No Right Turn

The big worry about the SIS and GCSB is that they will be used to spy on the government's political critics. Whenever this worry is expr...

One of the recommendations of the Operation Burnham inquiry into the killing of civillians in Afhganistan by the SAS was the establishment ...

Declassified Australia has published a new piece by Nicky Hager on New Zealand and Australia's spying on the Pacific. Most of it is a s...

Having previously been found to have misled Ministers and the public over its revenge raid in Afghanistan, NZDF has now been accused of misl...

Last year, the inquiry into Operation Burnham reported back , finding (among other things) that SAS and NZDF officers had deceived Ministers...

Over on The spinoff , Amnesty International's Meg de Ronde has a response to Friday's release of the Hit and Run report. And in res...

So, the Hit and Run inquiry has reported back , and found some appalling shit at NZDF and NZSIS. And while they quibble a few of the detail...

On Monday, the Hit and Run inquiry heard from NZDF's former director of special operations, who claimed that the defence Minister knew e...

Last month, NZDF's shoddy coverup of what it knew about civilian casualties in Operation Burnham began to fall apart, with the revelatio...

Back in 2011, journalist Nicky Hager published Other People's Wars , an expose on NZDF's activities over the previous decade of the ...

The Operation Burnham inquiry continued to question senior NZDF staff today, and their shoddy coverup over their knowledge of civilian casua...

Yesterday NZDF officials were put on the stand about the lies they had told over Operation Burnham , making implausible claims that it was ...

Current and former NZDF top brass are being publicly grilled this week by the hit and run inquiry over their public responses to allegations...

That's the only conclusion that can be drawn from the NZDF's latest admission to the Operation Burnham inquiry : An SAS sniper kill...

When allegations emerged that civilians had been killed during an SAS raid in Afghanistan, NZDF was absolutely unequivocal in its denials, b...

When Nicky Hager revealed US footage of the Operation Burnham raid , obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, one of the obvious qu...

Nicky Hager has released the previously classified US video footage of the Operation Burnham raid , and it shows that civilians were shot at...

When the NZDF was asked to release US information on Operation Burnham which would have revealed how the villagers died, they refused, claim...

The government's Operation Burnham whitewash has become a farce, with the SAS's victims refusing to participate any further : Afgha...

Last year, the government announced that they would hold an inquiry into Operation Burnham, the SAS operation in which six Afghan civilians ...