Suzie Dawson - Founder, Panquake
ContraSpin | International Spin Bin
The Five Eyes, a part of what the NSA calls internally its “ global network ” have their dirty fingerprints all over the latest spying scandal engulfing New Zealand, writes exiled Kiwi journalist Suzie Dawson.
I’ve spent six years alternately begging major NZ journalists to investigate state-sponsored spying on activists including me, and, out of sheer necessity, reporting extensively on it myself from within the vacuum created by their inaction. So it is somewhat bemusing to now observe the belated unfolding of what ex Member of Parliament and Greenpeace NZ Executive Director Russel Norman is describing as New Zealand’s “ Watergate moment “.
In the wake of the bombshell release of a State Services Commission report into the affair, Norman wrote: “ My key takeaway is that under the previous government, no one was safe from being spied on if they disagreed with government policy .”
Suzie Dawson - Founder, Panquake
ContraSpin | International Spin Bin