Peters Winston: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumePeters Winston: General Debate[Sitting date: 26 November 2014. Volume:702;Page:852. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Rt Hon WINSTON PETERS (Leader—NZ First):Kids that was a low point in this House. The Prime Minister is full of puffery and bovine scatology. Claims that he did not know about his office giving SIS information to Cameron Slater to smear Phil Goff are impossible to believe. The media in this country sometimes get it wrong but on this issue they can see through the Prime Minister’s dopey denials. TheDominion Post’s Vernon Small yesterday said: “Key took aim squarely at his own foot and fired at will.” He went on: “Key chose to completely ignore what was patently obvious …” from the report of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security. The New Zealand Herald’s John Armstrong went further. He said: “The Key administration has plumbed new depths of arrogance and contempt …”. I could not have said it better. Mr Armstrong said: “The report’s findings should be cause for a full prime ministerial apology to Parliament …”.The fact is this: the report of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security has confirmed what is in the book Dirty Politics. It is now fact—it is uncontested—that Mr Key’s office for which he and he alone is responsible used security information to smear Phil Goff. His office used State security information for political point-scoring. This is reprehensible. But what is worse is the Prime Minister is refusing to confess that he knew about it or to take responsibility for his office staff—those who work for him. He should confirm to the nation that his office staff were either directly doing precisely what he wanted them to do or were acting beyond their brief. Either way they were doing something for the benefit of one man and one man alone: John Key.Ms Gwyn states in her report: “Had it been necessary I should also have sought the Prime Minister’s appearance before the inquiry. However had I found that the Prime Minister’s involvement in these particular events was limited to a briefing given by the Director to the Prime Minister by phone on 22 July …”. That is a farce. How could she know about the Prime Minister’s involvement without first asking him? That is the No. 1 thing any simple inquirer would have done. The Prime Minister was the Minister responsible for the SIS at the time. These matters concern his office and to excuse the Prime Minister from this inquiry does not suggest a whitewash; it confirms it. Ms Gwyn had a very difficult job to do. See she was being warned off by an army of lawyers acting for the Prime Minister’s staff—warned to not dig too deep because she had they claimed no responsibility.Look at the facts. Mr de Joux the Prime Minister’s deputy chief of staff is so trusted has so much authority that he can speak on behalf of the Prime Minister and attend meetings on the Prime Minister’s behalf. This man gave State security information that was downright wrong and misleading to the Prime Minister’s “black ops” man to then give to Whale Oil for the sole purpose of smearing the then Leader of the Opposition. It is dirty politics. Mr de Joux gets the bullet from the SIS and gives it to Jason Ede to give to Whale Oil who then fires it at Phil Goff. We must remember here that the deputy chief of staff works directly with the Prime Minister. If he is acting either unethically or illegally then when he does the Prime Minister is responsible. The buck stops with him.Once the Prime Minister’s windy rhetoric has blown away what are we left with? A Prime Minister who behaves like a mendacious sybarite. Worse still the National Party’s two key campaign managers are the man who opened the debate today for the National Government Steven Joyce and Mr de Joux’s wife. This is filthy American-type politics that has no place in this country and “Mr Spray and Walk Away” has been caught out telling porkies over and over again. You can always tell because he sucks the air in so rapidly he can almost whistle. He could almost whistle on the way in. You can always tell by his body language that he ain’t telling the truth. Even those kids could see that today. I saw them shaking their heads. They were horrified. It was appalling behaviour from the Prime Minister who said when he got the job that he wants to raise parliamentary standards. Well they are so low now they could parachute outside the backside of a snake and still have room. That is how bad his behaviour is and he should have gone. He has been caught out for the umpteenth time.