King Annette: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeKing Annette: General Debate[Sitting date: 31 July 2013. Volume:692;Page:12131. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon ANNETTE KING (Labour—Rongotai):The quote was so good that I have got to repeat it again. “Oh what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!”. That was said over 200 years ago by Walter Scott but how appropriate that quote is today to describe the mire and the muck that the National Government has got itself into.What we have seen is one cover-up followed by another cover-up followed by another. We have had a daily dose now of exposé as we uncover the deceit that has been going on. You know it is a bit like watching the dance of the seven veils. Slowly each cover-up and deceit is being exposed yet to find another one. So the veil of secrecy is being lifted. But it is not being lifted by an open and a transparent and an honest Government—no. It is being opened by the work of investigative journalists by Opposition politicians by commentators by the media and by the public. It is like drawing blood from a stone to get the answers out of this Government of what it has been up to.The whole spying issue of the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) and of who was spying on whom who knew and who did not know reads like a whole series of John leCarré novels. It could be the one that is calledA Delicate Truth  or maybe it is the one calledA Most Wanted Man  or what aboutOur Kind of Traitor ? Or then there is the one calledA Perfect Spy  or there isThe Spy Who Came in from the Cold . And if you have ever read those books you will know that the intelligence service has the code name of the Circus. Well what a great name for what has been going on in the National Government over the GCSB bill and all the goings onof their spies and counter-spies. In fact it would make Maxwell Smart look like he was smart the behaviour that is going on.Of course the head of the service in those books is called Control and the “Control” of this whole debacle is the head of the web of deceit: John Key. John Key is at the head. He is at the centre of this web of deceit that they have spun around themselves and he is responsible for much of what we are seeing going on now because he is the master at covering and hiding what is happening within our spy services. He is the one who refuses to let us have an independent review of those services. He has resisted. All he wants is one vote—just one bought vote—the bought vote of Peter Dunne. That is all he wanted to get it over the line to get his bill passed.And sitting on his shoulder is his puppet. Sitting on his shoulder is WayneEagleson the person who is the mouthpiece of the Prime Minister—when you are talking to him you are talking to the Prime Minister. I find it absolutely outrageous that WayneEagleson was seeking the telephone records of journalists from within Parliament here. That is what the person on the shoulder of the Prime Minister in the name of the Prime Minister was doing.So how did this all start? It all started with John Banks having a cup of tea with the Prime Minister to stitch up a deal to get him back into Parliament and we got the teapot tapes. Then what happened? We had Kim Dotcom raided by the police who rings up his best friend John Banks to whom he had given $50000 in a donation plus a brown paper bag of money from Skycity and who would not give him any help. Then John Key denies all knowledge of the person who is living in the mansion in his electorate. In fact there you have in the web the electorate office because the electorate office rings the Prime Minister and says: “Hey there is a German living in the electorate. We do not know anything about him but he is a big German living in the electorate.” The Prime Minister says that he knows nothing about it.So what do we have? We have the GCSB illegally spying on 88 New Zealanders. We have the Defence Force spying on journalists calling them subversive and thinking it is legal that it can spy and look at their telephone records and their metadata. We have the Prime Minister throughEagleson asking for the phone records of not just their parliamentary phone line but their home phone line and their cellphone—the home phone line the parliamentary line and the cellphone of Andrea Vance. That is the Prime Minister.Then we have Peter Dunne. He is here. He leaks a story to a journalist about a report into spying and then he is being spied on.