The Inquiry into the Inquiry into the Inquiry into the Inquiry, how it all happened:

How it all happened - the Inquiry into the Inquiry into the Inquiry into the Inquiry:

Guest writer ~  Peter Matthewson

Once upon a time in a country not far away at all, an obese German multi-millionaire, together with his very attractive wife and their children, a household of manservants, maidservants and security guards, a pair of giraffe statues, 18 Mercedes Benzes, Cadillacs, Rolls Royces and other fancy carriages, and lots of computers, wide screen TVs and pretty pictures,moved into a palace in the Prime Minister’s electorate. To celebrate his arrival the German spent $600,000 on a big firework show for the city. The Prime Minister did not notice the big bang. But the Mayor of the city did. The German even invited the Mayor on a helicopter ride to a party at his palace,and gave the Mayor a lovely little gift of two matching $25,000 cheques for his re-election campaign.  Being a polite man the Mayor telephoned the German the next day to say thank you. However the Mayor was supposed to tell important people about this but he forgot, after all he had so many obese German multi-millionaires giving him helicopter rides to parties in palaces and pairs of $25,000 cheques.

Despite all the pairs of $25,000 cheques he got from obese German multi-millionaires, the Mayor lost the election. But never fear, the next year he was elected to the country’s Parliament, after a top secret talk with the Prime Minister in a cafe with lots of photographers and TV cameras to show pictures to tell all the people to vote for him.  But the German had not forgotten about the pair of $25,000 cheques, and when life in the country had started to go badly for him, he told on the ex-Mayor and now Member of Parliament, or MP for short. So the Police had to conduct an inquiry about the then-Mayor not telling the important people about the $25,000 cheques, however they believed him that he had forgotten. Being a talented man, the German wrote and recorded a rap song about it. As far as I know neither the ex-Mayor nor the Prime Minister bought the record, but neither did I.

Yea, I have jumped ahead of myself.  It turns out that the German was suspected of being a bit of a naughty boy. Before he came to our country he had been accused of taking lots and lots and lots of movies and TV programmes and music, and naughty videos and computer programmes from people who owned them, and loading them up in a cloud. This was rather naughty,although he wasn’t plotting to blow up the White House. Nevertheless some people in America were very upset and got their super-duper Police force, the FBI, to start an inquiry about the German.

But the FBI needed help to carryout their inquiry in our country, so they asked for help from our country’s Police and super high tech secret spy agency, the GCSB. Lots of people in our country had only learned there was a GCSB a couple of years before, when a little posse led by a man with a very long beard had popped one of their big balloons at Waihopai, a place most people had never heard of before the balloon was popped.  Anyway the Police and the GCSB were very excited at the chance to help the FBI with such an important inquiry. That didn’t happen every day. The GCSB jumped at the chance to use their super spying and listening gear, which they usually keep hidden under the big balloons at Waihopai. They assisted the Police by listening to all the German’s phone calls, reading all his emails, and seeing where he went in the cloud. They did all this for a month, helping the Police to know when the German would be home so they could pop round to arrest him.

And so it came to pass one day not long after Christmas,a time when the Prime Minister and the Mayor are away on holiday so there isn’t much news on the TV, the Police and the FBI made their move. At 6:45 in the morning seventy six Police and Armed Offenders Squad officers swooped on the palace and arrested the German. They took him away to a big prison run by a multi-billion dollar multi-national corporation,where despite the profits made by the multi-billion dollar multi-national corporation he was given no soap, toothpaste or toilet paper. What’s more the Police seized his eighteen luxury carriages and carried them away on the backs of trucks, along with his computers, his pretty pictures, and lots and lots of money.

This started a lot of arguing in the Courts. The FBI wanted to drag the German back to America, so he could face charges in Court there for loading stuff up in the cloud. The German didn’t want to go. After a few weeks a kind judge let him out of the jail. And Helen the big boss High Court Judge said it was illegal for the Police to search the palace with a warrant saying go have a look around and take whatever you fancy,so she let him have all this stuff back. But other arguments in the Courts continue to this very day.

But here is where the story gets really interesting. Someone told the Prime Minister that it was actually illegal for the GCSB to spy on the country’s citizens and permanent residents,which the German was by that time. So the Prime Minister said sorry. But he decided he wanted to know what was really going on at the GCSB, under their big balloons at Waihopai, so he called up a very clever woman named Becs, and told her to go and conduct an inquiry into the inquiry.

Becs went away and actually read the GCSB Act and lo, verily it did say quite clearly that it was illegal for the GCSB to spy on the citizens and residents of the country. She also had a good look round the office and under the big balloons at Waihopai. To her horror, she found out that not only had the GCSB spied on the German illegally, they had also been illegally spying on 85 other citizens of the country. Becs also found that, despite the impressive looking big balloons at Waihopai (well actually they look like a pair of big boobs) the GCSB was really a Mickey Mouse outfit. So Becs finished her inquiry into the inquiry and wrote an 85 page report all about it, which she gave to the Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister was truly shocked that the GCSB had been spying on citizens illegally, so he said unto his closest advisers “Oops! Quick, we had better pass a law in the Parliament to make it legal!” Which he did. But I am jumping ahead of myself again. Being a believer in democracy and open and transparent government, the Prime Minister decided that he should let all the people see what was in Becs’ 85 page report, at a press conference where he could be photographed holding the report and smiling reassuringly. But first he gave it to his closest and most trusted Ministers and advisers to read, while he went on a trip to China where he would have lots of photo opportunities to smile with rich and important Chinese people.

But while the Prime Minister was away treachery was afoot. Somebody leaked a copy of Becs’ 85 page report to a news reporter named Andy. She was chuffed to get it, and although it took much of the afternoon to read it she wrote a headline story all about it on the front page of the capital city’s morning newspaper. There was no photograph of the Prime Minister holding the report and smiling reassuringly. There was no photograph of the Prime Minister smiling with the Chinese Premier.

When the Prime Minister got back from China he was not smiling. In fact he was very cross, and desperate to know who had stolen his thunder by leaking the report to Andy. So he called a man named Henry (just plain Henry, not Henry VIII or Henry IX) and commissioned him to conduct an inquiry into the inquiry into the inquiry. He told all his ministers and officials that they had to give Henry whatever he wanted for his inquiry into the inquiry into the inquiry. Henry set about his task with great enthusiasm. Some of the Prime Minister’s manservants were very eager to help Henry. With the benefit of modern technology they were able to give Henry a log of all Andy’s movements through the swipecard electronic doors all around the Parliament for the previous three months. Presumably this included all the times she went to the parliamentary ladies’ loo, which is of course where ladies go for a leak. They also gave Henry all Andy’s emails, and he found that in the two weeks prior to her story in the newspaper Andy had exchanged 86 emails with Peter D (not to be confused with your present storyteller), who was one of the Prime Minister’s trusted ministers. They had even kept the emails going while Peter D was away in America on holiday. Unlike the German he wanted to go to America.

But Henry had a problem. Before he could officially read Andy’s and Peter D’s emails, he had to get Peter D’s permission. But despite what the Prime Minister had said about his ministers giving Henry whatever he wanted, Peter D refused. He went on the TV and made a passionate speech about privacy, saying “the sole reason why I did not disclose the full content of my emails was because of my strong belief that citizens, be they constituents, members of the public or journalists, ought to be able to communicate with their elected representatives in confidence if they wish, and we tamper with that right at our collective peril.”  Because he would not let Henry have his emails he had to resign as a Minister. When Peter D found out later that the Prime Ministers manservants had given Henry his emails anyway, he was “shocked beyond belief” and “extremely concerned and angry about this gross, unauthorised breach of personal privacy”. Remember those passionate words for later in the story.

Since Peter D wouldn’t let Henry officially read his emails, his inquiry into the inquiry into the inquiry ground to a halt and he could only write a 24 page report. He gave his 24 page report to the Prime Minister, even though it officially told him nothing. Henry’s 24 page report that told the Prime Minister nothing cost the country’s taxpayers about $42,000, even though he hadn't paid the Prime Minister's manservants anything for Andy's swipecard logs and emails. However the Prime Minister has not said anything much about that, even though his party usually does not like spending government money.

However a very important man called the Speaker, who stands up and says "order" while the Members yell insults at each other across the Parliament, was justifiably concerned that the Prime Minister’s manservants had given Andy’s swipecard  movements and emails to Henry. So he referred the matter to the Privileges Committee, a group of very important MPs, to conduct an inquiry into the inquiry into the inquiry into the inquiry. This very week the Privileges Committee all sat round a big table and called Henry in so they could ask him lots of hard questions and tell him off. This was a bit harsh since Henry really had been only trying to do what the Prime Minister wanted and find out who stole his thunder by leaking Becs’ report. Nevertheless one of the members of the Privileges Committee was a minister named Judy. Judy is probably not one of the Prime Minister’s most trusted ministers because she wants his job. So Judy fixed her steely eyes on Henry and said “It was quite a chilling experience to realise that ministers’ and staff’s emails, and their right to privacy, were treated with what I would say was a contemptuous attitude”. Then that very afternoon she voted for the Prime Minister’s bill to make it legal for the GCSB to spy on the citizens of the country.

For indeed, while all these inquiries had been going on, the Prime Minister had introduced his bill to make the GCSB spying on the country’s citizens legal, into the Parliament. Many of the people didn’t like the Bill, because like Peter D and Judy they valued their privacy. They were scared about the power the Bill gave to the GCSB, and to the Prime Minister who is in charge of the GCSB. Lots of very respected and clever people who know what they are talking about spoke out against the bill, including the Law Society, the Human Rights Commission, the Privacy Commissioner, a famous constitutional lawyer and the former director of the GCSB. The obese German multi-millionaire spoke out about it too. However the Prime Minister said that they were all wrong and tried to distract the people by talking about fish.

And so the fateful day of the final vote in Parliament came. Even with the ex-Mayor and Judy and all his other ministers and party members voting for the Bill, the Prime Minister still needed one more vote to pass it into law. So who should he turn to but Peter D. The reader will remember the impassioned speech he made to the TV camera when he wouldn’t let Henry officially read his emails, and the even more impassioned speech he made when he found out Henry had got them anyway. But even though the reader will remember, Peter D seemed to have forgotten. And so he gave the Prime Minister the one vote he needed to pass the Bill into law. Perhaps Peter D and the Prime Minister will have a nice private chat in a cafe with lots of cameras next time there is an election.

And that is how it became legal for the GCSB to spy on the citizens of the country, with warrants just signed by the Prime Minister and the Commissioner of Security Warrants, a nice retired judge chap the Prime Minister calls up when he wants to commission a security warrant. And here is where the story must end, before the GCSB starts reading it.

Mr Key goes to Hollywood - the Secret Life of Information:

The Key Spinometer goes into overdrive - "Approaching warp speed now Captain!"

Just after 2 pm on 27 September 2012 National Party leader John Key announced his apology to Kim Dotcom, and every single other New Zealander, for illegally spying on us - many of us - including me.  But only after being made to after the Inspector General of the Government Communications Security Bureau issued his report this afternoon:

Here's his apology and his media release:

"I apologise to Mr Dotcom, I apologise to New Zealanders because every New Zealander that sits within the category of having permanent residency or is a New Zealand citizen is entitled to be protected from the law when it comes to the GCSB, and we failed to provide that appropriate protection for him," Key said this afternoon.

"My own view is the agency has let itself down very badly, it essentially failed at the most basic of hurdles, there are a number of times when it could have resolved the issue, and in fact New Zealanders were entitled to believe the agency would have performed a lot better."

Dotcom was arrested, along with three others, in January after police raided his rented mansion at the request of the FBI, after deceiving the Government Communication Security Bureau, which wasn't very difficult apparently - and worryingly.  The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing because there's no brain working.  Not to mention that the right hand doesn't see anything wrong with the left hand signing things it hasn't even read!

Before the raid, police had asked for information about Dotcom from the GCSB. The GCSB gathered the intelligence even though it had no jurisdiction to do so,and it appears that the GCSB, the Police, John Key, Bill English and John Banks and others, all knew perfectly well that they had no jurisdiction to do so and that their actions were seriously illegal - spying on New Zealand citizens again only a couple of months after the Urewera fiasco - when is Key going to apologise to the victims of the Urewera raids for illegally spying on THEM I wonder?

The GCSB had been wrongly told by the police that Dotcom was a foreign national and fell within their responsibilities.  This beggars belief - firstly that the police either didn't bother to check or they deliberately lied, and secondly, that the GCSB didn't bother to check - a simple and basic procedure - or else they also deliberately lied - which ever way you look at it it's either gross incompetence or serious corruption - and either way all those responsible should be sacked - forced to join the unemployment queue and get their snouts out of the public trough!

Justice Neazor is in charge of the GCSB and his report is entirely predictable.

On Close Up Key appears to say he doesn't think we need an inquiry into it.

This news coincided with the announcement that current affairs program Close Up is to be shut down and replaced with something else because "the public want more entertainment" according to a TVNZ spokesperson.

This coincides with an interview shown a few days ago on Close Up, with Tim McBride.  Every Kiwi should watch that interview.  After they have, they'll realise that the replacement of a current affairs program with "more entertainment" is no coincidence at all, it's deliberate muzzling of the media.

Our media is no longer our own, it's controlled by Warner Brothers, politicians, and anyone with enough money to 'pay for the news'.  The space in the papers and time on television and radio is for sale to the highest bidder.  The NBR reported that there was an alarmingly high amount of bribery in New Zealand.  That was two years ago, it's getting worse fast.  Equally concerning is that our police force is no longer 'ours' either - it's been for sale for years - with officers taking bribes left right and centre, covering up child abuse, and top brass Rob Pope and Peter Broad being booted out in disgrace only recently.

On 24th September TVNZ also announced that Bill English had signed an indemnity agreement that Kiwi taxpayers would be liable for all costs arising from any legal action regarding the fiasco.  The top cop at the time of Dotcom's arrest theatrically boasted he had signed an assurance that he would pick up the costs if it was found the police messed up. I wonder if he'd have been so cavalier if he had to pick them up personally, rather than the taxpayer.

John Banks has got amnesia and Key "sees no reason not to believe him".  What utter bollocks.  No wonder there was such a fuss about poor old Bradley Ambrose leaving his tape recorder on the table at their little tea party photo opportunity.  Key's actions were described as "political vindictiveness" by business analyst Dr Bryce Edwards and the NZ Herald.  Richly ironic when you consider the extent of the spying the government does on our own citizens - all taxpayer funded of course.  New cyber-monitoring measures have been quietly introduced giving police and Security Intelligence Service officers the power to monitor all aspects of someone’s online life. The measures are the largest expansion of police and SIS surveillance capabilities for decades, and mean that all mobile calls and texts, email, internet surfing and online shopping, chatting and social networking can be monitored anywhere in New Zealand.

The morning after the Neazor report was released Green's Russel Norman laid a formal complaint with police under the same legislation Key used to implement the 'political vindictiveness'.  The difference is that in this case police action is clearly in the public interest.  Green's co leader Metiria Turei has been equally accurate with her skewering of Key in the House.

How on earth could Key meet the GCSB 15 times and they not mention once the largest FBI operation against an individual in NZ's history against someone who lives in his very own electorate?  I mean, it's not like Mr Kim Dotcom is reclusive, or keeps a low profile, he's pretty hard to miss really, except if you're living on some other planet.  Then there's the fireworks display and mega party Mr Dotcom held to celebrate his citizenship, how on earth did Mr Key, Mr English, Mr Banks, the Government Communications Security Bureau and the police all miss that I wonder?  National voters must be asking themselves how they could have been so taken in by this incompetent poser.  Key couldn't attend the funerals of our troops killed in Afghanistan, because he was attending urgent talks about this fiasco - the baseball game was a cunning excuse.  He's known about all this for months!  Key, Banks, English and the National caucus are making an utter mockery of this country, its justice system, law enforcement and government!

More information regarding this matter, and the role of the police, and OFCANZ (Office of Financial Crime Agency New Zealand), in this blatant corruption, is on Frank Macskasy's site.

News reports get more sordid by the day, as more evidence of Key's dishonesty and shady dealings are revealed.  Journalist Fran Mold even gets a mention.

Then there's the involvement of Key's government with the Chinese company Huawei.  The company is almost certainly a front for Chinese intelligence agency activities according to a leading defence analyst.  The Australian government recently intervened to ban Huawei from bidding on the Australian broadband network, and they are banned in several other countries too because of serious security concerns - John Key says they're fine, who trusts his judgement any more?  New Zealanders should be very afraid with Key and his Keystone Kops in charge (paragraph 62 at that link).

This is after fantasist Stephen Wilce left the NZ Defence Force and SIS red faced not so long ago!  "We need assurance that there are not similar failings in other Top Secret vettings" said the State Services Commissioner - "similar failings" have occurred right across the Board because of a lack of governance and proliferation of bribery.  Immigration head Mary Anne Thompson, Maori TV boss John Davy and many others, including  "psychiatrist" Linda Astor.

And now there's a police investigation into how Gerald Shirtcliff stole the identity of an engineer and who supervised the construction of the CTV building, which collapsed during the Christchurch earthquakes, killing hundreds of people.

Key's only 'man date' is John Banks (or Peter Dunne-Nothing, take your pick) and that only THREE PERCENT of New Zealanders support his asset sales plan!

Then there's all the other whoppers he's told lately at this link.

Meanwhile, Key's trying to get the TPPA signed under secrecy in order to rip us all off even further.

Here's Russel Norman's speech during the urgent debate in Parliament about this fiasco (using two different html codes as well as a link for this clip because the video keeps disappearing for some reason, and like Tim McBrides interview, it needs to be heard).

Anyway, he hasn't had his eye on the ball for a long time.

A "top secret review" has been ordered into whether "top secret spy documents" should be released to Mr Dotcom, regarding to evidence gathered illegally by the Government Communications Security Bureau, a senior lawyer is being sought to conduct the review after the Court's preferred appointee, David Cooper QC wisely declined the appointment.

GCSB head Ian Fletcher is pushing scapegoats forward as he attempts to hang onto his job.

Sean Plunket's comparison is worth reading.

Mr Dotcom's been busy, visiting parliament to watch the weasels squirm, and recording a new song, titled "Live My Life".  His penultimate composition, titled "Precious", features himself and his wife Mona, singing about their children, the two youngest, twin girls, are New Zealand citizens (as his Mr Dotcom, and the rest of his family), born here after the Court bail conditions prevented Mr and Mrs Dotcom travelling to Hong Kong for the birth as planned.

The stench of blatant corruption hangs in the air as Key refuses to sack Banks, in the face of the ever mounting and indisputable evidence, for exactly the same thing Key ruled out working with Winston Peters for not so long ago, and in spite of  Banks's own staff confirming that he's read the declaration he signed.

Embarrassed Epsom voters are vowing not to be sucked in again.

More on the subject of election by deception at this link.

Other reports here:

"Growing anger over Dotcom fiasco"

"Megaupload saga resembles Keystone Kops"

"Dotcom explanation won't wash - experts"

Frankly Speaking 

http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/key-slams-unacceptable-dotcom-spying-5105817

http://tvnz.co.nz/politics-news/john-key-apologises-kim-dotcom-5105817

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/pm-says-sorry-dotcom-video-5106066

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10836884

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/14970512/key-apologises-to-dotcom-for-gcsb-blunder/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7734301/Key-to-Dotcom-I-m-sorry

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/227768/pm-says-sorry-dotcom

And Key thinks it's just fine for Banks to sign things he HASN'T EVEN READ!  And he obviously thinks it's fine for the police and the GCSB and OFCANZ to do so too.

As usual, the police are covering up for the fact that one of their senior officers committed perjury - in line with the fact that Police National HQ is commonly referred to as "Bullshit Castle" by the troops.

It's pretty rich that Key accuses Russel Norman of a "political stunt" after this tea party posturing and the blatant cheek of Sir Botox Banks BS, and then there's the irony of all this illegal surveillance of Dotcom over alleged copyright infringement and the matter of the "Meet John Key" promotional DVD which had to be withdrawn after accusations of  = copyright infringement!

Key thinks it's fine for Banks to sign things he hasn't read.  Here's more evidence of John Key basically lying, and deliberately misleading Parliament, and the public of New Zealand.

Vote no confidence in the government before he signs the TPPA!

Here's more EVIDENCE of his blatant LIES!

Kim Dotcom v Sir Botox Banks

NZ's Got Talent - more musical ingenuity from Kim Dotcom:

Worth thinking about the fact that NZ police have been busying themselves with spending millions of dollars of taxpayers' money arresting Kim Dotcom for some nebulous crime not even against our laws apparently, and millions of dollars on the Urewera spying operation and trial fiasco, millions of dollars of our money flying around in helicopters looking for cannabis plants and hundreds of thousands on a corrupt campaign of harassment and false litigation against me (and goodness knows how many others), while deliberately and wilfully ignoring hundreds of child abuse allegations, serious violence, fraud, and other major crime.

The Clown Law Office knew that the Court Orders they were about to use to seize all Kim Dotcom's assets were unlawful on the morning of the raid, and decided to go ahead with it anyway.

Solicitor General David Collins and his deputy Cameron Mander also knew the Order was unlawful, and went along with the decision to proceed using the unlawful Orders, after Collins was told the mistake "didn't alter the lawful nature of the Orders". The advice was wrong, Justice Judith Potter ruled the restraining order "null and void" and having "no legal effect".

The effect of the unlawful order was that Dotcom was prevented from defending the unlawfully laid charges of heading an international conspiracy of internet piracy (copyright infringement) in Court.

Newly obtained documents from the court file show Crown prosecutor Anne Toohey realised on the day of the raid that they were meant to give notice.

Crown Law criminal team leader Madeleine Laracy, in an affidavit to the court, said: "This issue had been overlooked prior to that point."

She said she talked about the realisation with Dr Collins and his deputy, Cameron Mander, and the decision was made to forge ahead with the seizure.

Ms Laracy said it was decided Crown Law would tell Dotcom's lawyers the restraining notice was only temporary until there was a court hearing.

She said US authorities then sent a second request to the Crown Law Office to have more of Dotcom's belongings seized.

Ms Toohey was on the verge of having a fresh hearing over the new restraining order, at which time the error over the original order would have been raised.

Ms Laracy said Mr Mander realised the error was more serious and ordered the court be alerted.

Ten days after the raid, the court was told and a court process was allowed to give Dotcom the chance to object.

Justice Potter said Dotcom could sue over Crown Law's mistake. Dotcom has been given $20,000 a month to live on.

Meanwhile, Hollywood studios sought to enter into commercial deals with the Kim Dotcom's Megaupload site, evidence due to be used in his defence reveals. The defence team has emails from executives at Disney, Fox, Turner Broadcasting and Warner Brothers - among those who complained loudest about copyright infringements - seeking commercial agreements with Megaupload.

They include offers to share content and to join advertising deals, and show studios attempting to strike deals.

A Warner Bros staff member sought an automated upload service, with an email asking: "We would like to upload our content all at once instead of one video at a time."

The company's former digital marketing co-ordinator Shelina Sayani offered "opportunities to syndicate our exciting entertainment content".

For now, however, Dotcom is mainly concerned with taking the criminal indictment apart. He is confident that he and his legal team will succeed in this and promises fireworks when the complete motion is published.

“The MPAA / White House corruption has weakened US technology leadership. Internet businesses, hosting, cloud, payment processors, ad networks, etc. are going to avoid the US,” Dotcom told TorrentFreak.

“There is an opportunity for liberal countries to welcome those businesses with better laws,” he predicts. “The loss of IT business & jobs in the US will substantially outweigh the inflated losses claimed by the MPAA & their billionaire club.” That's funny, I thought New Zealand was supposed to be welcoming exactly these very kinds of business opportunities, not illegally raiding and arresting the CEO. We have ex Justice Ministers and all sorts in Court regularly regarding all the failed finance companies in this country, but the NZ police are wasting tax payer's money on what appears to be a corrupt campaign of legal harassment on the instructions of the FBI and Warner Brothers. It wasn't that long ago that John Key changed the law of NZ to accommodate Warner Brothers . . . what a funny coincidence . . . looks like we need some Transparency into these matters!

“We did nothing wrong. Watch out for our first motion in response to the MPAA-sponsored Department of Justice indictment. It will be enlightening and maybe entertaining,” Dotcom concludes.

220 people lost their jobs when Megaupload was shut down.

A failed case by the US would leave the taxpayer exposed. Police commissioner Peter Marshall last week gave the High Court formal notice it would be the focus of any liability case by Dotcom if he were to sue.

And because of the incompetence of the NZ authorities, the US Judge overseeing the matter has said: "I frankly don't know that we are ever gong to have a trial in this matter." If that happens the NZ taxpayer will most certainly be held liable by the incompetence of our police and the Clown Law Office, and all involved in this sad affair. Now we know why Bradley Ambrose's recording of John Banks and John Key was of such interest to some people, (Banks's affair with Dotcom was no secret on the Auckland social scene by all accounts,) - and how much taxpayer's money was wasted by the police on that matter - 'investigating' a false complaint and a waste of police time by John Key? The Attorney General has now dropped all plans to pursue Ambrose for costs.