The SIS have spent more energy spying on Sue Bradford in the shower than they have on vetting people they hand over top level security clearance to
So let’s recap, Momentum Consulting refers a fantasist clown Steven Wilce to the Defence Technology Agency where he is in charge of 80 staff, has access to all our deepest security secrets and was advising the bloody Government for 5 years on technology and scientific matters and the SIS didn’t bother fact checking his CV because as John Key put it last week, ‘It’s not the job of the SIS to fact check CV’s!
How come the SIS have time to spy on Keith Locke since he was a bloody kid and spy on the sex lives of Green Party members but they don’t have time to fact check someones CV who they are about to hand the nations secrets to? Am I missing something here? A 5 minute chat with any of his previous employers would have clearly shown the guy was as disconnected from the real world as Michael Laws.
Brothers and Sisters, the SIS have spent more energy spying on Sue Bradford in the shower than they have on vetting people they hand over top level security clearance to and the real blame should be going to the SIS director who hired him 5 years ago, Richard Woods. The very same Richard Woods who wrongfully kept Ahmed Zaoui in solitary confinement for 10 months, and where is Richard Woods now? Why he’s just been appointed to the Independent (and I use that word in it’s broadest, weakest sense whanau) Police Conduct Authority where the apparent entry criteria is criminal incompetence mixed with turning a blind eye to injustice.
Whanau, this clustercock up needs 3 solutions, the first is never use Momentum Consulting (I’ll come back to them later in the show), the second get the SIS to fact check CV’s for top level security clearance and the third is dump Richard Woods from the Independent (and I use that word in it’s broadest, weakest sense whanau) Police Conduct Authority as he deserves nothing for his incompetence.
Rather than spy on what Keith Locke had for breakfast, shouldn’t the bloody SIS be protecting national security and at least CV check people they intend handing top level security clearance to?
posted by Bomber @ 8:27 am
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Bomber:
Other than my statements on Radio Live and to the Herald, no one other than you has pointed to the obvious leadership and institutional failures behind this latest fiasco. The issue is not just about Mr. Wilce slipping through the cracks. You of course will remember that during the tenure of Director Richard Woods (1999-2006) the SIS failed to detect the entrance into NZ of the Yemeni flight student who was an associate of the 9-11 conspirators and on an international watch list (the Yemeni was dobbed in to the Police by a suspicious flight school instructor); it failed to detect the Mossad contract agents illegally procuring NZ passports (the agents were caught by a low level immigration officer who was suspicious of the accent of one who claimed to be a native born Kiwi); it failed to properly vet the security clearance of Anne Marie Thompson when she became Immigration Director; and last but not least it spun and fabricated evidence against Ahmed Zaoui in order to deny him refugee status.
What does that say about Mr. Woods, and the PM who continually backed him? His successor, Gordon Tucker, must be pulling his hair out in frustration at having to mop up yet another mess left to him by the good ambassador.
I suspect that we shall Woods serve as lead whitewasher when it comes to the oversight board of the PCA.
I also suspect that there is much more than meets the eye here, and that the Wilce revelations may be just the tip of an iceberg of incompetence and unethical behaviour (if not corruption) that extends to very high places in the security apparatus and government under both major parties.
Since the mainstream press may lose interest in this case once a new celebrity scandal breaks out, I suggest that you keep the heat on the matter in conjunction with other bloggers and alternative media like the guys at Scoop.
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