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Scoop Coverage: GCSB And Pacific Spying
Scoop Coverage: GCSB And Pacific Spying
Gordon Campbell, 24/3/15:
On Pacific Spying
So New Zealand has using the GCSB to spy on its friends and allies in the Pacific – and has not only been passing on the results to the NSA, but has apparently passed on the details of the Pacific’s relations with Taiwan to our other best friends, the Chinese. On the side, the Key government has also been using the security services as a National Party toy, to gauge the chances of Trade Minister Tim Groser landing the top job at the World Trade Organisation...
So far, one of the government’s cover stories is that (a) our Pacific friends don’t mind and (b) the New Zealand public don’t care. All praise then to last night’s edition of RNZ’s Dateline Pacific programme, for showing how royally pissed off the actual officials who have been spied on are still feeling. More>>
ALSO:
- Scoop Business - NZ-Korea FTA signed amid spying, lost sovereignty claims
- Labour - GCSB: Groser’s Competition Scuttling Bureau
- Greens - Spy agencies used for personal gain, again
- NZ Herald Out-Links - GCSB spies monitored diplomats in line for World Trade Organisation job - WTO spy revelations uncomfortable at any time
- Out-Link - New Zealand Spied on WTO Director Candidates - The Intercept
- Professor Jane Kelsey - Is the GCSB ‘trade team’ spying on NZ's TPPA ‘partners’?
- Earlier Scoop Full Coverage - GCSB And Pacific Spying
- TV3 Video - John Key hits back at Nicky Hager over GCSB claims - GCSB claims overshadow South Korea free trade deal - Key: GCSB acted legally in helping Groser
- Out-Link - WSJ: Israel Spied on U.S. Nuclear Talks with Iran | Mediaite
PM's Press Conference 9/3/15: Northland By-Election & GCSB In The Pacific
In a press conference held today in Wellington, Prime Minister John Key discussed the upcoming Northland By-Election and allegations of the GCSB conducting mass spying in the Pacific... Key maintained a distinction between collection and surveillance for the GCSB. On August 19th 2013 Key promised that he would resign if the GCSB were found conducting mass-surveillance on New Zealanders. More>>
ALSO:
- Alastair Thompson - John Key On "Mass Collection" Versus "Mass Surveillance"
- Out-Link - September 2016: Key denies mass GCSB surveillance and collection
- Out-Link - Office of the Privacy Commissioner | American takeaways
Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson Reports: On Friday morning former GCSB Director Sir Bruce Ferguson confirmed mass surveillance of New Zealanders in the Pacific is taking place as revealed in the latest Snowden leaks investigated by Nicky Hager. In 2013 John Key told press gallery reporters that in the event mass surveillance was found have been conducted by the GCSB, he and the director of the GCSB - his childhood friend Ian Fletcher - would resign. As the controversy deepens a year and half later Fletcher has already resigned. But will Key? More>>
Gordon
Campbell: Legal Fudging Of The GCSB
Revelations
As many have noted, the Hager/Snowden revelations of the spying by our security agencies on our Pacific neighbours and allies is a virtual re-run of the pre-election debate. It is a situation where the government (a) stonewalls, (b) baldly asserts that mass surveillance is not occurring despite the Snowden evidence that it is, and (c) claims that the GCSB actions were lawful. Yet as Greens Co-Leader Russel Norman says, this can be true only if the legislation passed last year by the Key government has made the mass surveillance of New Zealanders – and the related handing over of their private data to the NSA – lawful. More>>
Updates:
- Out-Link - Snowden files: Inside Waihopai's domes | Stuff.co.nz
- Out-Link - Documents Shine Light on Shadowy New Zealand Surveillance Base - The Intercept
- Out-Link - PM won't give assurance NZers not caught in eavesdropping | Morning Report
- The Nation - Patrick Gower interviews The Intercept's Ryan Gallagher
- TVNZ - Q+A: Little gives strong hint to supporters on Peters
- Scoop - Full Transcript of Bruce Ferguson Morning Report Interview
- TVNZ Video - Greens ask watchdog to investigate Pacific spying claims
- Greens - Key must explain how GCSB spying on citizens is lawful - Greens lodge complaint as spying allegations confirmed
- Pacific Freedom Forum - Pacific action needed against spy net - PFF
- Out-Link - GCSB in mass collection of Pacific data: Ferguson | Radio New Zealand
- Out-Link - Spy Alert | Fiji Sun
- TV3 Video - Filtering Kiwis' data 'mission impossible'
- Out-Link - Leviathan • OnPoint • Public Address
- Selwyn Manning - Evening Report launches with Hager interview - Evening Report
ALSO:
- NZ Herald Out-Links - Snowden GCSB revelations / Nicky Hager accuses New Zealand of selling out its neighbours to US - Snowden revelations / The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations - Snowden revelations / Was the GCSB spying illegally?
- The Intercept Out-Link - New Zealand Spies on Neighbors in Secret 'Five Eyes' Global Surveillance
- Greens - Time for PM to come clean on Pacific spying
- InternetNZ - Mass collection of Pacific data affects Kiwi holidaymakers
- Out-Link - Snowden leak spying claims spark diplomatic fallout | Stuff.co.nz - Michael Field: New Zealand right to spy on Pacific Island neighbours | Stuff.co.nz
- Out-Link - Screaming left-wing conspiracy theorists | NewsTalk ZB
- Pacific.Scoop - Pacific data harvesting puts diplomacy, Kiwi holidaymakers ‘in jeopardy’
- Out-Link - To defame and deflect • Hard News • Public Address
- Out-Link - GCSB in the Pacific | The Dim-Post - And we’re off | The Dim-Post
- Out-Link - Toby Manhire: All-seeing PM a match for Five Eyes - NZ Herald News
- The Civilian Out-Links - Spying justified because Nauru is ‘serious threat to NZ’ - GCSB not spying; just ‘inadvertently looking’
- TV3 Video - Pacific spying allegations 'incorrect' - Key - Hager: NZ spying on neighbours
February:
- Inspector General of Intelligence and Security - Release of Annual Report 2013/14
- Greens - Big holes exposed in spy oversight
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