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3:39 pm, July 16th, 2013 - 15 comments
Categories: john key -
Tags: GCSB, Peter Dunne
No Right Turn points out how useless our security minister is. To say this is astonishing would be an understatement
John Key’s chief justification for his spy law giving the GCSB the right to spy on all New Zealanders is cost: it would apparently cost too much for the police or SIS to be given their own capability for domestic law enforcement / counter-espionage use, so we have to legalise GCSB using theirs instead (and allow them to use it on everybody, just in case). So you’d expect them to have at least done the costings to back that up, right?
The Government has no idea what it would cost to have the SIS eavesdrop on New Zealanders and intercept their emails, despite saying cost is the reason for getting the GCSB to do it.
This is simply unbelievable. Working out how much a policy will cost is a basic part of the policy process – and certainly fundamental to any claim that not doing it would be more expensive. Instead, the Prime Minister just hasn’t bothered, relying on the GCSB’s aura of secrecy to prevent anyone from challenging his claim. But the result is that his arguments for the bill are an exercise in pure bad faith.
The good news is that Peter Dunne appears to be calling him on it, demanding an analysis before he will support the bill. And given that his vote is crucial, Key may just be forced to either substantiate his claim, or admit that it is bullshit and that he is selling us out for chump change.
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Well mathematics is just like law and I can show you a mathematician who’ll give you a counterview.
Gordon Campbell raised questions about h=this funding issue today, too. Basically, why has the SIS been starved of funds?
excellent point
I’m inclined to suspect this latter part of the quote supplies at least part of the answer. The SIS was starved of the funds to do the job by this govt? Why? Well, the appointment of John Key lackey,
Ian Fletcher as head of the GCSB and the craven desire to do the bidding of the NSA/FBI is the obvious starting point.
Here’s an RT interview with the original NSA whistleblower, Russel Tice. The main point is that the NSA appears to be operating according to an agenda of control via blackmail rather than an agenda of security intelligence.
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/23877.html
Squawk!…Freaky…!!! …The real reasons come out…. Thanks Ugly Truth!
Sent shivers all down the perches….Where is Winnie?
That, and commercial/industrial espionage. Boeing would dearly love to see the tender documents Airbus submits in to potential customers, for instance. And Wikileaks/Manning’s materials made it clear that the State Dept actively assists US corporations against foreign competitors.
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Everything John Key has said about this legislation is unbelievable . . .
Liars are just the scummiest people in the world!!!
…. especially when they purport to ‘represent’ the will of the people knowing full well they’re just troughing it.
…. the harder they rise – the harder they fall (at which point we’re all expected to feel sorry for them)
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To the Labour Party:
Take BLiP’s list and make it into a sign to publicly display as The Greens did with Simon Bridges lies.
Or make smaller signs to post in trains, buses, and bus stops where people have time to read them.
Come on, Labour. Get you asses in gear. Pretend you want to win the next election.
The Greens did not put up a poster of Simon Bridges It was Greenpeace
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