No Right Turn

Back in 2018, Aotearoa was in the midst of the Operation Burnham inquiry. During this, it emerged that key evidence was subject to a US veto...

Stephen Lawrence was murdered thirty years ago in a racist attack in London. The murder and the resulting police non-investigation has been...

When Parliament passed the Intelligence and security Act in 2017, they assured us all that it was full of safeguards . Any intrusive surveil...

One of the strongest narratives about "our" spy agencies is that they are basically institutional traitors, working for foreign po...

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security released their annual report today. And it contains some rather worrying revelations abo...

One of the few legitimate functions of the SIS is security vatting: making sure the public servants we trust with sensitive information are ...

We thought things were bad enough with two government spy agencies sniffing people's underwear while resolutely looking the other way on...

Visa processing times have gone through the roof, and the holdup appears to be SIS security checks. But the SIS now refuses to release basic...

In 2022 the government announced a periodic review of the Intelligence and Security Act, the legislation governing New Zealand's spies. ...

In November last year, the SIS agreed to pay journalist Nicky Hager $66,000 for illegally spying on him . As part of the settlement, they ag...

In case you hadn't noticed, FYI , the public OIA request site, has been used to conduct a significant excavation into New Zealand's ...

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...

Last week, RNZ had a horrifying story about MBIE hiring a firm of Israeli cyber-mercenaries for intelligence collection , including on peop...

In the past there's been a few interesting data points about the New Zealand Intelligence Community's desire to covertly manipulate ...

Back in 2013, a former ASIS agent blew the whistle on how the Australian government had illegally bugged the leaders of East Timor in order ...

During the war on terror, the US ran a program of extraordinary rendition , in which alleged terrorists were kidnapped, taken to foreign cou...

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...

A few years ago someone told me about Security of Information agreements (SOIs) - treaties between governments about how they handle each o...

One of the many horrors of America's "war on terror" is the way it has degraded human rights around the world, even in countri...

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has published their 2021 Annual Report , and its the usual litany of lawlessness and fail...