Williams Andrew: Urgent Debates — Dotcom Case—Inquiry into Government Communications Security Bureau Actions 
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Williams Andrew: Urgent Debates — Dotcom Case—Inquiry into Government Communications Security Bureau Actions 
[Sitting date: 27 September 2012. Volume:684;Page:5769. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.] 
ANDREW WILLIAMS (NZ First) 
: 
 New Zealand First is calling for a commission of inquiry as our leader the Rt Hon Winston Peters has already said in the House this afternoon. We have heard of so much bungling on behalf of so many agencies in this country in the last 9 or 10 months over this Dotcom saga—including right to the top including the bungling of the Prime Minister and including the incompetent handling by the Prime Minister—that this needs an independent commission of inquiry. 
Let us go back to the very beginning—let us go back to the very beginning. The Orewa community constable Jason Homan visited the Dotcom mansion the day before the raid. He knocked on the front door. He was welcomed in by Mr Dotcom. He was given a tour around the building and they discussed Mr Dotcom’s security. He wanted to assist Mr Dotcom with his security. But what he did not let on was that he had a covert camera hidden on his body and the whole time this community constable who was supposedly there in Mr Dotcom’s interest was actually filming in preparedness for the raid the next morning. The following morning at dawn helicopters start dropping out of the sky and 80 members of the Special Tactics Group of the New Zealand Police come off these helicopters—80 of them—and also via cars and other things coming up the roads and they force entry into the mansion. They drag Mr Dotcom’s 27-weeks pregnant wife out on to the lawn in the rain at dawn. They terrorise the children in the house. They then find Mr Dotcom and drag him outside as well and he is pushed down onto the ground where he sustains some injuries to some of his limbs that were stood on. There were police supposedly in this raid wearing T-shirts jeans and flak jackets which is most unusual for the New Zealand Police and there is speculation that some of those may well have been members of agencies from abroad including the FBI—there is speculation on that. 
This is the sort of thing going on in this country within a relatively short distance and in the Prime Minister’s own electorate of Helensville.  
 In the Prime Minister’s own electorate of Helensville—in his own electorate—this is all going on while he is the Minister responsible for the GCSB—the spy organisation for this country. In his own electorate this sort of thing is going on. That very same spy organisation did not even realise that this individual was living in the most expensive mansion in the Prime Minister’s electorate worth $30 million with 50 staff. How many houses in New Zealand have 50 staff? Not many. Maybe the Prime Minister has quite a few; he is probably the second in the country with staff. But for the mansion to be in his own electorate and not now admit to the fact that he knew of Dotcom that people from Dotcom’s staff had been to his electorate office that there had been numerous dialogue with his office about it and for this Prime Minister to say that he really knew about all the intricacies of the details of this only in the last week or so is balderdash—absolute balderdash. This is a cover-up—an absolute cover-up. The fact that the Deputy Prime Minister as Acting Prime Minister back on 16 August signed a warrant—while the Prime Minister was away at his baseball game in the United States—to provide for a cover-up to bury all the details is even more of an indictment on this Prime Minister that this is an absolute whitewash. 
New Zealanders expect more of any Government—any Government—and in this particular case the Prime Minister himself should be standing down stepping aside and calling for a commission of inquiry. Any other Minister who was this incompetent in handling his portfolio would have been stood down while there was an inquiry. He should stand by the same measures stand by the same standards step aside and let people come in and do a proper job. He should spend less time on the golf course less time in his holiday house in Hawaii and less time on the global stage getting photographs with everybody he can possibly get his hands on and spend more time overlooking his own portfolios. New Zealand First calls for a commission of inquiry. Let us get on with it.