Who is really responsible for the GCSB shenanigans?
Kitteridge Report suggests “unclear legislation” allowed for GCSB to illegally spy on New Zealanders. But the real responsibility lies elsewhere
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How do you make sense of more than a million leaked documents?
The story behind the massive leak of documents revealing the extent to which the world’s wealthy go to avoid and evade tax and New Zealand’s part in the investigations
Money trail leads home to New Zealand, Sunday Star-Times
Leaked documents reveal one of New Zealand’s richest families was for a time at the heart of a major international tax haven company that hit the news in the United States last week.
Disclosure of secret offshore documents may force top Mongolian lawmaker to resign
Deputy speaker of Mongolia’s Parliament admits he had $1 million Swiss account….
Secret Files Expose Offshore’s Global Impact
Dozens of journalists sifted through millions of leaked records and thousands of names to produce ICIJ’s investigation into offshore secrecy
By Gerard Ryle, Marina Walker Guevara, Michael Hudson, Nicky Hager, Duncan Campbell and Stefan Candea
“Principled small nation or stalwart ally? New Zealand’s independent foreign policy”, 2019 chapter by Nicky Hager
2011 Election analysis: I’ve just been internalising a really complicated situation in my head
The news declared that the National Party had had a ‘historic’ election victory on Saturday but, if that was true, National Party people would be looking happier. The reality is much more complicated.
US free-trade deal suspect
New Zealand’s chief trade negotiator Mark Sinclair privately told a visiting US State Department official that New Zealand had little to gain from a free-trade agreement. This view – recorded in a confidential US embassy cable released by WikiLeaks – differs from the one the public has been given.
Visiting Wikileaks in December 2010
I HAVE had many careful meetings with sources during the last 20 years, but never anything as cautious and mysterious as this. I was heading overseas to meet the WikiLeaks team in the midst of heavy threats from the United States government and more imminent threats of police action.
Wikileaks: US tried to change nukes stand in 2005
THE WIKILEAKS cables reveal American ambassador Charles Swindell worked ahead of the 2005 election to pressure New Zealand into changing its nuclear-free policy.