Headline: Key puts political expediency before the truth
John Key has put the survival of his increasingly unstable government ahead of getting to the bottom of who leaked a sensitive report on our national security, Labour Leader David Shearer says.
“John Key cannot tell New Zealanders who leaked the Kitteridge Report. This is because he has refused to put his Ministers under oath. I would question whether John Key really wants to get to the bottom of who leaked the report.
“It is not good enough for the PM to let matters rest here. The public has the right to the truth. The consequences or otherwise of the justice system should flow if there has been a breach of the law.
“Mr Key is relying on Peter Dunne’s vote to prop up his government. That is more important to John Key than getting the truth about the leaking of a highly sensitive document.
“New Zealanders deserve to know the truth. It may be that this is a criminal matter, and it could end up being the police who do Mr Key’s work for him.
“Peter Dunne appears to have misled the New Zealand public and if cannot be upfront with the public he must resign from Parliament.
“Mr Dunne’s refusal to comply with David Henry over the leaking of a highly sensitive report on the GCSB leaves too many unanswered questions.
“The report says that just three people were in a position to have leaked this information, and two of them have been cleared.
“This job needs to be finished by an authority with the appropriate powers to require the emails and texts to be disclosed, and to ask Mr Dunne to give evidence on oath.
“This isn’t a case of Mr Key having his hands tied. He absolutely has the authority to get to the bottom of this.
“Mr Key says he wants to trust Mr Dunne but has implied that he can’t. If Mr Key can’t trust someone he relies on for confidence and supply, then how can New Zealanders have trust in him?
“The Key-led government is now being propped up by a person who is in court charged with electoral fraud, John Banks; and a person who John Key says he cannot trust, Peter Dunne.”
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