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Wed 05 May 2004Senior garda asks for same defence as CommissionerMorris Tribunal: The Garda superintendent alleged to have prepared bogus explosives finds in Donegal a decade ago has said he should be allowed the same defence as that put forward by the Garda Commissioner on behalf of the superintendent who investigated the largest of the finds.Supt Kevin Lennon, representing himself before the tribunal, said the Commissioner's legal team had argued that "once information is shown to be substantially correct, its perceived reliability and genuineness would not be undermined by the fact that not all details could be verified, or even if some details proved to be incorrect. I concur with that submission. I had no reason to believe or suspect that the discovery as pointed out to me was in any way suspicious. It never entered my mind in relation to any of these finds that they were other than genuine."