Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to oga,
I saw a thing on Facebook, yesterday. "Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders." Seems appropriate.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
“The Director must take all reasonable steps… to ensure that the Bureau does not take any action for the purpose of furthering or harming the interests of any political party in New Zealand,”
The key words are "take any action". While not publishing may harm the interests of the National party, that's not the Director's problem - it's the Prime Minister's, based on statements he has made and actions he has taken. The legislation forbids the Director of the GCSB to take any action that would further the interests of a political party, and declassifying and publishing would further the interests of the National party.
If we were not in the last week of an election process, it my be an acceptable action to defend the Government of the Day from potential instability, but government agencies and individual public servants have very rigid guidelines about what they can and can't say or do during an election campaign. Key is hoist by his own petard.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to nzlemming,
It’s even more interesting than that. The Minister in charge of the SIS/GCSB is not permitted to use information gained by or about them for political purposes. Which this would obviously be. Gentlemen, start your lawyers ;-)
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Angela Hart,
It's even more interesting than that. The Minister in charge of the SIS/GCSB is not permitted to use information gained by or about them for political purposes. Which this would obviously be. Gentlemen, start your lawyers ;-)
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How to tell when your PM is terrified:
"The Prime Minister has admitted for the first time that New Zealand spies did look into a form of mass surveillance on Kiwis, but never actually went through with it.
John Key was responding to the arrival of journalist Glenn Greenwald, with thousands of documents taken by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden that he says prove New Zealanders have been subjected to wholesale spying by the Government.
Mr Key has always said that he would resign if that was proven, but tonight he's launched a counterattack.
Mr Greenwald claims he will produce evidence that could take down the Prime Minister, but just a short while ago Mr Key hit back and upped the ante big time, promising to get ahead of Mr Greenwald and declassify top-secret documents that will prove him wrong.
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Hard News: 2014: The Meth Election, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
that rings some bells… that’s right…
there was that Hench back of Notre, dame!FFS! That wins this evening's Internets!
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Speaker: Telling Our Own Tales, in reply to Moz,
If only they were still making that point and the media were picking up on it.
Just shared it on FB ;-)
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Ah, the ritual disemvowelling has begun!
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
Or is that tipping too much of nod towards the tinfoil hats?
No tinfoil needed. Revelations about other 5eyes countries indicates that exactly this scenario does occur. But it's only one activity. I'm interested to see if there are others. The illegal surveillance against Dotcom, and 80+ other NZ individuals (or other individuals on 80+ separate occasions - I'm not 100% sure on that), indicates they're prepared to go further than pass the parcel with their partners.