Dotcom can pursue case against police, GCSB
Found on The New Zealand Herald on Thursday, 06 December 2012
Details of the top secret international spy agency ring known as Echelon will have to be produced after a new judgment in the Kim Dotcom case.
The order for the GCSB to reveal top secret details came as the High Court at Auckland ruled the spy agency would now sit alongside the police in a case probing the unlawful search warrant used in the raid on Dotcom's north Auckland mansion.
The police were ordered to provide evidence from a senior New Zealand officer in the US who told an internal publication he "monitored" the raid from FBI headquarters.
This little gift to the entertainment industry backfires really hard. Not only is an increasing number of government actions in this case considered illegal, but now also the secret networks and connections behind the scenes may be revealed too.