Goff Phil: Urgent Debates — SIS—Report on Release of InformationText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeGoff Phil: Urgent Debates — SIS—Report on Release of Information[Sitting date: 25 November 2014. Volume:702;Page:777. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon PHIL GOFF (Labour—Mt Roskill):I just want to say one thing. When someone stands up in this House and exposes Don Brash and the National Party as having lied through their teeth about New Zealand going under the nuclear umbrella again my responsibility as a member of Parliament is to expose that lie. I did not leak it. I stood up in this House on that side of the House and condemned the National Party for its hypocrisy and its lies on that occasion and I was right.I want to say that I very much welcome this report. Why do I welcome this report? Because this report upholds my credibility and integrity against the former Director of the SIS Dr Warren Tucker who was found by the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to have behaved unfairly and unprofessionally and to have released inaccurate incomplete and misleading information. I accept the apology—the unprecedented apology—that the SIS gave to me this morning but I want to know whether one National member of Parliament in the House today has got the decency to stand up and apologise for mouthing the untruths that were represented in what the former director of the SIS said. You have the report; the House has the report. It shows that the director lacked integrity—a comment that I never made about him at the time but which is exposed abundantly in this report. Those members accused me of lying when I was telling the truth and not one of them has the decency to stand up in the House today and apologise for what they did.The second thing I want to say about this report is that it exposes John Key as the Prime Minister as having misled this country for 3 years by saying that his office had no involvement with leaking material to Cameron Slater—to Whale Oil. This report makes it absolutely and explicitly clear. Jonathan Coleman shakes his head and says no. The inspector-general says that the SIS information was disclosed by a member of the staff of the Prime Minister’s office to Cameron Slater for political purposes. This is in the report. I am reading paragraph 17. And then there is paragraph 9 Mr Coleman if you want to wait and listen to it. He does not like the truth. It says that the information received from the SIS was used by Jason Ede a senior adviser in the Prime Minister’s office to assist Mr Slater in making the Official Information Act request. Yet for 3 years John Key has told this country that his office had no involvement in sending that information to Cameron Slater. I want to know from John Key whether Jason Ede and Phil de Joux lied to him about that involvement and that is why he misled the country or whether it was the Prime Minister himself who was not telling the truth. I think the country deserves that.The next debate in this House is the debate to extend the powers of the Security Intelligence Service. All last week Prime Minister John Key said that this should be approached on a non-partisan basis. He said that the security and the safety of New Zealanders should not be politicised and yet John Key’s office took information received by Phil de Joux who got confidential information and was regularly briefed on confidential information and used that material to launch a smear campaign on a political opponent. I say to the Government: for God’s sake have the decency to own up say that you misled the public apologise for doing it—like the SIS has already done—and give us an undertaking that this National Government will not continue through this term in Parliament to use SIS security information to launch smear campaigns against people. They are smear campaigns in this instance that the inspector-general said have no foundation and said that it was the director of the SIS who misled was inaccurate and was unprofessional.