Mahathir alleged this was former deputy prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s doing as he (Anwar) had purposefully exposed the tape to undermine lawyer Datuk V.K.Lingam’s credibility.“Lingam happens to be my lawyer. He is defending me against Anwar, and now, he (Anwar) has succeeded in making Lingam no longer credible, and therefore, he cannot defend me in the court of law," he told reporters after taking part in a Look East Policy forum today.
“So to that point, he has achieved great success but I have always emphasised, when people make such recordings secretly, the intention is to blackmail. I'm afraid the government made successful the blackmail attempt,” he lamented....selanjutnya [KLIK DI SINI]
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