Williams Andrew: Urgent Debates — Government Communications Security Bureau—Review of ComplianceText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeWilliams Andrew: Urgent Debates — Government Communications Security Bureau—Review of Compliance[Sitting date: 10 April 2013. Volume:689;Page:9222. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]ANDREW WILLIAMS (NZ First): The Government Communications Security Bureau issue has been an utter fiasco from beginning to end and no one not even theNational Party can deny it. The National Party cannot deny that this has been an utter fiasco. Today in this Parliament during question time I tabled the time line of the coincidences that have occurred with the Government Communications Security Bureau with the SIS—Hon Tau Henare: No you didn’t.ANDREW WILLIAMS: —yes I did—with Warner Bros with the Motion Picture Association of America and with the Prime Minister and other Ministers. And quite frankly this has been a litany of cover-up throughout.Here at the heart of Government we have seen a litany of failure and incompetence and John Key was right at the centre of it. He is full of blame for the whole affair and he is trying to wash his hands of it from afar in China. It is worse than a disgrace; it is an appalling breakdown in an agency that works behind closed doors that works hidden from public scrutiny. It is the one agency in this country that handles our international intelligence affairs. It is answerable to the Prime Minister and the Prime Minister himself has been found sadly lacking. It is appalling management of the agency and appalling governance of it. Quite frankly if he held to his own standards when he was the Leader of the Opposition—he said he would hold his Ministers to the highest level of account—if he was to hold himself to the same highest levels of account by now he would have tendered his resignation. Quite frankly if any other Ministers had performed so badly in overseeing a department—and at this stage I rule out the likes of Hekia Parata and Gerry Brownlee with the Christchurch situation because they are probably close to it—if any other Ministers had been so incompetent such as the Prime Minister in overseeing the Government Communications Security Bureau by now they would have been stood down; by now they would have been stood down.The mess must be cleaned up and it must be cleaned up fast. That calls for the Prime Minister to admit his culpability and that he is simply not up to the task of having oversight of this agency.Hon Gerry Brownlee: Tell us what the problem is.ANDREW WILLIAMS: Patches and quick fixes will not do; we are beyond that. The Hon Gerry Brownlee asks how we will fix it. Well we will fix it by having a proper independent judicial inquiry. That means taking it out of the hands of the Ministers with all the vested interests. That means taking it out of the hands of the Ministers who are highlighted here with their paw prints all over the time line and putting it in the hands of an independent High Court judge to independently review this whole process. Sending in Ms Kitteridge the Prime Minister’s Secretary of the Cabinet is hardly an inquiry. That is sending in your person to get the answers that you require to find out something that will help sort yourself out to get yourself out of a mess.Mr SPEAKER: Order! Do not bring the Speaker into the debate.ANDREW WILLIAMS: Sorry Mr Speaker not yourself but the Prime Minister. It was to get the Prime Minister out of the mess.The former Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau Sir Bruce Ferguson who has a long and distinguished military career this week has said that the Prime Minister must be smoking something. He said that the Prime Minister must be smoking dope. He must be smoking dope. For somebody like Sir Bruce Ferguson—and I know Sir Bruce from his days in the air force—to make a comment like that is extraordinary. There has never been in this country a situation where somebody who has held such a high office in the Civil Service has said that the Prime Minister must have been smoking dope. Quite frankly perhaps that question must be asked of the Prime Minister. Was he smoking dope? Because he seems to have an incredibly poor memory. He seems to have an incredibly poor memory. We all know that people who smoke a lot of dope tend to have a very poor memory. So the question that needs to beasked as Sir Bruce Ferguson said is whether the Prime Minister is a dope smoker. Is he a dope smoker? He seems to have a shocking memory or a conveniently shocking memory when it comes to important facts.This is the same John Key who in his own electorate of Helensville did not realise that there is a 250 kilogram German—the size of a German tank—living in his own electorate. He did not realise that this guy the wealthiest man in his electorate—wealthier than John Key himself—was living in his electorate. It is unbelievable that he did not know. But is there a pattern here? It also beggars belief that John Key does not recall meeting Mr Tsujihara in Hollywood.Mike Sabin: Who’s that?ANDREW WILLIAMS: Mr Tsujihara happened to be the director of the Motion Picture Association of America and conveniently was involved in the anti-piracy programme for Warner Bros to stop the likes of Dotcom operating in New Zealand. But conveniently the Prime Minister cannot remember actually having a meeting with Mr Tsujihara and the Acting Prime Minister today could not answer four of my questions on the subject.Again you sort of wonder: is it not convenient that he cannot remember meeting with the Government Communications Security Bureau he cannot remember the briefings he cannot remember a 250 kilogram German in his electorate—he cannot remember all sorts of things. It is incredible. But what you do have to wonder is where the leak came from. Where did the leak come from? Is it maybe finally that other Ministers within the National Government have woken up to the fact that their Achilles heel is one Mr John Key? Have they woken up to the fact and thought “Ah!” as happens in many countries when the boss is away overseas. When do you go for the jugular? You wait until they are overseas and then you shaft them—and then you shaft them. It is almost coincidental that the minute John Key puts his foot on the soil in China—the minute he puts it on there—somehow the Kitteridge document gets leaked. Did it come from the eighth floor? Did it come from the seventh floor? Did it come from the sixth floor? Gerry what floor are you on?Hon Gerry Brownlee: A floor you’re never going to be on fella!ANDREW WILLIAMS: Did it come from your floor Gerry? Tony—did it come from your floor Tony? Whose floor did it come from? Somebody over there leaked the document. It came from somebody who has got higher aspirations and would dearly love their beloved leader to not come back from China—and certainly not come back from China as the Prime Minister.So it is very clear—it is very clear—that something has got to be done here. Bill English the Acting Prime Minister today said the appointment to the Government Communications Security Bureau is the Prime Minister’s appointment. At the end of the day that is correct but it is not the Prime Minister’s prerogative to go out and shoulder-tap people—his mates—for the appointment. We still in this country have an independent Civil Service. We still in this country pride ourselves as being recognised after Finland—Gerry you would know this—as the second least corrupt country in the world. Gerry you should know that. In this situation this Prime Minister is bringing that into disrepute. He is seriously undermining our Civil Service and the independence of our Civil Service.New Zealand First calls for an independent judicial inquiry. Let us get to the bottom of the Government Communications Security Bureau. Let us stop the cover-up let us stop the litany of lies and let us find out exactly what is happening behind the smoke and mirrors of this National Government.