MegaUpload Raid Planned at the Very Top of NZ Government
That's where they put their effort? Why?
The police organised crime squad that carried out the Kim Dotcom raid has given briefings to a high-powered group charged with protecting New Zealand's "national security".
The briefings to the subcommittee of the group known as "O-Desk" have the potential to draw John Key's closest intelligence advisers into the ongoing court inquiry into the raid.
This also contrasts with the Prime Minister's insistence the Dotcom fiasco is a sideshow. He said last month: "The Government actually doesn't care about Kim Dotcom. The person who cares about Kim Dotcom is Kim Dotcom."
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It's interesting to me that you see more information about this case coming from the government itself than you would ever expect to see coming from the US government in a similar US case. Almost as if they have an open, transparent government and a watchdog press that works to keep them honest in New Zealand.