Posts by nzlemming
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And, just because this is today's thread, there is no surplus after all
Colour me surprised. #not
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
He likely has material evidence of the crime.
Unless he witnessed the crime, that holds little water. Getting information from someone else is not a crime. If he had videoed an assault, yes, the police would ask for a copy of the recording - they wouldn't confiscate the phone (unlike American cop shows).
but all reasonable protections under law should be explored properly in court.
Which the police deliberately avoided by waiting until Hager was publicly not in residence,
I'm also concerned that these "specialists" (your term) took 10 hours to turn over what is a fairly modest house. That's 50 man hours spent on a witness in a case that carries a maximum of 7 years. That's overkill, and therefore intimidation, and all your devil's advocacy cannot sweep that aside.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
I guess the difference is knowledge and intent?
The people who steal and leak information already know what they have. In the case of this hacker it seems more likely that the discovery of material with journalistic merit was a byproduct of the theft, not the reason for it.
So what has that to do with Hager? Should the police have taken all Fran O'Sullivan's notes and data when she was reporting on the Wine Box? (Still her only claim to fame, as far as I can see, and she's conveniently forgotten how those stories came to her)
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Is this anonymous?
If you want it to be.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dean Wallis,
I think John Key has a mental typo – Lord of the Files indeed!
Gold.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Steve Bell,
If Hager had been around when the search warrant had been executed, the police would have been able to demand from him the access keys to the cloud storage where he would have put anything he really didn’t want them to find. But they raided him when he was absent and forewent any such opportunity.
He would also have had the mental wherewithall to call them out on their "fishing expedition", and the legal knowledge to know what was justified for them to look at and what wasn't. And they didn't want that to happen.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to CJM,
Neither of these cases involved Five Eyes. That may be why this ‘police’ action has progressed differently?
Neither does anything in Dirty Politics - let's not get hysterical and conflate Slater's activities with the 'security' apparatus, because I think the GCSB and SIS are a little bit more credible than Whaleboy. The quite separate Five Eyes scandal only came up via Dotcom's "Moment of Truth", not through any activity on Hager's part, even if Snowden did namecheck him for his work two decades ago on the GCSB.
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Hard News: A message from The Fabians, in reply to Sacha,
Isn’t that precisely what the party is having trouble doing?
That, my friend, is the bitter irony of the whole piece.
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Hard News: A message from The Fabians, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
What the frosty circle of Hell?
Yah, it's a direct quote. He believes that minorities have banded together to take ove the Party, i.e. that it's captive to competing special interest groups who are holding it at stalemate in trying to progress their own agenda. Not completely wrong, but not a very sophisticated analysis either. He can do better, or used to be able to.
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Slater has decided to drop his bid to get his emails back and might yet face costs.