Posts by Alfie
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Good morning class. What have we learned today?
1. That it was Odgers who supplied yesterday's email to Key
Knowing Fairfax was investigating the hacked emails, it is believed Odgers (known by the blog name Cactus Kate) went through her own emails and found some that could be seen as implicating Collins. This correspondence then found its way to a Beehive staffer on Friday
I think Russell Brown's @Publicaddress tweet sums up the motivation behind that release nicely.
So: mindful of the polls, they needed a pretext to dump Collins, but it couldn't come from Hager's book. So this email turned up. Amirite?
2. Poor Cam Slater is feeling hurt and intends to take action against Key.
Last night Slater revealed he would lay a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner over Prime Minister John Key releasing the email that led to Collins' resignation.
Yet more effort to distance Key from this sordid mess? Let's see if Slater actually follows through with this "threat".
Delicious as it may be, the spectacle of this nest of rats apparently eating their own provides yet more distraction and fails to deal with the bigger issue -- the rot within which has been perverting the National Party since 2008. According to 'Dirty Politics' Lusk has 13 (now 12) people within the National caucus and he's grooming the next generation of far right candidates.
I'd like to think that many in the National Party will be revolted at the power which C&M (Lusk, Slater, Graham, Williams, Odgers & Co) have attained by stealth -- power which has enabled them to pervert democracy, insert their own candidates and influence the direction of the Party.
There are bound to be honourable people within the National Party who are sickened by the revelations in the book.
It's time for those people to stand up and be counted.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Bit Bart like really
My favourite Bart quote is most appropriate for Collins as she works through her denial phase.
I didn't do it. Nobody saw me do it. You can't prove a thing.
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The Slater email which finally dealt to Collins suggests the Herald should be having harsh words with Jared Savage.
I am maintaining daily communications with Jared Savage at the Herald and he is passing information directly to me that the Herald can't run and so are feeding me to run on the blog.
Really? Has journalism really sunk that low in our country?
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I was wondering why the hacker had suddenly gone quiet for a week... Chris Keall in the NBR answers that question.
NBR understands there's worse to come. A source close to the action says the next Whaledump, expected tomorrow, will be a full Facebook messaging exchange between Mr Slater and Ms Collins.
This comment from Mathew Hooton is *interesting*.
"National party supporters will be absolutely thrilled that John Key looks fully priminsterial (sic) again for the first time since August 15," Mr Hooton said this afternoon.
"But unfortunately it seems Mr Key only knows the tip of the iceberg about what has been going on under his nose."
Is he saying that Key has been incompetent rather than complicit?
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The same story provides some (sketchy) information about the hacker.
Vigilante hacker Rawshark is the man who hacked Slater's emails then gave them to Nicky Hager .
Since the book Dirty Politics release Rawshark has also been parcelling out caches of emails to media.
Fairfax's Sunday Star Times newspaper had flagged it was due to print a story about the emails tomorrow.
The emails detail a covert public relations campaign including attacks on the credibility of the SFO and Financial Markets Authority.
Fellow blogger Odgers was working in concert with Slater. Slater and Odgers declined to answer questions.
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The Herald is reporting a new revelation about our minister of Injustice.
Collins' resignation comes after evidence emerged in the past 24 hours of her role in moves to discredit former SFO boss Adam Feeley.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Judith's bad day gets worse?
How does she intend to pay that one back double? I guess we'll find out soon if there was any truth to the rumours that she "has something over Key".
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It's another bad day for Judith Collins.
The Privacy Commissioner is "assessing" a complaint from Bronwyn Pullar against his boss, Judith Collins. The complaint alleges that Collins supplied confidential information to Slater which led to him accusing Pullar and Boag of blackmail on his blog.
Bronwyn Pullar filed her complaint after reading in Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics claims of Slater giving a friend - a former sex worker - false details about Pullar that the blogger said he got after speaking to Collins.
If Slater's statements to the former prostitute as detailed in the book are correct, Collins could face serious trouble for leaking Pullar's name and false allegations of extortion against her before the minister had received any final written reports from her ministry
Remind me again... what comes after 'Final, final, FINAL warning'?
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Hard News: Earning Confidence, in reply to Gavin White,
By focusing on the cost of the text-in / website 'poll', people are missing its true idiocy. The 'poll' asked 'who won the debate' (past tense), but people were able to vote right from the BEGINNING. So many did so that the online voting system crashed by the FIRST ad break.
It was a pointless addition to the debate, along with the dry ice. While TVNZ used their best efforts to turn the event into some sort of game show, the text poll was a bad joke. It would be interesting to see a geographic breakdown of where those texts were coming from. Not a lot from South Auckland I reckon.
Maybe it's projection on my part, but I feel that Key is starting to look tired and a good deal older these days. The fallout from Dirty Politics and having to continuously defend the indefensible Judith seems to be taking its toll.
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Slater is attempting to take the heat off the Nats' black ops with a temporary diversion.
Whaleoil blogger Cameron Slater has complained to police over Nicky Hager's Dirty Politics.
The details of the allegations were not known but police confirmed that Slater had laid a complaint.
Counties Manukau Police Detective Inspector Dave Lynch said a complaint had been received "which will be investigated in accordance with standard procedure".
"As it's an active investigation, police won't be making further comment," he said.
My instinct tells me the complaint will be withdrawn soon after the election. If not, then Slater, Lusk, Farrar, Williams et al might be called to give evidence which could provide yet further proof of their dastardly conduct.