#snowdenNZ : The price of the Five Eyes club: Mass spying on friendly nations
Leaked Snowden files show most of GCSB’s targets are not security threats to New Zealand, as Government suggests…
Author: Nicky Hager
Digging up dirty deeds, Nicky Hager writing in Walkley Magazine
Political journalists had long suspected
links between the prime minister’s office and these
bloggers, but the activities were well hidden and
denied. The book shows a series of attacks and
manufactured scandals: researched and coordinated
by government staff and then fed to journalists via
the attack bloggers. It is a classic example of where
a leak was crucial for the story getting out
New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term
An orchestrated attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work: Nicky Hager writes in The Guardian
New Zealand elections: dirty tricks helped John Key win another term
An orchestrated attack has painted Key’s political opponents as dodgy, untrustworthy or incompetent. This is not how democracy should work
Dirty Politics
Early in 2014 Nicky Hager was leaked a large number of email and online conversations from Cameron Slater’s Whale Oil blog.
Many of these were between Slater and his personal allies on the hard right, revealing an ugly and destructive style of politics. But there were also many communications with the prime minister’s office and other Cabinet ministers in the National Govt.
Cyprus: the home of British/American Internet surveillance in the Middle East by Nicky Hager and Stefania Maurizi
British and US Internet surveillance in the Middle East and surrounding regions occurs from a secret base on the island of Cyprus…..
Latest Wikileaks revelations (Sunday Star-Times)
Confidential security industry documents released by Wikileaks this week reveal details of the kinds of surveillance systems that will be used in New Zealand under the controversial GCSB Act.
Electronic Espionage: 15 years of inertia (Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2013)
Edward Snowden is in the midst of one of the most dramatic intelligence leaks in our lifetimes…..
Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2013
Book review: Friendly Fire, nuclear politics & the collapse of ANZUS, 1984-1987, Gerald Hensley
Gerald Hensley is an intelligent man, a good researcher and a pleasing and witty writer. Friendly Fire is his third book, about New Zealand’s mid-1980s nuclear politics. But unlike his earlier books, he has written about a subject where he is more bitter than witty.
US spy agencies eavesdrop on Kiwi, Sunday Star-Times
The New Zealand military received help from US spy agencies to monitor the phone calls of Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson and his associates while he was in Afghanistan reporting on the war.