When Kim Dotcom fronted the Intelligence Committee on Wednesday afternoon, he appeared surprised to have been allocated just 15 minutes. He claimed that he had been allocated 25 minutes, and that no-one had told him that a smaller allocation of time had been made.
That claim has been debunked; Newstalk ZB's Felix Marwick reports:
New information's emerged that indicates German businessman Kim Dotcom was told his submission time on the GCSB Bill was being reduced
On Wednesday Mr Dotcom complained about his speaking time before the Committee being cut and said he'd been told he would be given 25 minutes.
Parliamentary sources have told Newstalk ZB Mr Dotcom was contacted by email by the Intelligence and Security Committee ahead of his appearance and told his speaking time would be reduced.
Telling a fib to the select committee is not a good way to start your submission. What other untruths, partial truths and urban myths have come from the Large German Gentleman?
Russel Norman tweeted thus on his way into the latest Intelligence Committee hearing this morning:
Dr Norman can keep running the "Key's total surveillance state" meme as much as he likes, but frequency of repeating a fib does not make it any less of a fib.
We wanted to reply to Dr Norman but we couldn't; he has blocked us. We thought that the Greens were the party of openness and transparency, but apparently that's no longer the case. We only saw Dr Norman's tweet because Kim Dotcom's personal Herald reporter David Fisher retweeded it!
"Hey Clint; are we pleased about this?"
