In honour of the news that the NZSIS illegally spied on the Iranian Embassy and Indian High Commission for the CIA, here's a brief history of other things NZ's spy agencies have done in your name:
Unlawfully spied on journalist Nicky Hager on behalf of the NZDF when Hager was investigating NZ's role in Afghanistan and Iraq rnz.co.nz/news/national/…
Unlawfully broke into the home of free trade activist Aziz Choudry in 1996 — and were caught doing so by academic David Small, whose own home was broken into by police a week later teara.govt.nz/en/intelligenc…
Engaged in mass internet surveillance for the NSA of NZ's small Pacific neighbours, including Kiribati, Samoa, Tuvalu, Tonga, Fiji, Niue and the Cook Islands theintercept.com/2015/03/04/new…
Fed politically damaging material about then Labour leader Phil Goff to Whale Oil on behalf of John Key's office in 2011 nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
Spied on unions, students, iwi, leftists, anti-nuclear activists, anti-Springbok tour activists and the children of activists during the Cold War nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
Provided Robert Muldoon with an (incorrect) list of "subversives" and "radicals" involved in the anti-Springbok movement in 1981, which Muldoon publicly released teara.govt.nz/en/document/34…
Monitored email and internet traffic of Trade Minister Tim Groser's rivals for the role of director-general of the WTO nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
Royally messed up when an SIS officer left a suitcase outside a journalist's house in 1981 containing a Penthouse magazine, three cold meat pies and notes of a dinner party conversation hosted by a German diplomat newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/…
Wrongly accused asylum seeker and former Algerian MP Ahmed Zaoui of being a terrorist, leading to his imprisonment scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0709…
Developed a plan to conduct mass surveillance of NZers, which was only canned when John Key learnt that the plan was likely to become public through the Snowden leaks nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/articl…
Received information obtained by the CIA using torture in Afghanistan (and didn't ask questions about it) rnz.co.nz/news/political…
Spied on a senior Labour MP in the 80s and 90s, even though he had an oversight role of the intelligence agency as chair of the justice select committee newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…
Failed to notice that suspected Mossad agents were in NZ purchasing NZ passports nzherald.co.nz/israeli-spy-ca…
Failed to prevent the Trades' Hall bombing in 1984, when unionist Ernie Abbott was killed by a bomb on Vivian St in Wellington nzhistory.govt.nz/wellington-tra…
Failed to prevent French state terrorists bombing the Rainbow Warrior in 1985, killing Fernando Pereira nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/nucle…
Failed to prevent the March 15 terrorist attacks by focusing on Islamic rather than right wing extremism rnz.co.nz/news/political…
Here's @GuyonEspiner and John Daniell's excellent piece on the Indian and Iranian Embassy break-ins: rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/…
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