King Annette: Urgent Debates — Government Communications Security Bureau—Review of ComplianceText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: Urgent Debates — Government Communications Security Bureau—Review of Compliance[Sitting date: 10 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9226. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Labour—Rongotai): Talking of negligence one wonders what role the Attorney-General did not play in advice to the Prime Minister. He is full of sound and fury now but was obviously pretty silent when it came to giving advice to the Prime Minister from July last year through to very recently.Some members of this House will be well aware of that comic stripSpy vs. Spy. It was first seen in theMadmagazine in about 1961. I am pleased to say it is still going. It is great political satire and many of us have had a good laugh over the years. Well I have to say that in New Zealand over the past 2 weeks we have seen behaviour straight out of theMad magazine. If it was not so serious you could have believed that the whole thing was a political spoof or political satire.I mean we have just heard from the Attorney-General about conspiracy theories—someone was seen talking to someone up Lambton Quay. Well I believe that most of us who walk up Lambton Quay meet somebody we know—maybe people we do not even like—and we might even talk to them. But heavens this is now a conspiracy! But I have to say I thought the whole thing was summed up this week in a cartoon by Emmerson. Here it is. It says: “Spy vs. Lie”. Here we have the Government Communications Security Bureau as the black spy and here we have John Key as the white spy saying: “Psst! I think they’re on to us.” Well I think that sums it up.John Key has to get the award for the best shimmy in living memory because he has been caught out. He has been caught out on his terminological inexactitudes over Dotcom. He got caught out on his less than honest answers about the appointment of the Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau. He said on Tuesday: “I hardly knew him.” He said on Thursday: “Well our mums were friends.” And in the following week he said: “Well you know I did know him a bit better. He knew my brother.” It has been a moving feast as to whether he knew him or whether he did not know him. The truth is that he knew him well enough to have his number in his telephone book. I have to say I do not think I have got any of my primary school friends’ numbers in my phone. I did have a quick look to see whether I had any. I have not got them but he does. He does not know him very well he hardly remembers him but there is the telephone number.He also got exposed over the dates and the times that he knew about illegal spying on 88 New Zealanders. He got confused over what he knew and where and how. It is really hard for him to keep up with the very tangled web that he has woven around this whole issue. Now he has performed a beautiful political shimmy. He has shifted the blame from himself and his inadequacy on to inadequate legislation. This is legislation that we heard from the Attorney-General is inadequate that is very badly drafted that the National Party voted for that it looked at at the select committee and supported and that has been in place since 2003.I have to say that if you use the Prime Minister’s standard of behaviour he must step down from his position as the head of the Government Communications Security Bureau. He ought to stand down right away if he is to follow through with his own standard. After all think of the standard he applied to Nick Smith to Pansy Wong toRichard Worth to Phil Heatley and to Kate Wilkinson. He would be gone before breakfast if he applied that standard to his behaviour in terms of this whole issue.He is the only Prime Minister in the last decade who has been told that his agency was spying illegally—the only Prime Minister who has been told this and that is a fact. He was told in July last year. He covered it up for 9 long months. It only came out in the Kitteridge report. Did he do something about it as we have asked today? Did he move to stop it spying illegally? No he did not. He hoped it would not come out and he covered it up for 9 months. He had no plan in place as to what he was going to do. He put the issue on the back-burner because he wanted to have all those photo opportunities over in China but he got caught out. He got caught out and New Zealanders I believe cannot have confidence in a leader with his record. They cannot have confidence in a leader who cannot remember who cannot perform and who covers up.