Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
you can, conceivably, have an email discussion
Yeah, nah. Tucker's letter and the Ombudsman's say there is no documentation, which would include emails. Tucker's toast on this.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to CJM,
Yes but when Tucker refers to speaking to the ‘Prime Minister’ you have to understand that that is just the arcane lingo the SIS use. Speaking to the ‘Prime Minister’ can simply mean a chair is being addressed. Or a hat. Or an HB pencil.
LOL - you don't know how right you are.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Tucker has clarified that he briefed the Prime Minister “through his office”, not the PM himself.
Given my own (admittedly sparse) dealings with our security agencies, they don't talk to the Office, only to the Minister. If there's nothing in writing, then it was a verbal briefing and they don't do those over the phone in case of interception. It's basic spycraft and they take it dead seriously.
Ergo , Tucker, or his deputy, briefed John Key personally face to face, and he's now lying which is a very silly thing to do when his old fiefdom is being independently investigated.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Yep, but my point was that (to my surprise) that cat unfortunately was already out of the bag. As they say.
That doesn't excuse you being a party to it.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
I was trying not to personally identify anyone to preserve their privacy, Stephen. Use you bloody scone, won't you?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Yep, bingo. Maybe someone will redact all over it and re-publish.
Your wish is my command ;-)
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Here's the missing image, redacted by me for privacy reasons. The email is addressed to Slater's tipoff address from someone on an xtra account, which he then passes on to Ede. Both are environmental activists and one of them is quite well known. Very unclear why Slater is passing them to Ede, but he has laid into one of them in the past.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Nope, they are missing one of the images. 11 of 12.
There’s 11 on the page, but 12 in the download.
[edit] Nope, just checked, there were 12 in the download I got yesterday.
[edit2] The missing one is of Slater sending Ede some details of people that have been identified by their motorcycle licence plates by a third party. Probably withdrawn because it compromised their privacy. -
Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s also worth noting that on Saturday Fran O’Sullivan was tearing into Hager for not shipping the documents to “Wikileaks or similar”.
Where they would be completely unredacted, in all probability. Fan seems to be flip-flopping all over the place. I wonder what she fears will come out about her?
[edit] Although the comments on that are brilliant.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Matthew Poole,
Is it plausible that Key has been such a helicopter manager that he never got his hands dirty when #TeamWhaleCollins was digging dirty on ACC claimants and public servants?
Not when it involves OIAs to the SIS. No.
