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New Zealand: Submission of the Anti-Bases Campaign to the Intelligence and Security Review 12 August 2015

28 August 2015

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"Oversight has failed and is ineffectual at best and a useful cover-up at worst. Official secrecy means the failures and the mistakes of the agencies are buried in secret archives. The present review must incorporate David Lange’s comments of 1996, that “… it is an outrage that I and other Ministers were told so little, and this raises the question of to whom those concerned (in the agencies) saw themselves ultimately responsible.” There is no evidence that anything has changed in the last twenty years, and considerable evidence that democratic control has actually weakened."

See the full text: Submission of the Anti-Bases Campaign to the Intelligence and Security Review 12 August 2015 (pdf)

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