Time to dig deeper BURNING QUESTIONS Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly burying USB sticks filled with damning photographs, The Sydney Morning Heraldreports that the Australian Federal Police has seized evidence as part of a fresh investigation into the Victoria Cross recipient allegedly conspiring to silence witnesses for the Brereton war crimes inquiry. New evidence includes letters Roberts-Smith allegedly placed in sealed envelopes and planned to send anonymously to SAS soldiers he feared would testify against him, as well as the existence of at least five “burner” phones he arranged to be purchased in 2018. Elsewhere, The Australian ($)reports that a senior officer shown in one of the lewd photographs at the unauthorised on-base “Fat Lady’s Arms” bar in Afghanistan is now a colonel tasked with helping reform special forces culture.