Posts Tagged ‘dirty politics’

John Key’s Groundhog day II

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:53 am, August 22nd, 2014 - 88 comments

A 2011 press conference video has cast further doubt on John Key’s claim that he did not know about the release of sensitive information to Cameron Slater.

Updated: The recollection of Tucker doesn’t match what John Key said in 2011. What spaghetti explanation will Johnnie give today.

Key lied – The smoking gun?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 2:26 pm, August 21st, 2014 - 165 comments

[Updated] John Key 8th August 2011: “”What happened is Warren Tucker didn’t come to me, he went to his legal adviser and his legal advisers told him this is the process they have to follow and when he was going through that process it was at that point he told me he’d release it because he has to tell me that under the no-surprises doctrine.”

Polity: Proof

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:48 am, August 21st, 2014 - 100 comments

Here’s a tweet from Felix Marwick this morning that blows a big hole in John Key’s denials about not knowing about the strangely rapid OIS releases from the SIS to Cameron Slater. What is the bet that he is going to argue that he had a sloppy memory lapse – just like the one that he keeps accusing Phil Goff about? Updated: Phil Goff’s response.

Dirty Politics roundup

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:46 am, August 20th, 2014 - 21 comments

Pot pourri, grab bag… Nicky Hager’s sister’s response, Media Take, John Key’s wanting to talk about policy, political passion, at the end of the day…

NRT: Politics does not have to be dirty

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:34 am, August 20th, 2014 - 30 comments

Writing in The Press yesterday morning, Chris Trotter argues that politics is essentially dirty. No Right Turn rejects that. So do the authors on this site. None of us do this kind of crap. Nor do most people in the political arena. Why taint us with the brush of John Key’s blackops team.

How Dirty Politics hurt low-paid workers

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 6:00 pm, August 18th, 2014 - 28 comments

While the right tries to distract and deflect from Dirty Politics, it pays to take a look at who got hurt by Cameron Slater and his buddies.

Key’s farcical “Don’t ask, don’t tell” routine

Written By: jononatusch - Date published: 3:04 pm, August 18th, 2014 - 40 comments

John Key is sticking to his defensive strategy: deny everything, label Hager’s book a smear campaign, and – when pressed on specific allegations – say he doesn’t know the details. There is of course a very easy way for Mr Key to become acquainted with the details, which he doesn’t seem keen to do, and that’s to simply ask the right people….

Why does Jason Ede still have Beehive access?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, August 18th, 2014 - 37 comments

Andrea Vance has reported that as late as last week Jason Ede still had access to the Beehive.  And Key’s replies to her questions concerning this suggest that there is a lot that he does not know.  It makes you wonder why he can be so insistent that Nicky Hager’s allegations are wrong when he has such little information.

Was a crime committed when Slater accessed Labour’s computer system?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:32 am, August 17th, 2014 - 46 comments

Occasionally erudite disagrees with one part of rocky’s analysis of the legality of Cameron Slater and Jason Ede’s accessing and copying the data from the Labour party’s computer. However he still thinks it is likely to be criminal.

John Key’s defence to Hager’s book starts to unwind

Written By: redfed - Date published: 4:29 pm, August 16th, 2014 - 155 comments

The Herald is reporting that the first of Key’s denials about the allegations in Dirty Politics has been refuted. National did hack Labour’s crippled server in 2011 and even apologised for it but Key claims National had no involvement.

Who took Slater’s emails?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, August 16th, 2014 - 58 comments

Some interesting comments on Hager’s book by John Armstrong and Danyl McLaughlan and the nagging question of who is responsible remains …

The Hager Book – National fights back

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:07 pm, August 15th, 2014 - 91 comments

Two days after Nicky Hager’s book has been released and National’s response has been interesting. They are doing everything from attacking the author to the means of obtaining the information, to saying that it is politics as usual and Labour does it too. But John Key’s recent response to TV3 looked desperate. And the veracity of what he said needs to be checked.

Irritated and up early

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:27 pm, August 14th, 2014 - 72 comments

There has been a bit of pestering of authors by media in the last few days and some inadvisable waffling by fools ignorant of the blogging world about this site. I’ve had to bestir myself to talk about it. I’m not too happy about the time wasting. But on a happier note, the site is performing superbly under load..

Last night at the beehive

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:05 am, August 14th, 2014 - 36 comments

Usually all lights are off. But not last night. I wonder what they were talking about on the 9th floor of the Beehive last night? That is John Keys office.