The only thing shocking about the political firestorm that erupted after ASIO boss Mike Burgess described a years-old case of an unnamed politician turned traitor is that anyone in Canberra was actually shocked.

A more sensible debate may have focused on why Burgess didn’t use last month’s annual national security threat assessment to describe more recent cases of attempted political infiltration or identify the agency most often responsible, China’s Ministry of State Security.

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