You can’t honestly be surprised the SIS are misusing their new powers already can you?

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Martyn Bradbury
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No one can honestly be surprised that the spy agencies are already misusing their brand new powers already…

Spying without a warrant: Spy agencies utilise new power under anti-terror legislation

New Zealand’s internal spy agency has carried out warrantless surveillance, utilising new powers granted to it under recent anti-terror legislation.

Such an authorisation can only be granted if there is reason to believe a person or group is planning or about to commit a terrorist act.

The details have been revealed in a report to minister responsible for the GCSB and SIS Chris Finlayson.

Director of Security Rebecca Kitteridge reported that one authorisation was granted between July 1 and December 31 last year.

…after learning Key lied about mass surveillance, after learning the spy agencies illegally spied on NZers, after the Jihadi Brides turned out to be spin – now we have the Spies using their new 24 hour fishing expedition powers and they caught what?

Nothing.

So a power that would be used only for extraordinary circumstances just happens but no one is arrested?

Hu?

24 hour warrantless spying was supposed to be for terrorists about to attack – yet there was no terrorist attack and no arrests?

What happened to the footage?

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Who has seen the footage?

Have those who were secretly spied upon told of this?

Did any other intelligence agency get a copy of this footage?

Once you allow these spooks the power to start secretly spying without judicial oversight, they will immediately find excuses to do it.

All the protections in the world are meaningless if the agencies can spy without warrants for 24 hours.

Key has managed to avoid real scrutiny over what he’s allowed America to do with our spy agencies because the mainstream media made Kim Dotcom into a Bond villain and that distracted from Key’s actions, at some stage the focus must go back onto the Prime Minister.

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14 COMMENTS

  1. Oh gosh, oh gosh, doing some research on the situation in Syria, I played some videos from YouTube recently that contained some terrorist fighters.

    Not that I sympathise with them, or feel tempted to even join any such jihadist fighter groups, does this now make me a “terrorist” in the eyes of the SIS and GCSB?

    I detest violence and war, so where is the blurred line taking us now?

    I fear that they will have their hints and threads to chase after people, and gather endless metadata, so I suspect to be surveilled also, as a “threat” of sorts.

    Perhaps we should give up the internet, which is now becoming the surveillance net, and spy net as such, unless you use encryption to keep your privacy.

    Al Jazeera had a very interesting program covering Snowden, Assange and others recently, are they also “terrorists”, who can be snooped on without a warrant.

    Treason has many forms and shapes, I wonder who is treasonous to destroy democracy and freedom of information.

  2. +100…”at some stage the focus must go back onto the Prime Minister”

    …and Michael Cullen and the Labour Party for collusion

  4. “One authorisation was granted” Doesnt seem excessive to me. If you have information that there is about to be an attack and you then look into it via these spy powers and it turns out that it was bad information and there was no attack imminent who really loses out? I’d be appauled if this legislation was being used on a weekly or even quarterly basis but using it once in six months? I think shows remarkable restraint and using no these powers for which they were intended

      • You Sir are correct. they don’t happen every six months….

        However NZ authorities must receive violent threats from all sorts of crazies every single day, If not multiple times per day. I think my point still stands if you take into consideration the thousands if not tens of thousands of threatening communications online and the spy angencies have used this power once in six months shows remarkable restraint.

        I struggle to buy into the argument that they were on a fishing expedition otherwise we would have seen this legislations used far more times than once.

          • Very few in this country know what the SIS are up to apart from the PM and the inner sanctum, one could only assume it is being used for political purposes?
            ie Warren Tucker releasing information about Phil Goff prior to one of the recent Elections.

  5. +100 – good post. How do we get to this point in NZ where this scaremongering has awarded some powers to an organisation who has a proven history of wrongdoing?

    The police seem to be able to do a better job. Maybe resource them more? They caught the French terrorists, the caught the Fonterra milk 1080 hoax (and it was old fashioned methods, not surveillance which targeted the wrong people that caught the guy.) I certainly think the police seem to do a better job with less resources and are accountable to the people of NZ!

  6. Yes Martyn & Chooky, the NatZ are driving this tawdy snooping program for spying on us opposition bloggers and statigests so they can get the advantage of what we are planning so they bcan cover over us and “Minimise the impacts” surely.

    NatZ are so confident they must have something over us all, the crooks.

    As we fight to save our beloved Napier Gisborne rail that got damaged by a storm four years ago because government directed our Kiwirail track maintenance funds to help with Auckland rail causing our rail to fail.

    We now have found our emails interfered with and some blocked from circulation so NatZ are illegally using coercion again us exercising our democratic rights and they are just thugs nothing better.

    Winston and Kevin Davis are holding a major rail northland conference next Monday and it will be live screened as Northland rail is following Gisborne as the next rail to be mothballed or more accurately deliberately closed for Key to rip up and expand his cycle track, another ruining of our environment as many more trucks rule the roads and kill more folks.

    See here for details, I’m up to my neck in this political hot potato that may turn the electorate toward our way to defeat the Nasty natz.

    Can you cover this on TDB and Waatea soon

    https://sites.google.com/site/saveourrailnorthland/

    Here is our fight over Napier Gisborne rail.

    Deal for rail line is at zero hour … (“Wairoa Star” – Thurs 31st March 2016)

    The long-running KiwiRail Napier Gisborne saga reaches a critical point today.

    Hawke’s Bay Regional Council chairman Fenton Wilson said they were close to sealing a deal but would need all day

    today to finalise some of the detail. He updated the regional council on progress at yesterday’s monthly meeting.

    “There are still a couple of outstanding matters which are commercial in confidence and we are working through.

    KiwiRail have been a willing partner in discussions at this time.”

    With regard to benefits for Wairoa, he said establishing a log yard in Wairoa was a key part of the rail proposal, if the

    service resumed on the Wairoa line.

    “Log prices are good at the moment and there is a commercial reality that the logs will start to flow in the near future.
    I would hope this will provide certainty of supply for our local mill as well.”

    The Napier-Gisborne rail line was midway through a trial when huge dropouts in the Beach Loop area forced its closure

    late March 2012, and the Government refused to fix the line.

    Mr Wilson said if the trial had not been cut short by the 2012 coastal storm event, he believed the service would now

    be thriving.

    “A reliable rail service would have given Gisborne growers confidence to explore new markets and crops. The log flow

    would have been a bonus.”

    Back in April 2012, Roger Dickie Ltd, a forestry investment group which represents more than 4000 investors, added its

    support to the pro-rail group. The company said from 2016 the group would be harvesting approximately 13 million tonnes

    of logs from the Gisborne and Wairoa region.

    “This is equivalent to approximately 450,000 log truck and trailers at an average weight of 29 tonnes of logs per unit.

    Approximately 50 per cent of this volume could be transported by rail,” said Roger Dickie.

    -ends-

    • Where is the Economic Planning for NZ, it appears the NACT Party are hell bent on destroying this country?

    • The trucking industry turnover is about $6bn plus annually. The payoff for the government is substantial and whereas it can procrastinate about road repairs it could not with rail.

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