Goff to pick ex-minister as SIS third party.
The law says the Leader of the opposition, a man who has proven in the past to be entirely untrustworthy, has to be given security briefings by the head of the SIS.
It does not say that they have to be given to anybody else, that the Leader of the opposition chooses to have present and indeed if somebody else is present they should not be given.
Somebody fed a line of pap to a journalist based upon an SIS investigation, that very few people knew about, in order to try and overshadow the Prime Minister's trip to the USA by beating up a "spy scandal" in the midst of it.
And somebody was mighty quick off the mark when that story appeared in print to get out the line the the Prime Minister needed to Come clean over Israeli suspicions. So quickly in fact it seems as though that somebody must read the Southland Times while munching on their weetbix.
You might be tempted to think that somebody knew that that story was coming and were itching to get their "Come clean over Israeli suspicions" line into the media as quickly as possible.
And that same somebody has been making a lot of noise about not having seen the briefing upon which that story was based.
To quote Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
The law says the Leader of the opposition, a man who has proven in the past to be entirely untrustworthy, has to be given security briefings by the head of the SIS.
It does not say that they have to be given to anybody else, that the Leader of the opposition chooses to have present and indeed if somebody else is present they should not be given.
Somebody fed a line of pap to a journalist based upon an SIS investigation, that very few people knew about, in order to try and overshadow the Prime Minister's trip to the USA by beating up a "spy scandal" in the midst of it.
And somebody was mighty quick off the mark when that story appeared in print to get out the line the the Prime Minister needed to Come clean over Israeli suspicions. So quickly in fact it seems as though that somebody must read the Southland Times while munching on their weetbix.
You might be tempted to think that somebody knew that that story was coming and were itching to get their "Come clean over Israeli suspicions" line into the media as quickly as possible.
And that same somebody has been making a lot of noise about not having seen the briefing upon which that story was based.
To quote Shakespeare, "The lady doth protest too much, methinks."