John Key Concedes Edward Snowden May Well Be Right, While Repeating Absurd Denials

September 16th, 2014

Thanks, Captain.

Captain Obvious

Via: New Zealand Herald:

Prime Minister John Key acknowledged today that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s claim that New Zealanders’ data is accessible through the controversial XKeyscore system “may well be right”.

However, he maintained that information will not have been gathered under any Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) mass surveillance programme as the agency doesn’t have that capability.

During Monday night’s Kim Dotcom sponsored “Moment of Truth” Mr Snowden claimed that as an NSA (National Security Agency) analyst stationed in Hawaii some years ago, he regularly came across New Zealanders’ data held in the agency’s XKeyscore system.

Mr Snowden claimed at least some of that information was gathered via mass surveillance programmes the GCSB was involved with.

Speaking on Radio New Zealand this morning, Mr Key said there were a number of devices and programmes used by the GCSB but he would not go into details.

“However, what I can say in terms of those kinds of Five Eyes databases… yes New Zealand will contribute some information but not mass, wholesale surveillance as people might say.”

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One Response to “John Key Concedes Edward Snowden May Well Be Right, While Repeating Absurd Denials”

  1. pookie says:
    September 17, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    NSA Visit by NZ Spy Ferguson

    http://cryptome.org/2014/09/nsa-nz-ferguson-visit-the-intercept-14-0915.pdf

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