Nicky Hager's Blog
March 30, 2017
Operation Burnham: the cover-up continues
The Chief of Defence Force Lieutenant General Tim Keating presented the NZDF response to the book Hit and Run at a press conference on Monday 27 March 2017. For 45 minutes he and his colleagues suggested that everything in the book was incorrect.
December 8, 2015
Spinning the return of Judith Collins
It's disappointing – if informative – to see how the government got away with rewriting the story of why Judith Collins resigned from cabinet last year, preparing the way for her return this week.
April 9, 2013
Who is really responsible for the GCSB shenanigans?
The Kitteridge Report on New Zealand's intelligence agency, the GCSB, is written in polite bureaucratic language but the activities it documents amount to a gross breach of the GCSB’s responsibility to the New Zealand public.
April 8, 2013
How do you make sense of more than a million leaked documents?
News has been coming out of Washington DC recently of a massive leak of tax haven information. I have spent the past 15 months working on this project, helping to dig through the leaked material to find what should be publicised.
November 5, 2012
Truth prevails
Each time I go walking near my home I pass an old war memorial inscribed with the words "magna est veritas, et praevalebit": Truth is great, and will prevail. The words date from 1917, in the middle of the First World War, and were obviously attempting to reassure the locals that their sons and brothers were dying in a noble cause.
November 29, 2011
I've just been internalising a really complicated situation in my head
Here's the bullet-point version, to begin:
March 18, 2010
The last wails of the angry Hollow Men
When my book The Hollow Men was published over three years ago, the National Party-aligned PR man Matthew Hooton wrote a furious newspaper column saying that the source material for the book had obviously been illegally hacked and that he and others were going to investigate and bring me to justice. Time has proved him wrong on both points.
February 7, 2010
August 6, 2009
Dying for an invitation to Washington
June 3, 2009
UPDATED: Crosby v Hager: there is something very wrong with our defamation laws
* Please see radio transcript and table at the end of this post
I have just been through an 11-month defamation case, finally settled this week. I am happy with the result – I won on all points of substance – but am also concerned that my and my lawyer's time could be wasted month after month on a case that from the start had so little merit.
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