Future topics for Campbell Live
Stuff reports:
Campbell last night aired the results of a “two-year investigation” into the recruitment of Fletcher.
It was claimed there was a meeting on December 14, 2011, between Key and the police boss who ordered the spying on Dotcom that was never disclosed.
“John Campbell is completely wrong,” Key said.
“There weren’t two meetings; there was one meeting.
“The meeting was actually Simon Murdoch with Ian Fletcher over in my office. He happened to be in New Zealand.
“It was an introduction. I can’t tell you exactly everything we talked about a) because I would never say that.
“But I can tell you what we didn’t talk about. We didn’t talk about Kim Dotcom. It’s impossible to talk about someone you don’t know.”
The illegal bugging of Dotcom’s mansion is believed to have taken place under Murdoch, who was GCSB director between July 1, 2011, and December 19, 2011.
Key has maintained he was never told of the surveillance.
He said Campbell’s story had moved into conspiracy theorist territory.
“I reckon tomorrow night – and I know tonight he’s doing keas being run over in car parks – but tomorrow night I reckon he should do Obama not being born in America, and Friday we could move on to 9/11 and why the Americans were behind that, and next week we could move into the Kennedys,” he said.
“I mean, honestly, I have some respect for John, but when you do two years and come up with absolutely nada, then you do what he did – set a whole lot of assumptions to music.”
They should use the same music for the episode on how the US was really behind 9/11
Key dismissed claims by Dotcom that Key met the police chief responsible for the raid on the Dotcom mansion.
“Completely incorrect; never met the police in my life about that issue,” he said.
“That was the day the Government was being sworn in.”
Maybe Key was multi-tasking!