Category: Politics
Sunlight did what sunlight does: Nicky Hager on Dirty Politics, three years on
Dirty Politics landed like a bombshell in the NZ election campaign of 2014. It may not have affected that outcome, but that was never the ambition. It has, however, made a big impact on our politics, argues Nicky Hager
ONE News: Special investigation: Inside one of the SIS’s biggest anti-terrorism operations
One of the Security Intelligence Service’s biggest ever anti-terrorism operations – conducted between July and August 2012 – targeted a group of pro-democracy campaigners who it mistakenly thought were planning to overthrow the military government in Fiji.
NZ Herald: US warship visit to New Zealand
Visit would show America, not NZ, has changed stance, writes Nicky Hager
Snowden files: How NZ and US agents plotted to spy on China
Five Eyes allies identified a diplomatic data link between Chinese offices as a target for hacking. Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher dissect the plan.
Snowden files: How spy agency homed in on Groser’s rivals
A top secret document reveals New Zealand’s surveillance agency spied on candidates vying to be the director-general of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), a job sought by National Government minister Tim Groser.
Revealed: The names NZ targeted using NSA’s XKeyscore system
Why did the GCSB intercept emails to and from Solomon Island officials? Nicky Hager and Ryan Gallagher report
Snowden files: Inside Waihopai’s domes
NICKY HAGER AND RYAN GALLAGHER Last updated 07:47, March 8 2015 Sunday Star-Times The Waihopai intelligence base looks oddly alien and out of place: huge white “golf ball” radomes like a moon station and silent buildings within two fences of razor wire, all dropped in the midst of vineyards and dry hills in New Zealand’s […]
#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…
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