The Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet head offered the PM his resignation after failing to fully brief John Key on intercepted emails.

The David Henry inquiry into who leaked the Kitteridge Report on the GCSB seems inadvertently to have resulted in further wrongdoing, writes Mai Chen.

Going into battle with the New Zealand and US governments at the Supreme Court this week, Kim Dotcom deployed the heavy artillery.

Snowden is charged with violating the Espionage Act, the draconian l917 law devised to indict foreign spies but repeatedly used by the Obama Administration to target whistleblowers.

Emails between journalist Andrea Vance and Peter Dunne were sent to the Henry Inquiry, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has revealed.

An IHC subsidiary could face disciplinary action after an intellectually impaired man was left alone with a circular saw, which became embedded in his abdomen.

Prime Minister John Key is standing by his chief of staff after calls for his resignation over the release of a journalist's phone records.

The head of Parliamentary Service has resigned but could still be summoned to a privileges committee inquiry into how the phone records and swipe-card movements of a journalist were released.

The Government intensified its sales job on the GCSB Bill yesterday, with the Prime Minister claiming some New Zealand citizens have had al-Qaeda training in Yemen.

The PM has tried to distance himself from the revelation a journalist's phone records were handed over during the GCSB leak investigation.

Kim Dotcom has told the Supreme Court the United States' case against him is a fabrication and he needs access to evidence to prove it.

The Defence Force may have a legitimate role in maintaining the military strength of the nation but since when was its job to suppress information?

Two current issues need a great deal more transparency - the GCSB legislation and the Trans- Pacific Partnership negotiations, writes Gerald McGhie.

Thousands of people gathered at marches across NZ today to protest extensions to the powers of the Government's spy agency.

Kim Dotcom joined academics, civil libertarians and lawyers at a meeting to oppose the proposed new spy law which will allow more surveillance of NZers.

The controversial GCSB bill has the numbers to pass in Parliament after United Future leader Peter Dunne secured some significant changes.

Former Foreign Minister Phil Goff says "tweaking" of the GCSB bill by John Key won't be enough to overcome the suspicions of a wide cross-section of Kiwis.

There are at present two standalone intelligence agencies - the Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS) and the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).

How would these so-called experts feel if their attitudes paved the way for the extermination of all the world's kittens by masked terrorist gangs, asks Toby Manhire.

Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff is calling for a delay in the passage of the GCSB legislation.

The head of the Human Rights Commission says Prime Minister John Key has misrepresented its highly critical report on his two controversial spy bills and wider surveillance issues.

John Key appears to have made another concession over the bill expanding GCSB powers - this time requiring it to have regard to the Bill of Rights Act.

Internal Affairs Minister and Napier MP Chris Tremain has requested a report into how a British killer managed to obtain a New Zealand passport issued in the name of a severely brain-damaged Hastings man.

To share these capabilities with agencies charged with routine law enforcement is to abuse that acceptance, writes Damien Rogers. Part of the problem is that there is no agreed meaning of national security.

Prime Minister John Key has handed the Labour Party an olive branch over the GCSB bill.